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MADem

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2. She comes from a political family--her daddy as batshit as herself.

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Mon Jan 9, 2012, 02:14 PM

Jan 2012

Sarkozy is no weeping liberal, himself, but he looks like Kumbayah Charlie in the middle of a drum circle compared to Le Pen.

This is an instructional piece, for those who think that the "European" systems are somehow better or more accessible than our own, and that the Europeans are uniformly a bunch of happy leftists who are accepting of all and socially progressive. It's just not true.

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