Posted on 08/11/2009 8:30:55 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
Billboards of Chancellor Angela Merkel sporting a very revealing low-cut dress have pepped up a German election campaign that has so far struggled to grab public attention.
The election placards have been put up by Vera Lengsfeld, a member of Mrs Merkel's own conservative CDU party, who is running in a left-wing district of Berlin for a seat in parliament in the September 27 poll.
The billboards show photographs of each woman in an evening dress showing plenty of cleavage with the slogan: "We have more to offer" emblazoned over the chancellor's breasts.
Mrs Lengsfeld, a former East German dissident, said she had not cleared the picture beforehand with Mrs Merkel, 55, telling rolling news channel N24: "The chancellor could never have allowed me to do this, otherwise everyone would have wanted to do it."
She added: "I find it amazing how little humour some people have shown over this placard. People always complain that election posters are boring and then as soon as someone does something different, people get annoyed," she said.
Mrs Lengsfeld, 57, said she had 17,000 visitors on her election blog since she shot into the public eye and added: "If only a tenth of them also look at the content of my policies, then I will have reached many more people than I could have done with classic street canvassing."
She will have her work cut out, however, to transform the limelight into success at the ballot box against a popular Green party veteran.
The famous photo of Mrs Merkel's cleavage, taken at the opening of the Oslo Opera House in April 2008, prompted headlines such as "Merkel's Weapons of Mass Destruction" "Deutschland boober alles" in British tabloids.
On Mrs Lengsfeld's election blog, opinion was sharply divided.
"Alex" wrote: "Fantastic idea.
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Angela Merkel is one sexy scientist. :-)
Is Bill Clinton going to Germany anytime soon?
Okay, let’s hear from the “Ich würde es treffen” crowd now...
Just don’t rub her shoulders...
She’d ‘kill’ any man.
She’s got that ‘look’ to her.
Sexy lady.
“Deutschland boober alles”?
Although I am at least 5 generations removed from my German roots, this campaign sign would compel me to vote for these Mädchen, their platforms be damned.
I’d never do that, shoulders are for kissing. ;-)
gag.me.
More like:
“We have more to offer”
German’s are some funny people.
Agreed.
Notice the East German “dissident” is a conservative!
How do you say “Motorboat” in German?
When Obama was there recently, trying to appear Kennedyesque, he was quoted in the German press announcing, “ich bin einer Frankfurter.”
schuldig
Universal language:
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
I would take her over Obama in a heartbeat. She has a brain and is not digusting liar like Hussein.
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