Chancellor Angela Merkel Just paid America a Visit, does anyone Care?

7. June 2011
The President said the biggest economy in Europe is coming to Washington to visit, and brings them in the caravan, with almost half the cabinet. You will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the country. And there is a state banquet at the White House. Barack Obama's time in office that honor only the President of India, China and Mexico had been given. In the American media, but the day was the arrival of the chancellor and her husband Joachim Sauer hardly read a word or hear.

Germany, which is from an American perspective, is currently a dangerous bacterium on German bean sprouts, the first Berlin innocent Spanish vegetable farmers have moved to the tomato and cucumber. And Germany, which is an energy and nuclear policy, castigated by even the liberal-left daily newspaper "Washington Post" in a comment recently as strange that climate damaging and "driven by panic" was.

After all, a local newspaper brought in the "Embassy Row" a note on the visit of the Chancellor - next to the message that Prime Minister Bruce Golding of Jamaica is currently in Washington. The news channel CNN believed already in April knowing that Mrs Merkel's visit would be "the first of a German head of state" since the state visit of the then Federal President Richard von Weizsacker in 1992. Leaders of parliamentary democracies are often confused in America because we are so used to the presidential system, chaired by the President at the same time the government. From the White House itself was nothing to hear in advance about the visit Mrs Merkel - there was none of the usual background interviews for the press corps, no interviews.