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GoneOffShore

(18,016 posts) Tue Apr 14, 2020, 10:57 AM Apr 2020

Here's how a real president addresses a frightened populace.

France24 last night.

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Here's how a real president addresses a frightened populace. (Original Post) GoneOffShore Apr 2020 OP

Spectacularly great! cp Apr 2020 #1

He has risen to the occasion. GoneOffShore Apr 2020 #2

Leadership Botany Apr 2020 #3

I doubt that anyone but a few of the followers of Le Pen would want Mango Mussolini GoneOffShore Apr 2020 #6

I don't speak French but he sounded on point to me. Botany Apr 2020 #7

The simulatneous translation is difficult to hear GoneOffShore Apr 2020 #8

Now THAT BigOleDummy Apr 2020 #4

K&R 2naSalit Apr 2020 #5

Thanks for posting RussBLib Apr 2020 #9

Indeed - and that's why I'm glad I'm in France now. Left the US permanently Sept 2018 GoneOffShore Apr 2020 #10

I have some friends in the Burgundy area RussBLib Apr 2020 #11

We bought our flat in 2017 and thought about going back and forth between France & the US GoneOffShore Apr 2020 #12

cp

(8,252 posts)

1. Spectacularly great!

Reply to GoneOffShore (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2020, 11:33 AM

Apr 2020

This is a master class in leadership.
He laid out the facts, thanked the helpers, admitted mistakes, stated how we're learning from them, and spoke of the future and how what we've learned will carry into it, as one nation united. Very moving and powerful, not him but the French people.
Vive la France!

GoneOffShore

(18,016 posts)

2. He has risen to the occasion.

Reply to cp (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 14, 2020, 11:57 AM

Apr 2020

Botany

(77,117 posts)

3. Leadership

Reply to GoneOffShore (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2020, 01:59 PM

Apr 2020

Hey France can we have him? You can have the Trump Family and we will through in Jared too.

GoneOffShore

(18,016 posts)

6. I doubt that anyone but a few of the followers of Le Pen would want Mango Mussolini

Reply to Botany (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 05:17 AM

Apr 2020

Botany

(77,117 posts)

7. I don't speak French but he sounded on point to me.

Reply to GoneOffShore (Reply #6)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 06:58 AM

Apr 2020

BTW he took blame too.

Bravo Monsieur Macron.

GoneOffShore

(18,016 posts)

8. The simulatneous translation is difficult to hear

Reply to Botany (Reply #7)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 07:14 AM

Apr 2020

And the subtitles were a little off.

Here's a link to a precis of what he said. https://www.france24.com/en/20200413-live-france-s-macron-makes-third-primetime-tv-address-on-covid-19-crisis

BigOleDummy

(2,274 posts)

4. Now THAT

Reply to GoneOffShore (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2020, 07:55 PM

Apr 2020

is what a President sounds like!

2naSalit

(102,144 posts)

5. K&R

Reply to GoneOffShore (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2020, 11:55 PM

Apr 2020

RussBLib

(10,580 posts)

9. Thanks for posting

Reply to GoneOffShore (Original post)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 11:09 AM

Apr 2020

They say you get the leaders you deserve.

We are being "led" by a lying, vain clown.

GoneOffShore

(18,016 posts)

10. Indeed - and that's why I'm glad I'm in France now. Left the US permanently Sept 2018

Reply to RussBLib (Reply #9)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 12:59 PM

Apr 2020

Still voting though!

RussBLib

(10,580 posts)

11. I have some friends in the Burgundy area

Reply to GoneOffShore (Reply #10)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 03:16 PM

Apr 2020

Often thought about escaping.....

GoneOffShore

(18,016 posts)

12. We bought our flat in 2017 and thought about going back and forth between France & the US

Reply to RussBLib (Reply #11)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 03:22 PM

Apr 2020

But then got an offer on our house in Philadelphia which allowed us to cut ties with the US.

At this point we have a mailbox, a cellphone, and bank accounts in the US.

We miss our friends, books, records and CD's, good aluminum foil, and really good food(not everywhere in France has great food).

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