Posted on 05/17/2011 10:44:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 2007, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was packing up to become the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Jean Quatremer, a writer for the French paper Libération wrote on his blog that "Strauss-Kahn's only real problem is his relationship to women. Too heavy … it borderlines harassment," reports the UK’s Guardian.
The Guardian says that “many politicians privately wonder[ed]” then “how he would cope in a puritan U.S. which frowns upon sexual advances.”
He may not have coped at all. He may have snapped.
I hope that I’m wrong about it, but fear that I’m not.
Strauss-Khan, a 62-year old French Socialist, was arrested in New York over the weekend while sitting in first class on an Air France jet. He’s been accused of raping a maid in a suite at the Hotel Sofitel, in Manhattan, where he had been staying.
The DA says that there is blood and other DNA evidence proving rape.
Contemporary witnesses tend to corroborate the maid’s story, they say, although there still is the presumption of innocence here.
Whether Strauss-Khan is innocent or guilty of these charges, news accounts now make clear that top officials who trusted him with this office must have known that he had a history of unwanted sexual advances.
In addition to the reservations of the socialist Libération writer, the IMF reprimanded him in 2008 for having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate. “The IMF board found that the relationship was consensual, but called his actions ‘regrettable,’” writes FoxNews “and said they ‘reflected a serious error of judgment.’"
Another woman, this one in France, is preparing to go to the police, says the Guardian, “alleging Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her in 2002.” The alleged victim’s mother, a prominent socialist politician, reportedly dissuaded her from pursuing the matter previously fearing it would hurt a Strauss-Khan, a Socialist “politician with a bright future.”
The French can pick whomever they wish to run things there. And if they want to ignore sexual indiscretion, so be it. What happens between consenting adults can be hard to judge.
But just how did the 24 executive directors of the IMF decide to give a libertine a job making loans with American money to countries that we now realize can’t afford to pay them back?
Do they understand the gravity of the economic crisis facing the world because of spendthrift and libertine ways? Do they understand the unparalleled crisis in confidence that many have in the banking system?
We are in a precarious position, made worse by the inebriated.
It’s almost as if our leaders have been on a drunken bender and can no longer appreciate how morally drunk they have become.
At a time when citizens all over the world are paying for the licentious advances by banks and politicians- in their monetary policies, their bailouts, their pension mismanagement, their use of the welfare state; their payoffs for friends- it’s time for our leaders to start acting soberly.
It’s time for them to realize that every Strauss-Khan, Trumka and LaHood; for every healthcare waiver granted a crony; for every bill voted on but not read; for every war waged but disclaimed, a little more trust is eroded by the citizens.
It’s not just an American phenomenon, but a trend that’s worldwide. See the Arab “springs” or half a dozen elections in Europe over the past two years. See our own elections last fall for examples.
The world and its citizens have lost confidence in the moral drunkards in every country who seek to rule and reign over us.
And those who have drunk from the glass when it was red had better sober up quickly.
WTF! So treating women with respect is considered "puritan"?
Sheesh. What kind of woman sells out her daughter in favor of a politician?
It would be interesting to see if The Guardian has an "employee manual," and to see if that manual contains language describing acceptable and unacceptable behavior toward female employees of The Guardian.
“if that manual contains language describing acceptable and unacceptable behavior toward female employees of The Guardian.”
If it doesn’t, maybe we could write one together after dinner at my place, baby!/s;)
a French one - they call it collaboration.
Dr. Zivago....Powerful Socialists are supposed to get away with it...
The puritan US who seemingly adored it’s whoremongering president?
When I bring up these examples to my libinlaw, she says "well, good thing we don't have that here"... Yeah, not yet, but you folks are working on it.
The Guardian says that “many politicians privately wonder[ed]” then “how he would cope in a puritan U.S. which frowns upon sexual advances.”
Ironic that ANYONE would consider the US ‘puritan’ when women walk around half naked pretty much anywhere, college shower rooms are coed, porn is endemic, TV is littered with shows that emphasize sexual relations, and many people feel a first date is a failure if it doesn’t end in bed.
One is prompted to wonder what a society of libertines might be...
Yes, Ransom was going along just fine until he got to the Puritan comment. I sent him an email about that. Perhaps others might do the same.
American is not Puritan in this case, but modern, and protective of a woman’s right to say no to unwanted sex.
IOW: "You'll just have to take one for the team, honey."
Apparently. jeesh.
Bump! Excellent article. We are fed up.
I cannot believe this young woman’s mother told her to hush up because it would damage some idiot’s career prospects. With a parent like that...
Which president was that?
“Sheesh. What kind of woman sells out her daughter in favor of a politician?”
A sleazy, POS socialist whore. Maybe she was “doing” Strauss-Kahn.
No damn wonder the IMF is broke. $3,000.00 per night for a room? Hells bells. Motel 6 leaves the light on. . . . .
They call us “Puritanical” because we don’t like being raped? Indeed. If that fat 62-year-old had tried it on me, he would have ended up with his jaw broken and some of his favorite body parts chewed right off.
A french woman politician who is a socialist sells out her daughter!
(sarcasm)I guess, that the extreme to cultural sensitivity is that we should allow important French socialist leaders to have different standards of sexual conduct.
I mean if some folks are allowed to beat their daughters for religious reasons, why can't french socialists of the ruling class be allowed to sodomize maids? We need to be culturally sensitive within the USA. (/sarcasm)
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