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Originally Posted by ikalugin
I mean considering that she was chancelor for about the same time Putin was president it is not surpring that this took its toll.
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You mean Putin is to blame for it
just kidding
Well Putin (66) seems fitter, though he's older than Merkel (64)
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It is amusing though how her supposingly center right christian democrat party appears to be nothing of those things.
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Politically center maybe though some would deny, right definitely not.
(She just incorporated all the SPD's ideas and made it her own, leaving the SPD without any wind in the sails..)
Giving fugitives shelter is a deeply christian notion. And she has been elected democratically.
Unless someone screwed with the elec.. wait ..
Edit: but you are right, the recent CDU is very different (read: more 'left') to the one of, say, 1990. On the other hand, the SPD under chancellor Schroeder did make a hefty right-shift back then. The SPD is now struggling to find is identity - back to the roots or forward to face a new situation.
The SPD and Otto Wels was the only party which stood up and voted against the NSDAP and Hitler in 1933.