Out of ideas and without any hope of a last minute hate-America hail-mary pass or flood disaster to rally the party faithful à la Gazprom Gerhard Schroeder, the SPD gets destroyed in German elections. With just 23% of the vote, Schroeder wannabe Steinmeier and company will be riding the back benches for quite a while with any luck.
Now maybe Americans can start loving Germany again. Above are just a couple reasons to be happy the SPD will be out of the picture for a good long time.
Endnote...Tom Lantos must be smiling in heaven today...
It will be interesting to see how Merkel gets on with Obama from here on out. Needless to say, the Social Democrats will no longer be running the Foreign Ministry.
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