Three very important events occurred Sunday. First, a pro-American eeked out a plurality of votes in Germany's national elections. Angela Merkel is on the verge of becoming Deutchland's new chancellor. Merkel's Christian Democrats party had 35.2 percent of the vote compared to 34.3 percent for Chancellor Schroeder's Social Democrats. Merkel is the daughter of a Lutheran pastor and and she grew up in the the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). She has a in doctorate in physics and worked in quantum chemistry. Second, North Korea has agreed to scrap all its nuclear programs. Third, elections went relatively well in Afghanistan with mimimal disruption. Great day for freedom, democracy, and equality as well as being one step closer to a safer world.
Not that this isn't good news, but haven't they agreed to do that before, only to change their minds? -=Steve=-
Well, that is really optimistic. The fact is that she blew the difference she had with Schroeder, and she barely won the election with just a relative majority. Experts doubt she will be able to form a government. Perhaps a government in minority or perhaps a grand alliance, labor and democrat christians together. As usual the stock market is the best indicative to take the pulse to society, and the German stock market went down big time today. That´s the panorama in a week where Turkish accesion to the EU is to be decided. The European Commission demands a strong governemtn in Berlin. Hopefully Merkel becomes the new chancellor soon. BTW, how would that be? Chancellor or chancellorette? PS Great news coming from both Korea and Afghanistan. We´ll see if something similar takes place in Iran.
And the Afgahn election suffered low turnout, largely, so we are told by NPR, due to intimidation from warloards and religious nutcases threatening women...
NPR? Hardly a reliable source, is it? Of course, not source, left or right, is really reliable. Never considered any souce with an agenda all that realiable.
I knew my spelling didn't look right but let it go. Guess one would never know I was born in Germany to a German mother. Oh well, I was three when I left and have never been back. I haven't seen any of my maternal relatives since then. So, there is a whole side of my ancestry I basically know nothing about. Sad, very sad!
