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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,786 posts) Sat Mar 11, 2017, 07:34 AM Mar 2017

The leader of the free world is coming to Washington on Tuesday [View all]

If you would have told me I would be looking up to the German Chancellor as a beacon of light to the free world when I was a kid you could have knocked me over with the proverbial feather.

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The leader of the free world is coming to Washington on Tuesday [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 OP

Hand working, Focused, Persistent, Intelligent, Experienced, Thoughtful,Decisive delisen Mar 2017 #1

Hand working? yankeepants Mar 2017 #2

That too. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #3

. littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #22

The lady that wanted to starve Greece to protect German banks is hardly the leader of the free world Renew Deal Mar 2017 #4

she's the best we've got right now.... paleotn Mar 2017 #11

Thank you. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #13

That's a very simplistic statement. Greece had been bailed out before and nothing changed in their OnDoutside Mar 2017 #15

What's the consensus on Thump in Ireland? DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #16

99% think he's a "langer" (dick !), but you do get the odd surprising one who are racist like him. OnDoutside Mar 2017 #17

So according to you they deserved it Renew Deal Mar 2017 #18

Again, that's a very simplistic statement. The Greeks had already been through 2 Economic OnDoutside Mar 2017 #19

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit 47of74 Mar 2017 #5

I thought you meant Obama was going to visit greenman3610 Mar 2017 #6

He's already here. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #7

I hope she doesn't let him hold her hand. dalton99a Mar 2017 #8

Or give her a backrub . . . hatrack Mar 2017 #9

Hopefully she will not be BlueMTexpat Mar 2017 #10

My wife is German, and it has happened two years in a row to her, so who knows? DFW Mar 2017 #23

I am so sorry that this BlueMTexpat Mar 2017 #24

Both times were for completely bullshit reasons DFW Mar 2017 #25

Petty tyrants can be BlueMTexpat Mar 2017 #27

I rarely get harassed when I return here from the States. DFW Mar 2017 #29

True! BlueMTexpat Mar 2017 #30

Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2017 #12

True. Equinox Moon Mar 2017 #14

Did you catch what name removed wrote? DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #20

No, I don't recall what the post above mine was. Equinox Moon Mar 2017 #21

If she's coming to Washington she's probably on their side. Don't be deceived. caroldansen Mar 2017 #26

She's coming to save us from ourselves like we saved them from themselves. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2017 #28