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Unrequited Love: Explaining Germany's Infantile Crush on Obama
Der Spiegel ^ | 11/09/2012 | Jan Fleischhauer

Posted on 11/10/2012 12:21:41 PM PST by Olog-hai

There is hardly an issue about which Germans as so united as they are by their desire to see America on its knees. It unites both the left and the right. Wherever they look, they see decay, a lack of culture and ignorance. …

The criticism of America has always been a bit infantile. One is familiar with the theory from psychoanalysis, when people talk about transference, or when suppressed feelings or emotions are overcome by projecting them onto others. …

The childish excitement over Obama, that once again took hold over Germans during this election—fully 93 percent of the country would have voted for him in this election—is the flip side of this desire for America's demise. That the Germans, of all people, should see themselves in a black civil rights attorney from Chicago can only be explained by the fact that they see him as the opposite of what they consider to be normal Americans.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; germany; waronterror
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To: Olog-hai
I recall reading the first time didn't work out so well for Israel. This time things will be... oh, nevermind.


21 posted on 11/10/2012 3:37:40 PM PST by SparkyBass
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To: Arthurio

The day will come when Obama will be the most hated man in America.


22 posted on 11/10/2012 3:45:54 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Olog-hai

That love will end very soon, probably in 2014. Why? The arrogant Germans forget that one reason their socialsts “heaven” has survived all these years is their military expenditures have be virtually zero due to the US military presence in Germany. This has allowed them to spend on their socialist utopia.

In 2014 when Obamacare hits the US full force and Dear Leader BHO enacts his Russian flexibility and pro-jihadist foreign policy Ramstien and K-town will be cut back, curtailed or closed as will other US bases in Europe. Germany will have to start footing the bill that the US has so graciously been footing since the end of WWII.

If/when this happens we will see how much they love BHO and how well their socialsts paradise functions, when the Russian Bear growls, the muslim boil inside and outside their country ruptures and they are either defenseless or have to spend money to shore up their security.

So gloat now Frau and Herr Wagner because your day of reckoning is around the corner, due to the blind worship of the socialst in the White House across the big pond.


23 posted on 11/10/2012 6:40:29 PM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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That’ll be another beneficial crisis that their elites would have a plan to exploit.


24 posted on 11/10/2012 6:42:00 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

True, especially when they are embracing green energy and decommissioning their nuclear plants also./s


25 posted on 11/10/2012 6:50:00 PM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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Thanks Olog-hai.


26 posted on 11/11/2012 4:51:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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