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Obama calls new French President-elect Hollande
Associated Press ^ | May 6, 2012

Posted on 05/06/2012 4:16:56 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has called France's new president-elect to congratulate him on winning Sunday's election.

The White House says Obama told Hollande that he looks forward to working with him on a range of shared economic and security challenges.

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


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KEYWORDS: franceelection; hollande; obamacallshollande; sarkozy
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Reportedly, one of the first things he’s going to do is to impose a 75% tax on the rich.

So, he’s going to take a dying economy, and a dying country, and take it over the cliff a lot faster.

The guillotine should be brought back and used on the people who do the voting in France, since they’re the ones who have brought that country to its knees. If something is not working, doubling down to do more of it, is stupid and suicidal.

But, let’s see if the rich in France are just going to sit idly by and relinquish their wealth to the government. Interesting and dangerous times ahead.


21 posted on 05/06/2012 5:07:24 PM PDT by adorno
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To: Ironfocus

July 11, 2008

At town hall meeting in Powder Spring, Georgia on Tuesday, Obama said, “It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is merci beaucoup, right?”


22 posted on 05/06/2012 5:10:22 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Revolting cat!

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
Charles De Gaulle


23 posted on 05/06/2012 5:13:15 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Uncle Ike

Comrade.


24 posted on 05/06/2012 5:17:32 PM PDT by Kudsman (The troubles begin and end with the "Progressives" -1010RD)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I sometimes wonder if science and technology weren’t the disease. Progress is evil.


25 posted on 05/06/2012 5:32:11 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
I see that race of primate is back in power in France.


26 posted on 05/06/2012 5:46:45 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Some day our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Paladin2

Maybe the cuban doctors can work on his shrinking problem. Maybe prescribe 50 cuban cigars a day?


27 posted on 05/06/2012 6:00:39 PM PDT by Surrounded_too
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To: SandRat
Obama congratulates a fellow socialist

Wonder if Obama told him he would more 'free' to help; after his re-Election, 2012.

28 posted on 05/06/2012 6:04:37 PM PDT by cricket (Calling Marco Rubio; Allen West. . .because they are NOT afraid.)
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To: Sooth2222
We need to work with France on 'security challenges'? REally? CAn only wonder what Obama has in mind. . .

Anytime a 'socialist' wins; it is a loss for our planet. Survival MO's shift; and we know; not for the better.

29 posted on 05/06/2012 6:08:03 PM PDT by cricket (Calling Marco Rubio; Allen West. . .because they are NOT afraid.)
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To: JLLH
France has been socialist forever. This is not news.

True; but there are degrees by enlightenment. . .will know more; when we see if Hollande expects the French to 'work' for their supper; and if the women can put their Burqua's back on; as they walk France's streets et al.

30 posted on 05/06/2012 6:17:45 PM PDT by cricket (Calling Marco Rubio; Allen West. . .because they are NOT afraid.)
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To: ichabod1
As does Obama which is why he shut down NASA.

I for one, will always stand fore square for progress in the real, not socialist sense.

Earth First! The other planets later.

31 posted on 05/06/2012 6:51:06 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Typed using <FONT STYLE=SARCASM> unless otherwise noted)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hollande ... isn't that some kind of sauce that French chefs smear over a cooked horse?

32 posted on 05/06/2012 7:03:46 PM PDT by Zakeet (Obama loves to wok dogs)
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To: cricket

It should get interesting... on both sides of the Atlantic.


33 posted on 05/06/2012 9:53:55 PM PDT by JLLH
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To: JLLH; Free ThinkerNY; Sooth2222; All
// Will we be paying for France too, 'eventually'? With 75% tax on 'Rich'; will the 'Rich' be fleeing by air and by Chunnel? And if so; to where? Our planet offering fewer options for 'living free'.// Summation from Daily Mail (via Hot Air) on Hollande's plan:(italics added)

The uncharismatic Mr Hollande, who has never held any ministerial office and is the first socialist to win the French presidency since Francois Mitterrand in 1988, has been an outspoken advocate of rewriting the plans to save the [Euro].

He wants a new ‘preamble’ written into the new European fiscal pact signed by 25 EU nations to water down calls for austerity measures.

He is demanding a change to strict rules which dictate how much member states can spend, without which most observers believe a new European economic crisis is inevitable.

After his victory he said that one of his priorities was to ‘preserve our social model’ – a reference to France’s generous welfare state.

The new president has pledged to spend an extra 20 billion euros in the years ahead to kickstart the economy and wants to slap a 75 per cent tax rate on those earning more than one million euros a year, or around £850,000.

Hmmm; nothing about preserving the 'cultural' model of France. Can only guess per Hollande; 'burqua's up'!

hotairlink

34 posted on 05/07/2012 9:34:34 AM PDT by cricket (Calling Marco Rubio; Allen West. . .because they are NOT afraid.)
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To: Revolting cat!

But don’t dare accuse this cheese eating surrender monkey a Socialist. The DNC nazionale democrat-socialists will haff none of dat talk!


35 posted on 05/07/2012 3:35:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama has cut and run from what he called "the right war".)
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