The Jimmy Carter of France

The riots "bear witness to a deep malaise," Chirac said. "It is a crisis of meaning, a crisis of reference points and an identity crisis."

The Pecksniffian Chirac proposes that empoyers hire more minorities, but avoids the dreaded "Q" word.

Chirac turned aside calls for affirmative action programs to boost opportunities for minorities, saying the solution was "not a question of applying quotas."

The biggest problem is that, the French economic model does not create jobs, and hasn't for a very long time.