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The right's candidate could canter home in today's election - but that will do little to heal deep divisions still raging in France. As hope for Socialist Segolene Royal slips away, Jason Burke finds a nation polarised

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MilesAway
May 5, 2007, 9:23 p.m.
He is a better man, than she is woman.
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MilesAway
May 6, 2007, 5:35 a.m.
Sweden is most 'sophisticated society' in the whole World and there failed too...
Why?
Human conscious is still somewhere, between 'the trees and ground', just as our first cosine, chimpanzee. That is a fact, because "Intelligent designer" made a great mistakes...
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Twistoflex
May 6, 2007, 10:46 a.m.
Whatsamatta? You don't luvmuyprez anymore?
Corporate socialism has surely failed here.
Hmmm. We could use regime change here, too.
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PsychoHosebeast
May 6, 2007, 12:21 p.m.
You may want to look up some of "the great man's" history of riding on other peoples' coattails.
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Justice4All
May 6, 2007, 4:44 p.m.
The socialists were able to take hold in France because they remembered that when the US refused to help in WW2, the communists from the USSR were willing to help.
The US liberated France. Yes, it's true. But only because general Eisenhower knew it was the easiest way to Berlin. Lucky for France, the easiest way to defeat Germany was through France.
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MilesAway
May 6, 2007, 5:40 a.m.
But, you have sent a important massage to our 'sophisticated society'...
"ANNEofCOULTER", THANK YOU !
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bobo-in-texas
May 6, 2007, 9:51 a.m.
Shouldn't it be ANNEdeCOULTER for this thread?
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Twistoflex
May 6, 2007, 11:20 a.m.
I can always smell the stench of your Repugnant talking points a mile away. I read you loud and clear. You want gov't off the backs of the corporations so corporations can attach themselves to the backs of the people - with the gov'ts help, of course. This is what the Repugnant movement is in a nutshell. Every post-war Repugnant administration has eroded the freedoms and liberties of the American people. Its rhetoric aside it is all about MANAGED economies ... managed, that is, to maintain the advantages and privelages of elite corporate interests while derogating working people and competition from small businesses.
To be sure, the French model is imperfect and even absurd in some ways - as it attempts to wrestle with the stresses of globalization - but we might learn some things from their healthcare system.
There is a legitimate role of government when it comes to protecting the Commons: the Founders made that quite clear; now they're rolling in their graves.
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Justice4All
May 6, 2007, 4:46 p.m.
why did i just waste 10mins. of my life on the french?
Maybe because you are a moron???
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tchef
May 6, 2007, 8:35 a.m.
History has shown that "pure Capitalism" and "pure socialism" both do not work. Capitalism is doomed by greed and socialism is doomed by complacency. You need a balanced mix of both. This is not a perfect system but then nothing is.
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tehranchik
May 6, 2007, 1:34 p.m.
"divisive' that word scares me.
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injest
May 6, 2007, 2:24 p.m.
Bush basher thumped!!!
Looser has a Royal tantrum!!
Segolene Royal says that having failed to elect her President the French will see riots in the streets!!
"Choosing Nicolas Sarkozy is a dangerous choice," Royal told RTL radio.
"It is my responsibility today to alert people to the risk of (his) candidature with regards to the violence and brutality that would be unleashed in the country now that he has won," she said
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Natureboy
May 6, 2007, 7:02 p.m.
If this guy wins, France is indeed screwed.
But the French have demonstrated that they will tolerate only so much when it comes to war on the working class.
Let us hope that "liberte, egalite, fraternite" still burns brignt in the collective consciousness of France and that they still remember the cure for arrogant aristocrats.
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cdhscape
May 6, 2007, 7:22 p.m.

It does, and that's why Sarkozy's been elected. France needs to be shaken up from the ideals of the 1960s which have served their purpose anyway, and to wake up to the new realities of the emergence of China and other not-so-trustworthy economies.
I hope France knows how much sense exists in what they have just done. Because there's plenty.