Barack Obama's fall in popularity has finally made the front page of Le Monde, but not without Corine Lesnes managing to put a positive spin on it, needless to say."Barack Obama Faces Up to America's Doubts" is the headline on the front page, while that of the story proper inside shouts that "Barack Obama Must Confront Americans' Fear on Unemployment".
In the course of her article, Corine Lesnes mentions the victory of Bob McDonnell in Virginia, helped by a slogan (Bob's for jobs) that she calls "hollow but smiling". Hollow but smiling? What then, can't one say about "hope and change", for God's sakes?! If that had been the slogan of a Bush, a McCain, a McDonnell, or a Palin, probably then Le Monde would have called it "creux mais souriant" too… But: hope and change was the slogan of a leftist state interventionist, and so the man who uttered it is characterized as among the most intelligent men ever to have walked the face of the Earth.
Corine Lesnes goes on to conclude her article with a comparison of the Apologizer-in-Chief with Ronald Reagan, noting that the latter's unpopularity in 1982 did not prevent him "from triumphing in the election of 1984."
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