Just in time for Valentine's Day, Jack's confessions of a prick.

I HAVE LOVED MANY WOMEN DISCREETLY, CONFESSES CHIRAC

The very pronouncement belies discretion.

PARIS February 13, 2007 (Times Online) - Three months away from his expected retirement, President Chirac has for the first time confirmed his appetite for extraconjugal affairs, saying that he loved many women in his lifetime “as discreetly as possible”.

... "I didn’t hate women, but I didn’t overdo it," Mr Chirac told Pierre Péan, who interviewed him for his book L’Inconnu de l’Elysée [sic] (The Stranger at the Elysée [sic]), to be published on Thursday.

Whoa! Whoa! Just what does this mean, "I didn’t hate women, but I didn’t overdo it"? Is this Jack's cute idea of litotes? Or is he simply speaking to his notion of the disposability of women? Jack plays coy with a meiotic boast to aggrandize his self-image as the flying salami of French politics.

The book is seen as confirmation that the President has ruled out standing for reelection in April, despite his refusal to say so. Mr Chirac said that Bernadette, his wife since 1956, was exaggerating when she reported four years ago that women had always flocked around her handsome husband.

No doubt the long-suffering Mrs. Jack has few illusions about her husband, and Jack, like all married philanderers with a flair for self-excuse, doesn't think he overdid the philandering.

He played down the importance of his dalliances.

It was possible that a particular journalist had been his mistress when he was Prime Minister in the 1970s, he said, "but it is not something that had a big effect on me”.

"Amorous adventures have not played a determining role in my life. There have been women I have loved a lot, as discreetly as possible," he said. Mr Chirac insisted that there had never been any question of leaving his wife, whom he met when both were students at the Political Sciences Institute in Paris.

There, just to make a complete job of it, Jack insults the women he seduced. Wash up. Zip up. No big deal. If he weren't getting it free as the president of the Republic, he'd be haggling over the price.

Jack who is so fastidious about the good manners and comportment of others might consider that a gentleman does not talk to the press about his flings. Was it really necessary to further and publicly humilate Mrs. Jack with tasteless brags?

In 2001, Jean-Claude Lomond, a former chauffeur for Mr Chirac, depicted him in a book as a prolific consumer of women in his Gaullist entourage. "To an almost sickening degree," wrote Mr Lomond, "Chirac has had party militants, secretaries, all those with whom he spent five busy minutes."

This is what you get from a national leader, who after some 50 years in public life, has accomplished f*ck all. Pave has chronicled a fraction of Jack's zero legacy here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Et al.

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