The French foreign minister is also a former leftist: "Half a century ago, as a cadre in the Communist student league, he threw pots of red ink at the United States Embassy in Paris to protest American imperialism. But he was too fond of girls and cafes to submit to revolutionary discipline." And look at this lame explanation. Like you can't be an active communist who loves women and cafes?? I was a communist, and I even managed to love potatoes.