She's won hearts but is she able to win enough minds?

The Times ^ | September 30, 2006 | Charles Bremner

[Minette]

It's certainly possible, I suppose. Our students come from all over the country, though, so if it were regional, I would have expected to have heard a few dissenting voices.

Perhaps it's generational. I've read that she's popular with those over age 35, but have no idea if that's accurate or not.

[longtermmemmory]

she might shave for political reasons but her wife probably does not.(/s)

[Issaquahking]

Antoine Royal also revealed yesterday that Gérard, another brother, was the secret service agent who attached the bomb to the hull of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior.


Sounds like she comes from good stalk!

[JasonC]

"a refusal to debate policy"

No one with actual political ideas does this. Socialist placeholders for whom politics is pure personal ambition, who do whatever the Party and poll-driven expediency seem to ask for, do this.

Making it utterly inconsequential whether she does anything. If she ran all of Europe for a decade, the only result would be that nothing happened in Europe for a decade.

[Republicain]

I first saw those cars in Paris in June, 2004

Citroen C1s have been first introduced in june 2005. So maybe you are talking about the Smart cars, produced in France by Smart, a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler :

Smart cars are smaller than C1 and more expensive. They will be introduced on the US market in 2008.

[exdem2000]

Great post, Could I be placed on your ping list.

Thanks exdem

[Republicain]

"a refusal to debate policy"

She has refused to debate FOR NOW, but she will be obliged to in the next few weeks if she wants to be chosen by the socialist militants.

In 2002, prime minister and socialist candidate Lionel Jospin refused to debate with Chirac during the campaign. That's one of the reasons why he lost election... And why Chichi has been elected with 82 % of the votes at the second round, with the Vichy's regime nostalgic Jean-Marie Le Pen as opponent.

[WashingtonSource]

Why is her husband referred to as her partner. Is this is politically correct nonsense or what? Or were they never married?

[JasonC]

Doesn't matter. Not about tactics or elections, it is about philosophy and character. Nobody serving in politics for decades as an actual calling avoids policy - they live for it, it is the source of their passion, what gets them out of bed in the morning. Any serving professional pol who avoids policy out of "strategerizing", is a placeholding self seeking party and poll following empty suit. And nothing any of them ever do, ever has the slightest positive consequence.

[Republicain]

Why is her husband referred to as her partner. Is this is politically correct nonsense or what? Or were they never married?

They never married.

[Barset]

"If she ran Europe for a decade, the only result would be that nothing happened in Europe for a decade."

Well, nothing that Europeans initiated would happen.

The vital question is, how will Europeans react to what the non-Europeans in their midst initiate?

The riots, car-burnings, attacks on police and Jews, have probed Europe's limits of tolerance. The non-Europeans have learned that, thus far, limitless European tolerance really means that Europe has already surrendered.

[reformedliberal]

Which, according to the article is
"... the most powerful executive post in the Western world."

Really? Who believes that is true?

[sitetest]

Dear MadIvan,

Thanks for the article. Very informative.

She certainly is a PRETTY socialist.

It's a pity that France can do no better than M. Sarkozy or Mme. Royal.


sitetest

[Doogle]

organ donor cars

Doogle

[WashingtonSource]

Why is her husband referred to as her partner. Is this is politically correct nonsense or what? Or were they never married?

They never married.

Thanks. So, a woman who never married and gave birth to three bastards is going to be the next President of France.

[JasonC]

Sark already showed what he would do about that - law and order talk and a bit of police, followed by typical short term caves etc. And we don't have to know anything about this person to know what she'd do about that - it is enough to know she is a socialist without any convictions of her own, an empty suit. She'd do the PC thing and pretend nothing is happening, then blame neanderthals on the right and run against them, etc.

Nothing of slighter consequence can be imagined, that who leads a French socialist party.

[Ready4Freddy]

It may well have been the Smart car, Republicain. Or perhaps even the Mercedes A-(??) series, I had actually seen a couple of those in the states, w/ Mexican plates, so I assumed they might have been made there. I do know that it was small enough to park perpendicular to the curb, and not poke out into traffic.

Wouldn't want to have one out on the highway, but a great idea for larger European cities w/ all the old narrow streets.

[Republicain]

Thanks. So, a woman who never married and gave birth to three bastards is going to be the next President of France.

In fact, four bastards (as you say with such an elegance... ;-)). And the answer is : maybe, maybe not. A problem ?

[Republicain]

organ donor cars

Not really if you look at that video :

Crash test of a Smart

Reassured ? ;-)

[Non-Sequitur]

Do university students in France tend to be more liberal than the mainstream as they are in the U.S.?