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Obama heaps praise on Merkel in latest memoir [barf]
Deutsche Welle ^ | 11.17.2020 | lc/msh (dpa, AFP)

Posted on 11/17/2020 6:19:53 PM PST by Olog-hai

In a memoir to be released on Tuesday, former US President Barack Obama offered a slew of praise for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. […]

Over the years, he found Merkel to be increasingly agreeable, he said, calling her "reliable, honest, intellectually precise and friendly in a natural way." […]

He additionally outlines Merkel's career in brief for readers, saying that while growing up in the former East Germany, Merkel initially "kept her head down." Over the course of her rise to the top of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, however, Obama writes that Merkel demonstrated what went on to shape her career as a whole: "organizational skills," "strategic acumen" and "unwavering patience."

Prior to the book's release, Obama further praised Merkel in an interview with German broadcast group RTL. "I think very much of Angela Merkel. She has been an outstanding political leader, not only for Germany, but for Europe and the world," he said in the interview, conducted in Washington on Friday. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: eussr; germany; merkel; obama

1 posted on 11/17/2020 6:19:53 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

They are fellow travelers, after all.


2 posted on 11/17/2020 6:21:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: Olog-hai

So, 800 blank pages? Even if there is something printed on them.


3 posted on 11/17/2020 6:22:24 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Olog-hai


4 posted on 11/17/2020 6:22:35 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

Sick of hearing about the Kenyan from Indonesia.

Not ONE of our elected or appointed would stand for the Constitution and it will end up costing us our country.


5 posted on 11/17/2020 6:22:37 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Olog-hai

Thanks. Now I don’t have to buy the book.


6 posted on 11/17/2020 6:23:30 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m tired of hearing about that mulatto marxist muslim.


7 posted on 11/17/2020 6:28:11 PM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Olog-hai

Ya, mein liebschen.

8 posted on 11/17/2020 6:28:17 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah, that’s a steaming pile alright.


9 posted on 11/17/2020 6:28:17 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Olog-hai

Proof that he likes husky German men.


10 posted on 11/17/2020 6:28:29 PM PST by Gman
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To: Olog-hai

Merkel is a red inside.


11 posted on 11/17/2020 6:29:05 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Olog-hai

"Obama heaps praise on Merkel in latest memoir"


12 posted on 11/17/2020 6:29:28 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Olog-hai

Obama heaping praise on Markell is like a neutered cat scratching sand onto a cat turd.


13 posted on 11/17/2020 6:29:31 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Olog-hai

Sounds like a book I would be interested in... if I had an outhouse.


14 posted on 11/17/2020 6:29:44 PM PST by fso301
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To: Olog-hai

From 2008...

German Publishing's Man in the White House

15 posted on 11/17/2020 6:31:38 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: mewzilla

Also from 2008....

Bill Clinton's $30 million German paymaster

16 posted on 11/17/2020 6:32:58 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Lurkinanloomin

you have that right!!

as a side note— O’bummer had Merkbutt and other high level german phones HACKED!! and was spying on them!

Oh well —on to how great Moooochele is-


17 posted on 11/17/2020 7:07:59 PM PST by mj1234
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To: Olog-hai

FUBO


18 posted on 11/17/2020 7:18:56 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: mewzilla

BTTT.


19 posted on 11/18/2020 2:35:36 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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