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2005-08-19 Europe

Schroeder mourns huge SPD member loss one month before elections

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Posted by Fred 2005-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 boohoohoo. poor me.

quit picken your nose a**hole and STFU.
see ya would't want to be ya.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-08-19 01:03|| 2005-08-19 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like to me that they do see the need for reform - and you're #1 on the list, SchrÃ¶der. Buh fucking bye, asshole.

Posted by .com 2005-08-19 01:29|| 2005-08-19 01:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah! two experts on German politics, just so you know he will probably win again as no one wants Angel Merkel to be the boss, the only reason the SPD has lost supporters is not because of the SPD agenda its because of the Green Party side of the partnership and thats why the SPD will disconnect from them

Posted by Alex 2005-08-19 02:10|| 2005-08-19 02:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually the losses SPD have had are to more left wing parties. I think you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-19 02:22|| 2005-08-19 02:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Bye-bye asswipe. I could have told ya it takes more to make a political platform than a diametric opposition to the U.S.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-08-19 08:10|| 2005-08-19 08:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Great, more pull for the terrorist Joschka.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-19 08:16|| 2005-08-19 08:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh gee, do I listen to Alex or TGA?

Ooooh. tough one.

Thank you sooo much for your Kool Aid assessment, there Alex. Take another swig - you're gonna need it.

Posted by .com 2005-08-19 17:29|| 2005-08-19 17:29|| Front Page Top

#8 The SPD has lost voters because they have not been doing what workers expect of the SPD... but it STILL failed. It has enacted reforms that are timid steps in the right direction (even the latest issue of the Economist acknowledges that), but those reforms don't create jobs because they have done little about taxes and social contributions. They are half baked and inefficient. Germany is still a nanny state but with less money and more absurd bureaucracy to distribute the money. Its problems can be fixed though. The Greens have little to do with the anger against the SPD because the Green have had an astonishingly low profile in the government.

The Left Party is catering to those who either just wanna stick it to the SPD but could never vote CDU or who seriously believe in (national) socialist lalaland. The realists will vote CDU the true believers in a free market and self responsibility will vote FDP.

My first election prediction:

CDU/CSU: 44,5%
FDP: 6,5%

SPD: 30%
Greens: 8,5%
Left: 7,5%
Other: 3%

Posted by True German Ally 2005-08-19 22:14|| 2005-08-19 22:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Rhetorical question, TGA, for those of who remember when you found us. You the man

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-19 22:31|| 2005-08-19 22:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Its not reform, Gerard, when the solution to the probs of already democratic socialist Germany is more problematic Socialism and the taxpayer-supp heavy bureacracies and regulations that go with it. Germans = Japanese = realize the true threat from Radic Islam and anti-US agendists > want their nations to help - read, FIGHT - more in the WOT!? Is the BundesWehr an Army of Germans, or an Army of Yahoos whom foolishly want to believe its only the Americans they're after?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-08-19 23:02|| 2005-08-19 23:02|| Front Page Top

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