Well, say this for Mlle. Royal, she is full of surprises. And this.
And now this.
BILL CLINTON'S 'MORAL AUTHORITY' NEEDED: ROYAL
PARIS August 1, 2006 (AFP) - Ségolène Royal, the Socialist tipped to become France's first female president, on Tuesday called for former US president Bill Clinton to intervene to calm the escalating Middle East conflict."France can play an intermediary, trustworthy role [NB]" but we also need "voices that carry international weight, that have moral authority", Royal told RTL radio.
"I am thinking about people such as Bill Clinton. We can find others, one per continent, who will be able to relaunch dialogue and give the feeling that we can talk to each other again," she said.
Moral authority requires a grounding in morality.
Other than Jimmy Carter we can think of no more morally reprehensible American president turned international person than Bill Clinton. We understand that Mr. Clinton much improves when compared to what France has to offer, but all the same he is morally obnoxious.
Where to begin? Let's start with what is most pertinent to Mlle. Royal's supplication, Mr. Clinton's moral authority in international affairs. Mr. Clinton aborted the American mission securing food and other relief supplies in lawless famine-stricken Somalia because there were no votes in it. Mr. Clinton showed no leadership while upwards of a million Tutsis were being murdered in Rwanda because there were no votes in it. After criticizing his predecessor for cruelly refusing Haitian refugees, Mr. Clinton did exactly the same because there were no votes in it. He also reversed America's decades-old policy of asylum to Cuban refugees because there were not enough votes in it. Mr. Clinton made weepy apologies for American slavery, but never put modern day slavery in Sudan, Mali, Mauritania, and elsewhere on his moral agenda because, well, slaves don't vote.
Aside from the above, Mr. Clinton discarded FBI advisements and by-passed his own Justice Department to pardon 16 FALN terrorists, without so much as a FALN petition. FALN (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional) is a Puerto Rican nationalist terrorist group responsible for planting over 130 bombs in public places in the USA. On his last day in office Mr. Clinton pardoned 200 convicted felons among whom were his brother Roger (time served for drug conviction), and Carlos Vignali (serving time for cocaine trafficking) and Almon Braswell (serving time for fraud), both of whom were clients of Clinton’s brother-in-law Hugh Rodham.
Personally, Mr. Clinton is an unreformed philanderer and masher and worse. Several women -- Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Sally Perdue, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, and Monica Lewinsky -- have claimed extramarital affairs, harassment, and/or abuse. He settled out of court paying Paula Jones her full claim of $850,000 to drop a sexual harrassment complaint. He was found in civil contempt of court for misleading testimony and ordered to pay an additional $91,000 to Ms. Jones. Mr. Clinton was then referred for disciplinary action to the Arkansas Bar, which suspended his law license for five years. This suspension automatically suspended him from the United States Supreme Court bar, from which he resigned.
Mr. Clinton has also been credibly accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick, a charge that has never been refuted on the record.
Some moral authority.
Even the French may find Mlle. Royal's touchy-feely blather in the serious business of world affairs unsettling.
PFFT (What is this?): Moral cipher 4 | Rayonnement français 0
Bonjour,
C' est bien ce que j ' avais prévu !!
Devant le fiasco US TOTAL en Irak , on va assister (via les ""Démocrates"" pourtant aussi fanatiques que les ""Républicains"") à un ballet américain de flagorneries envers la France.
Cela serait oublier que Clinton s'est montré aussi stupide et criminel que Bush.
La France n ' oublie pas le rôle de gangster qu' ont tenu Clinton et sa bande (Madeleine Allbright , Wesley Clark , Jamie Shea etc) dans le martyr des Serbes du Kosovo en se mettant au service des islamistes de l ' UCK .
Good luck to your country in Iraq , dear Milton !!!!!!
Methinks Royal has the hots for the slickmeister.
