To: RobinMasters
Screw your freedom fries, make mine french fries please!
2 posted on
06/22/2009 1:11:14 PM PDT by
Mpatl
To: RobinMasters
It wasn’t so long ago that we were taking jibes at Jacque Chirac’s France before Sarkozy became the president.
Now, it is Sarkozy who lectures to us on how to be Americans and what America means.
We should listen!
3 posted on
06/22/2009 1:24:31 PM PDT by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: RobinMasters
Lightbulbs are spirals, Health Care is a “right”, and the French President makes sense....
I think I woke up in Bizarro world!
4 posted on
06/22/2009 1:42:24 PM PDT by
GraceG
To: RobinMasters
Yep. Give up more liberty for the promise of safety and receive neither.
5 posted on
06/22/2009 1:48:15 PM PDT by
Seruzawa
(Obamalama lied, the republic died.)
To: RobinMasters
Kinda late for the Frogs to enforce the “no-burqa” rule if they have 5 million Islam-loving Muzzies living there.
6 posted on
06/22/2009 4:00:52 PM PDT by
Riptides
To: RobinMasters; nctexan; MassachusettsGOP; paudio; ronnie raygun; Minette; fieldmarshaldj; ...
Thanks to RobinMasters for posting this article
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President Sarkozy is flanked by Republican Guards on his arrival at the Palace of Versailles for an address to both houses of the French parliament
"Many on the Left disapprove of what is seen as a small rise in women adopting fundamentalist dress they are said to number several thousand. But they are unhappy with what they see as Mr Sarkozys enthusiasm for action that would further stigmatise a big immigrant population that is excluded from much of mainstream life.
Muslim leaders reacted cautiously to Mr Sarkozys words on the niqab and burka. Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, called the Presidents remarks in keeping with the republican spirit of secularism. Moderate Muslims also saw full face-covering as a symbol of submission, said Mr Boubakeur.
Measures against face cover are supported by two of the three women Muslims in the Cabinet but other ministers are questioning the wisdom of legislation that could be impossible to enforce.
It would also risk further criticism of France abroad. This month President Obama attacked the French headscarf rule in a speech in Cairo, saying that the United States did not believe that the Government should dictate peoples dress.
Boosted by victory for his party in the European Parliament elections Mr Sarkozy devoted his speech to promising to continue the reforms that he began implementing after his election in May 2007. He is to stage his first medium-sized Cabinet reshuffle tomorrow to open a second phase of his five-year administration. Among those departing are Rachida Dati, the Justice Minister, and Michael Barnier, the Farm Minister.
The joint parliamentary session at Versailles was attacked by all the opposition parties as an act of selfpromotion by a President with monarchical pretensions. The speech was made possible by a change in the constitution that Mr Sarkozy introduced last year.
Since the late 19th century French presidents had been barred from appearing in parliament under rules intended to reinforce the separation of powers. The Socialist Party boycotted the debate after his speech and MPs from small Green and Communist parties boycotted a session that they depicted as an attempt by Mr Sarkozy to play Louix XIV, the Sun King, who based the Royal Court at Versailles."
7 posted on
06/23/2009 3:38:06 AM PDT by
Cincinna
(TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
To: RobinMasters
10 posted on
06/23/2009 4:13:58 AM PDT by
Tribune7
(Better to convert enemies to allies than to destroy them)
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