May 7, 2007
Vive Sarkozy!
The Republic of France (Fifth I guess, but whose counting?) has done something I wish Americans would do -- reject 1968.
On one hand, the President is not a powerful executive in the French system. And Sarkozy will face an entrenched bureaucracy that makes John Bolton's and Paul Wolfowitz's jobs seem easy. Yet it would be a mistake to underplay this choice that the French people made.
Larry Kudlow talks about a Sarkozy-Trichet axis: a pro-market, altlanticist leader in France and a powerful and skillful central bank president could really put Rumsfeld's "Old Europe" back on the economic map.
Kudlow does look on the bright side of things. But whatever the eventual outcome, the rejection of Socialism, in France, even well packaged as in Ms. Royal's candidacy, is a great day for freedom. Today France, tomorrow the US Congress...
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By the way. For my blog brothers and friends who think of Sartre and Company, let me present an alternate Gaullist image (stolen from Instapundit).
Vive la France! |
If it can happen in France, why not America in '08?
From Sarkozy's victory speech:
"I will restore the value of work, authority, morals, respect, and merit. I'll restore national pride and national identity."
And from a recent debate with the Socialist Royal he said:
"France's moral crisis has a name. It is a crisis of work," he told the 20 million French voters watching.
"I want the workers to be respected. I want to protect the French from seeing their jobs going abroad. I don't believe in living on social welfare. I don't believe everyone is the same. I believe in merit, I believe in effort and reward for that effort and I believe in social mobility. But above all, I believe in hard work."
Posted by: johngalt at May 7, 2007 3:12 PMP.S. I'm with your demonstrator... "Chirac ist ein wurm."
Posted by: johngalt at May 7, 2007 3:15 PM | What do you think? [2]