With great pleasure, I am going to explain the fifth picture. It shows one of the umpteen themes of the Shrove Monday procession in the city of Mainz, February 2005, when Angela Merkel (Germany's present Federal Chancellor) was opposition leader. In contrast to the then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, she approved of Bush's Iraq war. This is what the majority of the German people call sycophancy or, more drastically, bum licking.

[WIEDER-ERÖFFNUNG]
REOPENING
German Christian-Democrat (CDU) Opposition leader Angela Merkel is shown climbing a ladder into Bush's butt above which hangs a sign "Re-Opening."
A text accompanies the float:
"Angela is Glowing in the End / George Bush Remains Pre...

With great pleasure, I am going to explain the fifth picture. It shows one of the umpteen themes of the Shrove Monday procession in the city of Mainz, February 2005, when Angela Merkel (Germany's present Federal Chancellor) was opposition leader. In contrast to the then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, she approved of Bush's Iraq war. This is what the majority of the German people call sycophancy or, more drastically, bum licking.

[WIEDER-ERÖFFNUNG]
REOPENING
German Christian-Democrat (CDU) Opposition leader Angela Merkel is shown climbing a ladder into Bush's butt above which hangs a sign "Re-Opening."
A text accompanies the float:
"Angela is Glowing in the End / George Bush Remains President / She Feels Like in a Honeymoon / We Wish Her Good After-Noon."
"Published on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 by Agence France Presse

Although, as a North German Protestant, I don't get much out of Catholic carnival revelry, I appreciate the carnivalesque caricatures of politicians and their politics. Children and fools speak the truth, don't they?
Alaaf! Helau!