Ring out the old, ring in the… old? Doesn’t he look a little like he had a hunch?
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Better Safe Than Sorry.
Besides, “Die Partei” clearly knows best how to protect expensive campaign material from vandalism…
A Future with Future.
To bad only 10300 people voted for “Die Partei” which was created by the editorial staff of the German satire magazine “Titanic”. I would have loved to seem in coalition talks. Their most important campaign promise was to rebuild the Berlin Wall. I suppose that might have suited at least the frustated Bavarians around Edmund Stoiber to some extent.
2nd price.
Gregor Gysi gets the second price in the category “most blatantly stupid campaign claim” for the line “Left policy deserves to be trusted because it means developing alternatives with the people.” The first price obviously goes to everyone depicted on a poster with the claim “better for the people.”
Property Issues
It’s a well known fact that property is not something people on the economic left have a lot of sympathy for. So it should not be too surprising to see that Oscar Lafontaine has appropriated Victor Hugo’s realisation that there are times when nothing is more powerful than an idea and put it on the poster in a way that looks lke it was his own… by the way, replying “we’re not mad” to his invitation (scribbled on the poster) was probably wrong – to some extent. While not as many people voted for the Linkspartei.PDS, it was still 8.7% (or 4,086,134 people) of Germans, 4.7% up from 4 years ago.
She never looked better.
Certainly not after the results were announced. Not even the little moustache someone painted above her upper lip seem to bother her. Stuff like that doesn’t bother people who have already discounted a clear-cut victory. However – losing bothers them. A lot. Return to this picture to see what I’m talking about when you’re watching the news these days.
They Could Not Get Enough…
votes to fulfil their most important campaign promis – turn the state’s campaign subsidies into a beer drinking orgy. Only 4220 people voted for the German Pogo Party, far too few to be entitled to state financing. But at least the guys put the pints down to put the posters up. I guess that’s democracy in action!
Too Much Red for a Brown Candidate
A cold shower before the photo shoot might have been helpful. Or Photoshop – edit, color balance. On the other hand, the worse the NPD’s posters look, the better.
Yes – to healthy food
This is one of the best campaign posters I have seen this year. The Greens definetely had the most creative advertisements, at least on the postters whithout candidates.
A Used Papamobil.
Netzeitung.de reports (in German) that 21 year-old Benjamin Halbe from Olpe, Germany, is selling his car on ebay. Not news, you think? Fair enough, but apparently, according to the car’s documentation, it previously belonged to Joseph Kardinal Ratzinger – although I’m not really sure about how Cardinals are supposed to handle personal property.
The new Pope supposedly used it to drive around incognito. I’m rather sure that will not be the reason for which the next owner will pay a significant premium for a used VW Golf.