February 24, 2005
Germany Welcomes President Bush!
Charm offensive
The NYT notices a somewhat limited audience [register/sign-in: unknown/unknown] for Bush's good will tour: "The president was entirely sealed off from Germans—other than Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the German journalists at a news conference, and even a town-meeting-type encounter with Mainz residents was scrubbed out of worry the mood would be hostile."
An analysis inside by the Post by Glenn Kessler says the White House's "charm offensive" is obscuring the basic trend [ibid/ibid]: "European leaders are increasingly united against U.S. positions and feel emboldened to go their own way."
photo thanks joerg/ links via Slate's Today's Papers
~A different reading on those two words 'charm offensive', eh?
Posted by Cieciel at February 24, 2005 10:08 PM