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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (16630)	10/14/2007 1:16:42 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224729

Senator Craig is pretty typical of the rightwing. They preach one thing in public and do the opposite in private. it's called hypocrisy and it's exactly what Jesus Christ despised the most in people. If you have ever read the Bible you will see that. Again and again he railed against hypocrites and those who take the Lord's name in vain. Jesus never said anything about homosexuals or even libertines. His other big thing was helping the poor and unfortunate. The rightwing is against that.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (16630)	10/14/2007 6:10:41 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224729

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times for Sarkozy: >Sarkozy's wife in 'exile' as divorce rumours grow Couple are expected to announce the start of court proceedings in the next few days Peter Beaumont in Geneva and Graham Tearse in Paris Sunday October 14, 2007 It is a place of luxurious exile or quiet tryst. Perhaps the place to contemplate a broken marriage to the President of France. Never has so much meaning been invested in a visit to a Lake Geneva spa. The exclusive La Reserve Hotel is under the spotlight of French reporters after at least two visits by Cecilia Sarkozy, whose increasingly separate existence from her husband, Nicolas, has become the centre of intense speculation - reaching fever pitch in Paris this weekend amid rumours about an imminent divorce announcement. Her stays at La Reserve have come under scrutiny after staff confirmed that Mme Sarkozy - barely seen at her husband's side since the summer - has been quietly slipping in and out of the lakeside hotel. An official announcement that the Sarkozys are to separate may come tomorrow. 'It is an open secret,' said Christophe Barbier, editor of weekly news magazine L'Express 'They are living through what millions of French people experience. There was a false end [to their relationship] in 2005. It seems that this time it is the true end," he added. Rival magazine Le Nouvel Observateur yesterday quoted unnamed sources as indicating the announcement would be made tomorrow. The 52-year-old French president sidestepped the press this weekend, excluding reporters from a visit to Normandy, while Cecilia, 49, shopped in the chic boutiques of the Avenue Montaigne in Paris. Daily L'Est Republicain yesterday stuck by its report on Friday quoting unnamed Elysee palace sources that a separation was imminent. The daily, which last month obtained an exclusive interview with Cecilia, reported she had already completed an interview and picture shoot for 'a magazine' - widely speculated to be next Wednesday's edition of Paris-Match. 'I have no comment to give about this sort of rumour,' said presidential palace spokesman David Martinon. 'It is grotesque and ridiculous.' Cecilia Sarkozy's spokeswoman Carina Alfonso-Martin said: 'We cannot comment upon every rumour like that.' 'That things are not going well between the couple is an obvious fact that even the president's aids and Cecilia's pseudo-close friends will admit away from the microphones,' said Liberation yesterday. The Sarkozys have a 10-year-old son and two children each from former marriages. The rumours of a new parting of the ways have been fuelled by a series of no shows by Cecilia. Not since the Bastille Day parade in July, when television viewers were treated to the sight of Sarkozy attempting to take his wife's hand while she resolutely pulled it away, has Cecilia attended a public function with her husband. When Sarkozy travelled to Sofia to receive the country's top award for his efforts to free six nurses on death row in a Libyan jail, Cecilia was absent, despite her role in the operation acting as an intermediary. The day before, she was also missing when the president received MPs from his own party - the UMP - at a reception at the Elysee Palace. Two days earlier she pulled out of the taping of a television programme devoted to her close friend, Justice Minister Rachida Dati. When Sarkozy celebrated at a Paris restaurant the French victory over New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup on 6 October many of his friends were with him, but Cecilia was not. Those Mme Sarkozy spotting in Geneva recall her previous visit to the city in the midst of a relationship with Richard Attias, director of the Publicis communications agency in 2005. The sighting of Cecilia in Geneva, reported in the Swiss daily Journal du Tribune, suggested she was only waiting for the nod from the President's advisers to make the news of a separation public. The speculation about a new split has been given added impetus in recent weeks by a series of heavy hints in a French media that largely tends to swerve away from discussing the private lives of its politicians. Whatever the truth of the current speculation, the relationship has remained far from comfortable since their reconciliation - which some commentators suggested was done out of political expediency ahead of the Presidential race. Known for her independence she declined to join her husband and US President George W Bush at a lunch during Sarkozy's vacation in France, and made an abrupt departure from the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in June. Which all leads to the question whether Cecilia, as claimed in the weekly VSD, despite considering 'Nicolas Sarkozy to be an exceptional man' believes 'he is unbearable to live with.'< Guardian Unlimited.uk.com