Name: marlow
Hometown: Los Angeles
Comments:
Oh [expletive deleted]...My heart goes out to the French people who tried to stop this... I'm with you. Vive la France.

Name: Leonard Muller
Hometown: Chattanooga, TN
Comments:
I think Hillary should now be looking for work outside of the public sector. If France (yes France) will elect a conservative, pro-American, with a NON FRENCH name, the liberals in America most know that there reign here will be brief.

Name: karin osborne
Hometown: oceanside ca
Comments:
I am disappointed for the French and their French Poodle. More will be suffering in France as well as in Iraq and here at home.

Name: CathyHometown: Rennes/France
Comments:
About President Sarkozy, your article is excellent.

Name: Bob Boyd
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Comments:
Sarkozy will have to take care about how close to Bush he gets. After all, in 2 years we will have a new President and he/she won't be like Bush. Get too close to Bush and Sarkozy won't be welcome in Washington for the last 4 years of his term.

Name: dan tobin
Hometown: charlotte, nc
Comments:
i think its about time the french people elected a real thinker to their government. perhaps he can reverse the liberal moronistic attitude the french have had for decades. If france wants to be a world leader ever again they have to get into the 21st century.

Name: Debessay Gabriel
Hometown: Alexandria, Virginia
Comments:
Did Sarkozy really say the USA is the "greatest democracy in the world"? I am sure NOT A SINGLE Frenchman or woman for that matter believed him when he said it. All Europeans, at least the majority believe that the USA is run by a bunch of crazy NRA menbers - a kind of modern WILD WEST, preaching democracy & enforcing it with guns with the zeal of modern day evangelists. Sarkozy may not be aware that black people live in America and for him to use the superlative "greatest" is offensive considering the difficulties blacks are subjected to in this "Great" democracy of "OURS".

Name: Terry Peterson
Comments:
Americans need to understand that conservatism is France and in Western Europe in general is not the same as conservativism in the United States. Chirac also was a conservative in French politics. Conservatism in France is closer to our idea of centrism. Therefore while wanting to mend ties with the US, he is not goign to be a buddy of Bush because the French people are not likely to permit that.

Name: Roger F de Anfrasio
Hometown: New-York City N.Y. 10022 U.S.A
Comments:
As a Frenchman living in the US for more than 50 years let me tell you what I think about the new president Sarkozy,well! It is a but time that we have someone who understand the international politics for a better relationship with other allies country who need us like we need them. It two way street no matter what we do, because like we said people need people, and country need country, good luck for France and the french people.

Name: Rich
Hometown: Payette, Idaho
Comments:
I thinink that Sarkozy will be a refreshing change from the Chriaq crap that we have been used to.

Name: m ross
Hometown: baltimore
Comments:
you said nothing about him--who he is? is he married? how old, children etc? Nothing!

Name: Jeff Young
Hometown: St. Louis, MO
Comments:
I think it's great that Sarkozy won. Chirac is a [expletive deleted].

Name: George R. Costich
Hometown: Cape May
Comments:
America has to learnfrom it's friends-and it's enemies- that it's past casual, cavalier, irresponsible attitude toward Diabetes,Planned Obsolescence,the Population Explosion, and Global Warming, is a path to Global Isolation and National Suicide.

Name: JerryG
Hometown: Chicago, ILL
Comments:
Good luck with your citizens too used to 35 hour weeks, in the 46 weeks acutally spent working! No wonder the asians are beating us all!

Name: mark mywords
Hometown: dallas texas
Comments:
guess we can go back to calling Freedom Fries, French Fries--- with this election of the lapdog Freedom Poodle. Good luck to the French in protesting this baboon, probably import some rubber bullets from the USA

Name: Martin Greenberg
Hometown: Chigwell Essex U.K.
Comments:
A Good choice for FRANCE the U.S.and the U.K.Tony Blair and his bunch of crooks for the chop next!

Name: blake chanberlinHometown: lafayette , la
Comments:
maybe there is hope for the french after all!!

Name: Dr. Mervin G. Rhamm, Ph. D.
Hometown: San Francisco, CA. 94102
Comments:
I agree with your assessment in re the election result. I believe that Sarkozy's election will bring our two countries closer. Vive la France!

Name: Ken Park
Hometown: Pullman Washington
Comments:
Thank God! And it must be hard for NBC to swallow.\

Name: Oliver NgodoHometown: Lagos, Nigeria (but right now a PhD candidate at University of Malaysia, Sarawak)
Comments:
I love this guy. He sounds every bit the suitable French President we Africans, particularly we Nigerians, will love to do business with. The world has changed. France needs to lead her African associates to the inevitable new level. You are very welcome Sarkozy.

Name: Michael D. Kanner
Hometown: Longmont, Colorado
Comments:
As a professor of post Cold War economics and security, I have be conjecturing that Sarkozy was the "Margaret Thatcher" for France. It also indicates what students of European politics have been saying about the difference between elite and popular opinion. While the politicians have been trying to maintain the status quo, the french workers have been seeing their jobs and industries going away.

Name: Stephen
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Comments:
"Darker American side"? A bit anti-American I would say. You seem disapppointed Sarkozy won. This was a great day for France, America and their allies. A very bad day for the socialist left. I loved "Summer of Deliverance" by the way.

Name: Dennis Papp
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Comments:
As a first generation American, born on Constitution Day in 1942 of Hungarian parents, I say that Liberty, Fraternity, Equality and France are all DEAD. Heil 'la National Security State.

Name: Anonymous
Comments:
I'm going to start drinking French wines again.

Photo of young Sarkozy supporters celebrating in Place de la Concorde on election night by C. Dickey