DICK SAYS: It's always instructive when the anonymous service guy who's driving you from one place to another or taking your order for an espresso begins spouting off without prompting about how his country's leader is taking the la Grande Nation directly down the toilet. This has happened to me in the U.S., of course, and also in Sicily, where a voluble but rather charming little man who resembled the portmanteau waiter from a certain English TV comedy show defended Bill Clinton's peccadilloes and attacked the stupidity of judging leaders on the basis of their sex lives while changing from a soiled green bellboy's uniform to wrinkled waiter's whites and back again. Today it was a Frenchman doing the honors, and he explained in no uncertain terms that President Sarkozy was both a fascist and a warmonger and now very much resembled the imbecilic, bloody-minded George W. Bush (or "Booosh!" as the French like to call him). I offered up a polite "d'accord" and let him keep talkin'. I'm not sure he ever took another breath during the course of our eight-minute encounter--the imprecations and epithets were coming that fast and furious. Anyway, perhaps there is still some hope for la France. And, yes, unsurprisingly this guy loves the heck out of Obama, God bless him.
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