The Carla Effect
Maureen Dowd profiles France’s new first lady, Carla Bruni Sarkozy, whose unconventional lifestyle and outrageous behavior is not only winning over the citizens, but enhancing her husband’s dwindling support:
“If an American first lady, or would-be first lady, described herself as a “tamer of men” and had a “man-eating” past filled with naked pictures, Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton, sultry prone CD covers, breaking up marriages, bragging that she believes in polygamy and polyandry rather than monogamy, and having a son with a married philosopher whose father she had had an affair with, it would take more than an appearance on “The View” to sweeten her image.”
