On French television, commentators expressed bitter disappointment.
"It promises to be a very tense, very bitter electoral campaign," said political commentator Nikos Evangelatos.
This strategy met with vociferous and often bitter criticism from politicians, media commentators, local business owners and many of the general public.
With race the subtext, conservative radio jocks and bloggers have been growing more strident, depicting her, as one US commentator did, as 'the bitter, anti-American, ungrateful, rude, crude, ghetto, angry Michelle Obama'.
But the bitter disputes over both sites has worried commentators.
This announcement has triggered bitter protest from human rights organisations and media commentators in France and around Europe.
Jeffrey Toobin, the prominent legal affairs commentator and political pundit, has been a bitter critic of Edward Snowden from the very beginning of the NSA disclosures.
Commentators say Le Pen's surge is a bitter verdict on the fractured, divided nature of French society, driven by "fear".
Readers in the UK, where he worked as a writer, and television commentator for many years, probably knew more about his bitter divorce from his first wife.
Unlike the week's commentators who have seized upon the remarks about "bitter feelings" in some depressed communities in Pennsylvania, I gleaned a different meaning from the entire answer.
