Posted on 04/22/2017 5:48:47 AM PDT by rktman
Donald Trump has said the Paris terrorist attack would boost Marine Le Pen's presidential chances after a last-minute poll gave her a modest increase in support.
The US president said the shooting would "probably help" Ms Le Pen in Sunday's election, because she is "strongest on borders, and she's the strongest on what's been going on in France."
"Whoever is the toughest on radical Islamic terrorism, and whoever is the toughest at the borders, will do well in the election," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Greatest election, EVAHHHH !
it would serve france well to elect le pen. But there is nothing great about civilians being killed.
ever. At least their lives won’t have been lost in vain if the right candidate is elected in part because of the attack.
It would seem that after so many terrorist attacks in France over just the past year that this election would be a no-brainer for the country. We’ll see.
A week or two ago I read that Obama has publically endorsed one of the candidates but don’t recall which one. It was the candidate who released the endorsement to the press.
“No brainer”
We will see, but I think the French have a difficult time processing complex matters due to the confusion caused by their language having a different word for everything
Actually, my thinking is Brian Williams and the MSNBC crew was trying to “unhelp” Le Pen by criticizing President Trump, who was proved right within the hour.
Former POTUS stuck his nose into the election just before the terrorist attack, too, once again highlighting his impeccably terrible timing.
The linked article goes on to say, “US presidents typically avoid weighing in on specific candidates running in overseas election. “ So take your clues from that.
How convenient the amnesia. Including Obama sending a paid advisory team to Israel to try to unseat Netanyahu by working with his opponents.
We will see, but I think the French have a difficult time processing complex matters due to the confusion caused by their language having a different word for everything
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I hope they only have a single word equivalent to ‘existential’. The attacks are only going to worsen over time if they don’t do something soon. This time, surrender is not an option.
Some would have thought the same thing while the Nazi’s were building up against the “rules” set forth by the League of Nations. That kept up all the way with Hitler parading down the Champs Elysee while all those Vichy Frenchmen just stood dutifully along the parade route crying.
Now, with the new Islamofascists looking to continue what Hitler could not, they have one more chance.
He stated his opinion. My opinion is the same. So is the opinion of most who know France well.
You’d be surprised at how many English words come from the French.
I think the French have a difficult time processing complex matters due to the confusion caused by their language having a different word for everything
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Actually, the reverse is true. Many French words can have several different meanings. Why do you think the French language is called THE LANGUAGE of DIPLOMACY? English, with a greater vocabulary, is the LANGUAGE of COMMERCE.
“You’d be surprised at how many English words come from the French.”
Quite a few, actually...as well as German, Spanish, and many other languages, which is why I think English is the most flexible language, but also the most difficult to learn.
Besides, the comment was an obscure reference to a classic movie.
I think German would have a tremendous amount of words for everything because they make new ones by compounding older words together. The problem is they make very long words.
Oh good....Obama endorsing a candidate is the Kiss of Death......ask Hillary.
Couldn’t find any poll numbers?
I think I read somewhere that English is only about 40% Anglo-Saxon (maybe eve a lower %) the remaining majority Romance primarily Norman French. (Percentage-wise there is an insignificant amount of remnant Celtic!)
She has more courage than 3/4 of the US Congress.
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True, but this is an exceedingly ‘low bar’, if there ever was one. Our feckless congress is a joke. ;)
The real wacky thing about French and Spanish is that they apply gender to inanimate objects. Le and La mean the same thing (the) but one’s masculine and one’s feminine.
Guess the “gender fluid”, “use my desired gender pronoun” crowd hasn’t caught on yet. When they do, will those languages be offensive?
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