So your happy that first class personalities in germany are declining by failing health ?
Gimme a break. I don't vote for them but we should burry them otherwise.
lol damn ... I meant 'in an other way' ...
I have respect for his decision, and I wish nobody illness, at least not in democratic countries (now if we´d talk about the Iranian President or the Palestinian ´government´...). But I take satisfaction in seeing that the opponent is weakened. This will not affect the politics of the Grand Coalition, but surely the SPD will have a problem to defeat the Chancellor in 2009. So, yes, I welcome Platzeck´s step.