I know you are all waiting for the winners to this week’s caption contest before you start your week. Well don’t let me hold you up, here they are:

4th Place – elliot – Sarkozy: Look at that!! Somebody stole the hub caps off my limo. ARGH!!!

Obama: What chu talkin’ bout Nikillis?

3rd Place – Wyatt Earp – Sarkozy: “Yeah, the exit is this way, Commie.”

2nd Place – DMick – Presidential hopeful Barack Obama exits France’s Elysee Palace, claiming responsibility for the restoration of the French Fry.

1st Place – Shoebox – On the right, Barack before he socializes the US and makes it look more like Europe. On the Left, Barack after he makes the US look more like Europe, shorter, paler and able to speak French.

Your week may now begin. Now get to work, you’re late.

Time once again to improve on the original caption with your witty substitutes. Here’s what you have to improve upon (the bar is not that high). “French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) bids farewell as US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama leaves the Elysee Palace on July 25, 2008, in Paris, after a meeting as part of Obama’s European tour. Obama’s foreign tour cemented his status as an international political superstar Sunday, but raised the question of whether rampant adulation abroad will translate into votes in America.
(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)”

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Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) EuroShock: France Moves Right

Europe appears in shock today as the center of European socialism has rejected the Socialists and moved to the right. The victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential election has the continent abuzz, trying to discern its meaning and its impact for the rest of Europe.

Blue Crab Boulevard (Gaius) Sarkozy In Seclusion

It remains to be seen how much change Sarkozy will actually be able to implement in France, of course. There is a really high aversion to change in France as was evident when the government tried to give employers the right to fire newly hired workers last year. The unions and the students went bonkers over that one. Couple that with “youths” in the Paris suburbs who practically form a country within a country and there will be a really tough row to hoe for Sarkozy.

Gina Cobb Reaction to Sarkozy Victory

Despite the terrorists, thugs and socialists, France finally has a chance. But the French can’t just sit back and expect Sarkozy to do all the heavy lifting. Day by day, the French will need to choose economic freedom instead of socialism and security instead of excessive political correctness. France will have to make better choices not just in one presidential election, but again and again.