Why In The World Would She Want This?
Bernadette Chirac, the wife of former French President Jacques Chirac, has endorsed Hillary Clinton. She has also offered to attend the Democratic National convention and campaign for Clinton.
"She's a woman who is not liked by everybody. But she's strong and she has convictions," Bernadette Chirac, well-known for a forceful character of her own, told the weekly Le Figaro magazine……
……She even expressed interest in attending the Democratic convention in Denver in August. "And if I can be of any use to her somewhere in the campaign, I'm available. I'd like to go with her and I'm going to suggest it to her."
Well, I guess that ties up the all-important French vote in the US elections. Most Americans have never heard of Bernadette Chirac, of course. But they will remember - not fondly - Jacques Chirac, who was blatantly anti-American long before the invasion of Iraq. It won't exactly help that Chirac himself is now the target of at least two investigations into official corruption. Specifically, embezzlement of public funds.
"Formal investigation" means a suspect could eventually be ordered to stand trial, but the judge investigating the case could also decide there is not enough evidence to prosecute.
Chirac, 74, is the first former president of modern-day France to be placed under investigation by magistrates.
The case, one of a number hanging over Chirac, revolves around 40 jobs allegedly handed out to centre-right sympathisers by Paris city hall.
The former president was questioned over a separate case of alleged fake jobs in July.
Wow, Hillary must be jumping with joy. Endorsed by a French national who is the wife of an anti-American politician suspected of theft of public funds. It just doesn't get any better than that, does it?
Politics, World news | Gaius Thursday, 22 November , 2007
By martian, Thursday, 22 November , 2007 @ 12:47 pm
I’ll bet Hillary is just chomping at the bit for this endorsement. What could be better for tying up the vote of the far left nutroots than an endorsement like this? It meets all of their hot buttons - anti-American, a criminal investigation that can be ignored because the person being investigated is on their side, the woman is French (one of those “traditional” allies they were so upset that we didn’t get on our side for Iraq). What more could they ask for?
By Steve Skubinna, Friday, 23 November , 2007 @ 6:11 am
Well, when you’re rebuilding all those alliances (by which lefties mean specifically France and Germany) trashed by Dubya, you have to start somewhere. What’s that? Sarkozy, Merkel? Uh…