>>>This awakens my curiosity. In these six years of France-bashing, nobody had the imagination to call them non-democratic because their presidential term is seven years. The guys have got a free pass for no good reason... except that they switched from 7 to 5 years in 2002. But then, I'm still amazed that nobody had the presence of mind to call 7 years of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and 14 years of François Mitterand what they were - pure antidemocratic dictatorship.
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>>Six years of France bashing? I haven't heard anyone bash France in years...Who are you hanging around with? :o)
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>You mean they stopped? Nobody told me :).
Es-tu parler de singes qui mangent du fromage et ses remise? ;-)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
