A Second Hand Conjecture

Carla Bruni, Nicholas Sarkozy’s bride, is upsetting the “traditional morality” of France. I was somewhat surprised to learn there was such a thing, but apparently it goes like this: men are permitted to be promiscuous and women are permitted to…stay at home. Seems fair, right? Well, promiscuous Carla (who describes her voracious libido as “predatory“) is trying to change that ruling orthodoxy. But like all forms of social and political reform in France, it’s apparently political suicide.

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Carla Bruni.

Quelqu’un m’a dit

Ten things to know about Sarkozy’s bride:

5. Criticise her intellect at your peril: her last album, released in 2007, was based on poems by W.B. Yeats, Emily Dickinson and Dorothy Parker. She has sold more than two million records in a singing career launched in 2002.

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9. The new Mrs Sarkozy has not always praised marriage. Last year, she told Le Figaro newspaper: “Monogamy bores me terribly.”

10. A British journalist who visited her exclusive Paris apartment for an interview last year was astonished when the singer greeted him topless.

Category: Foreign Affairs.

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The rhetoric is certainly heating up in this race. Just look at this speech from populist John Edwards:

For those of us for whom summer is not a verb, for those of us who didn’t go to fancy boarding schools on the east coast, for those of us who didn’t grow up with a silver spoon, who were lucky to have a spoon — ask those folks and they’ll tell you the economy is not doing well for them,

Oh wait, that was Mike Huckabee. To pile on Lee’s Huck posting, I thought I’d take a look at the other side of what I think is our general dislike of Mike Huckabee. And I don’t mean to speak for others here, but I think we’d agree on this. As others have pointed out, Huckabee has taken some decidedly non-conservative (and non-libertarian) positions. With his support for a federal smoking ban just throwing the 10th amendment and federalism out the window, I really can’t trust him to not do the same for banning abortion, banning same sex marriage, mandating the teaching of evolution and his other positions. With a candidate who believes in federalism, at least I can expect them to not try to nationalize their pet moral issues.

BTW, I think it’s worth voting for Fred Thompson just so we can keep up with France in the First Lady race, international relations depend on it!

(HT: The Corner)

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