The comparison is not one made of Putin or Medvedev. It is not one made of Robert Mugabe or China's Hu. Apparently, it was never made of mass graves expert Saddam Hussein. No, it is the comparison a typically lucid Frenchman makes of (who else?) America's Republican candidate…A la fin du discours, John McCain venait l'embrasser, elle [Palin] et toute sa famille. Allure de gentleman, tempes grisonnantes, il avait alors tout à fait l'air de Monsieur Verdoux, l'élégant père de famille, assassin de douze femmes par nécessité, admirablement campé par Charlie Chaplin. C'était en quelque sorte Monsieur Verdoux et son pitbull.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Lucid Frenchman "Gets It" and Shows Off His Unsurpassed Lucidity, Comparing McCain to… a Serial Woman Killer
Le Monde's Dominique Dhombres compares John McCain to Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (and Sarah Palin to his pitbull).
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