Posted on 04/20/2007 3:28:20 PM PDT by Cincinna
Nicolas Sarkozy, the conservative candidate and front-runner for president, evoked his immigrant roots and quoted Martin Luther King Jr.
Ségolène Royal, the Socialist, pledged to usher in 21st-century-style Socialism and never to kneel before President Bush.
François Bayrou, the centrist, declared that he loved France more than he loved power.
And Jean-Marie Le Pen, the head of the ultra-right National Front, branded all three of his main opponents worthless hypocrites.
Fanning out to the far corners of France, all but one of the dozen French presidential candidates held their final major campaign rallies on Thursday night, offering starkly different personal styles and visions for governing.
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Standing in the shadows with Royal and Zapatero are the ghosts of Lenin, Stalin, Castro and every other Communist dictator. Color her RED.
Standing in the shadows with le Pen are the ghosts of Petain, Vichy, Hitler, Mussolini, and every other fascist that blighted Europe. Add to that every anti-semite, Holocoast denier, and terrorism supporter.
Standing with Sarko are the ghosts of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters who gave their lives to free their country from Communism, and all fighters for true liberty and freedom.
For all the latest poll results, see ::
J-2 FRENCH ELECTION UPDATE :: ALL THE LATEST POLLS SHOW A SARKO v ROYAL RUNOFF
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Any idea what Sarkozy’s MLK quote was?
Well, LePen has a point, but should have expanded on it: worthless hypocrites, one and all, LePen himself including.
And where is the ghost of DeGaulle?
Admiring himself in the mirror, probably.
"I have a dream that one day the Germans won't kick our butts."
Ultra “RIGHT GUARD” .... Le Pew!
Lucky for him, because France doesn't have any power.
“Ultra right” in France means neo-fascist. It has nothing to do with free markets, freedom of the press or anything we American Conservatives think of as the “Right”.
Le Pen in not in favor of free markets, capitalism as we understand it. He is anti-American, anti-free trade, anti-semitic, and anti-Israel.
I’ve been somewhat following the elections down there and in doing so listened to a few interviews of LePen (both he and his daughter Marine). Two things he said during these that struck me were ‘I may not agree with the things you say but i’ll die defending your right to say them’ and ‘government plays too large a part in the daily life of french men and women’.
Now i know that a lot of people don’t like the man for some views he may have expressed in the past but frankly I’m not so sure this guy isn’t what France needs atm..mainly a swift kick in the a$$ to get them to wake up and fight for the country.
Gaullism is, IMO a philosophy which has outlived its time.
You gotta love the French sense of humor...
Several years ago, Paris premiered a major production on deGaulle. It was advertised greatly showing him as a boy and a general... In referencing the resistance, it said, "This is the one who said NO..."
An 'Off Broadway' troop in Paris advertised their counter production with a gender bending take off on the line...
Oh no, “Ma Femme S’appelle Maurice” (the cross-dressing play to which you referred) was far from being “Off-Broadway”, it was a major spectacle. And it was very funny too.
BTW, it wasn’t about homosexual cross-dressers. It was, rather, about a heterosexual man who hides another heterosexual man dressed up as a woman to avoid implication in a financial scandal. Then the first heterosexual man himself has to dress up as a woman to avoid being caught in an affair by his wife. And then the police inspector investigating the case shows up poking around, and thinks that the two men are women, and chases them around lustily (”Je vais me regaler!”), until, of course, the whole thing falls apart and all is revealed, if I remember correctly (I saw it back in ‘97 or so), in the way that maximizes embarrassment for everybody involved. But nobody in it is actually gay. French farce is always about adultery and affairs (and is perfectly suited to the audience watching it, too), but nobody in Paris’d go watch a play about a bunch of actually gay guys parade around in dresses. To see THAT you’d best hop on the Eurostar over to London!
If there were no Sarkozy in the race, Le Pen would be the only hope France has to restore the rule of law over the hoodlum class. He has been consistent in this regard for many years.
Fortunately, there IS Sarkozy in the race, so France need not cross that Rubicon, and won’t.
I believe you're right on the date. We were living in Paris at the time and got the benefit of 'display advertising' for both productions.
The humor sounds to be in the same vein as "Le Dîner de Cons".
I find much of the French humor 'off kilter' enough to tickle my funny bone.
I loved the ad for 'French' Preparation H... showing the "see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil jade monkeys"... but the last was holding his bum instead of his mouth.
We are fond of the comedy theatres in the Marais. A joke I still remember was a comedienne who was pretending to tell her little boy a night-time story.
It went something like this:
“The story of the three bears”
“Once upon a time, there was a little white girl with long blond hair. She lived in a little house with a pretty garden.
Then one day three big black bears came into her garden. First they tore up all the flowers. Then they broke into her house and tore up all of her furniture and broke her little bed and ate up all her food. And then the three big black bears threw the little girl crying out on the street in the dark and kept her house and all of her toys. The End.
Good night little Jean-Marie!”
I laughed.
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