Is the Head of the IMF a Sex Criminal?

What kind of world do these leaders of the Socialist party live in? No one who reads the original prosecution complaint against Mr Strauss-Kahn and the New York prosecutors' 25-page request for the case to be dismissed could possibly make such reckless remarks. Yesterday's dismissal did not find that no sexual encounter occurred between the ex-head of the IMF and the hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo. There was reliable forensic evidence of a real and rapid encounter, a

First of all it's an editorial, not my words. Secondly it's about politics. Being 'innocent' of a crime doesn't mean you're not electoral shitmist.

Logic fail: if Berlusconi can do it DSK should be able to do it, the French are as forgiving a people as are the Italians. The puritan Brits can shove off....

You're a fine one to be calling us puritanical. I think that the Guardian's analysis of the political climate in France is superior to your own.

DSK's political career is done and over.

August 24, 2011 6:41 pm
Strauss-Kahn counts political cost of court case
By Peggy Hollinger and Jennifer Thompson in Paris

Though the former boss of the International Monetary Fund was smiling as he left court in the US on Tuesday, free of all charges of criminal assault on a New York chambermaid, he was visibly older than the man who just three months ago was tipped to become France’s next president.

“You can see it in his face,” said a senior Socialist politician who has known him for 30 years. “He has just lived through a nightmare.”


It is not likely to be the same Dominique Strauss-Kahn who returns to his native France, they say, and nor will he enjoy the same role that he once envisaged – taking the left to power in next year’s presidential election.

“It seems totally out of the question,” says Gérard Collomb, the Socialist mayor of Lyon. Questions over Mr Strauss-Kahn’s morality and sexual appetite have not gone away, despite the credibility of his accuser being seriously in doubt.

“It has left traces that will take some time to disappear,” says Mr Collomb.

Pierre Moscovici, the Socialist heavyweight who initially supported Mr Strauss-Kahn and now backs his popular rival, François Hollande, in the party primaries currently under way, is in no doubt that his moment has passed.

“Things have changed fundamentally for him,” he says. The candidates for the party nomination have set out their stalls and “the competition will take place without him”.

Many within the party may be hoping Mr Strauss-Kahn stays well out of politics for the time being. Not only does he still face investigation in France for another alleged assault – on Tristane Banon, a writer, which he denies – but also the persistent questions over his private life could tarnish the Socialist Party’s chances just as it seems to have a real chance of winning power from a deeply unpopular centre-right president, Nicolas Sarkozy.

“He has not been cleared, the charges have just been dropped,” says Zaki Laidi, professor of political science at Sciences Po university in Paris. “Most of them consider him a liability. He is politically dead.”

For any chance of a real public role, says Mr Laidi, Mr Strauss-Kahn would have to give his version of the events that took place in the Sofitel hotel room. Yet even that might not resolve the questions over his private life.

Opinion polls, too, imply that the former IMF boss is no longer considered the messiah for a left otherwise devoid of economic credibility. In July, a survey showed that roughly two-thirds believed he should not run for the presidency.

Though there may well be a show of sympathy for Mr Strauss-Kahn in the immediate aftermath of his ordeal, “it could be limited by the fact that there will always be a doubt,” says Jérôme Fourquet of Ifop, an opinion polling institute.

That said, few would say that there is no public future for a man considered to be one of the brightest and most economically literate politicians in France. Some are hoping that the former IMF boss will help the Socialist party find a credible response to the current global economic and financial turmoil, at least in the short term as an adviser.

“He is a man whose international experience is unique. When it comes to the current crisis, he is a man who is listened to,” says Mr Moscovici.

It is true that Mr Strauss-Kahn’s socially minded brand of free market economics has had a strong appeal, both to modernisers on the left and to those on the centre right seeking a more humane approach than that espoused by the current government.

“He has a strong audience in France,” says Mr Moscovici.

Whatever Mr Strauss-Kahn decides, it is clear that the political landscape in France has changed. And with it, says Mr Collomb, the view that voters have of their politicians. “Perhaps morality has a little more importance now than it did,” he says.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/476155c4-ce5a-11e0-99ec-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1VztUjYcN

While he may well continue to have some sort of a future as an economist, they speak of the demise of his political career.

Given his talents and abilities, I see no reason why DSK couldn't again resume a place as an influential voice, even active political figure, once the time for explaining and healing has passed,” says the Socialist official. “That could be as a legislator, advisor, even cabinet member in a leftist government, if things go well as they should. But it's difficult to imagine him as a presidential candidate again—and inconceivable now.

Read more: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/08/24/the-dismissed-dsk-case-everyones-a-loser/#ixzz1W0C2rDGi

as usual you firefly can not be counted on to tell the truth, you spin your "truth" to promote your agendas.

I offered no spin, I posted an article

You said that the french have decided that DSK does not have a political future, which is a lie....

While he may well continue to have some sort of a future as an economist, they speak of the demise of his political career.

Unlike you, I am not into reading tea leaves. I have been reading the comments coming out of France. While he may well continue to have some sort of a future as an economist, they speak of the demise of his political career.

"They" is the commentators from France referred to in the sentence before, there is no other possibility.

I have been reading the comments coming out of France. While he may well continue to have some sort of a future as an economist, they speak of the demise of his political career.

You play these word games all the time, you say **** and then you deny that you said it when it becomes a problem (that is when somebody nails you for your bullshit), but your skills are slipping