[Dark Skies]

Sarkozy est l'homme!

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Sarkozy sounds like my kind of guy.

[spanalot]

He talks the talk - a little concerned about his family values and his multi marriages but that could be the French thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy

[Earthdweller]

Hoping someone who has their eyes on France comes to power. The current cloud dwellers are a disgrace.

[Philistone]

That does not solve Villepin's big problem--he is Chirac's designated heir at a time when an heir to Chirac is the last thing the French people want. Unfortunately for Sarkozy, the second-to-last thing the French people want is a real reformer.

Nails it. In the absence of Alain Madelein (too pro-American) I'll take Sarkozy.

[cicero's_son]

Sarkozy rocks. I wish we had a few Republicans like him in the Senate!

[eleni121]

"He opposed Turkish entry into the European Union. He takes terrorism more seriously than Chirac does: He thinks the recent spate of books in France that deal with barbarism is due to people's worries about terrorism, "because terrorism is nothing but barbarism."
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Finally....someone who gets it!!! The 21st century Hammer!!!

[SunkenCiv]

Sarkozy may be the best possible outcome in the French elections, both from the standpoint of the US and that of France.

[SunkenCiv]

French people, to put it mildly, are worried about Islam.

..."and the Elephant Man had a little puffiness around the eyes."

[TheBrotherhood]

"S'il passe, je me casse!" (If he gets in, I'm out of here!)."

I hope he (Sarkozy) gets in, so this undesirable element can get out.

[taxesareforever]

Sarkozy's approach is to blow past these worries, to face up to the fact that Islam is in France to stay, and to focus on making coexistence tolerable to all parties.

Never happen. Tolerance is not in the Koran. But you will find "death to infidels" in it. Trying to get along is only giving the ball and the bat to the muskies.