This election win in France is huge...The symbolism, I mean

[hairy krishna]

The world is waking up. People know that we cannot continue down this road any longer. There are other forces of a cosmic nature which are tearing down these outworn structures. It's a purification that is very unsettling but will eventually lead to more parity. I, for one, cannot wait!

[bluestate10]

1. Francois Mitterand.

The last socialist leader of France was argurably the most effective post WWII leader at increasing the wealth and influence of french people, while decreasing that country's debt. I tried to make that point to some of the rightwing boneheaded asses that post on outside blogs, but no facts disrupt their blind mouthing off.

[IamK]

2. Mitterrand put a beatdown on the "Rainbow Warrior"....

Sunk a Greenpeace ship, killed a photographer... you did not want to get on his bad side...

[BOG PERSON]

3. voting out the center right party for the center left party

doesn't exactly strike me as a world-historical event.

sarkozy was definitely a worm though, i'm glad i never have to hear about him again.

[SidDithers]

4. Braaaiiiins....

Sid

[Skittles]

6. LOL

[jimlup]

5. I'm somewhat interested to watch the market's reaction...

I don't think it is nearly as dire as the right-wing leaning pundits thought it would be. Yeah some rich people stand to lose some money. That's probably a very good thing for most of us but not for the media and for segments of the market.

On the other hand - now might be a time to make some truly wise investments as the capitalists are usually dead wrong when they go off the handle about something like this.