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A couple of days ago, Le Figaro (a purportedly right-wing publication that in practice shows little difference, if any, with the rest of the monocellular magma the French call their "press") had the results of a poll it commissioned online, in its special section devoted to the United States 2004 elections.That poll disappeared since - and frankly, I couldn't be bothered to dig through El Figaro's pile of Common Bullshit About the USA to find it back - but it doesn't matter really. Quoting from memory, it went more or less like this:
US Elections: the French have voted!My guess is that among the remaining 12%, you would find people who picked Le Général de Gaulle (they always do), and some who mumbled "Faites chier with your putain d'elections merde alors!" before plunging a big red nose back in a snifter of big red wine.
Asked who they would elect if they were to vote in the US election, 71% of the French choose Kerry over 17% for Bush
Though that's just a guess.
Now for the sake of the argument and to further extend the pleasure of this return to the dacha -- and to what's possibly left of my honored readership -- we shall assume that somebody, somewhere between, say, Pandale, Texas and NGC133, Cassiopeia really gives a flying burrito about what the French think or which US president they would vote for if somebody came up with the preposterous idea of asking them (yeah, just like El Figaroso did).
Pray.tell.what's.the.damn.news.here?
Of course a majority of the French would elect Kerry. The surprise here is the 17% for Bush since the French usually make sure they have either a Socialist or a Populist as second choice.
17% for a decent man is therefore not a bad score at all.
Heck, our Communists themselves (that is to say the orthodox ones, those who are officially endorsed by the pustular carcass of the Comintern) can't even dream about 17% in a presidential race anymore: the other variants of French Socialism (red, green and brown) took that away from them.
Look at the last time the French were indeed called to elect a president: they got the undercover Trotskyite torpedo out of the way presto and managed to get their big red noses stuck in a nice and dandy choice between a right wing Socialist and a full-blown corrupted arriviste. Eventually, they chose the corrupted arriviste with just about the same overwhelming majority.
It's such a tradition among the French.
82% for Chirac. 71% for Kerry. That's what I call being consistent, although all it means is that a French vote is only representative of the French's taste for the rule by the corrupted, the thieves and the liars.
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