Berlin – You can’t help it: Annalena Baerbock became the target of two defamation campaigns over the weekend. First came Bild am Sonntag, which embarrassingly responded to the cancellation of an interview by printing a blank page with the words: “This would have been your page, Ms. Baerbock!”
Apparently, the newspaper is not aware that it is harming itself, because many are celebrating the green top politician for not having given the picture an interview. She has shown her backbone, that is precisely the quality that her two competitors so painfully lack in the race for chancellorship, each in his own way: Scholz in dealing with Wirecard and tax money and Laschet in dealing with flood victims and in general.
The second campaign comes from Bavaria, the Land of Söders, the Despised: Rental car provider Sixt had Baerbock’s likeness printed on advertising posters with the corners of his mouth pulled down, on which it says: “You don’t like to use your own?” With this, the company advertises its cars on the one hand and, on the other hand, annoyingly remembers the thousandth Time to think that Baerbock should have copied for her book. The spicy thing about it is that shortly before that, Sixt also made a major donation to the CSU, over 120,000 euros.
Again and again it is now said in panel discussions that the parties had simply put up the wrong candidates, which is why the election campaign is going so badly. That may be true for the CDU and SPD, but slowly the suspicion arises that the Greens, on the contrary, have exactly the right candidate.
Anyone who gets so much unjust headwind, who has to be accused of every little mistake in contrast to much larger political misconduct by the competition over and over again, is probably quite afraid – that he or she will change something in this country. As an environmentalist, wife and mother, also comparatively young, Baerbock puts her finger in four wounds in Germany, the sustainable theming of which probably does not suit the mighty old men. And then she’s also combative. In some circles of power – despite Baerbock’s bad polls – this combination seems to trigger great concern if such actions are deemed necessary despite the Greens’ own mistakes.
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