Comments on: Good news, folks … Sarkozy could be for real

By: rosignol

rosignol — Thu, 31 May 2007 09:33:06 +0000

Will the lefties of France and Germany create websites apologizing to us?

Never.

By: Steven Mitchell

Steven Mitchell — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:11:34 +0000

“It’s like, there’s the campaign, and it’s on this desert island, see, and all around there’s this sea of voters, and they just cook up stuff and throw it in the sea, day by day. The more the better, it’s just volume that counts. Contradictions? Wazzat?”

With a complicit media, this tactic often works for them. If a politican is unprincipled, venal and lazy, and has this kind of cover, why would he ever do anything else? In this kind of environment, it’s amazing that some of the Dems are as good as they are. (The “fear of the gotcha” on the GOP side is a different effect altogether, but an equally pernicious influence on behavior.)

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:52:10 +0000

It’s like, there’s the campaign, and it’s on this desert island, see, and all around there’s this sea of voters, and they just cook up stuff and throw it in the sea, day by day. The more the better, it’s just volume that counts. Contradictions? Wazzat?

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:47:26 +0000

Right –one wonders how on earth it could not strike his campaign people how painfully obvious the “pander of the week” is getting to be.

By: Lem

Lem — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:23:21 +0000

If the afore mentioned presidential candidate is right, that the war on terror is nothing but a bumper sticker, then it means it has taken him over 5 years to make this discovery.

At that rate Edwards would definitely not “grow on the job”.

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:19:00 +0000

What SM says–plus it took awhile to get the returns in, on all that wealth diverted from defense to welfare. Now the returns are coming in, and they appear to be not so good (dependence, entitlement, ignorance, narcissism). Not to say that our own culture is such fine shape, either –but we have been providing that shield behind which the continent could take that shot at Utopia. Hopefully we can in time look at it as having been a sort of tuition fee.

By: Steven Mitchell

Steven Mitchell — Thu, 24 May 2007 20:01:10 +0000

It could also be that with Pelosi and company mouthing off, that the Europeans are starting to realize what Blair and a few others were saying all along: The free lunch on defense is not inexhaustible. If the Europeans felt safe being childish because Bush was strong, what does it do to them when Bush is weakened?

By: hca

hca — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:59:36 +0000

Let me be the first to say, if so-and-so gets elected, I’m moving to France!

By: Lem

Lem — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:32:24 +0000

The bad news is… while Madrid and London were hit, Chirac did manage (somehow) to spare Paris.

If Sarkozy becomes our new Blair, an attack on France may be just a matter of time.

I hate to say this but an attack may help put some fire in our belly, the fire needed to stare down Iran.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:12:04 +0000

An ex-francophile wanting to be francophile again, I’m with Buddy and Michael on this. Michael’s scenario doesn’t seem that far-fetched in the current zeitgeist, yet somehow I think America will stand up when the time comes.