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2004-03-23 Europe

The Slide gathers steam: French Left set to gain in Regional Run-off Vote

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Posted by .com 2004-03-23 12:27:07 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 .com, if you get the chance, you should read Schirer's The Collapse of the Third Republic. Great insights into the French political mess.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-3-23 11:57:10 AM|| 2004-3-23 11:57:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Cool! Will Do. I find the French political landscape to be riddled with unfathomable "givens" - socially accepted / customary things for which I have insufficient background to place in context. Reading the first review, this is eerily similar to the recent Spanish electoral collapse:
"the pro-republican leaders (especially the Socialists) allowed themselves to be meekly stampeded into voting the republican regime out of existence and granted unlimited dictatorial powers to Petain"...

Cool runnings - thx!

Posted by .com 2004-3-23 12:07:39 PM|| 2004-3-23 12:07:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sabine's all the French have if they have a chance at salvation.

Posted by Ptah 2004-3-23 12:09:38 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2004-3-23 12:09:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "compromise their plans in an effort to build a coalition, often resulting in a confused watered-down ineffective and, quite often, pointless non-plan"

Here we dont call it a coalition, we call it "triangulation".

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-3-23 2:28:58 PM|| 2004-3-23 2:28:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Um, I thought 'triangulation' was more like one group ascertaining the 'wants' of other groups and crafting something on its own that appeals to, and captures approval from, significant members of the other groups.

Posted by Pappy 2004-3-23 3:26:05 PM|| 2004-3-23 3:26:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Ptah,

I have a mental vision of a bare-breasted Sabine wearing a floppy red hat, shouting "Citoyens! Aux barricades!" while a world-weary fellow in a beret and a black turtleneck, smoking a Gauloise and sipping a Pernod, sneers at her dismissively...

Posted by Fred 2004-3-23 4:24:34 PM|| 2004-3-23 4:24:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Apparently, there were a crowd of such Sabines who watched this:
Jewish community center in France attacked and did nothing.
In fact, they probably lit their Gaulouises adn Gitanes on the flames!
Plus la France change, plus c'est la meme chose!

Posted by Jen 2004-3-23 4:32:33 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-3-23 4:32:33 PM|| Front Page Top

There's nothing wrong with France that a few trips of the tumbrels wouldn't cure.

Posted by Fred 2004-3-23 4:37:27 PM|| 2004-3-23 4:37:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah, oui...Delacroix's Liberty leading the people. Love it.
France should give it to us!
Seen it in the Louvre--magnificent.
But the French who say things never change have indeed changed a lot since 1789, except for good men like JFM, Merde in France and the Dissident Frogman!
(And Fred, that Reign of Terror really got out of hand...)
Sadly, the Islamists adore beheadings as much as the Jacobins did which is why it's only fitting that all that was left of Yassin was his head.

Posted by Jen 2004-3-23 4:54:09 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-3-23 4:54:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Sabine could do a Playboy spread like that. I'd buy that for a dollar.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-3-23 5:57:01 PM|| 2004-3-23 5:57:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 bare breasted babe charging the enemy while holding the colors in one hand and a service-rifle in the other, that's what I call leadership by example.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-3-23 10:03:34 PM|| 2004-3-23 10:03:34 PM|| Front Page Top

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