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Jackie Chirac Does Jimmy Carter

Remember the years when toilet pervert Jimmy Carter was President (1977-1981) - when this country sank into a morass of horror, led by the biggest bonehead to run this country? Well, the major tipping point of the Peanut Years was when Urineman told America that we were in a malaise - and that it was our fault. So, in November 1980, the American people told Mr. Peanut to go fuck himself and sent him packing back to Georgia and his half-baked family farm.

Now, it seems that Little Jackie Chirac, the Peanut Man of France, has dusted off that old malaise speech and used it to explain away the Muslim youth riots in his shit of a country.

Chirac vows firm action on unrest

PARIS, France (Reuters) -- French President Jacques Chirac's government decided on Monday to ask Parliament to extend emergency powers for three months to quell unrest that he said had caused a deep malaise.

"We will respond by being firm, by being fair and by being faithful to the values of France," Chirac said in his first televised address to the nation on unrest by youths in poor suburbs over racism, a lack of jobs and a sense of exclusion.

Chirac, who has been under fire for saying little during the crisis, also announced the creation of a voluntary task force to help young people find work. He said it would provide training for 50,000 young people in 2007.

Although the violence was waning after reaching a peak a week ago, police said youths destroyed 284 vehicles in petrol bomb attacks on Sunday night.

"I think it's over. I think the young people have let out their anger, and I think the government got the message," said Bernard Moutei, 40, walking among the high-rise estates in the Clichy-sous-Bois suburb of Paris where the unrest began.

Disturbances began with the deaths on October 27 of two youths apparently fleeing police, but grew into wider protests by youths of African and Arab origin as well as white youngsters.

The government approved emergency powers last week that went into force on November 9 for 12 days.

On Monday, it agreed on a draft law to extend the measures until February. The law goes before the lower house of Parliament on Tuesday and its passage seems certain because the ruling center-right party dominates the two chambers.

Chirac called for calm, urged people to rally together and said the main priority remained to restore public order.

"These events bear witness to a deep malaise," Chirac said. Referring to the problems of youths in the suburbs, he added: "It is a crisis of meaning, a crisis of reference points and an identity crisis."

Yikes - Chirac even sounds like Carter. Spooky.