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| French MP Dies Campaigning for Macron |
| 2017-05-07 |
| [An Nahar] A socialist politician died after collapsing on stage during a speech at a campaign rally for French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron, party officials said Saturday. It's called Deadication. Corinne Erhel, 50, was the last to speak at the rally Friday in western La Belle France when she suddenly fell to the ground. She was rushed to hospital, where she was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! "I learned with immense sadness of the death of Corinne Erhel at the event in Plouisy, where she was speaking to 300 activists," wrote French lower house speaker Claude Bartolone, a socialist. "A member of parliament since 2007, she was fully invested in her parliamentary work, while still remaining close to the people," said socialist President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Where are the Russians? Why is nobody crying for a recount? What's soros been doing? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-05-07 22:08 |
| #4 A useful link, JohnQC. So Mr Macron won, as predicted. Round 2 Emmanuel Macron ✔ May 7 Marine Le Pen 66.06% 33.94% |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-07 21:20 |
| #3 Other results from the French election besides this story re the MP. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-05-07 17:29 |
| #2 It was on the second reading that I realized the final verse only scans if - Mother Macron is the closing line instead of just a mock attribution. It is a bit rough, but I think polishing would take away the immediacy that is its charm. It feels like it sprang to the paper with only a brief tussle with the spell check function to retain the French bits. I envy. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-07 13:36 |
| #1 "There's a spot in La France That's Emmanuel's own... An ecole, an old soul Known before he was grown. There's a cute little place Off the Champs Elysees, Where -- if we can take it -- My boy-toy will play... Sure, he loves the dear silver That shines in the banks, And the mines that we've burrowed Right under the Franks. As the antifa singers Shriek, 'No pasaran...' No... quelqu'un but Le Pen, Dieu!" - Mother Macron Okay, that's crap, but maybe someone can do (or has done( sometihng decent? |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-05-07 09:46 |