U.S. no longer a 'friend' in Merkel election program

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Reuters
By Noah Barkin | BERLIN
Mon Jul 3, 2017 | 3:19pm EDT


In their campaign program for the German election, Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have dropped the term "friend" in describing the relationship with the United States.


Four years ago, the joint program of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), referred to the United States as Germany's "most important friend" outside of Europe.


The 2013 program also described the "friendship" with Washington as a "cornerstone" of Germany's international relations and talked about strengthening transatlantic economic ties through the removal of trade barriers.


But the words "friend" and "friendship" are missing from the latest election program - entitled "For a Germany in which we live well and happily" - which Merkel and CSU leader Horst Seehofer presented on Monday ahead of a Sept. 24 election.


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Good. I think this woman is insane. I wouldn't want her as a 'friend'. She a multicultural nut who is destroying her own country.

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I suspect that there are a good many Germans who do not consider themselves friends of the Merkel election program.

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I suspect that there are a good many Germans who do not consider themselves friends of the Merkel election program.

Yup.  We might soon have a shift to the left.

[skeeter]

Yup.  We might soon have a shift to the left.

If Merkel is what they consider 'right' then thats entirely understandable.

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Just words.  Nothing to see here.   


To frau merkel, Ich bin Ein Berliner now means:
Ich war ein berliner

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If Merkel is what they consider 'right' then thats entirely understandable.

She is the rightmost of the major parties.

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If this crazy-ass Nancy Pelosi clone is what the Germans call 'right', then by all means they need to go hard Left.