[Cicero]

Intelligent analysis.

[ChadGore]

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[FITZ]

Yes this is a good article. The leftists here and in Europe will take this threat of Le Pen types and further push their agenda thinking that's the correct way to prevent the Right from gaining power. They won't get it --that globalism isn't natural and at some point it will be rejected. They have an opportunity to introduce moderation into the immigration issue but they will push it further to the left.

[HENRYADAMS]

Le Pen has articulated those things which need be said. Reality will prove him essentially correct and people will remember.

[rimmont]

"A political system which cannot accommodate democratic change, which denies legitimacy to one of the two main candidates, which makes the survival of the republic conditional upon the popular acclamation of the incumbent, is a system rotten to the core."

-This is the most profound underlying issue here and, incredibly, it seems to have been lost on many observers.

[McGavin999]

Well, I figure they are going to ignore what the people were saying and the crime will continue. Eventually, the good French will stand up and take matters into their own hands. Either that, or they will elect someone 10 times worse then Le Pen ever dreamt of being.

You really have to laugh at a country that gets so worked up about losing their culture as a result of a few McDonalds, yet has no problem with being over-run by unassimilated immigrants.

[My Identity]

The video all of France wants banned:

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[livius]

Excellent analysis. Of course, when I glanced at the European press this morning, I found the papers gushing about how Chirac's showing had been a resounding defeat for Le Pen. NOT! The Euro-elites just don't get it.

Actually, I think they DO get it, but are hoping that if they just pretend not to see it, it will go away. Plus I wonder how many of them, deep down inside, have serious reservations about the EU and are themselves worried about the take-over of what's left of their countries by foreign peoples who are militant adherents of a religion that shares none of their (few remaining) values?