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...most accounts Schroder is nothing special. The New York Times referred to him as a "pragmatic centrist" in its lead editorial yesterday, while The Economist featured him on the cover last month with the headline, "Would you buy a used car from Gerhard Schroder...
...this question was an appropriate litmus test for Schroder's integrity or fitness for office, it may seem impressive that he could win by as wide a margin as he did--except for the fact that the new chancellor's necessary and sufficient selling point in Sunday's election was that he is not Helmut Kohl. Sixteen years is double the length of time any American president is allowed to serve (unless his predecessor resigns, of course) and was long enough to make people question whether or not democracy was still kicking in Germany...
...Schroder's election means, among other things, that the three major powers in Western Europe as well as the United States are now all governed by left-of-center leaders. Tony Blair, Lionel Jospin, Bill Clinton and Gerhard Schroder are all handsome, nice guys who want more than anything else to be well-liked, and who have succeeded in being well-liked enough...
...four of these men seem to get along well with one another. One only needs recall the happy shots of Clinton and Blair--in Ireland or London or Washington--or the smiley weekends Jospin and Schroder spent in the capital this summer to be convinced of their collective jocularity. In theory, it seems, the Western world has never as been as poised to act as a cohesive unit as it is today, at the close of the twentieth century...
...world leadership is the last thing young people expect from these four men. Jospin is excused to some degree because France's President, Jacques Chirac, is still largely responsible for foreign policy and Jospin is preoccupied with getting his own country back on track. But among Blair, Clinton and Schroder, the situation is bleak. And yet whom do we have to blame? I don't have faith in the slick sell of these career politicians, and I voted for one. And I probably would have voted for Blair and Schroder, too, if I had been in a position...