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2005-11-15 Europe

Chirac: France Riots Reflect 'Profound Malaise'

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Posted by Jackal 2005-11-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yep, more wishful thinking that will solve the problem.

Posted by phil_b 2005-11-15 00:16|| 2005-11-15 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 I think de Villepin, Chirac's designated successor, will want to distance himself from the word malaise, if Jimmy Carter's 1980 election campaign is any guide. Then again, the French are said to be moody (and therefore sophisticated) unlike cheery and naive Americans. Maybe the word malaise will resonate with them in a way it did not during Carter's election defeat.

Posted by Elmenter Snineque1852 2005-11-15 00:32|| 2005-11-15 00:32|| Front Page Top

#3 You took the words right out of my mouth with that carter photo... except we were bright enough to dump his ass after 4 years

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2005-11-15 00:32|| 2005-11-15 00:32|| Front Page Top

#4 To paraphrase several+ skits from the FAR SIDE, or in the alt BLOOM COUNTY/OPUS, "Well, this should prove interesting"!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-11-15 03:37|| 2005-11-15 03:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Old bastard has showed now that the riots are extinguishing: only 162 cars burned against 1500 at their high-point. But at that moment the old coward was silent.

"Media are not etchnically diverse"

Yeah right. From the top of my head. Rachid Arhab (TV), Ilyona Moryuceff (radio), Yasmina Kelkouche (press). Or perhaps he was talking about the discrimination against Blacks and Berbers (none of those I mentionned is)

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-11-15 04:09|| 2005-11-15 04:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Was he wearing a cardigan?

Posted by Shuger Glinelet8034 2005-11-15 09:35|| 2005-11-15 09:35|| Front Page Top

#7 I smell Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted by Curt Simon 2005-11-15 10:57|| 2005-11-15 10:57|| Front Page Top

#8 two weeks of violence in the poor suburbs of France is the sign of a "profound malaise"

Chirac need only look into a mirror to make that observation.

"I'll tell them that if they want their children to eat at the cafeteria, the first step is not to set it on fire,"

Great idea. Sadly this presumes that the rioting public has some remote comprehension of Cause & Effect. Something I've yet to see from any of these violent thugs or their religion as a whole.

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-15 11:14|| 2005-11-15 11:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Zenster: They have a profound understanding of cause and effect: they burn cars, they get paid off. Nobody is geting deported and the threat to take away their cafeteria passes is as empty as all the law and order rhetoric.

Posted by Chotch Shaviling2199 2005-11-15 11:34|| 2005-11-15 11:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Chirac's plan is to manage French decline, the same way Carter's plan was to manage American decline.

Thank god Carter was wrong, but I fear that Chirac may be right, in that there is now no way out of this problem.

Posted by Mark E. 2005-11-15 15:50|| 2005-11-15 15:50|| Front Page Top

#11 The more that happens, the closer to this we get... ;-)

Posted by .com 2005-11-15 15:55|| 2005-11-15 15:55|| Front Page Top

#12 So what does

Jimmuh
Kerry
Clinton

have to say about the difficulties of Chiraq?

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-11-15 17:31|| 2005-11-15 17:31|| Front Page Top

#13 The more that happens, the closer to this we get...

My favorite Newman song, .com!

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-15 20:55|| 2005-11-15 20:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Let them eat peanuts.

Posted by DMFD 2005-11-15 21:42|| 2005-11-15 21:42|| Front Page Top

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