and her French is fluent. I think it's her choice of interviewees that's interesting, not the fact that she buys the Kouchner and Duhamel lines.

I've been wondering for some time what the Manhattan Literatis' take on the French elections would be (as opposed to the Beltway Bores, who will slavishly follow our "special" friends, the Brits, in all their Euro thinking). I think Kramer is, for better or worse, pretty representative. Bayrou is the kind of French person "sophisticated" Americans like, the kind of French friend we'd love to show off at a dinner party.