Ajoelhar-se-ia por Portugal?

Em 2008, durante o climax da crise financeira, Henry Paulson, o então Secretário de Tesouraria dos EUA, ajoelhou-se em frente de Nancy Pelosi, a então Speaker of the House of Representatives, para que ela se esforçasse para conseguir apoio para o TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program). Diz o NYT (ênfase meu):

Friday morning, on CBS’s “The Early Show,” Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the lead Democratic negotiator, said the bailout had been derailed by internal Republican politics.

“I didn’t know I was going to be the referee for an internal G.O.P. ideological civil war,” Mr. Frank said, according to The A.P.Thursday, in the Roosevelt Room after the session, the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., literally bent down on one knee as he pleaded with Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker , not to “blow it up” by withdrawing her party’s support for the package over what Ms. Pelosi derided as a Republican betrayal.

“I didn’t know you were Catholic,” Ms. Pelosi said, a wry reference to Mr. Paulson’s kneeling, according to someone who observed the exchange. She went on: “It’s not me blowing this up, it’s the Republicans.”

Mr. Paulson sighed. “I know. I know.”

Note-se que Paulson foi um dos CEOs da Goldman-Sachs e, durante o seu reino, era considerado como um Deus. Sim, o Golman-Sachs é mau, tem poder a mais, é promíscuo com muitos governos, mas também tem um ex-CEO que se ajoelha em frente de uma mulher em público.

Pergunto-me se algum homem faria tal coisa por Portugal...