At first it was another Dominique. Dominique de Villepin was tried and cleared of allowing false charges of paying bribes in a sale of warships to Taiwan against Nicolas Sarkozy in the Clearstream affair. Unfortunately, for Sarkozy his popularity kept plummeting. Then Gaddafi gave him an opportunity to show how macho he is by ordering his air force to illegally bomb Libya while himself hiding in Paris. Laurent Gbagbo was an even easier target because he had lost all international support for refusing to accept his defeat at general elections. A few bombs on his palace and Gbagbo could be slapped into submission. Still such remote controlled virility was insufficient to improve poll ratings so something had to be done at home. Seems that Carla Bruni, his much experienced wife, is pregnant for the first time at the age of 43 years. He has achieved what a lot of men have failed to do in the past. If she is indeed pregnant she will deliver at the beginning of 2012 just before the presidential elections reminding the people of what a potent weapon Sarkozy has. Then suddenly the jackpot just fell into his lap. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his most probable opponent in next year's elections, has been charged of sexual assault by a maid in a New York hotel and is under arrest. Surely Mr Strauss-Kahn has a diplomatic passport in which case he should be immune. If Raymond Davies can kill 2 people, albeit Pakistanis, in cold blood and the US forces Pakistan to release him by claiming diplomatic immunity in retrospect surely a little sexual assault is not of much consequence. Sarkozy is indeed a lucky boy but will Lady Luck hang around till next year?