May 15, 2011
From
Manual Sotil
When I read that line I almost choked on my breakfast bagel. A chosen one bearing a cross? You mean, the late Pope?
No, no. It is not about the late Pope. It is about the head of the International Monetary Fund, a promotion Sarkozy conferred upon his fellow tribesman Dominique Strauss-Kahn to get him out of the way as a political rival.
The language employed by fellow French politician Dominique Paille (another political rival, convicted embezzler and crook on his own right), while pounding a backhanded nail on Strauss-Kahn's coffin, plumbs new depths in the abyss of the abject.
"It's a cross that will be difficult for him to bear," said Dominique Paille, a political rival to Strauss-Kahn on the center right, on BFM television.
"It's totally hallucinating. If it is true, this would be a historic moment, but in the negative sense, for French political life," Paille said. Still, he urged, "I hope that everyone respects the presumption of innocence. I cannot manage to believe this affair."
Dominique Paille finds the news of the sexual predator's latest scandal "hallucinating". He does not believe the affair since he "cannot manage" to do so. If you believe that Dominique Strauss-Kahn would commit such acts then you must be hallucinating. For lesser delusions or aberrations, they would put you in an asylum for the insane in the Soviet Union.
In the most deferential and reverential tone reserved for a prominent member of the chosen tribe, particularly when the context is not one that admits to compliments or flattery, Dominique Paille declares that the sexual predator is bearing a cross (as a consequence of his criminal acts).
Now, I understood the term "bearing a cross" as pertaining to the fortitude of dealing stoically with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. I never understood it in the context of someone suffering inconvenience after getting caught in the commission of a crime, or while escaping from the scene.
The prominent French pol with hyperactive testosterone just happened to underestimate his shiksah victim and got nailed for it (valid pun?).
But getting nailed is not the same as bearing a cross.
Can you imagine a politician, foreign or domestic, making a similar reference to one of the sexual exploits of Bubba Clinton? Of course not. Clinton is not a member of the tribe, no matter how hard he and his family try to blend in. The tribe has found a most useful fool in him and his wife and continues to use their services, but he is not and will never be a member of that exclusive club. Therefore, he would never be accorded the same degree of deference.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110515/ap_on_re_us/imf_head_assault
Manuel Sotil
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