UNA BUENA CHICA:

Christian Democrats feel wind 'behind us' (Judy Dempsey, 5/24/05, International Herald Tribune)

For the first time a woman will run for chancellor, the country's top political job. Even more unthinkable, it will be the opposition conservative Christian Democrats and even its more conservative sister party, the Bavarian-based Christian Social Union, who next week will nominate Angela Merkel, 50, to run against Schröder.

"There you are: Now what does that say about Germany?" said Matthias Wissmann, European Union affairs spokesman for the Christian Democrats. "Merkel will be our candidate. The wind is behind us. The winds of change are beginning to blow across Germany."

A mighty wind...

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 23, 2005 11:29 PM