Posted on 02/18/2017 7:48:22 AM PST by jonno
With just six months until Germans go to the polls, Angela Merkel's re-election is looking less certain by the week. Martin Schulz is a dangerous adversary and his Social Democrats are full of the kind of enthusiasm that the chancellor's party lacks.
In November 1998, Angela Merkel gave an interview to the photographer and writer Herlinde Koelbl. It was a moment of uncertainty in Merkel's career, coming as it did just after Chancellor Helmut Kohl, on whose cabinet Merkel had served for seven years, lost that year's general election. Kohl had failed to recognize that Germans had grown weary of his leadership and now, his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), found itself in the opposition.
Merkel was lucky. The new CDU head Wolfgang Schäuble had chosen her as his secretary general. But she resolved at the time to not allow her career to end as Kohl's had.
"At some point, I want to find the right moment to withdraw from politics," she said in the interview with Koelbl. "That is much more difficult than I used to imagine. But I don't want to be a half-dead wreck when I leave politics behind. Rather, I would like to pursue something else after a phase of boredom."
Has Merkel missed the right moment? Has she stumbled into the Kohl trap?
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
The ugly-a$$ witch needs to lose.
Bumdestag (sic) has worn out her welcome.
Too bad it’s too late.
It’s very hard to define leftward in Germany.
They’re pretty much ALL leftward. Some just a bit more than others.
I’m surprised she even has a chance. Germany must be packed with slow learners. Churchill once said, “Germans are either at your throat or at your feet”.
I’m surprised she even has a chance. Germany must be packed with slow learners. Churchill once said, “Germans are either at your throat or at your feet”.
Unfortunately for them I think Martin Schulz is as bad or worse.
“Ve are from the government und ve are here to help you”. Ja?
Yes, leftward. Remember Nazis were Socialists
I guess Germans want to remain the Juggernaut for the EU, dictating everything... Why am I not surprised?
If the CDU were smart, they would pull a “Torricelli” on Merkel and dump her before it’s too late.
It’s the hard-left Spiegel campaigning for the hard-left SPD...no surprise there.
I will be back in April. Should be fun to watch the melt down during the election. Berlin will burn at the hands of “youth”
Even if they turn left, they still have to first hold their leader ACCOUNTABLE for the treason she has committed. The ‘better of the two evils’ is simply not acceptable here, not with what she’s done.
So Germany has a choice between a leftard and a communist infiltrating the right... wow. And this is why you always end up with a Hitler in that place saying enough is enough and doing worse...
I find it surrealistically interesti g that Hitler who said enough of the unjustice to the white German race finds echo in the muslims there... muslims who Hitler ended up prefering to Christian origin Germans, saying Germans were too boring and not as keen...
Yeppers, the political climate is achangin’!
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