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France: Sarkozy wins presidential nomination: In bold speech, stresses values of 'republican right'
International Herald Tribune ^ | January 14, 2007 | Elaine Sciolino

Posted on 01/14/2007 2:35:30 PM PST by Cincinna

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy overwhelmingly captured the presidential nomination of France's governing party Sunday, pledging to reform the country, enforce respect of French laws and traditions and make the French work longer and harder.

In an 80-minute acceptance speech in a conference hall packed with 80,000 cheering supporters, Sarkozy also struggled to shake his reputation as the country's unforgiving law-and-order enforcer of security, portraying himself as a man of compassion who had changed.

"I have understood that humanity is a strength, not a weakness. I have changed," Sarkozy said from an immense stage bearing the colors of the national tricolor flag. He added, "I have known defeat, and I have had to overcome it, like millions of French people."

But his core message seemed aimed at wooing France's right-wing voters rather than those in the center or on the left who potentially could support his main rival, the Socialist party candidate, Ségolène Royal.

"My values are yours, those of the republican right," Sarkozy said. "These are the values of fairness, order, merit, work, responsibility. I accept them. But in these values in which I believe, there is also movement. I am not a conservative. I do not want an immobile France. I want innovation, creativity, the struggle against injustices."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: france; royal; sarkozy; wot
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Sarkozy was nominated today with 98.1% of the vote. He has the vision and the ability to change the downward spiral that France has been in. Reading his speech, one can see why he would be a strong ally of the US.


1 posted on 01/14/2007 2:35:38 PM PST by Cincinna
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To: Cincinna
"Sarkozy wins presidential nomination."

Woohoo!!!

2 posted on 01/14/2007 2:38:28 PM PST by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: Cincinna

Canada and France go right-wing, USA goes left...

WTF has happened!?/s


3 posted on 01/14/2007 2:39:24 PM PST by SolidWood (Sadr lives. Kill him.)
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To: Earthdweller

What are his odds of winning the election?


4 posted on 01/14/2007 2:43:33 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Cincinna

Am I dreaming? A real man in France?


5 posted on 01/14/2007 2:44:14 PM PST by OldFriend (THE PRESS IS AN EVIL FOR WHICH THERE IS NO REMEDY)
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To: Cincinna
Sarkozy also struggled to shake his reputation as the country's unforgiving law-and-order enforcer of security, portraying himself as a man of compassion who had changed.

Sounds like someone we know...

6 posted on 01/14/2007 2:46:02 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe (Say "NO" to the Trans-Texas Corridor)
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To: Arizona Carolyn; Vicomte13; Marie007
"What are his odds of winning the election?"

I'm not sure. Pinging the usual suspects. Woohoo!!

7 posted on 01/14/2007 2:48:38 PM PST by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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To: Cincinna

Sarkozy might be an improvement over the feckless Chirac, but what France really needs is a Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan who will confront the Islamic problem and dismantle some of the socialism that has keep the French economy stagnant.


8 posted on 01/14/2007 2:50:37 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: OldFriend

Well, maybe it's because Sarkozy is of Hungarian-Greek-Jewish origin... That probably distinguished him from the usual pinko French elitist rabble.


9 posted on 01/14/2007 2:51:30 PM PST by SolidWood (Sadr lives. Kill him.)
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To: OldFriend

Contrary to popular belief......there ARE a lot of 'real men' in France. Just look at a generation ago.....the French Resistance. Unbelievable what they did. Their governments may have been wusses, but France isn't devoid of real men (AND women) who love their country, absolutely HATE what it has become, and want to see her strong again.

I predict this man will be elected.


10 posted on 01/14/2007 2:51:54 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: Cincinna
"I have understood that humanity is a strength, not a weakness. I have changed,"

France is catching on, but they still have a long road to travel.

A vote for a liberal is a vote for liberalism.
Don't vote for a letter of the alphabet. Vote for a philosophy.
Vote Conservative.

11 posted on 01/14/2007 2:57:28 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: Cincinna
pledging to...make the French work longer and harder.

Give me $1000 on the Socialist.

12 posted on 01/14/2007 2:59:56 PM PST by aynrandfreak (Who would turn out better if we split into two separate countries based on the '04 Presidential Map?)
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To: Cincinna

Ok Sarkozy, now beat the crap out of Royal. Keep on reminding the people of how fake she is and how she is just a puppet of the left.


13 posted on 01/14/2007 3:00:32 PM PST by burzum (Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
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To: SolidWood

People are beginning to wake up. Except for our own leftists.


14 posted on 01/14/2007 3:03:36 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: SolidWood
Canada and France go right-wing, USA goes left...

WTF has happened!?

Most American's are slow learners. But once it hits them in the ass, it's a sure thing.

15 posted on 01/14/2007 3:14:34 PM PST by b4its2late (Liberalism is a hollow log and a mental disorder.)
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To: Cincinna
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy overwhelmingly captured the presidential nomination of France's governing party Sunday, pledging to reform the country, enforce respect of French laws and traditions and make the French work longer and harder.

Good luck, but fat chance getting the frogs to work longer and harder. They like their 20 hour work weeks at 40-hour per week socialist benefits.

16 posted on 01/14/2007 3:15:29 PM PST by RetiredArmy (Dimocrats stand for everything I hate, despise and wish to see destroyed, including dimocrats!)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

He is tied with Segolene Royal in all the polls.


17 posted on 01/14/2007 3:20:06 PM PST by Cincinna (HILLARY & HER HINO " We are going to take things away from you for the Common Good ")
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To: Arizona Carolyn

He is tied with Segolene Royal in all the polls. The first round of the elections are in 100 days.


18 posted on 01/14/2007 3:20:21 PM PST by Cincinna (HILLARY & HER HINO " We are going to take things away from you for the Common Good ")
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To: Cincinna

A Frenchman with a spine... who knew?

And just as a lot of Americans on the Right are starting to lose theirs.


19 posted on 01/14/2007 3:21:01 PM PST by Taichi
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To: SolidWood

If France has any hope of not being a MUSLIM MAJORITY nation within 25 years this guy better win!!


20 posted on 01/14/2007 3:25:01 PM PST by PISANO
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