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Monday
23May2005

Blogging After Bier: Angela Merkel

DateMonday, May 23, 2005 at 08:16PM
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Prosit: We like
her already
We learn from John Fund of Opinion Journal that Angela Merkel will be Germany's new chancellor come the fall.  OK, perhaps we're getting a little ahead of ourselves, but she is the leader of the Christian Democrats who trounced Gerhard Schroeder's Social Dems this weekend.  John makes and excellent point about why Schroeder lost.  The spin is that the Germans are upset about his so-called austerity measures (we even heard this on NPR.) But if that were true, then the Greens would have gained support, which they certainly did not.  David's Medienkritik and Mr. Fund  and The New Republic have all commented on the vicious anti-Americanism that Schroeder has used to gain votes.  But this time it didn't work.
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