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2017-02-28 Europe

Le Pen is slowly seducing voters with her France First pitch

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Posted by DarthVader 2017-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 vows to make France fearless and fearsome

Hah?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-28 02:07|| 2017-02-28 02:07|| Front Page Top

#2 THe Franch took Moscow. The Geramns entered Moscow as prisonners of war.

Posted by JFM 2017-02-28 03:04|| 2017-02-28 03:04|| Front Page Top

#3 That's because they had an Italian to lead them.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-28 03:09|| 2017-02-28 03:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Give an Italian general to the Germans and let them try. We will then be able to determine if the decisive factor was the Italian or the troops.

Posted by JFM 2017-02-28 07:29|| 2017-02-28 07:29|| Front Page Top

#5 . But where Mr. Trump ran a chaotic campaign and veered constantly off message,

That's an interesting perspective since he got where he was going. When all you have is a hammer you pretend that every problem is a nail. Makes sense only in your own private universe.

I wonder if France has the "Silent Majority" that will come out and give Le Pen the "unexpected" victory.

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-28 08:30|| 2017-02-28 08:30|| Front Page Top

#6 It may help Le Pen in the runoff that her contemptible likely opponent really dropped the ball:

Mr. Macron angered many of the Fillon supporters he will need to beat Ms. Le Pen on the final ballot by calling France’s colonization of Algeria “a crime against humanity, a real barbarity.” Not even French politicians on the radical left typically go that far and a suddenly irritable Mr. Macron, who had been surfing on a wave of favourable media coverage, spent several days on the defensive.

We'll find out soon enough how stupid French voters are. Given their affinity for Obama, I'm inclined to think 10 on a scale of 10. British voters are not much better.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2017-02-28 08:41|| 2017-02-28 08:41|| Front Page Top

#7 good points alan c. france has had too much migration they can actually swing polls now

it would take every true frenchman and woman to vote as one for Le Pen, but they are so left, so regressively left. Zhang Fei: i think they are worse than the Britons. At least the UK voted Brexit...

Posted by anon1 2017-02-28 08:54|| 2017-02-28 08:54|| Front Page Top

#8 At least the UK voted Brexit...

In polls the French were more anti-EU than the British, anon1. We'll see if that translates into votes, now that's become a ral possibility with Madame Le Pen.

The French were clever enough to put a Corsican at the head of their troops. The Germans at that time would not have been.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-02-28 11:30|| 2017-02-28 11:30|| Front Page Top

#9 I dunno if French voters are any dumber than American voters. After all, American voters elected Obama and then reelected him. I think most likely the French MSM is no better than ours.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-02-28 11:38|| 2017-02-28 11:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Give an Italian general to the Germans and let them try. We will then be able to determine if the decisive factor was the Italian or the troops.

Sauerkraut & Chianti don't mix.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-28 12:18|| 2017-02-28 12:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Just kidding JFM (except about Chianti)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-28 12:19|| 2017-02-28 12:19|| Front Page Top

#12 Sauerkraut & Chianti don't mix.

Maybe with a little gunpowder as an emulsifier...

I do like JFM's idea of applying the scientific method to history, though. Let the experiments begin!

Posted by SteveS 2017-02-28 12:21|| 2017-02-28 12:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Mr. Macron angered many of the Fillon supporters he will need to beat Ms. Le Pen on the final ballot by calling France’s colonization of Algeria “a crime against humanity, a real barbarity.

Even though it ended piracy and slaving from the area which today we consider a crime against humanity.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-28 14:08|| 2017-02-28 14:08|| Front Page Top

#14 I hope the French reject Sexism and vote Le Pen

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-02-28 17:02|| 2017-02-28 17:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Wolves in the city is a good read about the end of French rule in Algeria. Although it is many years since I read it.

Interesting in a number of ways, including Islamic terrorism isn't the modern phenomena we imagine, and how it led to French counter terror is relevant today.

Posted by phil_b 2017-02-28 17:27|| 2017-02-28 17:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Wolves in the City, Paul Henissart (1970) at US Amazon

Posted by Sneremble Noodleman6380 2017-02-28 19:00|| 2017-02-28 19:00|| Front Page Top

#17 thx SN6380. I now will have the last used very good condition hardback available on Amazon :-)

Posted by Frank G 2017-02-28 19:37|| 2017-02-28 19:37|| Front Page Top

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