Reader Marika Buchberger found this in her email. It’s from a float that was on display in Düsseldorf during Rosenmontag just before “Super Tuesday” this year. Exactly why the Germans are so into our election needs discussion.
Clarificarion by Michael Auerswald who adds a link to the key slideshow highlighting this float here.
There is a similar inexplicable (at least by me) obsession with U.S. politics, specifically the Democrat Party.
I have not been able to turn on the TV news here in Spain for the last month or so without at least one mention of Clinton or Obama. They always find something to say. Yet there hasn’t hardly been anything on McCain or any of the other Republicans; (absolutely nothing about Ron Paul.) No Bob Barr either, not even sure how to translate Libertarian.
Some German T.V. shows make it here to Spain. There’s one about a police dog, and another with thirty-year-old actors playing slutty high school kids. So maybe Europeans have more in common with Americans than you might think.
BTW, on that float, Hillary should have been in a pant suit.
#9 – Mister Mustard
LMAO
I wonder how he’s doing up there in northern Pakistan.
What do you mean why they’re so into elections?
What about the US? Oh wait, they just overthrow governments instead of being into other elections.
“Exactly why the Germans are so into our election needs discussion.”
Okay. How about the fact that every other country on the planet takes an interest in things outside their own borders, while the U.S. media never gives a damn about anything if it doesn’t directly involve the U.S.? The U.S. media has its head up its ass consistently and continually; and the uninformed American public is evidence of this. Ever watch “JayWalking”?
The U.S. is allegedly *the* superpower of the day (China will join the club in its own good time, and Russia’s bucking for re-entry). If I lived outside the U.S., I’d sure have an interest in whoever gets elected… I’d want to know who would be coach of the all the superpowers’ teams when worldwide scraps take place.
There are things that are happening outside the borders of the United States, but people who rely on U.S. news media to tell the story get a very biased and one-sided view.
#25 – OvenMaster
Come on… people want to hear simple explanations… such as “The reason the terrorists attacked us was because they hate our way of life.” Don’t bother about the background story…
Silly me. What was I thinking.