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Again and again, Frau Merkel — previously regarded as an uncertain public performer — threw the Chancellor on the defensive.
Twenty million viewers watched as Herr Schröder struggled to regain the initiative in what increasingly seems to be an unwinnable election. “You cannot seriously believe that 5 million unemployed is satisfactory,” she blurted into the middle of a long list of the achievements of the Social Democrat-Green government.
“You are just talking down Germany and that is so dangerous!” replied an obviously bruised Chancellor. Frau Merkel made a direct appeal to the German people: “We need a new mentality. We have to say what can be done instead of why things cannot be done.”
The 51-year-old physicist’s debating success rested on her ability to suck the Chancellor into detailed discussion of tax regulations and deny him the chance to pose as a statesman.
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