It’s almost enough to give socialism a bad name.Read the rest here.
We don’t know whether Dominique Strauss-Kahn — who heads the International Monetary Fund and, until a few days ago, was likely to be the Socialist Party candidate for president of France — is guilty of the alleged sexual assault for which he was arrested. Like anyone, he is presumed innocent until court proceedings prove otherwise.
We do know, however, that at the time of the reported incident on Saturday, Strauss-Kahn was resident in a $3,000-a-night luxury suite at a posh midtown Manhattan hotel. We also know that when he was taken into police custody hours later, aboard a Paris-bound jetliner that was moments from takeoff at John F. Kennedy International Airport, police found him comfortably ensconced in the first-class cabin.
I didn’t think this was how socialists were supposed to roll.
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I initially thought it was more ironic even than all that. I initially thought the "Eugene Robinson" in question was the free safety for the Atlanta Falcons in 1999.
You know, the one who was given the Bart Starr Award for high moral character the day before the Super Bowl and then arrested for soliciting a prostitute in Miami that night. We Falcons fans may forgive, but we will never forget.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Robinson
Same here, although I remember him for his days as a Seahawk. "When did he get into political commentary?"
Not rank and file socialists, of course, but the vanguard of the proletariat always reserved the right to enjoy the material comforts of the bourgeois themselves.
Stephen
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