European Foot-in-Mouth

"In Tuesday's radio interview, Royal said she was not referring to "institutional reforms" but that Quebecers are free to decide on their own future."
- from the CBC

"Questionnée sur l’exclamation «Vive le Québec libre», employée par le général de Gaulle en 1967, elle a répondue que c’était «une belle phrase». Assurant toutefois assuré qu’elle ne le dirait «pas de cette façon là»."
- Ségolène Royal, doing damage control (!) in Liberation after apparently revealing her sympathy for an independent Quebec

My French has admittedly become shockingly rusty, but isn't MSR (as she is apparently termed in the lingo) saying that while she might quibble with the semantics, she would endorse the sentiment of de Gaulle's barnburner? I guess we know which version of the future MSR wishes Quebeckers would decide for...but then, I guess we knew that already...