came in and riding a wave of public anger, high unemployment, low to no growth at all and valerie i'm getting used to the name, came with him today to effectively take the keys of the palace, of course, in hollande's case, it was the key to the nuclear weapons code. two strange things happened out of his control today. first of all, while he was riding along to go and light the two of the unknown soldier, he was absolutely drenched by rain but it got much worse on his flight to berlin. he was to dine with andrea merkel. both were very anxious to smooth out the rough angles over how to treat the debt crisis. hollande's plane was hit by lightning and had to turn back