(Reuters) – President Barack Obama invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit Washington this year, the White House said on Wednesday in a brief statement about a phone conversation between the two leaders.
The visit would give Obama a chance to make amends after revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency had been monitoring Merkel’s cellphone.
Here’s how it went down:
Well, maybe that’s how it went. The end.
Elizabelle
That’s hilarious.
Redshirt
Time for some apology back rubs!
Jebediah, RBG
@Redshirt:
One of the many reasons I am glad to have Pres. Obama instead of W – far less chance of horrible, cringe-inducing embarassment.
Violet
Ha ha! Funny. Angela Merkel fractured her pelvis skiing over the Christmas/New Year holiday. Wonder how soon she can travel.
PurpleGirl
LOL. Hilarious.
BGinCHI
How do you say “uppity” in German?
KG
I don’t care if that’s not how it went, that is how I am going to believe it happened and nothing you could say will change my mind, even if you gave me the official transcript.
KG
@BGinCHI: I’m guessing what ever the German word is for either Polish or French?
pat
unverschaemt??
ruemara
No wonder the blog is littered with these Rand Paul ads.
Citizen_X
@BGinCHI: Untermenschen.
[/Godwin]
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: Hochnäsig.
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
Oder, dreist.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Schnippisch?
ETA: And pretty much exhausts my stock. My German was never that good, and it’s been years since I used it.
srv
Since Americans are incapable of making good dramas (Vince Gilligan and David Simon notwithstanding) and just remake foreign films, why doesn’t Speilberg remake the The Lives Of Others with a domestic twist?
Then we can all heart for the Cointelpro folks.
Redshirt
Will Merkel still be in power in 2017? I’m looking forward to a “Brightly Colored Pant Suits” arms race between her and Hillary.
srv
@Omnes Omnibus: Schticken up esel
Betty Cracker
@srv: I’ve always meant to see that and somehow never have.
Redshirt
For example: PANTSUITS!
JPL
@srv: That was such a good movie and I’d wouldn’t mind a remake. Before the Christie kerfuffle, my son and I had an interesting discussion about the late sixties and seventies.
Jay C
Thanks Betty: this was a genuine LOL moment….
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: It has to have at least 29 letters of unconvincing. Just look at the word for “fire truck.”
BGinCHI
@Betty Cracker: It’s damn good.
maya
Schwarzenegger
Amir Khalid
@BGinCHI:
Feuerwehrfahrzeug isn’t even all that long as German compound nouns go. How about Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz?
schrodinger's cat
@Redshirt: How have you been? Have missed you around these parts.
kindness
Still better than dubya. He’d a had the NSA go over and give Angie a good molesting.
Redshirt
@schrodinger’s cat: I’ve been missed? *blushes*
I’m good. Hope you are too.
I’m sick of politics.
chopper
@BGinCHI:
“üppity”
debbie
@BGinCHI:
This is why I loved German movies. You could leisurely read the subtitle each before the next one appeared.
Baud
Very funny, BC.
Roger Moore
@KG:
FTFY.
Gene108
The Christie Bridgehhazi scandal gives me hope that the crooks in today’s GOP are far more bush league than the professional criminals in the previous administration.
They learned from their predecessors mistakes in Watergate and Iran-Contra and avoided leaving behind any kind of paper trail and ever testifying under oath about anything.
I believe Bush, Jr and Cheney never sent an official e-mail from their government ID’s in 8 years.
Roger Moore
@BGinCHI:
Google offers “hochnäsig”, “hochmütig”, and “schnippisch” as possible translations.
Eric U.
@Gene108: I had a friend that told me everyone he knew in Texas voted for the most obviously corrupt person. Because corruption was granted, but the obviously corrupt people were more likely to get caught
TaMara (BHF)
Win! Made me smile.
catclub
@Gene108: Didn’t Bush also change the rules on presidential Libraries to increase the secrecy factor?
SRW1
@KG:
parvenu??
Mnemosyne
@BGinCHI:
Is schwartzer only Yiddish, or also German? It’s hard to tell since Yiddish is such a polyglot language.
Cain
@Violet: I hope the NSA helped, and called emergency services for her!
bewleys
You people need help……where do you go from “apologists”? “Dream Weaver”….
“I’ve just closed my eyes again…Climbed aboard the Dream Weaver train…Driver take away my worries of today….And leave tomorrow behind…”http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/gary+wright/dream+weaver_20188680.html.