President George W. Bush -- Giant or Devil?

Spiegel Online ^ | 4 February 2005 | unknown

[An.American.Expatriate]

"It's hard for the States to do anything right these days. Berlin is expecting Condi Rice on Friday and the nation's commentators are spoiling for a fight. The trans-Atlantic relationship is in shambles and Bush once again seems to be on the war path. Oh yeah, his domestic policies are a catastrophe as well."

[elhombrelibre]

Keep posting their nonsense so we can see how they're lying.

[wildbill]

The German economy is in shambles with a high unemployment rate and their forign policy doesn't look too smart after the Iraq elelections--but they still love to whine about Bush.

[americanbychoice2]

Hi, I just came back from my laboratory. When I read the German papers I made a tremendeous discovery.
I Have finally fou0nd The "Gobbels Gene".
Wow, does it look ugly?

[Southack]

"It's real, adjusted unemployment is running around 15%."

Germany's official unemployment statistics count slightly more than 5 million as "unemployed," slightly more than 2 million as on welfare/workfare, and 600,000 aging adults as "students" in government retraining programs. That's 7.6 million unemployed in a nation of 82 million people (9.2% of the overall population, 18% of their working-age married/single population).

To put that in perspective, the U.S., with 300 million citizens, has a mere 7.7 million unemployed (5.2% of our working age population).

[CasearianDaoist]

as sin?

[Cogadh na Sith]

Let's see, things are falling apart here in our socialist "utopia" and we need a scapegoat to divert the attention of the masses...

I guess blaming the jews isn't good enough anymore.

[PJBlogger]

For more Euro-trash anti-American garbage pay a little visit to:
http://www.expatica.com/
Click on "join a discussion" then on "international"

[americanbychoice2]

Sorry, my fat fingers again. Should have been "Goebbels Gene".
Makes it sound better

[Cap Huff]

In early 1981 I spent a night at a NATO TROPO communications site at a place called Lammersdorf, near Aachen. It just happened that that evening the newly elected President Reagan had just announced that he was calling for large tax cuts. I couldn't understand the German comments from my hosts concerning the news, but I could understand the words "cowboy president" said with a particularly tone that clearly expressed disdain.

That site is probably no longer a NATO com site, since the Berlin Wall came down, thanks in large part to our "cowboy president" but the disdain for American conservative values goes on. Reading the Speigel article you see that there is still disdain for our "cowboy" presidents. How sad . . .

[Owl558]

"we need a scapegoat to divert the attention of the masses"

This is a tried and true strategy. The long-term cost, of course, will be paid by the significant increase of anti-German sentiment here in the US - as any European poster to this board knows only too well. This new attitude is not going away, nor is it just a "bump" in the road in German / US relations. Americans have changed their attitudes towards the French and Germans and, for many of us, we no longer see these countries as allies.

[longjack]

CasearianDaoist:

Thanks for the post at # 23.

At times we are lucky enough to be able to get a glimpse into what mindset the Europeans are being subjected to, as in the article in this thread, without the possibility of concepts lost in translation.

If some of us are able to gather an insight or an idea of the import of that mindset on what may possibly lay ahead for us then the thread was successful.

With that in mind, I very much enjoyed reading your comments. I am also glad that An.American.Expatriate pinged me to it, and that I was able to send it to the German list.

I couldn't post any earlier because of work.

longjack

[hinckley buzzard]

Consider that this is the usual loose stool served up to the German public. No wonder they have anti-American attitudes.

Given that such is their diet, it is only rational and efficient to ignore the opinions of the witless coprophages.

[lainde]

Bump and thanks (I think)...Got to take an aspirin for the headache!

[frankiep]

This is definitely the usual garbage that is served to the German public. My girlfriend is German and her parents are convinced that the US is the worlds biggest terrorist state. The blindness, ignorance, and holier than thou attitude I see here everyday is getting sickening.