And I just bought some french wines this week.
Le Ton Nouveau
Geez, it worked so well for Bush `didn’t it?
Of course.
Sacre bleu!
International rule of thumb: Hate Amrica, until the sh!t hits the fan.
Where are all of those who were rejoicing at Sarkozy’s win while I was saying that I wouldn’t believe all the hype until I see it?
Sarkozy isn’t conservative. He is just less liberal than Royal. That doesn’t make him a good guy.
It is ridiculous to think Sarko should name people to his cabinet who will please Americans. When was the last time one of our president’s named someone to a cabinet post to please the French, or anyone else for that matter? He has to name people with whom he can rule the country, and he has to name people that will help him get effective control of the French Parliament. I suspect this guy fulfills those requirements. He can’t be much different from Michel Barnier, and he certainly isn’t Dominque Villepin.
Sarko’s mandate is to fix the French economy. He needs to do well in the elections next month and put together an effective government in order to accomplish this. Socialism still is and will always be freedom’s most deadly enemy. Sarko has to choose his battles just like any other leader. I say let the man do his job.
This story was just a rumor. The true story is:
Leading French Humanitarian (pro-American Bernard Kouchner) is Likely Foreign Minister
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833531/posts
“In the run-up to the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Kouchner favoured the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and strongly criticised French policy which he said left the US and Britain with little choice but to go to war without UN backing.”
In March 2003 Chirac said France would veto a UN security council resolution authorising military action against Saddam Hussein — a position which was used by Washington and London as justification for going it alone.”
“If we had been at their side we could have avoided the war. I regret the failure of diplomacy, including our own. We should have gone along with (the Americans). That was all they asked for,” he said shortly after the invasion.
In a January 2004 interview Kouchner lamented that the French had become “America-haters.”
“We have turned (George W.) Bush into the big enemy as if that alone was a policy.... The French are America-haters, and they are also back being racists and anti-Semites. The French are sick in the head,” he said.
Regularly cited in polls as France’s most popular politician, Kouchner has kept his distance from the Socialist Party hierarchy.