France's Pro-America Turn
By Kenneth R. Timmerman, FrontPageMagazine.com, January 26, 2007
... Nicholas Sarkozy is widely touted as the front-runner for president, and that is good news for America. He is smart, he is conservative, and he understands that the protector of French prosperity is in Washington, not Brussels.
No French president is going to increase French defense spending to the level where the French could actually deploy an army overseas any time in the near future. Unlike the other candidates, however, Sarkozy doesn’t just know this, he says it openly with realism and clarity.
He came to Washington this past autumn – none of the locals there noticed him much, but his visit was widely commented upon here in France. Sarkozy the pro-American, his enemies call him. And to his credit, he finds that title just fine.
... A very pleasant man named François Bayrou has also joined the presidential steeple chase, and the press is falling over themselves to push him forward. He hails from the centrist party of former president Valery Giscard d’Estaign, and is a very sensible, honorable professional politician.
But French politics can get serious, and it can get ugly. And it can have a decided negative impact on the United States, as the 2002 election showed. Faced with neo-fascist leader Jean-Marie LePen in the second round, Chirac rallied the left and won the run-off with a resounding 82% of the vote. That led him to believe – mistakenly – that he had a mandate to transform France into America’s strategic adversary and save the Middle East for French banks, oil companies and arms merchants.
The press would love Mr. François Bayrou to become the spoiler, and knock out Sarkozy in the first round so their real favorite, the Socialist Segolene Royal, will face the ageing LePen in the run-off.That’s the scenario, folks. And unlike America’s elections, we’ll know how it plays out soon enough.
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4 comments:
Le Monde, 28/01/07:
Ce n'est pas un sondage sur les intentions de vote. Juste un premier bilan de la campagne.
Selon un sondage CSA réalisé pour Le Parisien Dimanche/Aujourd'hui en France publié dimanche 28 janvier, Nicolas Sarkozy a mieux réussi son entrée dans la campagne, au contraire de Ségolène Royal, qui multiplie gaffes et faux pas, se surtout, dont la méthode ne convainc pas.
57 % des Français estiment que la campagne électorale de Nicolas Sarkozy est plus "solide" et 45% qu'elle est plus "crédible" que celle de Ségolène Royal, mais la candidate socialiste est jugée plus proche des préoccupations des Français.
57% des sondés estiment que le qualificatif de "solide" s'applique mieux à la campagne de Nicolas Sarkozy qu'à celle de Ségolène Royal, contre 25 % qui pensent le contraire.
Par ailleurs, 52 % trouvent la campagne du candidat UMP "précise" (contre 23 % qui optent pour Royal), 45 % la trouvent "crédible" (31 % pour Royal) et 39 % estiment qu'il propose des idées nouvelles (33 % pour Royal).
En revanche, 40 % des sondés trouvent que c'est la candidate socialiste qui est plus proche de leurs "préoccupations" (38 % optent pour Sarkozy) et 42 % la trouvent "moderne" (38 % pour Sarkozy).
aflindu-ma (vorba lui lucid) chiar acum la Paris, urmarind TV si discutiile prietenilor, aflu ca:
lumea incepe sa se cam sature de Ségolène, de vocea ei, de "c'est juste"-ul ei, ... se face un mare mishto de ea pe la toate emisiunile, ...
insa cind sa se incline inspre Sarkozy, lumea isi aminteste ca el vine laolalta cu Cecile, si cu influenta ei asupra lui ...,
si atunci, iara penduleaza inspre Ségolène.
In orice caz, se zice ca va fi un 50/50 rasunator, iar voturile vor fi numarate, re-numarate, rere-numarate ....
Da, si in Israel am vazut un raport la TV ca Royal incepe sa dezamageasca... e foarte generala, fara solutzii.
Spune-mi te rog la ce te referi cand scrii de influentza lui Cecile?
Parca era vorba sa divortzeze si s-au reunit...
Care este situatzia acum si ce influentza are? Ai vre-un link relevant?
Nu au divortzat, fiindca ea s-a reintors in sinul familiei.
Insa lumea nu a uitat povestea si inca il mai considera "sub papuc"ul acelei femei antipatice.
Nu prea stiu multe, ... decit ca Cecilia este organizatorul si adminul blogului oficial Sarcozy...
Si Segolene are blogul ei oficial.
Pe linga aceste bloguri oficiale, mai sint o gramada de bloguri la mishto, ...
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