It's Royal vs. Sarkozy

[KaiserSooner]

For you international politics buffs out there, the French Socialists have nominated a woman, Segolene Royal, for the presidential election next spring. Linkage...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/world/europe/17france.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5065&en=601fe3b1dfbfe085&ex=1164430800&partner=MYWAY

[homerSimpsonsBrain]

Well. The french are a bunch of pussies.... <ducks>

[OklahomaTuba]

All those rioting Muslims should be REAL happy if she wins.

[KaiserSooner]

Well, they mighy actually be happy if she wins, since she's apparently espousing a more Jeffersonian sort of Democracy that's inclusive of all segments of French society.

[OklahomaTuba]

And much like Germany and Japan, France has gone Right and more pro-American.



Nicolas Sarkozy was tonight handed a decisive mandate to change France winning the presidential election by 6% after a massive turnout in one of the most divisive campaigns in recent history.

As thousands of his flag-waving supporters prepared to gather at Paris's Place de La Concorde, where heads rolled in the first French revolution, Sarkozyites were promising a new turning point in French history from a man who has promised an "economic revolution."

Instead of calling for the end of the monarchy, they had rallied round his cry to "liquidate the legacy of May 1968", end the nanny state, loosen the grip of "political correctness", lesson the power of unions and break the 35-hour week in the name of a nation that wanted to "work more to earn more".

Viva la France!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2073832,00.html

[GottaHavePride]

Honestly, if the guy manages to do half the stuff he talks about wanting to do, France will be a lot better off.

Heck, if he can actually successfully move them away from the almost-socialist nanny-state our medicare and social security people need to be taking notes.