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The biggest newspaper in Europe—and one based in Germany, no less—has just endorsed G.W. Bush for US President.
Bild Backs Bush
Bild believes Bush will be better for Germany
Europe’s top-selling newspaper, the German tabloid Bild, endorsed George W. Bush for US president Tuesday, saying he would do a better job fighting terror and wouldn’t ask Berlin to send troops to Iraq.
Germany’s Bild Zeitung deemed Bush a known quantity in Europe, and said he had a better sense than Democratic challenger John Kerry of what Washington could expect from its transatlantic partners.
“Bush knows that Europe and Germany do not have the military capacity for a significantly larger commitment of troops beyond their current deployments abroad,” Bild journalist Hugo Mller-Vogg said in the editorial, echoing sentiments expressed by others as well.
“Thus he will not request a contribution,” the former publisher of the respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung continued. “But Kerry would do just that—and add a further burden to the already damaged German-American relationship,” he addedin what a spokesman said was likely the first US election endorsement in Bild’s 51-year history.
Notice how Bild ju-jitsus Kerry’s supposed strength and uses it against him. It’s precisely because Kerry has the mistaken notion that the US can demand more troops from Europe, that Bild opposes his candidacy.
(Hat Tip to Andrew Breitbart. )
Readers of my friend, National Review Online columnist Cathy Siepp’s weblog have seen this:
I went to see Ann Coulter speak at a Wednesday Morning Club dinner Friday night at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. It was fun because I ran into friends I don’t normally see at these things, including Andrew and Susie Breitbart, and bloggers Vik Rubenfeld and Moxie, who came with blog constant commenter Robert "Handsome Bob" Light. ( A friend, calling up the next morning to hear how the dinner was but who always gets annoyed when I talk about bloggers, yelled, "Moxie and Handsome Bob? Who are these people? Professional wrestlers?" ) Andrew and Vik and Moxie are shooting a short documentary called "I Am a Liberal," a parody of those "I Am an American" commercials.
We shot this over the past few days, and it was just a blast.
More info to follow
