... mit sofortiger Wirkung!*

[oloriel]

One of my mother's childhood stories is how she came home from school one day and her neighbour was leaning out of the window and shouted "The pope is dead!"
And my mother went "Hah hah, yeah, six weeks ago."

The year was 1978 (how I wish I was in Sherbrooke now --- sorry), and there was, indeed, a papacy that lasted just a few weeks.

Seen like that, one and a half years of federal presidency don't look that shabby anymore, I suppose. But my goodness, we're rather going through heads of state right now, aren't we? Not that it's a genuinely important post, but it's still looking... odd. Instable, sort of. Banana republic.

I guess the funniest thing is that when Wulff was elected, there were many comments along the lines of "Yeah, he's boring, but at least he's too boring for scandals." Oh, hindsight!

And that's really all I've got to say on that topic, because I cannot even express how disinterested I am. Shame on me, yeah, I know, but... well. It's only the head of state, not the head of government, after all... ^^

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*Very often, I find it hard to come up with a subject line for my posts. This time, the only trouble was deciding for one.

Comments

[laurenia.livejournal.com]

well. It's only the head of state, not the head of government, after all... ^^

This. Though it is somewhat sad, isn't it? :D

[allie-meril.livejournal.com]

I *wish* we had separate head of state and head of government. One reason why we can't get anything done now: the GOP is to busy hating everything Obama does, determined to block any Democratic moves. *sigh*

[http://users.livejournal.com/macalla_/]

Ich hab sooooo genug von all den Korruptions-Skandalen. Unsere Herrn Politiker geben sich ja da auch die Klinke in die Hand ...
Und da wundern sie sich über die Politikverdrossenheit der Menschen hier. Wenns doch eh egal ist, wen ich wähle, weil sowieso alle ihr Amt bloss ausnützen ... was soll ich dann noch wählen gehen?