Condi Floored by A Straw Man

Jack Straw may be smitten by Condi, but not to the point where he would relinquish the aristocratic prerogatives of Europe’s political class. AFP reports:

BRITAIN'S Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was rapped for ungentlemanly conduct after reportedly commandeering US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's private quarters on her official jet.

Ms Rice was reported in a number of British newspapers to have graciously offered her British counterpart the use of her bed and cabin on the Boeing 757 plane and Mr Straw ungallantly accepted, leaving her to sleep on the floor.

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No manly man he. I can imagine Straw running about the deck of the Titanic shouting, “Women and children be damned – Me first! Don't you know who I am? I'm important!" On Manliness and the Titanic check out Harvey Mansfield's book. "Manliness."