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GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA Merkel has been named as Forbes’ most powerful woman in the world for the sixth year in a row.
Merkel topped the influential magazine’s table, which weights money, media presence, sphere of influence and impact.
They called Merkel the single world leader able to defy “existential economic and political challenges to the European Union” and praised her for keeping the EU standing.
Her successes on the one hand to convince ailing EU brethren such as Greece and Spain to aspire to German fiscal and legal logic, and on the other hand to persuade Germany’s own constituents and political egos to buy in to her solutions, is illustrated by a European Union that in 2016 remains standing.
Merkel beat Hillary Clinton, who is in second this year. Even becoming the first major party nominee for US President was not enough for Clinton to unseat the German leader.
The top 10 was:
There were no Irish entries on the list.
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Bernie…Bernie come back ..we’re sorry don’t leave us with this muppit….
@David cotter: if it was Bernie v Trump…then Trump would definitely win…. he’ll probably win anyway but Bernie would make it a certainty.
@SFAnkleTapper: Trump would disagree with you. He’s on tape as saying Sanders would have beat him in 2016 and a lot of Trump voters would have voted for Sanders also.
@SFAnkleTapper: What on earth are you talking about? Every single recent poll has Bernie Sanders and Biden both beating Trump in a general election. Not even Fox News has Trump winning.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/
@Benedict XVI: would they be the same polls that had Hillary as a shoe in? Btw I’m no Trump supporter.
@Corporate capitalism is killing us: your actually using Trump as a basis for a credible story….
@SFAnkleTapper: Biden is a bumbling clown who needs to retire, check his gaffes on YouTube. Bernie would be far stronger them sleepy Joe.
@SFAnkleTapper: Biden’s greatest strength is that it is Trump he is going to be running against. Trump makes Biden’s weaknesses less blatant and Biden is a clear contrast to the type of president Trump is. If it was Biden competing against any other candidate, then I wouldn’t bet on Biden. But with Trump anything is possible (both for Trump and against Trump).
@Benedict XVI: Don’t believe those polls and don’t be taking it too serious. You are most likely going to be disappointed when the results come in.
@SFAnkleTapper: Even though it hurts me to say this,i agree with you in saying that Biden has a much better chance than Bernie.Where I won’t agree with you is dissing the polls that Benedict put up,Trump is not up against Hillary this time.Also,he’ll struggle in the Rust Belt..
@Corporate capitalism is killing us: brilliant, Trump saying that was to try to further divide a very fractured democrat party not an actual acknowledgement that he could have lost.
@David cotter: Bernie is from Ireland? Or do you watch the West wing too much
I thought Democrats where bad when they selected Hillary Clinton as there presidential candidate 4 years but they’ve really outdone themselves this time round
America always gets the politicians it deserves.
@David Shiels: This is a recurring theme for you, am I right? For the record, I like Joe Biden. I would have preferred Bernie.
@David Shiels: Like us? Haughy, Cowan, Ahern, Adams etc.
@Kevin O’ Brienhttps://youtu.be/-rUvUxynOgk
@Macus Mc Mahon: ok
Sanders making a habit of giving up. His voters must be p*ssed off at this.
The only way Biden will win is if he has a decent vice president nomination or if the trump brigade give up on their chosen one. Biden has completely lost the left and continues to put his foot in it further.
@Gerald OBrien the left have lost themselves
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