Do you like the president?

whats a president?

Originally posted by Gravity Kills
Is America and the United Kingdom the only countries that don't respect their leader. Come on Bin Laden and Hussain still have people fighting for them.

Originally posted by liz123
whats a president?

😂 she must get it thru her tube socks.....

ahh. i am from france!

And you don't have a president there right?

Originally posted by liz123
ahh. i am from france!

ya.but i dont pay attention to politics and in france it is called something else.

Originally posted by liz123
ya.but i dont pay attention to politics and in france it is called something else.

Where's Fire when you need him, he would get a kick out of this!

here I am Diego, indeed it looks like a nice thread

and the president of france is still called "le president" in french 🙂

Bush sucks as a "world leader".
Indeed the biggest reason why Russia didn't go to war with Iraq was because of their oil consessions made by Saddam.
However France didn't go to war with Iraq for a different reason. The public opinion would never have tolerated it, and as everyone who follows international politics knows, Chirac came very close to losing this year. And what is more important Le Pen came pretty close to winning this year. If Chirac had gone to war he would have certainly felt that on election day. I am also quite sure that the PS wouldn't have allowed it and his goverment would have fallen over it.

Originally posted by Fire
here I am Diego, indeed it looks like a nice thread

and the president of france is still called "le president" in french 🙂

Not according to liz123 😄

let's ask G.p.

"The president" is indeed called "le Président". (btw Diego, it's useless to say René, for we don't actually use the middle name here)

close enough

I was poking at liz123 this whole time, I am fully aware of the political environments in various corners of the world 🙄
I was trying to see if she was really from France
But I do believe you have other names for him right? Like we do for George W <and you have to say that W with a cowboy accent
😂

Originally posted by Fire
However France didn't go to war with Iraq for a different reason. The public opinion would never have tolerated it, and as everyone who follows international politics knows, Chirac came very close to losing this year. And what is more important Le Pen came pretty close to winning this year. If Chirac had gone to war he would have certainly felt that on election day. I am also quite sure that the PS wouldn't have allowed it and his goverment would have fallen over it.

Well, that's not really what happened. 🙂

First, the election took place in May, 2002, so quite a few months before the "Iraqi crisis"...
Le Pen (far right candidate) gained more voices than The PS (the traditionnal opposition party) candidate, L. Jospin... So the former went to the 2nd round against J.Chirac. Le Pen gained so much voices because a publicity campaign had been done in the medias about violence and insecurity (we can also notice an improvement of the results of far left parties, i.e the voters wanted to express their mistrust and unsatifaction)...
So actually J.Chirac hasn't anything to be scared of politically speaking...

It is a fact that he partly didn't came to war because the French people didn't wan't it. But also because here in France, everyone was convinced that Saddam had no WMD, and of course, a bit because people are sick and tired with war (bad memory of WW2, if you know what I mean...)

still france got quite a scare when they noticed second round was only between chirac and le pen

and usualy ppl remember that stuff on election day

Originally posted by diegocala
But I do believe you have other names for him right? Like we do for George W <and you have to say that [b]W with a cowboy accent
😂 [/B]

As a matter of fact, since he does not seem as ridiculous as other politicians, and since we don't have to distinguish him from someone else (A father rarely give his own first name to his son here...), he's just called "Chirac" in most of the informal talks

Originally posted by Fire
still france got quite a scare when they noticed second round was only between chirac and le pen

and usualy ppl remember that stuff on election day