Germany’s Chancellor Minister Gerhard Schroeder has launched his re-election campaign with the expected primary theme of “America is Evil and to blame for everything wrong in Germany”. This is expected to play well to the German citizenry, since nothing is worse for them than being reminded of external reality. Schroeder is clearly playing the people who want to just make the rest of the world go away. Medienkritik has a post on this well worth reading.