Bloomberg: Greek Voters Need to Look Beyond Syriza’s Dangerous Lies

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Shortly before Francois Hollande was elected president of France, he went to London to reassure the financial community that he wasn’t “dangerous.” Alexis Tsipras, the breakout phenomenon of Greece’s recent parliamentary elections, is on a similar European tour this week -- and he really is dangerous.

ΑTHENS. (BLOOMBERG). Shortly before Francois Hollande was elected president of France, he went to London to reassure the financial community that he wasn’t “dangerous.” Alexis Tsipras, the breakout phenomenon of Greece’s recent parliamentary elections, is on a similar European tour this week -- and he really is dangerous. Tsipras and his Syriza party are selling the Greek people a falsehood: namely, that Greece can renounce the terms of its bailout agreements with the euro-area governments and still receive their money. If voters believe him, and he attracts enough votes in elections on June 17 to follow through with his threats, then his country, Europe and the global economy will live for years with the consequences.

Until a few weeks ago, Tsipras was a marginal career radical. He joined the Communist youth party in high school, is a fan of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and now heads Syriza, a quixotic coalition of small leftist parties.

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1. Philip Vorgias wrote on May 22, 2012 1:23 PM	Well said.

2. diogenes kekatos wrote on May 22, 2012 7:38 PM	A dangerous leftist demagogue. The National Herald and its commentators should quit wringing their hands and beating their breasts over the rise of Golden Dawn and be worried about where the real threat to Greece's stability lies.

3. Philip Vorgias wrote on May 23, 2012 5:59 AM	Diogenes (great name, btw!) absolutely nailed it. Golden Dawn is a joke, a bunch of semi-literate racists who are little threat to Greece. Syriza is a far greater threat to Greece, yet they get respect from this newspaper and others. National Herald needs to get off the fence and call a spade a spade-and call Tsipras for the danerous demagogue he is.
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Bloomberg: Greek Voters Need to Look Beyond Syriza’s Dangerous Lies

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