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Breaking: Merkel endorses Juncker! | 28 comments (28 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Breaking: Merkel endorses Juncker! (4.00 / 6)

Sorry for the MSM-style title...

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Wed Feb 20th, 2008 at 05:51:06 PM EST

Re: Breaking: Merkel endorses Juncker! (4.00 / 7)

For the record:

I don't like the President of the European Council post as currently set up. I'd prefer either a return to the old system (as one way to make citizens feel the EU "theirs") or a clearly chairman-of-the-upper-house framingof the post, WITHOUT a representative job.
Since the job as the Treaty ofLisbon frames it is what we have to live with, I have to think about candidates. I would like to see a Finnish candidate or the former Slovenian President on the job, but no one brought them into play.
Of the two names quote most often, I'd choose Juncker over Bliar in a heartbeat.
Paradox upon paradox: politics is about perceptions, and Merkel is powerful because she is considered to be powerful. And while Merkel also holds back from explicit statements to not give a perception of a major state dictating, onee of its effets will just be that many fellow heads of government will be/are waiting for her choice to align accordingly.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Wed Feb 20th, 2008 at 06:47:45 PM EST
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Re: Breaking: Merkel endorses Juncker! (4.00 / 2)

Junckaboom! Junckerama! Junckmentum!

Where's your motherf*%&ing flag pin?

by Drew J Jones (blahblahblah@blahblahblah.com) on Thu Feb 21st, 2008 at 10:20:00 AM EST
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