French Socialists fear the return of Dominique Strauss-Kahn

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Source: The Guardian

As the French Socialist party gathered for its conference on La Rochelle waterfront, the souvenir postcard stand still featured a pile of black-and-white portraits of a grinning Dominique Strauss-Kahn. But delegates seemed to be avoiding them.

Days after a New York prosecutor dropped all the charges against Strauss-Kahn for allegedly attempting to rape an immigrant hotel maid, the one-time saviour of the French left remained far from welcome among his own party's grassroots.

"I'm terrified he'll turn up here," whispered a 50-year-old regional councillor from rural south-west France, who did not want to be named. "If he wants the party to win next year's presidential election, he'll stay well away," she added. "This whole Strauss-Kahn affair is far from over. Politically, he's fried. I don't know how he could come back knowing what we now know about his behaviour. Whatever the truth about these allegations, the whole party was blackened by this saga, its credibility was put on the line."

Only three months ago, Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund and a former French finance minister, was tipped to beat Nicolas Sarkozy in the presidential election in 2012. His hopes of being nominated as the Socialist's candidate next year are now utterly dead. But released from bail, Strauss-Kahn has said he is desperate to return to France and "normal life" as soon as possible. He has been given back his passport and this weekend flies to Washington, where his millionaire TV journalist wife will put their townhouse on the market before, as expected, they return to Paris in around a week.

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[KoKo]

1. I'm not sure that Strauss-Kahn should have "beat his rap" ...but I understand the NWO enough to kno

that there was NO WAY he wouldn't have beat this.

BUT...I think he's SCUM....!

But, then look at the SCUM on WALL STREET who NEVER had CHARGES brought against them who are raking in profits off the backs of Americans who are losing their savings...because of the policies of "The Bernank."

So...it's interesting how the Wealthy and Powerful use government and the courts to survive.

It goes back to US SUPREME COURT declaring Corporations as People with "Equal Voice" to average voters.

Strauss-Kahn is just the latest of a CORRUPT...CORRUPT!!! SYSTEM..

Sorry for the Caps...but sheesh.. What better example do we have than the Exhaulted Dominique Strauss-Kahn to illlustrate how CORRUPT our politicians are across the WORLD.

Look at John Edwards and Al Gore...and go further.

Al Gore's demise is the saddest to me...I really was devastated. But, he made his choices like John Edwards...and we need to be more careful in our selections. :-( sad to even express my opinion...but I couldn't constrain myself.

[JDPriestly]

2. She was not a reliable witness.

That means that you cannot judge which story, his or hers, is correct.

If you hold to judging Strauss-Kahn based on the accusations of the NY maid, then you need to do more reading about the grounds the prosecuting attorneys gave for dropping the charges against him.

I don't have enough information about the accusers, accusations and circumstances of other stories about Strauss-Kahn, but in this particular instance, he must be given the benefit of the doubt.

[KoKo]

3. You do understand that the Power of the Whole ECU/GLOBAL Establishment was thrown against her?

DNA Matched...but because Strauss-Kahn's wife is HUGELY/MEGA WEALTHY and she "STOOD BY HER MAN" with HIGh POWER LAWYERS...they could turn "the Maid" into SCUM.