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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: 1K3 on May 06, 2007, 09:01:56 PM
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Pundits out here...
what does this mean to USA and Euro union?
:noid :noid :noid
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I think its good for us... It's my understanding that Sarkozy is US friendly. But who knows... all politics are local, and ultimately he needs to respond the the French citizenry. So if they don't like us, his affection for the US may be short lived.
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Good. I don't know anything about French politics - but at least he has balls.
IMHO women have to be kept in the kitchen.
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Take all you hear with a grain of salt unless you live there..
Personaly, neither of them did much for me. I don't know if either of them is better, but on a gut feeling I'd rather see him than her as president.
She is just gushing with the mother-figure bleeding heart vibe. And she's socialist, although that tag doesn't mean anymore than any other tag politicians wear anywhere else.
I'd rather have Chirac on the political dance stage, than Sarkozy. Chirac was heartwarmingly ridicule, whereas Sarkozy will be more of a nasty little muppet sort of comic.
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Has he surrendered yet?
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As Royal is the leftist socialist, and also french. I am surprised she surrendered so early. Well she is french. but normally at this point after having their bellybutton handed to them in an election the average lib is wanting a recount and shouting to the heavens that they was robbed by the evil electirc voting machines.
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from what i've read, Royal expoused the same kind of "the state will take care of all your needs" type of socialism that French voters have been increasingly rejecting for years. and worse, she apparently had only vague, unrealistic ideas of how to pay for it all. Socialism doesn't work - i think that is why the majority of the French voters felt she was bad for France, whereas Sarkozy's message was "Get a job!"
Sarkozy came out and said in one of his first public statements as President that America will find a friend in France. That can only be good for US-Franco relations.
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he's in favor of a more friendly approach with the U.S. Disagree but be nice about it type fellow, wouldn't say hardliner, but not soft either...
it was a fight between the left and the right, the right won...
80% turnout in the votes, incredible in my view...
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NPR radio spent a lot of time telling everyone how much the guy was hated and how close it would be and gushing over the commie woman.
lazs
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They have to bring France into the 21st century, hrs of work over 35 hrs/week, reducing the civil service, and a host of other things that stifle productivity and hurt their economy long term.
I think its a good move for France. All the twerps protesting that dont have jobs might actually get employed now. Maybe they can put away the gasmasks and start updating their resumes?
The chick was more of the same, "we promise you the world but it wont cost you"...you can live like that for only so long.
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About 85% voting turnout. Now that's impressive.
The way I see it, everyone won the election because idiot Chirac is gone.
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Go Muslims!
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Originally posted by Yknurd
Go Muslims!
Your definately living up to your squad standards in real life:
Drunky
Fat Drunk Bastards
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Originally posted by Boroda
Good. I don't know anything about French politics - but at least he has balls.
IMHO women have to be kept in the kitchen.
Kinder kirche kuche ??
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Originally posted by straffo
Kinder kirche kuche ??
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and away from cars too. A woman with a drivers liscence is like a monkey with a handgrenade.
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Originally posted by Pooh21
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and away from cars too. A woman with a drivers liscence is like a monkey with a handgrenade.
Do they drive cars in France? I thought they just burned them when they didn't like how the election turned out.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OVNTIG1&show_article=1
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Rioting sounds a lot more fun than counting hanging chads...
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Originally posted by Boroda
IMHO women have to be kept in the kitchen.
:aok
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Originally posted by SteveBailey
Do they drive cars in France? I thought they just burned them when they didn't like how the election turned out.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OVNTIG1&show_article=1
now why is this not on CNN and such?
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It's just 'disaffected youths'
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He wants better relations with the US,He's made that clear.I think France now, will have a bitter pill to swallow,Privatisation will cause more unemployment not less,as industries are privatised and err downsized.
The French are in for a lot of rioting and protest,and will have to be carried kicking and screaming into Sarkozy's new France.Just watch.:aok
Strangely Sarkozy,of Hungarian and immigrant stock,intends to shut the door on immigration.
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We never have any good riots around here... you have to go to a filthy craphole of a city to get a good riot around here.
lazs
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Remember my forgotten cousins which helped you defend your new country...
that favor was returned not so long ago, ww1,ww2...and will always be appreciated by those who remember. Debts were paid in full, and then some...
France and the US have had more Diplomatic relations then almost any other country since the founding of the US...
Remember those that actually tried to 'grind' you into a not so new country...here just in case you forgot...BRITAIN!!! the redcoats, remember, the one's that didn't wanna let you have a new one...
Telling your closes friend to go **** himself if he doesn't help you is not the best damn Diplomatic way of going about it...Bush's error, and Chirac just as stupid as Bush played the same stupid name game...there must be a remedy somewhere...maybe Sarkozy will start that process.
just don't forget 'WHO' helped you create your new country...and remember the Frenchmen likes his freedom just as much as any American, and probably still ready to fight shoulder to shoulder should that freedom ever be questionned...
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If "freedom" is socialism then I want no part of it.
lazs
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You know.. It seems to me that the French contingent here on the AH2 BB could be having a field day with this.
I'm very surprised none of them have pointed out the the Americans just elected a whole slate of "cheese eating socialist surrender monkeys" and seem set to elect their own socialist female President, while the French elected a "time to get get tough" male right winger.
Turn about is fair play, non? :D
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I found this article extremely interesting in the perspective that this new president plans to do exactly what Bush has done regarding tax cuts, and improved economic conditions.
In France, "W" won again
...It's not only on such issues as the global war on terrorism and preventing the Islamic Republic in Iran from developing a nuclear arsenal that Sarkozy is close to Bush. He has also promised a major tax cut, the first of its kind in modern French politics, the abolition of inheritance tax and more flexible labor laws. During the campaign, "Sarko" used a vocabulary that had all but disappeared from the French political lexicon. He spoke of work, merit, authority, respect, patriotism and national identity. He said he would fight against self-loathing, multiculturalism, political correctness and moral equivalence between the forces of good and evil. He warned Islamists inside and outside France that he would no longer grant them the benefit of the doubt in the name of past misdeeds supposedly committed by the West. He would not allow the hijab and burqa in French official buildings, including places of education. ...Sarko also served notice on the Islamic Republic, Syria and Libya that his France will not be a pushover as it had been under Chirac. Dismissing the so-called "realists" in international affairs as "men struck by illusions," he has promised to develop a value-based foreign policy, even if that means a clash with Vladimir Putin's Russia over such issues as the continued tragedy in Chechnya. Sarko has promised a smaller government and committed himself to a thorough reform of a welfare system that is pushing the nation to the edge of bankruptcy. With Sarkozy at the helm in France, the United States now enjoys the support of all three major E.U. powers- the others being Britain and Germany- for the first time in almost a decade. And that should enable the Bush administration to undertake major foreign-policy initiatives without fear of risking another split among the major democracies.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05082007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/in_france__dubya_won_again_opedcolumnists_amir_taheri.htm
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Originally posted by Seagoon
You know.. It seems to me that the French contingent here on the AH2 BB could be having a field day with this.
I'm very surprised none of them have pointed out the the Americans just elected a whole slate of "cheese eating socialist surrender monkeys" and seem set to elect their own socialist female President, while the French elected a "time to get get tough" male right winger.
Turn about is fair play, non? :D
If 3 people form a contingent I guess if we were 5 it would be an army :D
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and more flexible labor laws. [/B]
Is that gonna be like ours where we let them flood in illegally?