Red Flags On The Beach!

Earlier today, Prado Plage, a beach outside of Marseille where 120,000 people

attended a rally for Front Gauche presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Melenchon.

The popularity and success of Melenchon has the extremely positive effect of liberating the Socialists 

to be more extremely left. It is no secret that Melenchon and Francois Hollande, the Socialist

candidate are long time friends. The American press hypes the fact that the ultra conservative right wing

Front National candidate, Marine LePen is polling around 16%, but the reality is that the numbers are fluctuating everyday! Right now, Melenchon is polling ahead of LePen! The UMP is drifiting more and more to the far right to counter LePen, but so much of LePens support is drawn from the utter detestation of Sarkozy and his policies. With 8 days until the premier tour of the election, Sarkozy is forced to use rumors of a possible Prime Minister position for Faux Centrist Modem candidate, Francois Bayrou.

Bayrou knows that to even acknowledge this, would be the kiss of death to his already moribund poliitcal future and party. Tomorrow should be a very interesting day in Paris. Sarkozy is holding an outdoor rally at the Place de la Concorde. At the same time, Francois Hollande, the Socialist candidate who is still the front runner for next Sundays Election, will hold a competing rally and open air concert at the Chateau de Vincennes. Hollande leads Sarkozy for the premier tour by almost 2 points. He is projected to win the over all election by almost 10 points.

While the two competing political rallies are being held, unbelievably, the Paris Marathon will somehow take place between them! This should be extremely interesting. There will be over a million people on the streets of Paris either running, cheering the runners and supporting political candidates of opposite ends of the spectrum. What would it take to get so many Americans off of their asses and into the streets?
UPDATE: TODAY IN PARIS>>>LIVESTREAMING RALLIES! OVER 100,000 PEOPLE TURN OUT FOR THE SOCIALISTES AND ARE HAVING A GREAT TIME WITH MUSIC AND POLITICAL MESSAGES FOR THE FUTURE! THEN, THERE'S THE UMP RALLY...20,000 SENILE MILITANTS LISTENING TO CLOOM AND DOOM FROM SARKO AND FILLON AND WISHING THERE WERE MORE PORT-A-POTTIES....