Now if Bill Clinton would move to Paris, the French would elect him President there. He would be the first non-Frenching speaking president they have had, I presume.
"He would be the first non-Frenching speaking president..."
He knows some froggie talk. Ficky-fick! Suck eh vous. and more.
Note quite. I read enough of news stories, "pundit analyses" during the 1990s and since I'm not an American, I read a lot of what Europeans write behind you Americans' backs. The truth is, the French had no time for Bubba either - he is an American, and still far too right-wing for their tastes.
They pretend to like him now because it is a bit analogous to us saying we think the Washington Post is marginally less worse than Radio Pacifica. In the same coin from their perspective "Clinton is not as bad as ce cowboy Bush!". Another motive is to trip Americans, especially your "liberals" or centre-left. To them, anyone to the left of Bush is better than Bush himself.