DSK and Galliawatch
18th May 2011
It is hard for us in America to grasp how consuming this story must be to the French. Imagine that in January 2008 Barack Obama, having won the Iowa caucuses and become the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, had been arrested for attempting to rape a hotel maid in New York City, photographed in handcuffs, and imprisoned in Rikers Island.
Many of us would have said ‘Mission accomplished.’ and gone back to whatever we were doing.