Posted on 05/06/2007 9:47:08 AM PDT by Cincinna
I’m glad you’re here Atlantic Friend and I’m happy for France as well.
“Who cares about France. No matter who wins, they are still going to hate us.”
We should all care about France, one of the pillars of Western civilization.
Time to buy a bottle of Freanch wine...
Wine is like milk, when it is sour, you throw it away...
Thanks for the ping. Just got home from work. Good news!
Well, she will now have more time to devote to her looks, that’s for sure. And she might have even more soon.
Apparently the other heavyweights from the Socialist party (like business-friendly Dominique Strauss-Kahn) lost no time in denouncing her campaign mistakes and lack of collegial culture. Hopefully they’ll seize the opportunity to crush her underfoot, as she led them to one of the worst defeats of the Left.
Now the all-important thing is how the Conservatives will fare during the general elections that are going to renew the French Parliament in the coming months. Will the voters give Sarkozy a clear majority, granting Conservatives both the Executive and legislative branches ?
It is also like milk in that wine and milk have the two most complex molecular structures of any organic compound.
Sarkozy, being Hungarian, will correct this error...
I think a good litmus test may be their cherished 35 hour work-week. If the French actually rescind their 35 hour work-week law then we may conjecture that they are actually serious about rolling up their sleeves and going back to work and joining the global economy. Guess we will see...
Per your concerns about the next parliamentary election: Keep the islamic threat front and center, and keep reminding those around you of what you are fighting to keep.
FWIW I have not been a France-basher. As an avocational pianist how can I slander the nation that influenced so many geniuses who wrote much of my repertoire?
The French Boycott is over!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
I saw a picture of Jack Lang and Dominique Strauss Kahn sitting for one of these election day panels-I'm assuming-a few minutes ago.
Neither one looked pleased.
The way they're portraying Royal is hilarious though.
If you scroll through the Yahoo photos you'd be hard-pressed to discern which of the candidates was just crushed.
The coming elections will revolve around more domestic issues, and I don’t think Islamic threat will play a great role.
Terrorism is a no-brainer here : nobody wants it, either at home or abraod. Just ask Carlos or the guys who wanted to crash a plane on Paris, or the group that was killed to the last man in 1995 after a short-lived bombing campaign.
As for Arab immigrants, many of them came from Algeria where Islamist terrorism had killed many more Arabs than Westerners over the last decade, are not into Islamofascism either, believe me. Too many have had parents killed or wounded by the GIA thugs in the “old country” to look very kindly on having “Emirs” calling the shots in their neighborhood.
Good point about the entrepenuerial spirit being chased out of France, I’ve “met” three or four French ex-pats in IT that left France for greener pastures and more opportuninty.
Sarkozy even gave a speech to french ex pats in London to try and lure them into returning
hmm how about lower taxes and better employees with less red tape? That seems to work rather well actually.
She basically raped them to be the party’s candidate, and she treated them like sh*t because they dares oppose her. en during the campaign, she kept them at arms length.
So they now can say “look, people, we have nothing to do with that defeat”, and gang up on Royal and her ex, Socialist Partuy’s First Sceretary François Hollande, who’s probably going to get axed in the coming weeks.
Hey, that is not fair... We all know a Scot can drink more than an Irishman...
Why go through the trouble of being humiliated in a conclusive election when you can be eliminated in the first round of voting by a neo-fascist crackpot?
The thing is, Sarkozy is not campaigning for the US. He will put France’s interest first, and that is why he was elected by French citizens, just as the US President isn’t elected by US voters to cater to France’s needs or desires.
You can trust Sarkozy to strongly support the United States when it does mean France will be stronger as a result, whether morally, economically, or politically. But expect him also to say “I disagree” on some issues.
Formidable!
Thank you, Cincinna for keeping us up to date throughout this campaign.
Now I can put Grey Goose vodka back in my martinis!
Maybe if we held our elections on the weekends, like so many European countries, we’d get a higher turnout than the disgraceful 40% we usually get. Sort of makes our pro-democracy check thumping appear a little lame to other countries, when we can’t even get out the vote. 3 cheers for the French for coming out in droves!
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