May 1968 Paris - The Riots That Saved De Gaulle

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[Graymatter]

I remember 1968. The entire planet passed through a cloud of something like red kryptonite.

[Clemenza]

Protesting against Euro-peon culture aint such a bad thing.

Of course, if you add protesting in favor of Islam, all I can say is shoot to kill and bury them in pig skins.

[Clemenza]

Don't know if anyone has told you this, but Sarkozy, while Catholic, is of Hungarian, Greek, and Sephardic Jewish ancestry, not Polish.

[adamsjas]

Chirac is ineffectual and will not run again. The French are not ready to forget that it was Chirac who, in 2002, was the first French leader, with hat in hand, to make an official visit the Grand Mosque in Paris since its opening in 1926. And even the French have tired of the mincing Villepin. The riots almost ensure that the next President of France will be the tough-minded Sarkozy who is determined to save France from itself.

From your lips to God's ears gaspar!

I hope it's so. I would like to see nothing more than a forces resignation of Chirac at this point.

[dangus]

I thought I had read he's Polish. I'll grant you, Sarkozy spells more Hungarian than Polish... Sarkoski? Jewish, eh?... That should be fun..:^D

[Iris7]

What you say is true enough.

I would not say that "the French admired Hitler" though. Maybe "the French thought Hitler was cool" or a "heavy duty dude".

Certainly Hitler was pretty universally seen as "one bad assed MoFo" (in the, say, "ghetto" way). A guy who knew what he wanted and got it over the death of whoever. Stalin was admired in the same way in this country and nearly worshiped in France for the same reason.

I suppose I could be accused of a "revisionist" view of 20th Century history! ;-)