And everybody’s on the story, but the most instructive place to go, so far, is probably the comments to this Times of London story.
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The French electorate went Sarkistic? Let’s hope they weren’t being sarcastic.
Rove, you magnificent bastard!
French Electorate Surrenders
Resistance Warns Of Violence
I love the contrast between the top two comments in the link
#2
if we outnumber them in a generation it is Allahs will.
#3
Many comments here are filled with paranoid and prejudice ramblings about being enslaved by radical Islam,
And this was just at a glance, I’m sure there’s lots more funny contrasting to be done digging through.
Semm, my favorite comment was
[emphasis added]
Our masters inflict upon us immoral hours of work. The commenter probably is a French bureaucrat and, in the words of my German cousin, “There really is something wrong with the French!”
What’s the big deal? So he won the presidency of France.
Isn’t that a lot like being the smartest kid on the short bus?
I like this one:
So, what’s with all this concern about Muslims, then?
gahrie,
I’ve got to say, I like the trend. Spain went lily livered after being attacked, but since then Europe has seen Blair reelected, Merkel elected, John Howard reelected (yeah, that’s Australia, but it might as well be Europe) and now Sarkozy.
It’s a good thing. But yes, it’s still France. Then again, they’re still among the Perm Five. Better Sarko than the socialist.
The Guardian:
Instructive, maybe, Dan… but not encouraging…
Well, that didn’t take long.
Riot police battle anti-Sarkozy protestors
Don’t miss the LGF Poll.
Hey let’s not forget that little suburb to the North went conservative as well, good thing Putin & Chavez stepped up to fill that void.
What is the world coming too when PC and anti-Americanism cannot sway the French electorate.
Huh? WTF?! Director of LeMond saying “The left must get out of the ideological impasse in which it has been trapped for too long”
Have I escaped the Matrix or something?
Methinks the French electorate may have realized what I think our own Democrats need to figure out. Heh.
I guess 40 years of ‘68 were enough.
A blade of grass penetrates the vast expanse of French politics…hope springs eternal.
A tree grows in Brooklyn, eh Jeffersonian?
JHoward,
Something tells me that the Grauniad article’s news is greeted by most with a “It’s about damn time!” and by writer Angelique Chrisafis and her editors with a creeping horror.
The French are an arrogant people, a different arrogance than we have, because of history and because of a different social path. They tried socialism and it has failed them. We will be asked to follow the same path by people that are less honest than even French politicians. Will we learn from their experience or follow their failures? I have little confidence that our electorate knows anything about the Socialist agenda.
Spiny, and most of the Graun’s readers…
*What’s the big deal? So he won the presidency of France.*
France is one of the more important battlegrounds for the culture war in Europe between Muslims and Europeans. Sarko is an unabashed reformist, promising crackdowns on the violent “youth movement” in France. If he sticks to his guns, France could be saved. If he doesn’t or he’s foiled at every turn by leftists, then France’s future is jeopardy.
Personally, I’m proud of the French who ignored the ridiculous rhetoric (“we riot if we lose”- /cheer compassionate liberals) and voted in the candidate who, at the very least, pays lip service to the growing threat of Islamic facism on the rise in Europe.
Also, consider that France elected a president who is strongly in favor of immigration reform. It almost makes you think that maybe if American politicians made immigration reform and deportation of illegals a priority in a national election, the silent majority of anti-immigration voters may come out of the woodwork. I maintain that the only people who really want worker amnesty in the US are the unions and the corporations who will benefit from it. The ordinary american recognizes the cost of dealing with illegals is extraordinary and with better border and immigration enforcement, the money would be better spent elsewhere.