Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, is the world’s most powerful woman. (3rd year in a row)

Merkel’s first foreign trip took place on the day she was sworn in as Chancellor, and went to Paris for a meeting with the then French president, Jacques Chirac.
Source: wikipedia.org Angela_Merkel

So much for a baited question that implied visiting foreign countries to meet foreign leaders is a qualification because he obviously knew that her trip to Kuwait was the only time she had been to a foreign country!

I think it will suffice without my making any editorial comments!

Compare and Contrast:

Gibson Obama interview after his nomination for President, a job he had been seeking for over a year
Source: abcnews.go.com/print?id=5000184
How does it feel to break a glass ceiling?
How does it feel to “win”?
How does your family feel about your “winning” breaking a glass ceiling?
Who will be your VP?
Should you choose Hillary Clinton as VP?
Will you accept public finance?
What issues is your campaign about?
Will you visit Iraq?
Will you debate McCain at a town hall?
What did you think of your competitor’s [Clinton] speech?

Gibson Palin interview after her nomination for VP, a job she only learned she would have 10 days before
Source: elections.foxnews.com/2008/09…with-abc-news/
Do you have enough qualifications for the job you’re seeking? Specifically have you visited foreign countries and met foreign leaders?
Aren’t you conceited to be seeking this high level job?
Questions about foreign policy
-territorial integrity of Georgia
-allowing Georgia and Ukraine to be members of NATO
-NATO treaty
-Iranian nuclear threat
-what to do if Israel attacks Iran
-Al Qaeda motivations
-the Bush Doctrine
-attacking terrorists harbored by Pakistan
Is America fighting a holy war? [misquoted Palin]

I can guess what Clinton spent the bulk of his time and energy studying abroad.

I hereby introduce “Link’s Rule”:

“Every political website has its troll.”

Breathless coming from “The One”.

ESPECIALLY since B. Hussein Obama TOLD us, in front of all those Germans, that he is a citizen of the world. If so, why would he choose the U.S. first?

What a fraud.

“It takes a Potemkin Village”, I guess…

Oh, BTW, learn to spell “one.”

Oh, and he bans people who challenge him after he insults and attempts to put them down, posturing as ‘above it all’ in the process. He bans them from his New West Notes, which given the plethora of California political sites available, means rather not a lot, or bans them from his own forum, in which I’ve seen fully 50% of the comments come from none other than Bill himself (some ‘dialogue’, eh?), most of them little more than single-sentence factoids and/or puerile snark.

The psychology of the crackberry party appartchik gadfly is a truly bizarre thing to behold.

So, why don’t we have a little fun and review this summary of the ‘even-handed’, above-the-fray commentary Bill Bradley engages in.

Here’s what he thinks of his co-authors on PJM:
”They pay me for the privilege of having me on the network. In fact, I just gave the CEO of PJM shit again for never correcting that idiotic Ledeen “report.”

Here are a few examples of the ubiquitous ‘I know so-and-so’ braggadocio in which he engages:
”I introduced Roger to my old friend Steve Schmidt”

“Now grow up, get some sources, and learn. I have sources in the Middle East.”

“You should be able to meet SOMEBODY in Hollywood.”

“What you should do is work in some actual campaigns before pretending like this.”

“Not that Ragone can’t be a total pain in the ass. Trust me, I know. But how would you know?”

“Julia Rosen, DO NOT start with me … Do you know how nice I was to you last year?”

‘You may have heard of him. I’m sure you’ve never met him … John Edwards.”

“Jim Webb is a personal friend of mine.”

He seems to be enamored of his computer skills. In this current thread he makes a point of noting his text-message skills, and constantly makes comments like these:
”Incidentally, I published several thousand words of real time blogging during the convention. I’m the only one who uses a wireless handheld so I don’t have to go off somewhere to write about what happened.”

There are literally thousands of examples Imperial Bill — just perusing a single thread of his on NWN demonstrates this, but here is a demonstration of a particular subset:
”You guys are fairly pathetic, you know … This is a very small blog. It usually has few to no comments.”

[It doesn’t seem to occur to BB, however, that spending a lot of time on someone else’s ‘small’ blog posting factoids and defending himself when someone impugns him is rather small-minded for someone who imagines himself a political goliath who got Arnold elected, and possibly John McCain, as well .... Doesn’t this pattern sound familiar? Is it predictable what will happen after he reads my commentary?]

And of course, his everyday ‘above-the-fray’ commentary such as:
”Have a nice day, chump.”

And finally, crème-de-la-crème, is this post, in which he reveals one of his MOs, which he ridiculously thinks is quite clever:
”See if you can grasp the concept … You use a CONSERVATIVE source, i.e., Dick Morris, to advance your own thesis that a liberal candidate is strong. Try it sometime.”

Now consider Bill’s last post quoting Rich Lowry regarding Sarah Palin.

I’m sorry, this guy is a weasel. A ‘professional’ who spends so much time posting factoid corrections and tracking down the IP addresses (and therefore the geographical locations) of people on PJM strikes as rather adolescent, and a bit nutty, as well. Something tells me that authors such as Victor Davis Hanson, for instance, don’t spend much time worrying about everybody’s IP addresses and where they live. What’s your excuse, Bill? Do ‘professionals’ try to track down personal information about their readership in order to ‘set them straight’? Or do true professionals have a thick enough skin to take criticism in all its guises, and the courtesy to stay off of other authors’ threads?

Sigh. But go ahead and ban me from NWN’s drive-by factoids. You go right ahead ….

darn, I wanted a lying book burning creationist with a scandal in office on day!