Posted on 12/15/2008 12:51:21 AM PST by Cincinna
One is black, the other is Arab, both are beautiful - and they are wearing down Nicolas Sarkozy.
The French are mesmerized by media coverage of the debonair French president's quandary over Human Rights Minister Rama Yade and Justice Minister Rachida Dati, two headstrong icons of his rainbow Cabinet.
"Super Sarko" prides himself on being the ultimate alpha male but he has become putty in the hands of the pretty young pols, tolerating incompetence that would probably have a man dismissed.
Both are in disgrace but they are staying in their jobs for now, despite rumors of a reshuffle.
The antics of the pair, who are among 13 women ministers, have swung the spotlight on to the Achilles' heel of the Napoleonic president: his soft spot for female favorites.
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Jeez, and I thought Grace Jones was unemployed!
It does not matter who leads France... they will always hate us and everything that we stand for anyway. BTW... I have been to France and found this to be the case... not everyone... but certainly many hate us for who we are.
LLS
I have to say that I am disappointed in Sarkozy. He seemed to have some promise in the last days of Chirac, but since he came into power it has been just one disappointment after another. In particular, he has done absolutely nothing about the Muslim immigrant threat within France.
He made a total hash of his response to the Georgian invasion, where he jumped in, took the lead, and then waved the usual white flag—although it must be said that Bush didn’t do much better.
Chirac did dirty deals for cash, as in the Saddam nuke plant or the Oil for Food program. I don’t know if Sarkozy is doing the same, but he seems more interested in his girl friends and his TV image than he does in real-world problems. And when he does take time out from his love interests, he seems to be following the same Eurabian track as his predecessors.
In every photo, this chick seems disturbed, or frightened. It is bizarre. She is hiding something. A drug habit or crime. A past of horrific abuse. Something nasty.
Thanks for the insight... we have our own president that ran as a Conservative and turned left once he got through his first term. Are there any honest men in politics left... well... not on the left... perhaps not at all.
LLS
Thank you for your opinion and assessment from France. I wish that more like-minded citizens of your country would post here. Heck, I could practice my rusty French.
No one who could look like a conservative leader nowadays in France.It’s an historical problem in France but it could change within the next decades as some people begin to understand we are in a deadlock.
As someone who ventured from the North to the South, I concur with your admiration for the women raised in the South.
Class and manners matter and there is the only culture that has held.
You don’t see that many like her in Paris. They may dress well but their girls ain’t on average this attractive.
Melissa is very attractive.
French women are the most overrated in the world in terms of their beauty. Brazilian, Persian, and Polish women all have them beat, to say nothing of our ladies here in the US of A.
It’s been some years since I have been in Paris over many trips and not after the invasion.
But I think you overstate the “hate” issue. If you go to northern France where Normandie is you will find a strong corner of support for the US and free enterprise.
Much of the “hate” is really the flip side of a coin in nationalism. Many of the French have a complex about the US and wish to be on even terms even though they know that logically it isn’t the case.
Knowing some French people in New York I’ve seen this quite a bit. They have a strong culture and a history that impacted the West in a large way that has been on the decline since World War II.
They have created a state system that strangles freedom, especially economic freedom and the desire to break out is quite strong. In fact in technology many talented IT folks have created a migration to the UK where they have developed a reputation for good technical results. They leave to escape the heavy burden of socialism and taxation that doesn’t allow people to move ahead.
In France, you have the wealthy and then you have everyone else who is suppose to take their four weeks of vacation in August and silently remain in their “station” in life. The oppression from the lack of upward mobility is a force that Americans can’t comprehend or understand.
It drives the socialists to forward class warfare that results in multiple strikes.
No one wants to see their neighbor get ahead or anything more than them.
Chirac was a horror show and typical of the worst of French instincts. Sarkozy has to play to that line at times but has made no secret of his affection for America and its rightful place as a leader of the West.
Of all my trips to France, I was surprised that the rude behavior, especially in Paris was not evident. There was only one disgruntled waiter as I recall. And I can’t say if he was just that way or unhappy to be serving an American.
Regardless, he didn’t bother me and you can say one thing about France. It’s a place where manners still matter.
You don’t understand a thing about French politics do you?
Sarkozy is probably the most brilliant politician and tactician of his generation. He has succeeded in tying the Socialist Party (PS) in knots, and crippling them for the future. The PS has turned into a snarling snakepit of rivals thanks to Sarko.
I find your screen name troubling. Does it really belong on a Conservative website like FR?
Very clever play on words, as usual. Thanks, Civ
Right you are! And Sarko gets it on youth violence, the work ethic and the importance of the Atlantic Alliance.
Getting it right in Islam and the WOT, and his open support and affection for the US government give him 90% rating in my book.
Thank you for pointing this out. The choice was between Sarko and Socialist elitist dummie Segolene Royal, and a bunch of extreme leftists and more extreme leftists.
Sarko is a rightist, and a conservative, in the French sence. He is, after all, French, and heading up a strong French Conservative government.
I knew you were for Le Pen but you have to understand that he is nor will he ever be politically viable. Instead of trying to push for immigration control and integration, he leaves himself open for easy attacks of extremism with his advocacy of deportation.
Here in the US we tend not to judge the politicos based on their simply getting divorced and remarried. Not clear on how that designates him a womanizer. If he is similar to most French men, that would hardly put outside the norm. More likely it would just make him typical.
What I found so evident in France was the sense of economic rigidity and a real failure to measure up to liberty, fraternity and equality.
The class and race distinctions are evident everywhere. Africans working to clean the streets, Arabic peoples of northern Africa to service the stores and an isolation that is quite dangerous to everyone on all sides: witness the riots of the youths in the ghetto suburbs.
With its demographics, France doesn’t have much time to focus its envy on the US. They are growing a time bomb in their own back yard. From what little I know currently, they have absolutely no answer to this.
Sadly, their political correctness is so rigid, for many an examination of such is not even worth public discourse. Much like the issue of WWII collaboration by those who took the easy road with the Nazis.
I do hope for France to join the US on the road to defend western civilization though. Otherwise we will be very lonely. France and the US have quite a bit more that unites us than divides us.
In that regard, would tend to see France as the US’ best ally as the UK has even larger numbers of an alienated homegrown demographic.
IMO Sarko’s choice to include Bernard Kouchner, the most admired political figure in France in his government was a stroke of genius.
Kouchner knows who the boss is, and has so far proven himself in an exemplary fashion.
The choice destabilized the PS, and they are still shaking from the quake, and have not been able to recover.
They didn’t call him Jacques Iraq for nothing. They always called him Jacques Iraq, and his corruption and venality are legendary.
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