Great news out of France today!
What this means is that at least half (53% to be exact) of the French population have not completely lost their minds, do recognize the threats from French youths who--as I type--are busy torching the cars of their fellow citizens. These brave voters were not threatened by the likes of Mohamed Mechmache, President of AC Le Feu--an association created following the November 2005 riots.
He and the other Islamist thugs currently trying to intimidate the French people into handing over their country without a fight are as surprised as I am, frankly, at the way the French are refusing to go quitely into that dark night.
At any rate, it's a great day for France, and an even better day for Americans. I can only imagine how Hillary is quaking in her pantsuit, wondering if she will meet the same fate as her Socialist counterpart Royal did, wondering if perhaps there is a silent majority in this country as well, just waiting to let her know exactly what it thinks of "surrender and run" policies and open borders "tolerance."
But don't look for any celebrating by the Daily Kossaks. To read what they have to say, you'd think it was a bad think that we're about to have a friend leading France!
Sarkozy plans to pursue close ties with Bush and the U.S. and a neoliberal economic program that will hurt the most vulnerable in French society.It's a disappointing development for our French friends and for the whole world. As many mistakes as Segolene made, I believe that she would have made a remarkable president. Sarkozy is poised to institute Le Pen-esque policies cracking down on those he has previously referred to as "rabble" and promised to clean out "with a fire hose"--anybody who doesn’t look and act French. If anything, this election proves that Americans don’t have a monopoly on reactionary politicians who get elected by using fear, division, and the politics of exclusion. Here's hoping for a better result in the upcoming French parliamentary elections.
What would they call "youths" who torch cars in protest, who take to the streets wearing black masks and pelting riot police with everything from garbage to feces to bottle rockets? "Rabble" seems too genteel a word to me, but not to the Kossaks. They are very worried about these people (poor babes in the woods that they are).
I'm worried about them too, and so (apparently) are the French voters. Good thing for us ours is a different kind of "worried," the kind driven by a keen understanding of REALITY, not fantasy.
Congrats Mr. Sarkozy! Out with the old, in with the Jew!
Posted by insomnomaniac at May 6, 2007 6:06 PM | TrackBack