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Ummm, I know this one, ummm, oh wait a Demoncrap?
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Hate to spoil the party but 2nd paragraph, last sentence they call him the "Democratic Governor". This article is from Texas after all and specifically not from Austin (well known liberal enclave in that great state).
The finance chiefs of Germany and Britain on Saturday added to a chorus of calls for French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to become the new leader of the International Monetary Fund. Lagarde has emerged as a front-runner to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also of France, who resigned this week. This Christine is a woman. Thanks for making that clear...
"Europe would have the best chance to secure the post again with Christine Lagarde, if she decides to run," German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told the German weekly Bild am Sonntag. He was quoted as saying that Lagarde was "outstandingly qualified" and "extremely respected and appreciated in the entire financial world." Besides, being of the female persuasion, it's unlikely she has the proclivities of a rutting chimpanzee.
Lagarde's chances for the job got a boost Friday when Kemal Dervis, a former finance minister for Turkey who had been considered the leading non-European candidate, said he did not want to be considered for the position because of his dark secrets. Schaeuble and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that it is crucial that all Europeans now rally behind a candidate. Otherwise the Libyans or Iranians will want the slot. The guy who was going to be the Syrian representative to the UN Human Rights Commission is available...
Merkel on Saturday stopped short of formally endorsing Lagarde but said she was a "distinguished" and "very experienced" personality. Lagarde, 55, has a clean-cut image and has been praised for her acumen in helping steer Europe through the global financial crisis and its more recent debt woes. She speaks impeccable English and spent much of her career in the United States as a lawyer. Oh, well; nobody's perfect.
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05/22/2011 08:53 ||
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President Obama and Europe were bound together during his first two years in office by the global economic downturn and the collective effort to resolve it. But then they all ran out of money, so they followed FDR's 1941 lesson, and started a war. Ooh, that sounds mean, doesn't it?
But the dominant themes of the president's European tour, set to begin Monday, highlight how much the world has changed over that time. World change, like climate change, happens all the time.
As he enters the second half of his term, security issues, in South Asia and the broader Middle East, have replaced the economy as the chief shared interests of the world's wealthiest and most powerful allies.
"Maybe this is an overstatement, but I see this as an opportunity for a reset of the European relationship," said Heather A. Conley, director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "European leaders have really been struggling with where they fit. They had enormous expectations for this president, but they're now wondering, 'Is it that different after all?' " Same old change we always promise.
Obama's first vacation trip to Europe in the spring of 2009 was marked by his celebrity and the world's economic peril. Brought on by the unrelenting advance of socialism.
He was greeted at the Group of 20 meeting in London as a star, and fellow world leaders clamored to be seen with him. Eight years of the administration of George W. Bush, whose often unilateral approach to many policies, including the decision to invade Iraq with only 37 other countries lined up, had alienated many European leaders and publics. The meme continues. More celebrity news at the link.
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Taking the RESET button to EUrope now? It worked so well in the Soviet Union Russia.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The finance chiefs of Germany and Britain on Saturday added to a chorus of calls for French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde to become the new leader of the International Monetary Fund. Lagarde has emerged as a front-runner to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn, also of France, who resigned this week.
President Obama and Europe were bound together during his first two years in office by the global economic downturn and the collective effort to resolve it. 
