COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MATT PAYTON IN THE
INDEPENDENT
Marine Le Pen is an intelligent and fresh voice in French
politics.
And the establishment in France has created much the same
ugly circumstances that the establishment in the United States did, perhaps
worse.
Francois Hollande has been the most ineffectual president in
modern French history, much resembling Obama only without the superficial
charm.
He obsequiously serves American and other special interests,
and much of this effort by Hollande is not in France's own genuine interests.
For example, France is a traditional good friend to Russia,
and now, under Obama's withering influence, French farmers are in a mess with
billions in lost sales, and the country's heavy industry has lost both an
important customer and its reputation for reliability with the stupid Mistral
ship affair.
France's economy is doing poorly, and Hollande takes no
decisive measures. Hs record on foreign policy is confused and blundering. And
even on domestic security, he has performed abysmally.
Hollande's approval rating is not much above zero.
The country can only benefit from Marine Le Pen if she is
true to the best of what she has said.
