[NormsRevenge]

French President Jacques Chirac addresses the nation from the Elysee Palace, on French channel 'France 2' during the evening news Monday, Nov. 14, 2005. President Jacques Chirac said in a televised address that the rioting reflects a 'profound malaise' in France.(AP Photo/Jean-Pierre Muller/Pool)

[NormsRevenge]

[Robert A Cook PE]

This is a crisis of direction, a crisis of reference points, it is a crisis of identity,"

Crisis of of identity all right.

NOT ONCE IN THIS WHOLE FRIGGIN' "report" DID THEY WRITE THE WORD "MUSLIM".

[kb2614]

No no no, he's suppose to blame Hurricane Katrina and Bush's lack of a response for the rioting in France.

sarcasm off

[libill]

Identity crisis? Just what part of refuse to be French doesn't he understand?

[M203M4]

Chirac Says Riots Reveal Identity Crisis

Mais Oui! There appear to be some people born in France who won't surrender! This is of course a development of great concern, leading Chirac to question the very essence of "Frenchness".

[Liberal Bob]

"There is no question of entering into the logic of quotas," the French leader said.

Yeah right works every time.

[BipolarBob]

Bushs fault

heavy sarcasm

[America's Resolve]

He told companies and unions they must encourage diversity and support employment for youths from tough neighborhoods.

Typical socialist. "Mr business owner, don't hire who you want who would be best for your business. Hire instead who I want, who will be best for my and my political party's fortunes and future."

What good is it going to do to train 50,000 of these utes? They got not enough jobs to go around as it is!! Not that the utes actually want to work. Why work when they can draw welfare without the work???

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

[GVnana]

All that Prozac and they still can't get along...

[Billthedrill]

The only identity crisis I see is when Chirac mistook himself for a man.

[Defendingliberty]

8000 cars burned and he's worried about tourism....@ $10 a car that's $80,000...$100 a car it's $800,000 (if they are all junkers).... $1000 per car $8,000,000 (late model daily drivers).....$5000 per car $40,000,000 (brand new Yugos)....Let's say it's $40,000,000 for the cars plus schools, buses, churches and Cop overtime 3000 cops @ $10 per hour and 10 hours a day times 14 days $4.2 million more and it could go on for 90 more days .....Grand total at present $100 million low ball estimate...By the time they get through with the lost tourist revenue and the lost taxes I predict it will cost France a coll billion....

[oldbrowser]

"These events testify to a profound malaise ... . This is a crisis of direction, a crisis of reference points, it is a crisis of identity," he said.

Malaise ? Sounds like Chirac has reached a Jimmy Carter moment, when all around him is collapsing because of his incompetence and he doesn't have a clue why.

[dr_who_2]

"These events testify to a profound malaise...

He's toast.

[TheCrusader]

"Chirac — said France must instill values and hope in the "sons and daughters of the Republic" growing up in the poor, largely immigrant suburbs ringing French cities."

This can't be so, because these are mostly muslims he's talking about. We are told they are people of "one of the great religions of the world", they belong to "the religion of peace". They are godly people whose hope is in allah, not in the world. How then, Mr. Chirac, are a nation of Western 'infidels' going to "instill values and hope" in such paragons of religious virtue? Unfortunately, it is they who are teaching Mr. Chirac and the French their own 'values'; the values of terrorism and intimidation, which work wonders against weak nations with weak leaders.

The feeling I get from Mr. Chirac's speech is similar to how I feel when our own liberal Democrats talk to the 'minority' community in America; they exude a condescending, pompous superiority as they convince them they are dependent upon government.

[DuncanWaring]

As Winston Churchill said of Neville Chamberlain after Munich:

"He had a choice between dishonor and war. He chose dishonor. Now he shall have war."

[antaresequity]

idiot alert...

[Southack]

"PARIS - President Jacques Chirac said Monday that the unrest in France's poor, largely nonwhite suburbs revealed a "crisis of identity" that the entire nation must heal with firmness and with measures that combat what he called the poison of discrimination. ... The civil unrest is the worst since the student-worker revolts of May 1968..."

No, that explanation ("discrimination") won't cut it. The 1968 riots, you see, were co-ed. Both genders participated.

Today's riots in France are committed by a single gender, a stark contrast to 1968...and a major difference that requires an explanation.

[Westlander]

'Chirac, speaking with the flags of France and the European Union behind him..'

Someone please photshop white flags so i can have new wallpaper.

[backhoe]

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

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Then, there is this little problem...

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

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[goldstategop]

A speech that will be compared to Jimmy Carter's 70s "malaise" address. Chiraq in effect, is trying to manage France's decline and not doing too good a job of it.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")