Well, it looks like Nicolas Sarkozy is the new French president, and France is bracing for riots, just in case. I’m disappointed, but I’m not surprised.
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That makes two of us! My husband and I are so disappointed! He voted (as he’s French) and I could only cross my fingers and watch the voters lining up outside my window. I really think French voters were misled by Sarkozy’s play on national security, but I’m disappointed in them all the same. I think they’ll soon realize this was a mistake.
Yeah, it’s terrible that the people decided against the hard-line socialist. 🙂
Sarkozy will turn around the sluggish (at best) french economy with his belief in a free market (or atleast “free” by french standards). Is that a bad thing?? As an outsider American, I am also excited to have a French president who actually thinks that America is a force for good in the world and doesn’t try to constrain her at every turn.
“voters were misled by Sarkozy’s play on national security”
Why is it so hard for some people to understand the threats of the modern world? Are they truly that dense, or do they just refuse to see it? Probably a little of both, oui?
Hi Rhino, I wouldn’t want to clog up Laura’s blog with a lot of intense comments, but I also have quite a lot to say about the matter, having a French husband who works in politics and living in France myself. If you’re interested in a friendly discussion, you may contact me privately, but again I”m only interested in honest discussion not one with sarcastic comments or inflated generalizations like “hard-line socialist”. 🙂
Well, my feeling is that the French are better able than we Americans to simultaneously (a) express more extremely variant political opinions, yet (b) at the same, go down and drink a glass of wine together. In other words, there is a national solidarity that goes beyond politics more so that what we have, especially in recent years.