My night out with Joschka Fischer
After a very talkative coffee with Mrs P., I decided not to spend the night alone, but rather spend bits of it with Joschka & entourage, or rather, watch Fischer fishing on the marketplace. I've never been to a campaign rally thingummy before, and I guess it wasn't necessary either.
It was cold and rainy, for starters, and why should one stand outside in the cold (I'm somewhere to the right) to listen to a politician? Well it is different to see them live. Not to mention the enormous Joschka Head on the enormous green tour bus. Oh, and it was the official start of the campaigning, so all the props were still nice and shiny.
Mr. Fischer had quite an animated way to talk, sometimes scraping along on the very witty to one and the crude-jokey to the other side. I did enjoy his slightly nasty bashing of "our man" v.Klaeden (the local upstart MP who was inattentive during a reception we played at once tried to barbecue Big J on the visa enquiry and failed miserably), though. I didn't quite agree with some things he said, like justifying some military actions, but at least he made a clear stance against reactivating atomic plants, sucking up to Bush, abolishing the solidarity principle in health ensurance (meaning people with chronic illnesses would need to pay more - why thanks) and upping the VAT.
But to think that this was the still-most-popular politician and presumably best rhetoric in the country - hem, hem. I don't think I need to listen to the others, then.
Something I really liked, though, was the presence of a lot of old people who cheered him on. Old environmentalists yay!
I'm not sure whom to give my vote this time round, really, and I don't think the campaigning will help. As if except for the odd free sausage you get from the conservatives.
Actually, this day was supposed to be beaurocracy and organising day, and guess how far I got? Not even out of the house. But seeing as all the offices will be closed now anyway - anyone seen The Island? Is it worth going? And worth going alone at that?
It was cold and rainy, for starters, and why should one stand outside in the cold (I'm somewhere to the right) to listen to a politician? Well it is different to see them live. Not to mention the enormous Joschka Head on the enormous green tour bus. Oh, and it was the official start of the campaigning, so all the props were still nice and shiny.
Mr. Fischer had quite an animated way to talk, sometimes scraping along on the very witty to one and the crude-jokey to the other side. I did enjoy his slightly nasty bashing of "our man" v.Klaeden (the local upstart MP who was inattentive during a reception we played at once tried to barbecue Big J on the visa enquiry and failed miserably), though. I didn't quite agree with some things he said, like justifying some military actions, but at least he made a clear stance against reactivating atomic plants, sucking up to Bush, abolishing the solidarity principle in health ensurance (meaning people with chronic illnesses would need to pay more - why thanks) and upping the VAT.
But to think that this was the still-most-popular politician and presumably best rhetoric in the country - hem, hem. I don't think I need to listen to the others, then.
Something I really liked, though, was the presence of a lot of old people who cheered him on. Old environmentalists yay!
I'm not sure whom to give my vote this time round, really, and I don't think the campaigning will help. As if except for the odd free sausage you get from the conservatives.
Actually, this day was supposed to be beaurocracy and organising day, and guess how far I got? Not even out of the house. But seeing as all the offices will be closed now anyway - anyone seen The Island? Is it worth going? And worth going alone at that?