The Swiss think it's time to "engage in dialogue" with Osama Bin Laden. This is beyond stupid. Maybe they should offer him asylum? He must be tired of living in that cave in Pakistan.
"Truth to power" = my use of irony, as I'm sure you know, since you're smart enough to read Free Republic.
Seriously though, the French media and political elite skew much further left even than the Beltway. When Sarko speaks out like this, the French left falls into a fit of rage and starts calling him "fascist" (but without the quote marks).
To the poster who criticized Sarkozy for his gun control beliefs: France unfortunately is not blessed with our Constitution (and its amendments). But we'll be better a lot better off with Sarko as President than another idiot socialist. He won't exactly be able to make France into our ally, but at least he can dampen down the active campaign of sabotage against US policy they have been running for the past 40 years or so.
Nicholas Sarkozy is the conservative (UMP) candidate in the upcoming French Presidential elections to replace Chirac. Sarko is the real thing, as pro-American and pro-capitalism as a French politician dares to be in public. In the article cited here he lays into his socialist rival Segolene Royal (who substitutes charm for brains and caters to the traditional lefty agenda) for defending the young punk who recently started a riot in a French train station when the police tried to arrest him for turnstile jumping.