Posted on 05/20/2011 4:15:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
Back when he was still the officially designated Next President of France and not an accused rapist, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was glimpsed at the annual IMF soccer tournament wearing a T-shirt emblazoned "YES, WE KAHN!"
(Monsieur le directeur was not participating in the game: The field he likes to play requires more horizontal exertions, as even the deferential and protective French media have begun belatedly to acknowledge.)
In consciously mimicking the slogan of another and very successful presidential candidate, the IMF boss and Socialist Party candidate improved upon it — or, at any rate, made it more accurate. "Yes, We Can"? Er, no, actually, you can't. But yes, he Kahn!
A man is innocent until presumed guilty, and it will be for a New York court to determine what happened in M Strauss-Kahn's suite at the Sofitel. It may well be that's he the hapless victim of a black Muslim widowed, penniless refugee maid — although, if that's the defense my lawyer were proposing to put before a Manhattan jury, I'd be inclined to suggest he's the one who needs to plead insanity.
Whatever the head of the IMF did or didn't do, the reaction of the French elites is most instructive.
"We and the Americans do not belong to the same civilization," sniffed Jean Daniel, editor of Le Nouvel Observateur, insisting that the police should have known that Strauss-Kahn was "not like other men" and wondering why "this chambermaid was regarded as worthy and beyond any suspicion."
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It is this kind of BS that I hate the most about Europe. My ancestors left Europe to get away from this crap.
This dumb sh!t Jean Daniel should be given an “education” about how we do things here in the United States. His boss is about to.
Actions have consequences. Maybe he will come down with HIV if it's true the victim has HIV.
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Lets see, Bambi wants us all to be more like the French. Hmmmmmm! Wonder what the NAGs think about that?
He's right - America is Constitutional, while France is Sharia.
This is America, not France, heh, heh, heh.
Mr. Daniel would do well to just shut up, for the sake of Mr. Strauss-Kahn. The last thing he should be doing is opining about the worthiness or lack of worthiness of the black female victim or whether she is above suspicion or not.
DSK is going to find his butt in jail if he is found guilty of any of the charges. Mr. Daniel isn’t doing him any favors. Once the inmates at any New York State prison find out about the French’s opinion regarding the “worthiness” of a black hotel maid, he’s toast.
Shut up Monsieur Daniel.
I read stuff like this and all I can think of is where is Madame Defarge and La Guillotine when we need them?
“The greater the man, the greater his evil inclination.” - Talmud
Bernard-Henri Levy, the open-shirted, hairy-chested Gallic intellectual...
One at a time, bigheadfred has to fixify EVERYTHING.
Gallic intellectual (oxymoron2)...should read Phallic intellectual.
A dickhead is a dickhead....
Hey, Frenchie! You call this "civilization"?
The more things change, the more they stay the same. The monarch’s are dead but the wannabe monarchs have taken their place. The snooty, classist culture of the European kings has been passed down to the present day. The socialists are just a modern day version of the suck ups in the royal courts.
Another thing that shows how things don’t really change— socialism which is supposed to liberate the ordinary person is just a modern day form of feudalism. During the feudal times, the government, which was the lord of the manor, decided how much of a serf’s labor belonged to the serf and how much belonged to the lord. Today people work for their socialist governments which have become the new feudal lords. Of course the new feudal lords take more and more of the serf’s meager earnings while living high off the hog.
What is the difference between a right wing dictator and a left wing dictator? Batista was the right wing dictator of Cuba. He lived in a palace, the people were poor and everyone feared him. Today Castro is dictator of Cuba, he lives in a palace, the people are poor and everyone fears him. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
hahahahah!! very good
Socialist statist barons to the American taxpaying schmucks: Yes, we con! Yes, we con!
Until the mobs drag them into the street and string them up on the lamp-posts. I hate when that happens, don't y'all?
Actually, Batista was not right wing. He was a leftist/populist who instituted many government work, literacy, and health care programs. And Cuba was not poor, it was the richest nation in the Caribbeam, with huge foreign immigration.
FYI, Cuba had never had a right wing govt. Just left, further left, and.communist.
I dimly recall a LatAm history survey course in which we went over Cuba's history, and iirc they did have a rightist caudillo sometime in the 20's or 30's ..... and no, you're right, it wasn't Fulgencio Batista.
Hmmm, with Sarko in the big chair, I thought we were back to being cool with the frogs .... is Strauss-Kahn's doglike carnality going to bring back the "cheese-eating surrender monkeys"?
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