Merkel: Fischer knows what to do - and when will she learn what she has to do? Namely, just keep her mouth shut? This inflated moral posturing of the Union is simply ridiculous. When has a Union minister ever resigned due to their own misconduct? I mean without the public prosecutor already at the door. None come to mind spontaneously. At most, those who were ousted due to internal Union leadership squabbles - which doesn't really count. This absurd hopping around as if the Union suddenly had a monopoly on morality is simply absurd.
It is particularly absurd when you look at the hounding by Koch in the S.-H. election. That is simply disgusting. With such inflammatory speeches and such a ridiculous understanding of democracy, voters are driven into the arms of the right - after all, they are hardly distinguishable from a Union under people like Koch and his like-minded colleagues ...
One does not gain moral authority by simply claiming it. One might gain it if one refrains from transferring 20 million in black money abroad under the guise of donations from Jewish war victims and then, as compensation, merely ousts a few older politicians who were only in the way of one's own career ...