So it's Hillary vs. Rudy. Well, at least, the French versions of Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani.

Segolene Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy will face off in the general election in May after having won the run-off in April. Unlike our party primaries, in France, all presidential candidates compete in one gigantic presidential primary and the top two candidates go onto the general election, a process that has some real advantages over ours but some disadvantages as well.

In any case, now that it's clear who will be carrying the banners of the Left and the Right, it's also clear to me what the next president of France will be: in a word, bad. 'Sego' vs. 'Sarko,' as the French call them: she who would be the first woman president of the French Republic and he who would remake France in his own image.