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C'EST SI BON

I'm off to Paris! I hereby revoke every churlish remark I've ever made about those lovely Gallic people. (But in light of former New Jersey governor and current "gay American" Jim McGreevey's latest career move, I redouble everything I've ever said about the Episcopalians.)

With Nicolas Sarkozy's decisive victory as the new president of France, the French have produced their first pro-American ruler since Louis XVI.

In celebration of France's spectacular return to Western civilization, I bought a Herve Leger dress on Monday, and we're having croissants for breakfast every day this week. This delicate French pastry, by the way, is in the shape of a crescent to commemorate the Crusaders' victory over Islam. Aren't the French just peachy?

"Sarkozy the American," as he is known in France, called Muslim rioters "scum." Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

He explained his position on Muslim immigrants in France, saying: "Nobody has to, I repeat, live in France. But when you live in France, you respect its rules. That is to say that you are not a polygamist. ... One doesn't practice female genital mutilation on one's daughters, one doesn't slit the throat of the sheep, and one respects the republican rules."

Sarko never issued an apology or entered rehab. To the contrary, he said: "I called some individuals that I refuse to call 'youth' by the name they deserve. ... I never felt that by saying 'scum' I was being vulgar, hypocritical or insincere."

Is there a single American politician who would speak so clearly without then apologizing to Howard Dean?

It looks like the Democrats are going to have to drop their talking point about Bush irritating the rest of the world. Evidently not as much as Muslim terrorists irritate the rest of the world. The politicians who hate Bush keep being dumped by their own voters.

At the Democratic presidential debate a few weeks ago, B. Hussein Obama carped that Bush had "alienate(d) the world community" and vowed that he would build "the sort of alliances and trust around the world that has been so lacking over the last six years."

Democrats are terrific at building alliances. Remember how Jimmy Carter won the love of the world by ditching our ally the Shah of Iran, allowing him be replaced by a string of crazy ayatollahs? Since then, we haven't heard a peep from that area of the world.

The smartest woman in the world sniped that she would "create alliances instead of alienation."

Yes, it was spellbinding how her husband charmed North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung and his sociopathic son Kim Jong Il by showering them with visits from Jimmy Carter and gifts from love-machine Madeleine Albright. And that was that: No more trouble from North Korea!

As I understand it, the center of the supposedly America-hating world is France. But now it turns out even the French don't hate America as much as liberals do.

Au contraire! (We can say that again!) Our Georgie is the most popular American with the French since Jerry Lewis.

All over the civilized world, voters are turning terrorist-coddling liberals out of office and voting for politicians friendly toward Bush, the world's sworn enemy of Islamic fascism.

Those foreign leaders so admired by Democrats for hating George Bush and loving Saddam Hussein are being replaced by rulers who pledge their friendship to the United States.

Retrospectively, B. Hussein Obama's answer about our most important ally being "the European Union" may eventually become true, thanks to Bush's ceaseless ally-making.

In Germany, pro-American Angela Merkel crushed the mincing anti-American chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2005.

Last year, conservatives swept Canada, making Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper the prime minister. I haven't loved Canadians this much since the New York Rangers won the Stanley Cup.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard is both the longest-serving Australian prime minister and — by his own account — the most conservative. As The New York Times rooted for his defeat in 2004, claiming Australians were furious with him for his support of the Iraq war, he won a historic third term.

Along with Howard, Bush's staunchest ally in the war on terrorism has been Britain's Labor Party leader Tony Blair. He's about to leave office — only to be replaced by a leader from the even more pro-American Conservative Party.

American celebrities who threaten to move out of the country every election rather than live under a conservative leader are running out of countries to move to.

Only Spain remains a nation of women. As long as Spain exists, it will not outlive the shame of its gutless capitulation to terrorist bombings in 2004. It is worse than Sweden's neutrality toward Hitler.

But France! Until this week, France seemed a less likely place to find someone who supports America than a meeting of Democrats.

Apparently, even the French prefer Western civilization to clitorectomy-performing, car-burning savages.

The Democratic Party is now officially the only organization on Earth that does not take the threat of Islamic fascism seriously. Between the Democrats and the media, America has gone from its usual position as the world's last hope to radical Islam's last hope.

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Originally posted by MalBadInLatin:
She sure knows how to shovel it.

The French elect a pro American leader..........and "Freakshow" Coulter uses that as evidence that Republicans are right about everything. I bet she has a big long wooden nose, and scorched clothing from all of those lightening strikes that plague her since she wrote this article.

Nobody out there is buying this crap are they?

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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
I am happy to see France get rid of Chirac.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
So, does that mean Freedom Fries are now back to being French Fries?

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Originally posted by JaynezTown:
Have your seen her Addam's apple ?

I think Coulter is an obnoxious drag-queen

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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
I don’t think Bush has alienated the US...

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Originally posted by Veteran:
Why should we even care what Ann Coulter has to say? Hasn't she succeeded in making herself irrelevant yet?

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Originally posted by Reaverman:
Trust me, as someone who lives outside the U.S., and has to deal with being an American in a foreign land, Bush HAS, beyond any shadow of a doubt, alienated the U.S.

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Originally posted by Reaverman:
Trust me, as someone who lives outside the U.S., and has to deal with being an American in a foreign land, Bush HAS, beyond any shadow of a doubt, alienated the U.S.

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Why because no one likes you? Maybe you have bad breath.

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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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[B Why because no one likes you? Maybe you have bad breath.

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Only a month after the French went to the polls in near-record numbers to vote in the most impassioned presidential campaign in recent history, they now seem to be sleep-walking toward legislative elections whose outcome many consider a foregone conclusion. President Nicolas Sarkozy has deftly built on the momentum of his victory in that election, and now looks set to win one of the most commanding parliamentary majorities ever. Still, the conservatives are taking no chances, waging a surprisingly aggressive campaign that contrasts sharply with the laid-back voter attitudes ahead of Saturday's vote.

Opinion polls and projections through the second round of voting on June 16 predict that Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) and its center-right allies will win over 42% of the vote — under France's proportional representation rules, that would give the president and his allies between 410 and 430 of the parliament's 577 seats. Leftist parties led by the Socialists are urging the electorate to give them control of parliament as a hedge against the dramatic reforms promised by Sarkozy, but opinion polls suggest voters are not interested in restraining the hand of their new president: Left parties are expected to win no more than 150 seats. And that kind of landslide would give Sarkozy a free hand to slim down welfare programs, liberalize France's labor market, and shrink public debt, without significant interference from the legislature. The real opposition would come in the streets, from the nation's militant unions and ever-ready protesters.

But their commanding lead in the polls hasn't lulled the conservatives into taking the outcome for granted. Led by interim Prime Minister François Fillon, UMP candidates have hammered away at the importance of capturing a resounding majority to assist the popular Sarkozy with what they call long-overdue reforms — changes they accuse the left of being too ideologically deluded to accept. In reply to leftist accusations that rolling back welfare would penalize the less wealthy to the benefit of the rich, Fillon mocked his rivals as "moralizing impostors." He also smeared leftists opposing the right's promises to curb immigration as those who "no longer dare love France." Many UMP candidates in lower-profile positions than Fillon have been using even stronger language to bash leftist contenders as unpatriotic.

The gloves-off campaigning style of the conservatives seems to be working. Leading Socialist candidates are already talking more about how they'll regroup and reform their party in opposition than about the possibility of victory. And the shrill tone of the UMP campaigning also appears designed to counter any tendency to not bother to vote this time among Sarkozy supporters lulled by his commanding victory in the presidential race. Although projections indicate France won't equal the stunning 84% participation rate in the presidential poll, abstention should drop below the 30% barrier for the first time in a legislative election since 1988.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
So, does that mean Freedom Fries are now back to being French Fries ?

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Originally posted by Hero:
sugar free syrup.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I found this quote by the currently elected President of France:
"We don like de wahr Bush hess started, but beink fools ourselves, we support heez deceesions!"
It was in, like, a French newspaper, I think.

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Originally posted by MalBadInLatin:
Now vee feel deep amour towardz heeez nezzer regzionz.

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Originally posted by MalBadInLatin:
Still though...you've just been joking around here Hero I know....but there is this undercurrent on this thread from Republican/Conservative posters that seems to imply that the French election victory is somehow validation from the French that they support our current administration.

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Finally, I hope it signals an end to France's effort to turn the EU into some Franco-German hegemony, a move that began in ernest prior to 9-11 and was in part caused by the rift between old Europe and the United States that Saddam exploited with his wholesale bribery of French, German, Russian, and United Nations officials in prepartation for what he likely considered the inevitable resumption of the original Gulf conflict. The Franco-German (and Saddam) plot to subvert the EU began to unravel after the Eastern and Southern European countries sought closer economic and military ties with the US after 9-11. Now both France and Germany seem to have reversed course coming back to a US oriented posture, which ironically coincides with the return of Russian imperialism that began with the manipulation of the gas pipelines in recent years.

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Further its a signal that France is finally ready to embrace conservative policies that will modernize their economic and social systems and replace their failed welfare state before it collapses.

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Originally posted by MalBadInLatin:
She sure knows how to shovel it.

The French elect a pro American leader..........and "Freakshow" Coulter uses that as evidence that Republicans are right about everything. I bet she has a big long wooden nose, and scorched clothing from all of those lightening strikes that plague her since she wrote this article.

Nobody out there is buying this crap are they?

And you can't change that by gettn' all bendy.

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