[SunkenCiv]

Unhappy ending to Sarkozy affair as it takes a novel twist Charles Bremner Cécilia Sarkozy, the wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French Interior Minister and political star, has packed her bags and returned to her lover in New York... Her abrupt departure came just weeks after a high-profile reconciliation with her husband at Charles de Gaulle airport when she returned from a seven-month escapade with M Attias. She promised to remain faithful to her marriage, and M Sarkozy ended a relationship struck up with a political reporter from Le Figaro during his wife’s absence.

[SunkenCiv]

Brutal murder was anti-Semitic crime, says Sarkozy
Guardian | 02/22/06 | Kim Willsher in Paris
Posted on 02/21/2006 11:59:27 PM EST by Pikamax
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1583225/posts

The Man Who Would Be le Président (Nicholas Sarkozy alert)
The Weekly Standard | 2/27/2006 (weekly issue) | Christopher Caldwell
Posted on 02/18/2006 9:00:13 AM EST by Dark Skies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581053/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Ping!

[haroldeveryman]

"..... the wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, the French Interior Minister and political star, has packed her bags and returned to her lover in New York... Her abrupt departure came just weeks after a high-profile reconciliation with her husband at Charles de Gaulle airport when she returned from a seven-month escapade with M Attias. She promised to remain faithful to her marriage, and M Sarkozy ended a relationship struck up with a political reporter from Le Figaro during his wife’s absence."

And the French think our politicians are boobs!

[Vicomte13]

This is a chance for Sarkozy to break the pin that Villepin has had him in for several months. The CPE was heavy-handed, and was Villepin's baby. Villepin sought to "tough it out",which of course must fail if a strike generalizes. That is what the CPE strike did.

So, Sarkozy now seeks to sound conciliatory and take up the mantle of the UMP.

It may work.
But more than likely, the voters will simply reject the UMP in totum.
I think that de Villiers, in particular, is likely to siphon off moderate right votes concerned about immigration and security.

The Socialists have a chance to return to power, but they have to present somebody who has something going for her...

[mikey565]

France is a beautiful country, too bad the French live there.

[Torie]

That is one of the most mealy mouthed statements I have ever heard. Sad. The French must have a gene that finds pleasure in failure.

[CheyennePress]

"Twenty years of mass unemployment, 15 years of mediocre economic growth, 10 years of sluggish purchasing power, seven political changes since 1981..."

...AND THEY WANT THE SAME OLD CRAP!

*rolls eyes & sighs*

[Mike Darancette]

[SunkenCiv]

Possible woman president in France.Madame Royal could be France's next president
THE GUARDIAN | 01/18/2005
Posted on 01/18/2006 7:53:09 AM EST by montreal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560185/posts

[Billthedrill]

Same crap we hear too often from Democrats - say anything, no matter how harmful to the country, as long as it smears an opponent and advances one's own political power. I though better of Sarkozy than that.

[Berlin_Freeper]

During the heatwave a few years ago the French went off to vacation and allowed their elderly to perish by the tens of thousands so they could collect their wealth.

Now we see them tossing their youth to the wolves to help secure their own socialist life style.

Is anybody around here ever expecting anything positive from the French? Just look at how they treat their own people.

[American in Singapore]

Speaking of frogs and courage, where's that pillar of courage, Johnny Depp, living these days?