Posted on 09/04/2005 2:08:19 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
Angela Merkel is a genius who gets mistaken for a village idiot. Unless she suffers some completely unexpected disaster, she will in two weeks' time become the most powerful politician in Europe ...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.telegraph.co.uk ...
"Mrs Merkel's election speeches are...concerned with the dreadful economic record of Gerhard Schröder"Maybe our prayers have been answered, and the German people are going to wake up in time to save themselves."unlike the present German government, she would not countenance the admission of Turkey to the European Union."
"The Germans...are fed up with...Schröder's shameless attempts to charm himself out of trouble, and are ready to be governed by someone of substance, who dares to tell them the truth. In Mrs Merkel, the awkward-looking daughter of an East German clergyman, they appear to have found just such a person."
"Schröder...can be expected to accuse her of being an American stooge. He won re-election in 2002 by appealing to German anti-Americanism"
The German people are good and wonderful people, but they need to wake up--and fast!!
Yes, notice how concerned he is with appearances and how long it takes him to get to substance.
Thanks. Refreshing to read that posted by a non-German FReeper. :)
We´ll make it. We simply have to!
A proud CDU-member and campaigning for Merkel these weeks
Right, as if the German men are all Adonis. Second of all, I wonder if the "clever Berlin journalist" ever been to Romania and actually see the women there. Clearly not otherwise he would have abstained from making such a stupid comment. 
Her name is Alexandra Lara and she is a Romanian who won the famous German beauty show "Wahl's Woman of the Year" in 2004.
I had no connection with Germany and little knowledge until I went to Europe for the first time to be stationed with the U.S. Army in Germany. I loved it and immediately fell in love with the German people. I lived there for three years.
I can't count the wonderful memories. My wife and I attended the Beyreuth Festspiel every summer; learned about wine; studied the German language on the college level; traveled everywhere; made friends. I get homesick just thinking about it.
Sometimes on a foggy evening, at the Kaserne by the lamplight, in my olivedrab trenchcoat, I half expected Marlene Dietrich to ask me for a light--but I am too much a romantic.
I actually wept after I said goodbye to my German secretary for the last time. She and her husband had dinner with my wife and me that last night.
When we said Auf Wiedersehen, I hugged her for the first time, and when she and her husband left, I broke down in tears.
My wife said, "I didn't know she meant so much to you."
I replied, "Neither did I."
I have tears in my eyes right now, just thinking about it and what a wonderful, kind, loving, intelligent, and wise person she is.
My son was one year old when we went to Germany. He became bilingual; evidently he spoke German without an American accent.
We returned to America, and he lost his ability to speak German dispite my efforts to keep it alive.
When he became an adult, he fell in love with a wonderful girl from Germany, whom he met in America. Her mother had married an American stationed in Germany.
Just what the connection was or how the psychology played out, I don't know, but I adore my dauther-in-law!
They were married in America. Some of her relatives came from Germany for the wedding. I gave toasts in both languages.
After they were married, they went to Germany to visit her relatives who could not come to America. Her grandmother, zum Beispiel, couldn't make the trip.
They also visted the city in which we had lived. The same secretary and some other of our friends, took my son and his wife to dinner, took care of them, wouldn't let them pay for anything. Needless to say, tears came to my eyes again. I sent them Christmas presents, to make sure that they knew how deeply I appreciated all that they had done, but, of course, there's no way to repay such kindness and loveliness.
I now have a beautiful little granddaughter!
Quite a collection of souvenirs to bring back from my trip to Germany, nicht wahr?!??
You should have seen the gorgeous technician (German) who drew blood from the G.I.'s at the American hospital. One, who had a thick drawl, said: "I've seen some of 'em let her stick them seven or eight times."
Did Marlene ever ask you for a light? Somehow I feel like I missed out on something.
You mentioned the wonderful German people :) And it wasn't Marlene asking me for a light, there were plenty of Franz und Stephan's trying to buy me drinks :)
Prosit!
The same can be said of a people who can conquer polio and place a man on the moon.
The question is resolve.
It's high time the Germans and the Americans--and everybody else!--woke up and got to work!
"Abhorred by intellectuals", presumably because she is rational and intelligent.
Entschuldigen Sie, bitte! One of the defects of online friendships is that you don't know whom you're talking with--or what gender :)
Bump that.
Don't forget Einstein, Fahrenheit, Von Braun, Alzheimer, Guttenberg, Benz and Daimler, Bismark, Goethe, Karl May (one of my childhood's favorite writers) and that's to name a few :)
Yes. And not to mention Virchow, Roentgen, Brahms, Webern, Werner von Braun, Katerina Witt, and Claudia Schiffer.
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