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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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 Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject: God Bless France |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070507/ap_on_re_eu/france_election
Sarkozy won. Thats the good news for the day.
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| Sarkozy defeated Socialist Segolene Royal by by 53.06 percent to 46.94 percent with 84 percent turnout, according to final results released early Monday. |
Good. Its always a positive when the victory is decisive. 84% turnout? very very nice too.
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| It was a decisive victory for Sarkozy's vision of freer markets and toughness on crime and immigration |
The right man for the times. With the influx of, well, let's be frank, criminals and terrorists into France, Sarkozy has his job cut out for him. He needs to stem immigration, he needs to root out the sleeper cells that have multiplied like mushrooms after a rainstorm and he needs to be tough. This is France's biggest challenge at this time.
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| 35-hour work week that Sarkozy called "absurd." |
it is absurd and it has to be flushed.
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| Royal, an unmarried mother of four, would have been France's first female president |
Aside from her commie stance, this is another reason she didnt deserve to win.
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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VIVA LA FRANCE!!
Couldn't agree with you more, jinju.
Perhaps there's hope for Western Europe yet and they won't commit cultural suicide.
I can't wait to watch the reaction on French TV tonight, the leftist spin from LeMonde, and the dire predictions of fascism from CNN International (otherwise known as Leftwing British News Central)
I hope Sarkozy rounds up every illegal immigrant and ships them back to Algeria or wherever they came from.
And if the Muslim girls don't take off their head garb, let them stay hope and spin wool.
Enough is enough.
Time to plan a vacation to France. They might not have any spine in time of war but at least they're still proud of their own culture.
I'm going to slip my DVD of "Casablanca" into the player and listen to the anti-Vichy French cafegoers sing the "Marseilles."
Maybe dubious ddeubel can write one of his poems for the occasion.
And maybe Royal can go come to America to give advice to Hilary on how to lose an election. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject: ... |
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AND HERE I THOUGHT U WERE A TROLL.
YOU ACTUALLY MAKE SOME VALID POINTS. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I like his idea to make overtime (anything after the 35 hours I think) tax-free. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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Indeed. Things appear more optimistic.
While French internal affairs are there own, I like Sarkozy's proposals to relax antiAmericanism. Let us hope that Washington will reciprocate and return to a more multilateral foreign policy...
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Sarkozy added that he wanted to tell his "American friends that they can rely on our friendship ... France will always be next to them when they need us."
But, he added, "Friends can think differently."
He then called on the United States "not to impede" in the fight against global warming. "On the contrary, they must lead this fight because humanity's fate is at stake here."
U.S. President George W. Bush called Sarkozy to congratulate him on his victory, a White House spokesman said in a written statement...
Prior to the election results being made public, Sen. Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican, said a Sarkozy victory would be favorable to the United States.
"Clearly, his views are more in line with ours," Lugar told CNN's "Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer."
Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, concurred: "I do. I do," he told CNN. "I mean, it would be nice to have someone who is head of France who doesn't almost have a knee-jerk reaction against the United States. |
CNN Reports |
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Neil
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| A very impressive turnout, maybe all elections should be on the weekend. |
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fiveeagles
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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The good news keeps coming in.  First these countries kicked out their liberal/socialist counterparts out.
Canada,
Mexica,
Germany,
and now France. What next...Iran? |
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cosmo
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W.T.Carl
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| This victory was assured during lasts summers riots. Even the French can only stand so much. Look for even more reaction against islamic encroachment all over west Europe. They brought it on themselves. If they don't like, let them go back to their islamic hellholes. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| W.T.Carl wrote: |
| This victory was assured during lasts summers riots. Even the French can only stand so much. Look for even more reaction against islamic encroachment all over west Europe. They brought it on themselves. If they don't like, let them go back to their islamic hellholes. |
Amen. But here's the thing, you will be told by the leftist libs that its not France's right to control who goes there but instead it is a human right of anyone to be able to go to France. In other words, it is racist and xenophobic for a country to control immigration. I personally would love to see mass deprortations from Europe of anyone who is found in any way connected to crime and terrorism. Even if its just going to some extremist mosque. Deport them all, close the borders. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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C'est le top de le top! Wow! He is something else....
DD |
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ddeubel
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Well, I would have voted for Sarkozy and I have argued with friends for a long time, that it is time that France get to work and cut a lot of the fluff out.......
Meaning, her economy needs some drastic medicine and a weaning away from state funding and control.
The issue for voters was precisely this, in this election. Unlike the last, with that cartoon character of Le Pen promoting stupidity. The issues of immigration were there but I don't think they were the main focus nor concern of the majority who voted Sarkozy.
My fear is that Sarkozy only talks. He has no great record of "action" and really just spins phrases and like maybe Clinton, really has a great manner of explaining things, issues to people. I'm just afraid he'll be all talk and no action.
Regarding immigration. He won't be as radical at all, as most seem to think. He can't be. France has close ties with its African colonies and these ties just can't be "cut". Not even any thought of that, so ingrained it is, into the French subconscious. I think that at the end of the day, most people never saw Sarkozy as "xenophobic" or anti-immigrant. And they are right. As an immigrant himself, he knows a bit about it and is proof that immigrants can and do immigrate successfully, if given a chance.
I'll cross my fingers that he will get France up and working, creating a better climate for small business and entrepreneurship. That is the emergency that this dying patient needs addressed.
DD |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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French and American relations will definitely improve. If Sarkozy and the French government begin to warm relations again, then Washington will not push them away.
Anyone find it interesting that the French want to strengthen US ties, just when the British people are becoming wary of the strong US-UK ties?
It seems like the US is always in favor with either France or Britain, but not both at the same time. |
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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| France's only real hope is LePen. |
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Alias
Joined: 24 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| fiveeagles wrote: |
The good news keeps coming in. First these countries kicked out their liberal/socialist counterparts out.
Canada,
Mexica,
Germany,
and now France. What next...Iran? |
Yet the Liberals gained Congress in the US. How ironic non? |
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