Nicolas Sarkozy will allow Manaudou to swim in Beijing

Nicolas Sarkozy, dubbed "The American" by his critics, has been elected the President of France. France will send an Olympic team to Beijing and there will be no French Olympic boycott as meekly suggested by his opponent Segolene Royal.

I suppose calling a presidential candidate in France an "American" is a slur. I never got European insults. When they would call Ronald Reagan a "cowboy"; I am sure many people in this country took it as a sublime compliment.

Will Manaudou swim at the Olympics?

The French election is this weekend I believe. In France they have one guy on the right; (Nicolas Sarkozy), who his critics have dubbed "the American"; which I suppose is considered to be a nasty insult in France. Then you have Segolene Royal, who is easy to look at but actually praised the efficiency of the Chinese legal system and said it with a straight face. [Link]

As of now, Segolene is still considering a boycott of the Olympics and she is gaining in the polls. [Link]

Update: This from the debate coverage, "I don't think the French choose a president on the lone impression that they'll have after a two-hour debate," Hollande told France-Inter radio Wednesday before the television appearance.

[Tony's take: Americans do it the "American Way"! We take 2 minutes if it is a really good TV commercial.]

French Presidential Candidate Nicolas Sarkozy opposes a French Boycott - He is leading in the polls

The French have a human rights argument with the Sudan. In fact everybody has an argument with the Sudan except China which has invested 10 billion dollars in their oil wells. They are also selling them weapons.

Though Sarkozy's campaign posters lack the artistic merit one would usually associate with sublime French poster art, Nicolas Sarkozy is leading the polls so far as the next French President.

If Sarkozy wins, Manaudou swims! (That should be his slogan or in French it should be, "Victoires de Nicolas Sarkozy, bains de Laure Manaudou." (I hope I said that right?) If Sarkozy does lose and Segolene Royal wins I hope, Maly, our French friend who visits us now and then is right in that France will swim anyway. [Link]