Nailed it.

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Im not sure wether this is true. Merkel didn't truly have her chance yet. No chancelor of a great coalition can expect to move anything in this political "system".

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Not really that surprising, considering the nature of the government she is leading.

Personally, I doubt that. IMO, Steinmeier is 'running' simply because the SPD doesn't have anyone else with a big enough name that hasn't been tainted.

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Agreed. That is why I am hoping a repeat of the CDU/SPD coalition doesn't happen again. I think I will be dissapointed though.

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I am a liberal, a classical liberal. Classical liberalism is liberalism, but the current collectivists have captured that designation in the United States. In Europe they are glad enough to call themselves socialists. But no one in America wants to be called socialist and admit what they are.

Courage, Truth, Honor, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Industriousness, Self-Reliance, Perseverance

Seriously .... any foreign minister would have sent a similar letter to any new American President ... not matter if it was Barack Obama, John McCain, Rob Zombie or whoever else.

But anyway .... Obama has a lot of credit overseas. I hope he makes good use of that. It's a unique opportunity.

This is where you err.

Merkel had tons of chances to profile herself and she missed every single one of them.

Not without reason is she known in EVERY Euro-country as Madame NO.

At best she could be described as a waster of money and time.

But then again, she´s the best the conservatives here have to offer at present. Compared to Adenauers times they have degenerated tremendously.

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of a boom brought about by credit (debt) expansion.
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner
as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit (debt) expansion,
or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." - Ludwig von Mises

"Der Spiegel" sees it similarly, Merkel the " queen of undesired compromise"


Opinion: Angela Merkel, Queen of Undesired Compromise - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Yeah but what worries me is that he is willing to increase co-operation now. Why, 5 years into the war? I mean does he think that because Obama has come in more countries need to subsidise the efforts because they predict he'll be such a disaster? Or does he want to get in because he thinks the times in Iraq are muh easier now?

Bush had a lot of good credit after 9/11 round the world and used it brilliantly, you just didn't appreciate it...

That's a joke, isn't it? Do you really think so?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz-QCvB4m1U

Nothing new...empty hooplah and postering.
The proof, they say, is in the pudding...let's readdress this subject a couple years from now.

Of course, he was brilliant in his response to 9/11. Inspirational.

(Don't turn this thread into how Austrians/Slarti and others are all Nazis).

Sorry for my late reply, I spent my vacation at my mother's place where I can't access the web.

I must admit that I don't watch german politics closely anymore (too frustrating), which chances did Merkel miss in your eyes? Do you mean the european versions of the bail-out? I totally oppose that, btw, so I was glad to hear she refused further measures.

Sadly, with the election coming Merkel "changed her mind" by my now.

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Merkel warns U.S. over auto bailout - CNN.com
'Merkel warns U.S. over auto bailout'

If Obama will keep giving money to the fail companies wich is obviously pissing others off somehow i doubt you will see a stronger partnership.....

Dear Angie hasn´t done anything at all.
She left all decisions to her ministers.

Whenever she DID utter something it had been demanded the day before by "Bild"

Going about her favorite pastime, flying, she has attended more than eighty conferences and whatever she proposed - if anything - just didn´t come off.

She´s like a bubblegum vendor going out with 200 strips and coming home with 210. And then tries to tell her family business was excellent.

I wouldn´t mind if there was only one single occasion, where she actually proposed something valuable and others would agree to that.
But there is absolutely nothing.

Except bills for unnecessary flights.
HartzIV would be the appropriate pay for her.

All this Government has done is to implement precisely what Schroeder started.
with the sole exception of the ultra-right-wing Schaeuble.
That nut case is always good for some brilliant piece of s**t.

If the FDP with their faggot were in this coalition Schaeubles Phone surveillance for all and sundry plus PC-surveillance would be through.

But wait, we have elections this year. And all the sheeple will vote again for what they do not want.

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"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse
of a boom brought about by credit (debt) expansion.
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner
as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit (debt) expansion,
or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." - Ludwig von Mises

See my post above.
Another worthless comment by our travelling auntie.

Or do you suppose Obama will take her "advice" for his politics ?

I bet he´d rather listen to Mickey Mouse than Missis Merkel.

And btw it´s bloody cheek for her to give advice to others when she has no clue as to what to do in her own country.

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"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse
of a boom brought about by credit (debt) expansion.
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner
as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit (debt) expansion,
or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved." - Ludwig von Mises