German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she hoped that incoming US President Barack Obama will consult and cooperate with his international partners, and took a swipe at the unilateralism of George W. Bush by saying no country can solve the world’s problems on its own.
“I hope our cooperation will be characterized by listening to one another and taking decisions on the basis that any one country can’t solve the world’s problems on its own, but that we can only do it together. And I will meet him in that spirit,” Merkel told Germany’s ARD television on Tuesday ahead of Obama’s inauguration.
She said Obama’s inauguration as the first black president of the US was “a truly great hour for America” that offered “a multitude of opportunities.”
It’s worth noting that Merkel is a conservative, and is the leader of Germany’s “center-right” government. She’s another name on a long list of friends and allies excited for change in American foreign policy.
But what kind of back rub does Obama give?
The DOW and NASDAQ continue to tank ON OBAMA’S WATCH! However, I see some short-term buying opportunities (including Wells Fargo).
Welcome to the real world President Obama.
He is looking mighty gray and humble these days. He is starting to understand he has only so much control…and is mainly a cheerleader to get folks to start spending again.
Pelosi is his biggest problem.
It’s already started with raising taxes on “wealthy” and “prosecuting Bush”.
Pelosi is the PROBLEM…not the solution.
They do say that the market is always looking to the future.
They look forward to an Obama administration because they know he’ll fold as quick as he can. Merkel et. al. will soon sucker us into bailing them out too. They wouldn’t try that with a Republican administration.
I just called the mortgage company and my mortgage hasn’t been paid off yet. I voted for Obama! Where is my miracle? DAMN IT! I KNEW I should have voted for McCain.
The market has spoken. 332 point crash. Change indeed.
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she hoped that incoming US President Barack Obama will consult and cooperate with his international partners,”
Hopefully the International partners mentioned in the quote are not expecting to use the United Nations which is a total failure as evidenced by the Hamas in Gaza firing rockets from United Nations offices and warehouses.
Just saw a photo of Michelle Obama’s Inauguration dress. Who shot the curtains? Oh, wait. That’s a Klingon battle dress.
8 comments, 6 trolls. Some things just don’t change.
@2: cynical
Every post you put out shows how STUPID you are: the Dow is tanking becuase of the ineffective and pathetic policies of the last 8 years – Obama has just started cleaning up the Bush mess.
@4: You really are a MORON. It was Bush who wasted 1 trillion on an unneccesary war and ruined the economy. Have you forgotten already?
Yeah – Bush was really great a rallying the world – AGAINST us – with his pathetic policies. Europe is looking forward to an ADULT in the white house.
@9
Oh we are just getting started. This is going to be a FUN four years!
“They wouldn’t try that with a Republican administration.”
My God, what an idiot!!!! Obviously he hasn’t been paying attention over the last eight years. But then again, rational thought and attention to facts has never been among his tool-set.
The DOW is always looking to the future!
INVESTORS DON’T LIKE WHAT THEY SEE COMING DOWN THE PIKE!
This is the beginning of a new error. Get ready to hand over your money and get ready to get your change. Yes we can!
And Cynical @ 2 and “Right Side” @ 6 are busy blaming Obama for today’s stock market performance, even though he hasn’t even gotten back to the Oval Office yet!!!!
These were the same morons (or ones just like them) who argued, just a handful of months ago, that any economic problems encountered this year were the fault of Clinton, over eight years ago, or even Carter, almost thirty years ago – ignoring all the Republican presidents in-between.
Your hypocracy is duly noted. If, after eight years, the DJIA has a net loss of over 20%, as does the Bush administration, then you can have grounds to gripe about his handling of the economy. But until then, your complaints will sound like the bleating of sheep.
And the new anthem:
God Damn America
Wow. We’re really hearing from the “angry right” in this thread.
Must be tokin’ on the Limbaugh.
@16 – that must be your anthem – you and the last 20% of Bush supporters. The right wingnuts are going crazy – serves them right. Their hero Bush just about ruined this country – until we (as a nation) collectively woke up and kicked the republicans to the curb.
Note how long the wingnuts waited to proclaim the Obama presidency a failure: on this thread alone, less than three hours. Previous threads gave him even less time.
They are just making fools of themselves.
I see that Cynical is suffering from depression again. It’s probably nothing to do with Obama. Far more likely he’s depressed over riding Wells Fargo from $23 down to $14 and change. Sucks to be him, I’m sure. I bet he still holds JRCC at $4. Alas, he never did figure out what a stop loss order is all about. Too bad. So sad.
Merkel is also a trained scientist (a physical chemist) who probably is relieved she won’t be inappropriately touched by the US President the next time there is a summit.
Whitehouse.gov is finally a website worth visiting and staying a while.
Only one of many positive changes to come I trust.
Tlazolteotl @ 21
I heard rumors that you were a trained scientist as well :) Merkel has a doctorate in quantum chemistry, which is pretty impressive. She is also a fluent Russian speaker, and once won a prize in her state for that when she was younger.
Did you notice Michelle Obama giving George W a kiss on the check, or something like that, before the Bushes went off in the helicopter? I didn’t catch the interaction between Laura and Barack, but it was probably slightly more restrained.
HA HA HA! LOL LOL LOL! The right wingers are going nuts. All they have going on is hate. They’re beside themselves. Their puny little heads are about to pop off their fat necks! I love this I love this I love this shit!
I love watching these America – haters show their true colors. It’s funny.
They got boned in the ass on Nov 4 and now they realize their nightmare has only begun.
Keep up the attacks you America-hating right wing fools. All you’ll manage to accomplish is getting the rest of America to vote Dem!
Keep it up. I dare you!
You are all so fucking impotent. How’s it feel to be bent over by an entire country bitches?
I am LAUGHING at you punks! HA HA LOL HA HA LOL!
Oh the shame and misery you must be feeling! What a great day! I revel in your pain!
The rather wierd part about that walk out to the chopper was that the Bushes looked really happy to be getting the hell outta Dodge.
Center/right in Germany is left/center in the US politically. She’s a smart woman surrounded by smart people. Merkel’s finance minister, Steinbruek makes Paulsen look like the complete fool he is. Too bad the corruption on Wall St., including peddling junk as AAA securites has infected the German economy….just one more kick in the teeth to our international friends. One more fence to mend.
@24 right on! Eff the effin rightbats. What kind of idiot would listen to anything uttered by one of those shits. We’ve got eight years of their disastous data to quote.
ArtFart @ 25: Really, Bush never expected to have to work this hard. He never had to work hard at anything before. He never stuck with anything more than a few years. And everyone patted him on the back, and said he was a chip off the old block, until he started really screwing things up lately. I’m sure he wants to get back to Texas where he can surround himself with folks who will by sympathetic towards him.
I heard a commentator bring up an amusing point. All those right wing commentators that savaged anyone who criticized bush because this is a time of war, I would hope they are not hypocrites and now start criticizing Obama. I hope they live up to the values they want others to follow.
“I’m sure he wants to get back to Texas where he can surround himself with folks who will by sympathetic towards him.”
Highly paid to do so, no doubt.
28 Don’t hold your breath, John.
Может и банально, но просто хотелось сказать спасибо автору. Обычно посетители заваливают своими проблемами и вопросами, а спасибо нынче не в ходу, чтобы не посчитали комментарий за спам. Но поверьте, спасибо иногда говорить надо.
Hey Goldy,
The guys who DOS’ed HA.org are at 31.
so tell me, since american foreign policy is controlled by aipac/tel aviv, witness iraq war to destroy one of israels enemies, and the coming iran war, how is the world going to embrace oabama’s policies when they will then be the same as george bush’s.
At least that stupid fuck Bush did one thing right…
The asshole left on time!
@33 Woman of falsehood
Guess maybe you did no pay attention to the entire last election – Obama was the candidate that was against the war in Iraq from the beginning. so much for your puny theories.
Just seeing if I can post again. Wasn’t workin’ for me this morning.
Yays, Success.
Merkel is most likely looking FORWARD to not having to deal with an undignified baboon AKA the U.S. Commander in Chief!
Bush Creeps Out German Chancellor, Controversial Footage
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTQY1Aw9zcs”
I hope someone put the dog collar on Obama/Chimpy/Hitler/Cokehead and led him outside the Oval Office so he’d do his business on the lawn instead of on the carpet.
38 – What kind of right wing pit of despair are you in?
Freaking sad.
Whassamater YLB? You guys dish it out but can’t take it, eh?
“Bush= addict, his daughters are whores, ad nauseum”.
Being on the receiving end doesn’t feel like fun, does it? You guys forgot: “What goes around, comes around”
Does Obama get his little girls in bed and play Doctor?
@40 “Does Obama get his little girls in bed and play Doctor?”
You trolls project too much. And the only thing you “dish out” here are endless clues as to how totally fucked up you are.
I guess any of the halfway reasonable wingnuts have decided to go away in embarrasment after the losses they suffered in the last election, not to mention the total repudiation of their political and economic philosophy by the collapse of the economy and their own administration throwing away even lip service to conservative values in a desperate attempt to plug the holes in the dikes.
That just leaves the totally irrational ones who resort to crude name-calling before the Presidency is lest than 24 hours old.
Bush and his administration earned quite a few of the nicknames he was called here by the acts and policies of his administration. Some of the nicknames were clever, some were crude.
But Troll’s pathetic attempts here are just juvenille, albeit with racist overtones. I suspect he’s about 10 years old and just wants to get attention.
Edit function not working – I meant to refer in #42 to John425, but it seems to apply to Troll as well.
@42:
Pathetic excuse and very silly!
WHAT A GOOD JOB OBAMA, SPEND OUR MONEY,HE OVERTURNED THIS,HE IS SUCH A PUPPIT!
“The policy bans U.S. taxpayer money, usually in the form of U.S. Agency for International Development funds, from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion. It is also known as the “global gag rule,” because it prohibits taxpayer funding for groups that lobby to legalize abortion or promote it as a family planning method.”
GO BILLARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!