France Sucks

I really can't stand France. 

Fed up with a President who is pro-capitalist, stands up for Democracy, and has tried to tackle the laziness of the French workforce, it has been widely expected that Sarkozy would not win his bid for reelection. 

The person who was tipped to replace him? Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the current (update - nope, he resigned) head of the IMF. 

Now, he was just arrested in New York for assault and sexual harassment of a hotel maid. The maid, a 32-year-old immigrant from Guinea, told police that Strauss-Kahn, 62, came out of the bathroom naked, chased her down, forced her to perform oral sex on him and tried to remove her underwear before she broke free and fled the room. And how does France react?

By defending his rampant sexual abuse and claiming that France is the victim here:

Jean-Marie Le Guen, a Socialist party MP who has known Strauss-Kahn for 25 years, said the story was "not credible" and inconsistent with what he knew of the politician's character. "Seduction, yes, but no way would he use constraint or violence. A certain number of facts, and certain aspects of the story we are hearing from the press, make this not credible."

and

"What they are asking us to believe … it's just hallucinations. I'm a doctor and I know this can happen. We knew there would be hyper-violent attacks on him [Strauss-Kahn]. We could hear the knives being sharpened in preparation."

Political commentators spoke of the affair as a disgrace and humiliation for France, referring to the country as "the victim" in the affair. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, the ecology minister, did at least mention the 32-year-old chambermaid allegedly attacked by Strauss-Kahn. "As well as the presumed victim, the chambermaid, there is a proven victim … France. We should remember the facts are very serious; in France we tend to treat things like this a little bit lightly," she told news agency AFP.

Not only that, but DSK is a total d-bag as well, with only a few weeks ago pointing out in an interview that the biggest challenges to his presidency were:  "Money, women and the fact I am Jewish." He added: "Yes, I like women ... so what?" He said he could see himself becoming the victim of a honey trap: "a woman raped in a car park and who's been promised 500,000 or a million euros to invent such a story ..."

Really asshole? Because right now, this is what he is saying "I think at this time first of my wife – whom I love more than anything – of my children, of my family, of my friends." Yeah... 

So there you have it: France sucks. I mean, I can't stand Obama, but this guy is sleazy in a way that makes Clinton look shiny.