THE POLISH PLUMBER STRIKES BACK:

“I suggest that he ask the French why the heck for so many years they encouraged Poles to build capitalism when as it turns out they are Communists themselves,” Mr. Walesa, an electrician by trade, said in an interview published Friday in the Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. He added, “Piotr probably won’t have the chance to say this, so he should at least publicize Poland well in Paris.”

Read the whole thing.