She wants to do what she can to improve relations with the US,
I hope she gets elected and she is really the only hope for Germany.
Germany is at the bottom of the barrel in my mind with the stupid comments made about the New Orleans tragedy.
In a perfect world I would love to completely ignore Germany, but history dictates to us that somehow their increasing problems will end up in our lap.
She is East German too...so she has a bit more common sense than the West Germans.
We might finally see that not all Germans aren't bad.