Reply With QuoteThat Stasi defender Peter-Michael Diestel had a grudge with Gauck is actually more positive than negative.Originally Posted by The Kaiser Chief
And already back then Gauck beat the Stasi fan boys when it came to public opinion.
But it doesn´t change the fact. From back then one everybody can officially call him a Stasi protege and he cannot do anything about this. I am just not sharing this Gauck-mania, I don´t buy this guy, we have better candidates than him that come along without such background, even from east Germany...why not Mr Boehmer for instance?
That Stasi defender Peter-Michael Diestel had a grudge with Gauck is actually more positive than negative.
And already back then Gauck beat the Stasi fan boys when it came to public opinion.
I don´t know where the hype about Gauck came out from, seriously before the succession of Koehler nobody even used his name and suddenly he was poltical star. I just say that he might have his own historical baggage which migh eventually fall on his feet once he becomes President. The last thing we need now is another scandal while we are lecturing others on morality and transparency...that´s why I am not sharing this enthusiasm about Gauck.
Who are these others we're lecturing? What I've seen with regard to the Wulff affair was that we're lecturing ourselves about morality and transparency, and that's certainly not a bad sign at all.
Gauck could be used as a good tool to show that the SED/Linke hardliners are complete nutjobs when it comes to their past.
I'm not buying Gauck's moral superiority and independent political stading. He's pretty much an old school atlantic oriented conservative who sympathizes with Sarrazin and mocks Harz 4 dependants. Not really the kind of man you want to be a unifying figure for all germans across the board...
I actually think that lying POS zu Guttenberg would be a much better candidate for the presidency. He's got a pretty wife and the aristocratic glamour about him, that all Germans really want to see in our head of state.So he meets all the formal criteria needed for the job. Plus, we already know he's a crook, so no surprises here...
The Trumpet knows only 3 German politicians. Merkel, KTzG and Stoiber... Others don't exist.http://www.thetrumpet.com/9117.7937....-for-president
More astute analysis from your only Bible-based news service.
Thank god, you're kidding. There are people out there who'd take this for real.I actually think that lying POS zu Guttenberg would be a much better candidate for the presidency. He's got a pretty wife and the aristocratic glamour about him, that all Germans really want to see in our head of state.
The Trumpet can sleep easy now, the german state is firmly in the hands of Protestants.The Trumpet knows only 3 German politicians. Merkel, KTzG and Stoiber... Others don't exist.
The President is a protestant minister, the chancellor a minister's daughter
The Resurrection of the Holy Roman Empired has been postponed.
Aren´t we lecturing the PIIGS about transparency and morals? Aren´t we telling them to combat corruption and demand further cuts in their already damaged welfare systems? So political scandals of our head of state will not really give us street cred on this one IMHO.
As for Gauck, I don´t think that the fate a >10% leftist party should determine the election of a new head of state, while at the same time the Greens are allowed to take part in coalitions. At best he can troll the left, while at the same time he accepts invitations by the Banking sector thus making himself vulnerable during a time of a financial services induced crisis where lots of people lost their jobs. That´s why I would have preferred a more solid solution for the head of state. My prognosis is that he will stumble across his close ties to the banking industry before the end of his 1st term or he will stumble across his views on immigration citing Sarazzin during a meeting with Abdullah Gül.
That man was minister under Kohl.
All i have to say for being honest.
In retrospect those Kohl year weren´t really so bad. Looking at the current situation and the current talent pool in poltics my opinion about Kohl is steadily on the rise. He kept Germany on the growth track and out of wars. He was an accepted leader in Europe who had the right sure instinct for the international stage, unlike Merkel and Schäuble today. Besides I wouldn´t know that Töpfer is tainted with the Schwarzgeldaffäre, but I didn´t limit it to Töpfer. There are others as well I would have preferred over Gauck with this holier-than-thou attitude.
The more things change the more they stay the same
Why don´t we elect Carsten Maschmeyer right away? At least he doesn´t need those little presents to make up his opinion about the financial service sector! BTW Gauck has a digusting taste: a cheap brown tie and a dark blue suit...that hurts!The more things change the more they stay the same
Last edited by The Kaiser Chief; 02-20-2012 at 11:18 AM.
Had the Greeks treated their politicians like we do, and got rid of them on signs of corruption, they would have fared better don't you think ?
IF anyone else, than Georg Schramm
Well, first signs of corruption...you are hilarious! The only difference is that our economy is stronger so we can digest more corruption than the Greeks could. I don´t buy this "honest-German" argument as well...
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