aguywhoplaysthief on 25/3/2007 at 05:03
Quote Posted by Kaleid
D. Kucinich/R. Paul '08
Not gonna happen though...
...because they're about as ideologically opposed as two people can be.
Tocky on 25/3/2007 at 05:30
I guess I exposed my laziness in not at least wikiing him. Figured to hear it eventually anyway. Overall he sounds reasonable, not greatly different from Hillary on positions, but I like the way he reasons. He seems a little gung ho on Israel but other than that I like him. After all the damage, real and political, from Zar'it-Shtula he might rethink that. I wonder what his cabinet would look like. No. Dont link that just yet.
Whoever wins better damn well fill in the national debt hole some and not just quote misleading projections.
Kaleid on 25/3/2007 at 08:35
Quote Posted by aguywhoplaysthief
...because they're about as ideologically opposed as two people can be.
Well not on everything and they'd have built in checks and balances. I'd welcome that.
Nightstroll on 25/3/2007 at 10:32
Quote Posted by Strontium Dog
However, Sarkozy has the potential to implement some much-needed economic reforms and to deal with that permanent underclass which the French left so love to ignore. If he can create a more prosperous and less divided society through economic reforms, then maybe he's an evil you could bear to withstand for a while?
If France wishes to escape the rut of social and economic decay it's in, it has to drastically reduce unemployment, which means abandoning the ludricrously restrictive labour laws that make it so costly for employers to create jobs. Royal does not appear to have the inclination or political courage to push through these reforms; Sarkozy has a multitude of flaws (not least his deeply unpleasant populism) but the fear and loathing that he exploits is a product of the economic problems he offers a realistic solution to.
Sarkozy said one day (just after well-known riots he had himself provoked for a major part) : "If you don't like France, leave it".
If this caricature of man is president, I leave to Belgium. Perhaps external observers don't see all the aspects of this guy, but he often says awful atrocities, and you know what ? Smiling. :erm:
Criminal on 25/3/2007 at 14:38
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Briareos H on 25/3/2007 at 16:58
Wow when even I can't detect on the spot the sarcasm of my posts in that thread, something is seriously wrong. :(
Oh and speaking about French elections, let's all pray Le Pen wins, so as to provoke a new french revolution which will cast the fall of the entire world economy !
Nightstroll on 25/3/2007 at 18:00
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I'm ever wondered why the French people call themself "La grande nation". Wasn't it the French citizens who also dismissed the European constitution?
Hem, one point to enlighten : all the responsibility of the failure of the EC was inputed to the French because they were among the first to vote, and the first to vote "NO". We could remind the anti-European English decisions as well, but it wouldn't be more clever. ;)
