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2005-03-30 Europe

Chirac's Frantic Scramble to Revive the 'Yes' Vote

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Posted by .com 2005-03-30 04:42|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I emit a small, ladylike *snicker*. For which I do not apologize even one little bit. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-30 7:11:59 AM|| 2005-03-30 7:11:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Lol - beverage alert!

Posted by .com 2005-03-30 7:23:50 AM|| 2005-03-30 7:23:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Jean-FranÃ§ois Cope, a Cabinet minister, said: âVoting âyesâ means showing your attachment to the French model and your rejection of the âAnglo-Saxonâ or Polish model.â

First, what is the Polish model he's speaking of?

Second, I'm sure that quote will play well in EU countries that do not particularly appreciate the "French model".

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-03-30 8:17:39 AM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2005-03-30 8:17:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 First, what is the Polish model he's speaking of?

Google has the answers. Maybe this is what you seek? Or this? What about the Spanish/Polish model?

Posted by Bulldog 2005-03-30 8:46:29 AM|| 2005-03-30 8:46:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 BD, did you take over from .com? ;-)

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-30 9:19:45 AM|| 2005-03-30 9:19:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Haw-Haw! Yes Chirac, try the old "France is Best and everyone else sucks" strategy. That worked so well the last 100 years. Bonehead...

Posted by mmurray821 2005-03-30 10:35:08 AM|| 2005-03-30 10:35:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Is the panic the polls show that the population won't support or that a rigged election won't sell any more in France than in the Ukraine? Its win the EU vote and lose your head [a fine French tradition that could be revived] or lose the EU vote and just accept a lesser position in the world. That would certainly get the old guard in a scramble.

Posted by Jealet Thereting9222 2005-03-30 12:16:58 PM|| 2005-03-30 12:16:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hmmm...on further consideration the Napoleonic saying of "The Old Guards dies, but never surrenders" may be in play. We hope.

Posted by Jealet Thereting9222 2005-03-30 12:20:26 PM|| 2005-03-30 12:20:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Speaking of Chirac:

Posted by AzCat 2005-03-30 12:57:44 PM|| 2005-03-30 12:57:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Umm...on further consideration the Napoleonic saying of "The Old Guards dies, but never surrenders" may be in play. We hope

It was at Waterloo. An infantry a unit of the guard was surrounded by the British/Belgian/Dutch/Germans and asked to surrender. The poetic version is that they answered "The Guard dies but doesn't surrender". The real answer was "Merde" who is somewhere in the middle between "Nuts" and "Go f..k yourselves".

Posted by JFM 2005-03-30 4:09:31 PM|| 2005-03-30 4:09:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I thought the Old Guard turned and fled - for the first time - after failing to break Wellington's line at Waterloo, and it was at that point that the rest of the French Army realised that the battle was lost.

Posted by Bulldog 2005-03-30 5:02:02 PM|| 2005-03-30 5:02:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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