New French president

[Onkel Neal]

I was in Paris the night Chirac was elected, quite a while ago. Congrats to the French people on your election of a new President.

"I want the workers to be respected. I want to protect the French from seeing their jobs going abroad. I don't believe in living on social welfare. I don't believe everyone is the same. I believe in merit, I believe in effort and reward for that effort and I believe in social mobility. But above all, I believe in hard work."

Sarkozy is definitely the man I would have voted for, if I were French. Now, it's our turn to elect a new leader. Wish us luck!

[Skybird]

He also said he wants no more EU constitution redone, only a slightly changed EU treaty like the one we already have. Good for France, good for the rest of us europeans. These attempts to reanimate a dead patient must stop, and a stubborn France will helpt in that.

He also said he wants to implement some sort of more reasonable control in immigration. Good for France, and maybe an encouragement for others.

He is said to go off too easily, and is said to be a man wanting to control all and everything. Let's see what comes of this, and his declared intentions. He will need to boil with water like all others, too, so probably he talked more than he can fulfill.

Royal had a killing smile, but beyond that I am not aware that she ever said how she wanted to pay for all the social programs she was talking about, and beyond social themes she had not much to talk about anyway, my impression was. I'm glad she has not won, although Sarkozy will be a tough and quite egocentric, maybe even ruthless partner for Germany.

[dean_acheson]

Hooray!

[Yahoshua]

Good on for France!!

[TteFAboB]

Vive la France. Congratulations for resisting the "Thirdworldization" of your politics.

Cool map by zones: http://elections.lefigaro.fr/resulta.../departements/ Click on them to find out the number of votes per zone.

[Polak]

Good for France, and the rest of the EU.

[Nostromo]

Huzzah! I wanted to vote Sarkozy, but being an Englishman I wasn't eligible. Nevertheless me and my compatriot went to great lengths to inform passing motorists of the wisdom in voting Sarkozy.

[STEED]

As the old saying goes one (B) out and another (B) in. :p

Let's see how long it takes before he has a go at us Brits. :p

[XabbaRus]

As long as he helps us get our two carriers I don't care.

ACtually Sarkozy has a alot of respect for Britain and our employment model. From what I understand he wants to model the French systme on the British one in terms of flexible employment.

[STEED]

He has no love for the EU so he can not be all bad.

[Yahoshua]

The "youths" are rioting again....


http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...e_rioting.html

[bookworm_020]

Good Luck to France and I hope it all works out in the end! Ther will be some people upset at the result, but I do hope that the country will come together under the new president and that he won't dissapoint them.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Yahoshua

The "youths" are rioting again....


http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...e_rioting.html

Nice to see some passion for politics. And an impressive 84% turnout

[Yahoshua]

Yeah, I'm hoping the U.S. will make a similar turnout this next election.

Originally Posted by Yahoshua

Yeah, I'm hoping the U.S. will make a similar turnout this next election.

Not the rioting by the left. Thank you very much. Socialist are showing their true colors when they resort to violence when they don't get their way at the polls.

Some are saying that the US has lead in the French and previously the German elections. Bear in mind that conservatives in both these countries are not conservative by US standards. They are merely less socialist.

The results may also fortell the US election where socialist's ideals are seen for the fraud, politically, economically and socially, they are.