The French may be smarter than us

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  • May 9, 2017 at 2:31 pm #68535
    waterfield
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    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boot-macron-20170508-story.html

    May 10, 2017 at 12:22 am #68565
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    waterfield wrote:

    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-boot-macron-20170508-story.html

    The terrorist attack did not help Le Pen’s cause. Neither did the transparent attempts of the Russian intelligence services to target Macron the way they had targeted Hillary Clinton. Friday night, 9 gigabytes of stolen emails and documents from the Macron campaign appeared online on the 4Chan website favored by the alt right, soon to be picked up by WikiLeaks, the Kremlin’s bulletin board of choice. The digital fingerprints of Fancy Bear, the nickname for a group of Russian intelligence hackers, were reportedly all over this operation. Funny how pro-Kremlin candidates never seem to get hacked.

    It was too little, too late. In fact, because of a French blackout of election-related news the day before and the day of an election, all that voters knew was that someone — almost certainly someone in Moscow — was trying to sabotage the Macron campaign.

    That all seems correct. However…Macron is no knight. I mean yeah it’s good he’s not a fascist. But that’s not the only thing he’s not. He’s also not a friend of progressive economic policies, which matters to me.

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