Have the French finally voted in an American friendly president?

Question

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/05/07/2007-05-07_untitled__2france07m-1.html

well this guy promises to be friends with the americans we can only hope that he sticks to his word.

can you believe the loosing camps cry :
Earlier, across the Seine River, there were tears and anger among Royal's dejected supporters, who denounced Sarkozy as an autocratic Napoleon whose call for hard work and economic overhaul will ruin the French joie de vivre.

is hard work and a strong economy a bad thing. the French confuse me sometimes?

victor hugo is antiquated it's time for france to progress the lazy laid back attitude the french have is the downfall of their country. they don't have enough work for all due to the lazy work rules. the joy of living is progress i don't see much progress from the french. until now. they will be well served to boost the economy and to drop the lazy work rules.

Answer 1

Yes, I believe that our govt can work well with this conservative president. He wants to get tough on crime and illegal immigration and he wants to cut back the overly generous French social benefits. Check out the story below.

PARIS — French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy plans to waste no time pushing through a weighty package of pro-market, anti-crime reforms — but the first battle is winning a majority in parliament in new elections next month.

Sarkozy, a pro-American conservative and an immigrant's son, defeated Socialist Segolene Royal by 53.06 percent to 46.94 percent with an 85 percent voter turnout, according to final results released early Monday.
The win gave Sarkozy a strong mandate for his vision of France's future: He wants to free up labor markets, calls France's 35-hour work week "absurd" and plans tougher measures on crime and immigration.
"The people of France have chosen change," Sarkozy told cheering supporters in a victory speech that sketched out a stronger global role for France and renewed partnership with the United States.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270398,00.html

Answer 2

It will be interesting to watch and see what happens. There have been several riots in France.

I'm just having a hard time with the thought of a Pro-American french man. It's amazing. Anything's possible.

I think he's going to make a lot of wonderful changes for the French. He seems to have some excellent ideas.

Answer 3

November 2008. with any luck somebody respectable will run. i'm relatively no longer confident that anybody presently working is the main outstanding person for the activity, The Dems unquestionably don't have anyone respectable. There are some respectable republicans, yet even those are no longer that great.

Answer 4

Unfortunately. I mean there is nothing wrong with the US of both World Wars. But as far as presidents of today's US are conserned, would Victor Hugo, or other great Frence writers, vote for an "American/NATO friendly" president, if they lived today? I don't think so.

Answer 5

That remains to be seen. The French do however want to move to a more capitalist economy and it behooves them to align with the US to accomplish it, just at the Chinese have done. The French are looking out for the French, just as it should. I expect each leader of every country to always look out for the best interest of their nation on the whole.

Answer 6

With a nickname like "Sarco the American"! I would suspect he might be....too Americans, not necessarily the Bush administration!

Answer 7

For the moment, until the American President is gone.

Answer 8

Is there such a thing? He's perhaps more "American friendly," but he's still French.

Answer 9

So it seems. Maqybe they feel sorry for us because the leaders of the Congress are far from America friendly.

Answer 10

we'll see, it seems like it. they probably were voting in a president friendly for France first, not America.