France : the OTHER presidential elections

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Post by John_fi_Skye » Sun May 06, 2012 7:01 pm

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Re: France : the OTHER presidential elections

Post by Rum » Sun May 06, 2012 7:07 pm

Have a trip planned there for August for a few days. If it's still there... :?

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Post by Svartalf » Sun May 06, 2012 7:26 pm

Should be same as usual, depending on where you go... I'd advise avoiding Paris' Northeast and Marseilles. The rest ought to be in working order.
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Post by Rum » Sun May 06, 2012 8:08 pm

Svartalf wrote:Should be same as usual, depending on where you go... I'd advise avoiding Paris' Northeast and Marseilles. The rest ought to be in working order.
Paris generally seems to me to be a little scarier this last few years. And Marseilles! Went there about five years ago and wandered into a neighborhood that was more like north Africa than Europe. I felt a bit paranoid to be honest.

Actually the plan at this point given we know the Atlantic side and South pretty well, is to spend a couple of days in Reims and a couple in Strasbourg to taste the German side of the country as it were.

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Post by Svartalf » Sun May 06, 2012 8:30 pm

Enjoy... Be careful of demmonstrations in Strasbourg, as the EU is due for some rocky going (and the city is not taking the fact that the European parliament wants to stop coming there at all)
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Re: France : the OTHER presidential elections

Post by maiforpeace » Sun May 06, 2012 8:59 pm

Well, looks like Sarkozy is out.

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Re: France : the OTHER presidential elections

Post by Svartalf » Sun May 06, 2012 9:01 pm

Meh, he won't go to war against us until Obie is out of office, he's have a heart attack if we surrendered to a black man.
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Post by Tyrannical » Mon May 07, 2012 1:33 am

maiforpeace wrote:Well, looks like Sarkozy is out.

Seth must be shaking in his pants, he's probably checking on the bunker and the ammo supply right now...
Excellent, Le Pen will be a shoe in in five.
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Re: France : the OTHER presidential elections

Post by FBM » Mon May 07, 2012 1:58 am

The only thing to do is wait and see how the Socialists tackle the unemployment problem, as well as the larger economic tangle. It wouldn't matter to me what label they put on their party or what banner they hung up in their offices, as long as they solved the problems the voters elected them to solve.
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Re: France : the OTHER presidential elections

Post by Svartalf » Mon May 07, 2012 8:00 am

Tyrannical wrote:
maiforpeace wrote:Well, looks like Sarkozy is out.

Seth must be shaking in his pants, he's probably checking on the bunker and the ammo supply right now...
Excellent, Le Pen will be a shoe in in five.
She'll never be president. If she ever gets to round 2, the reaction against her will be the same as against the dad in 2002.

She's been working at making her party frequentable, but the lady herself is just a ball of raw hatred and bitterness, and she has no political sense, and the economic part of her program is even more ludicrous than what you could see of her father's... She'll keep trying for the next 20 years, but I strongly doubt the fluke that let her her dad get to round 2 once will ever reproduce itself, and if it does, the other guy will get a soviet rating.
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Re: France : the OTHER presidential elections

Post by Svartalf » Mon May 07, 2012 8:03 am

FBM wrote:The only thing to do is wait and see how the Socialists tackle the unemployment problem, as well as the larger economic tangle. It wouldn't matter to me what label they put on their party or what banner they hung up in their offices, as long as they solved the problems the voters elected them to solve.
and I trust'em to succeed like I trust sharkshyt to be honest and not to flaunt his money and fatcat friends.
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Re: France : the OTHER presidential elections

Post by Tyrannical » Mon May 07, 2012 6:01 pm

Svartalf wrote:
Tyrannical wrote:
maiforpeace wrote:Well, looks like Sarkozy is out.

Seth must be shaking in his pants, he's probably checking on the bunker and the ammo supply right now...
Excellent, Le Pen will be a shoe in in five.
She'll never be president. If she ever gets to round 2, the reaction against her will be the same as against the dad in 2002.

She's been working at making her party frequentable, but the lady herself is just a ball of raw hatred and bitterness, and she has no political sense, and the economic part of her program is even more ludicrous than what you could see of her father's... She'll keep trying for the next 20 years, but I strongly doubt the fluke that let her her dad get to round 2 once will ever reproduce itself, and if it does, the other guy will get a soviet rating.
Well, I'm expecting Hollande to be a disaster and his socialist policies will sink France. So out of desperation I see people voting for Le Pen,like how Hitler did it :{D
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Re: France : the OTHER presidential elections

Post by Rum » Mon May 07, 2012 6:37 pm

Tyrannical wrote:
Svartalf wrote:
Tyrannical wrote:
maiforpeace wrote:Well, looks like Sarkozy is out.

Seth must be shaking in his pants, he's probably checking on the bunker and the ammo supply right now...
Excellent, Le Pen will be a shoe in in five.
She'll never be president. If she ever gets to round 2, the reaction against her will be the same as against the dad in 2002.

She's been working at making her party frequentable, but the lady herself is just a ball of raw hatred and bitterness, and she has no political sense, and the economic part of her program is even more ludicrous than what you could see of her father's... She'll keep trying for the next 20 years, but I strongly doubt the fluke that let her her dad get to round 2 once will ever reproduce itself, and if it does, the other guy will get a soviet rating.
Well, I'm expecting Hollande to be a disaster and his socialist policies will sink France. So out of desperation I see people voting for Le Pen,like how Hitler did it :{D
Hollande won't beat the markets. It looks like we are all ruled by them these days.

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Re: France : the OTHER presidential elections

Post by Tyrannical » Mon May 07, 2012 6:50 pm

I've always wanted to visit France and enjoy French culture, and I would expect a much more enjoyable and safer time under Le Pen.
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Re: France : the OTHER presidential elections

Post by Rum » Mon May 07, 2012 7:59 pm

Tyrannical wrote:I've always wanted to visit France and enjoy French culture, and I would expect a much more enjoyable and safer time under Le Pen.
I sometimes think you are just pretending. I just don't know why you hang around a bunch of mostly liberals with views of the type you express otherwise.

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