Villepin outlines his political ambition for France

by Agnes a Paris Sun Apr 9th, 2006 at 04:04:05 PM EST

We already knew that the French PM has no politics.

The way he expresses his political project for France is creepy enough not to suffer remaining unmentioned.
La France a l'air à la ramasse, mais observez-la de près elle a les jambes écartées.
Elle attend désespérement qu'on la baise, cela fait trop longtemps que personne ne l'avait honorée.

Rusty translation : France seems to be lagging behind but watch closer, her legs are wide open. She yearns to be screwed, too long has such an honour not been bestowed on her.

Comments welcome. A political leader who gets away with that says a lot about the political class decay.

Villepin outlines his political ambition for France | 26 comments (22 topical, 4 editorial, 0 hidden)

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Where and when did he say this?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Sun Apr 9th, 2006 at 04:50:34 PM EST

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Will have to double-check, but it certainly was not in a private circle. Patrick Balkany, who certainly cannot be accused of left-leaning, commented as follows : "We expect him to show he has something in the head, not in his pants."

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Sun Apr 9th, 2006 at 05:53:29 PM EST
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It's from a book (none / 0)

"(Cité par Franz-Olivier Giesbert dans La tragédie du Président (Flammarion, 2006)"

by Matt in NYC on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 01:06:48 AM EST
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Re: Villepin outlines his political ambition for F (none / 1)

Agnes! Agnes! Sourcing!

Sourcing is everything. We need the source.

And if Villepin said that, he's fucked, deeply, deeply fucked...

by Francois in Paris on Sun Apr 9th, 2006 at 08:44:39 PM EST

Re: Villepin outlines his political ambition for F (none / 0)

From http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_de_Villepin

« La France a l'air à la ramasse. Mais observez-la de près. Elle a les jambes écartées. Elle attend qu'on la baise: ça fait trop longtemps que personne ne l'a honorée! » (Cité par Franz-Olivier Giesbert dans La tragédie du Président (Flammarion, 2006), et repris par exemple à la Une du Le Canard Enchaîné du 5 avril 2006)

by Matt in NYC on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 01:04:20 AM EST
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My source is this week's Marianne.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 03:43:19 AM EST
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Re: Villepin outlines his political ambition for F (none / 1)

The famous scholarly journal I assume?

What a dickhead that man is. Astonishing.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 04:00:12 AM EST
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Re: sourcing (none / 0)

Marianne

more for funny bits than deep-going analysis.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 04:15:30 AM EST
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You're more than right. But sourcing takes time.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 03:47:35 AM EST
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Re: Villepin outlines his political ambition for F (none / 0)

and if you care to drop me a mail ( so that I can have your address), I can explain why the time I am allowed to spend round here and more broadly on the web has been drastically reduced lately.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 03:50:54 AM EST
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Agnes, thanks for the source. But when I put a lot of exclamation marks, it's either really important (such as here (1 x ! for about 110 words) or not serious at all (3 x ! in 20 words) :)

by Francois in Paris on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 05:08:54 AM EST
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...You're kidding...Right? Right? (none / 1)

Um...I thought de Villepin was supposed to be the somewhat snobbish refined elite intellectual aristocrat type. That sounds like Silvio Berlusconi after a few too many glasses of champagne. Makes you wonder how they teach economics over at ENA.

by Rick in TX on Sun Apr 9th, 2006 at 09:15:05 PM EST

Re: ...You're kidding...Right? Right? (none / 0)

That's exactly why I posted this quote. The real Villepin is all there. My experience from political leaders is that the posher their public image, the more inclined they are to gross talking in semi- private.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 03:45:39 AM EST
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Re: ...You're kidding...Right? Right? (none / 1)

Also, let's not idealise intellectual aristocrat types :-)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 07:16:40 AM EST
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Re: Villepin outlines (4.00 / 2)

What a colorful guy. But, hey, at least he's speaking his mind. I'd still put that ahead of any Bush speech. Bush, for the record, apparently enjoys saying the word "fuck" in front of young White House interns. (See, that's the difference between Bush and Clinton: Clinton "walked the walk," as the saying goes. ;-)

Such classy leaders we have these days. Anybody figure out how to resurrect Churchill and Roosevelt yet?

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 07:51:24 AM EST

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You think Churchill was classy and never said 'Fuck'?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 10:51:23 AM EST
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Re: Villepin (none / 1)

Yeesh.

Well, aside from criticising the sexist, lewdness of the comment (which is kinda funny as I usually hear him criticized for being too aristocratic ...), does anyone want to interpret the comment and tell us why his observation is wrong?

Not being French, or rather, not living in France, I don't know much about the guy. I hear the new jobs laws has screwed his chances of being elected President. But you know, the way he handled George W. Bush in the run up to the war, I've often wanted to give the man a medal. I have a special place in my heart for him. Perhaps if our current Administration hadn't lowered the standards so much, I could find the motivation to be more cross with Villepin.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire

by p------- on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 12:25:15 PM EST

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Totally seconded poemless. When at the Foreign Affairs, Villepin showed he had guts. Interestingly, in the French translation of this expression reference is made to a place below the belt.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 09:32:53 PM EST
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This is the Insomniacs Unanimous' Headquarters, it seems :)

by Alex in Toulouse on Mon Apr 10th, 2006 at 09:40:35 PM EST
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Re: night cats (none / 0)

In my case, this is enjoying undeserved hols. The -Anonymous I should seriously consider joining is Blog Addicted Anonymous.
The only mean I've found so far is keeping my laptop switched on only 10 minutes a day.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Tue Apr 11th, 2006 at 07:08:19 PM EST
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The Peter Principle: in passing from Foreign Affairs to PM, he patently reached his incompetence level.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Apr 18th, 2006 at 07:37:05 AM EST
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Yeah, me too, I watched his speech at the UN live, was awed, and wondered ever since how he could be a nasty right-winger :-)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Apr 11th, 2006 at 10:19:05 AM EST
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