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Sex on the Seine, sex on the Potomac

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25 Feb 2008 4:08 p.m.
Stacy Smith (891 posts)
QUOTE (Karen @ Feb 25 2008, 09:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The question is now becoming: When is Sarcozy going to stop losing his temper?


Are you referring to his "casse-toi pauvre con" incident? wink.gif A little more self-control would do him good; he should have just ignored the guy. He certainly does seem to have a habit of losing his temper in public.
25 Feb 2008 3:37 p.m.
Karen Fawcett (4570 posts)
Stacy:


How I wish I were as eloquent as Roger Cohen (sigh). But I covered a bit of the phenomenon in a previous article.

http://www.bonjourparis.com/Articles/Ask_K...re_Scandalized/

The question is now becoming: When is Sarcozy going to stop losing his temper? For a newlywed, you'd hope he'd have more patience! wub.gif
25 Feb 2008 10:10 a.m.
Stacy Smith (891 posts)
An interesting look at the way attitudes towards politicians are changing in both France and the US:

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The Americans were Puritans or adolescents or naïve or God-fearing moralizers. The French were cynical, incorrigible, suave and hypocritical. Sex on the Seine and sex on the Potomac were distinct sensations, the former enriched by intrigue, the latter threatened by exposure.

...But of late some of these images, stereotypes if you prefer, have begun to blur or even cross over.


Sex on the Seine, Sex on the Potomac