Posted on 11/14/2004 10:17:24 AM PST by quidnunc
Paris – The headlines in France ranged from the depressingly funny to the unprintably dire.
"L'Empire empire" — the Empire worsens — sighed the left-leaning daily Liberation. Courrier International put a Charlie Brown-style fine point on French sentiment with what can very loosely be translated as: "Good grief, four more years!"
To the delight of many in America who were pouring their Bordeaux out on the street in 2003, the U.S. presidential election didn't go the way many of the French wanted. If we are to believe the campaign speeches of President Bush, it will be at least four more years until French President Jacques Chirac is making decisions for America.
This leaves Francophiles and Francophobes alike wondering what is to come and what the sentiment is between the two countries right now.
There was an overt desire in France to see Sen. John Kerry beat Bush. Mock election polls overwhelmingly chose Kerry, displaying what Stephane Rozes, opinion director at French polling group CSA, refers to as "systematic and massive support" for the Democrat.
Indeed, to find Bush supporters in France, you have to look to politicians like Alain Madelin, who is seen as something of a playground bully on the French political circuit, or to the supporters of extreme right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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According to a post-election poll conducted by CSA for the daily Le Parisien, 65 percent of people polled believed that the re-election was a "bad thing," with only 12 percent who believe things are going to get better between the two countries.
"Everything depends on what Bush does," Rozes said.
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A: Being a French Crapweasel?
Bon Mot Anyone?
Too Bad to France.
These people are totally gutless. They surrendered to the Nazis and then helped round up the Jews for deportation. They stab in the back the very people who saved their A$$es against the Nazis. I can't figure these people out. I really tried but it is impossible to understand these vermon.
What was the sentiment in the years preceding 1812 ?
Philes or phobes? There are more options than liking France and fearing France, incredible as it may seem to many.
Time to post your updated photo of the crying Frenchtoady.
What horsefeathers. He is simply a classical liberal, a believer in free markets. And as such, he recognizes that civilization's interests and America's are one and the same, when it comes to facing Islamic terrorism. There is nothing bullying about him, the charge is absurd. It is a transparent attempt to mislead people into thinking of him and le Pen as somehow equivalent. It is slander. About as believable as calling Steve Forbes just like David Duke.
Pray for W and Our Troops
That's right, bub. And don't you forget it.
This is one of those things that makes me want Jeb Bush to run and win 2008.
Is it any wonder that the French National Symbol is now a Chicken and isn't it appropriate.
Russian Bear
British Lion
American Eagle
French Chicken
It must be Morbus Gallicus, in a late stage.
I thought Le Pen hated America and W...
France has not been significant in world affairs, and certainly not a force for anything but trouble, for nearly 100 years. Except for it's veto in the UN (which we insisted on giving them after World War II) they have no standing in world affairs, other than as the perpetrators of genocide in the third world and the worst example of "western imperialist exploitation" that still stands.
They should lose their Security Council seat and be relegated to what they are, an embarrasment from our collective past with some really nice tourist attractions and some so-so traditions in cooking and wine.
Chicken? I thought it was Worm. Sorry, my bad.
The French are irrelevant.
French Magpie?
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