Let's start the day with a commentary from The New York Times entitled "A Lowbrow in High Office Ruffles France." Its premise: Culture-loving France, used to leaders who hobnob with poets and intellectuals, is somewhat aghast by the antics of its Celine Dion-loving, text-messaging, jeans-wearing president. The main hope for the future? The new Mrs. Sarkozy. One interviewee "speculated the other morning that Ms. Bruni and her sister, a filmmaker and actress, might make a kind of project of the president, culturally speaking: Pygmalions to his Galatea." Hilarious.
