France's Third Man - Mélenchon

Jean-Luc Mélenchon delivers a campaign speech
Photograph: Bertrand Langlois/AFP/Getty Images

In the upcoming French Presidential race, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been described as a "poetry loving pitbull". He has a message for "les Anglo-Saxons" and their "stinking" money and doomed free markets: the French are revolting. Here is a link to his blog: http://www.jean-luc-melenchon.fr/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/enter-jeanluc-mlenchon-frances-third-man-7622277.html

"France is not simply having an election, he said in his 90-minute oration in Limoges, citing, inter alia, Lenin, Robespierre, Victor Hugo and Charles de Gaulle. Another French Revolution is coming, he said, to rid the "old continent" and then the world, of the post-1980s Anglo-Saxon "curse" of "the finance economy" and free markets. Soon the "French values" of "love and humanity" will prevail worldwide over speculation, austerity and an obsession with "performance", he said. "We are France. We are the second economic power of the continent," he said. "We can make our voices heard to the end of the Earth ... We can put our belief in love and humanity above the religion of competition." " (The Independent)

Who is Jean-Luc Mélenchon?:

Could it be that French voters on the left are sick to death of the champagne socialist, Blairite type politician ('un socialist du champagne' as the French would say) and are now looking for something different....looking for someone with passion and emotion?