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Originally Posted by kagenaki koe
if you add that to the other nuts who think that we are slowly turning into Russia, then it would seem to me that there are a lot of people who failed Social Studies/History in american high school.
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Nooo, you can't turn into Russia! I mean, how should I read your posts in the future, since I can't read cyrillic?
Seriously, from across the pond this healthcare reform "debate" seems very exaggerated and quite a bit ridiculous - it's the silly season, right? Well, we have crocodile sightings at bathing lakes, you have sightings of black, democratic Nazis...
Of course, the euthanasia and Hitler analogies have been picked up by German media. - But let me assure you, they aren't anywhere near a major news topic, and are correctly being classified as "absurd" and the healthcare reform debate getting out of bounds due to the activities of calculating, conservative political forces. Critical coverage mostly concentrates on the fact that President Obama is forced to offer compromises on one of his central pre-election promises.
For those among you who understand German (or can make sens of Bablefish gibberish), here are soberly written articles from three well-respected German news authorities:
ARD:
Debatte über Obamas Gesundheitsreform eskaliert
Spiegel:
Obama kämpft für seine Gesundheitsreform
Zeit: Obama lenkt bei Gesundheitsreform ein