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Yesterday Jack bid adieu to the French people.

CHIRAC SAYS GOODBYE TO FRENCH ELECTORATE
PARIS May 16, 2007 (Guardian/AP)

In another rubber-face bobble-head televised performance, Jack said he was proud to have served, offered the usual uninspiring blandishments, and pronounced his faint wish for Sarko's success. He did not name one lasting accomplishment from his 40+ years of frontline politics, whereas modesty precluded listing his many remarkable -- in some cases, spectacular -- failures (and the follow-on), defeats (and here), climbdowns (and here, and this), misfires (and here), foirades (and this, and this), boondoggles, perfidies (and this), scandals (and this -- and here, and this), catastrophes, and assorted embarrassments (and this and this and this -- and here, and this).*

All this in a little less than six minutes. The Republic thanks him for his brevity.

JACK CONTEMPLATES THE VOID OF HIS PRESIDENCY
Nothing To See, Lots To Think About

You can watch Jack's sayonara theater here (WMP). The transcript (in French) here.

* Our links are, of course, representative, not exhaustive.

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