May 7, 2007
Sarkozy Wins… France… Burns Again
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Royal slipped badly
On the last day of the campaign Royal - slipping badly in opinion polls - had issued a stark warning that a Sarkozy victory would trigger “violence and brutality” across the country.
Violence in France? No way! Is that a threat or a promise?
Sarkozy Wins, Vows to Restore Pride in France
Sarkozy’s main campaign thrust was to loosen labor regulations and put France back to work — a fundamental shift in France’s Socialist culture of egalitarianism, in which state guarantees of short workweeks, long vacations and a comfortable lifestyle have been sacrosanct, while ambitious, American-style work ethics were dismissed as greedy and undesirable. At the same time, Sarkozy favors affirmative action programs to help put low-income people to work.
With Sarkozy, Bush May Find a Close Friend in France
There must have been relief in the White House on Sunday that President Bush didn’t have to call Ms. Royal to congratulate her.
After all, she said during the campaign that she would never genuflect before Mr. Bush the way she suggested her opponent had done. She tried to tar Mr. Sarkozy as an imitator of what she called Mr. Bush’s phony compassionate conservatism. She even told a Hezbollah lawmaker in Lebanon last December that she agreed with him when he talked about the “unlimited dementia” of the Bush administration.
WTH? Blink..
The other election results. Even more predictably so.
A dissident voice speaks.
Image, Anecdote, and Reality: Why Sarkozy Really Is to Be Feared
Speaking of dementia. Ingrates! Dangerous childish anarchy at the hands of thugs.
Hundreds arrested in violence after Sarkozy win
MORE than 700 cars were set alight and 600 people arrested in violence that hit cities across France after the presidential election victory of conservative leader Nicolas Sarkozy.
Seventy-eight police officers were injured in incidents after his triumph over the Socialist Segolene Royal in Sunday’s election.
Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse and Rennes were among cities hit by violence blamed by police on extreme-left groups, anarchists and apolitical gangs who clashed with police.
A total of 730 cars were burned in the high-immigrant suburbs where Mr Sarkozy is a hated figure for his tough stance on immigration and law and order. Police said a total of 592 people were arrested.
Police say on an average just over 100 cars are set ablaze in France each night.
Scum. How apropos….
Previously at Ironic Surrealism
May 8, 2007 at 2:16 am
How much do you want to bet that once this dude takes office the rioting, looting, and torching stops?
May 8, 2007 at 2:36 am
What about the Carbon relesed from burning all those cars? The Polar Bears - Won’t someone think of the Polar Bears? Someone is obviously going to have to shell out a lot of Francs for Indulgences…er…Carbon offsets. *sigh* Most likely it’ll be put on the hard-workin’ French labor force taxpayer. Sacre Bleu!
May 8, 2007 at 9:30 am
If the leaders and profiteers of this world want to build larger walls around us, they have to expect that those walls will be torn down eventually.
May 8, 2007 at 7:34 pm
France has provided the American voters many lessons in how starkly contrasting candidates, failed policies of
high taxes and overregulation and “scum” immigrants who regularly challenge their host nation’s culture, can
inspire record turnouts of over eighty five percent of a population. In the most important election of a
generation, French men and women marched to the polls to redirect the future of France .
The citizens had a real choice. They faced two candidates with differing present and future visions of a proud
country who was on the verge of losing its grandeur.
Small businesses were suffocated in a system that punished growth while workers were penalized for laboring
beyond thirty five hours and families were watching their rich culture yield to a prehistoric yet conquering one.
In one corner stood Sarkozy, a determined realist intent on implementing practical proposals to restore the French
economy to its perceived rightful place in the lead pack of economic powers. His proposals targeted personal tax
reductions, eliminating the thirty five hour work week and reforming a system that punished small businesses for
each measure of their growth.
The other aspect of his candidacy possibly eclipsed his economic program which was his gritty resolve in
preserving French culture in the face of the threat of radical Islam which had spread throughout France’s
extensive immigrant community. He was fierce in confronting its menace and politically incorrect in
characterizing its followers. Sarkozy views the world in absolutes where people are increasingly receptive to
judging in relative terms.
The other corner was occupied by Madame Royal who, like liberal American politicians, campaigned by fear and
castigation. To her and her followers, cutting welfare benefits, imposing immigration restrictions, introducing
competitive economic measures and putting forth the idea that human beings were capable of 36 hours of work
per week was draconian.
The voters disagreed.
Out of vogue are thirty five hour work weeks, unmanageable and unaffordable taxes, demanding and draining
immigrants and an economy ill equipped to compete. In its place are paired down policies aimed at pragmatism
and economic growth.
In her concession speech, without mentioning her opponent’s name once, she professed her hopes of a peaceful
transition without riots. But, like many American civil rights activists before her, she had utilized the tired riot
instigator. By warning against them, she was subliminally inspiring them.
Most importantly, these elections showed the failures of leftist policies. With a conservative in government in
both France and Germany , Europe has shown a willingness to abandon the failed ideology that guarantees
everything while accomplishing nothing.
The question becomes, will Americans have to experience failed immigration, bitter culture divisions and labor
unions with too much power to recognize the necessity of a conservative government?
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