German parties on youtube: Which performance is most embarassing?

Everyone loves seeing politicians on youtube. My personal favorite is this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icOO7Ut1P4Y. German EU-commissar Günter Oettinger speaks English (better: tries to speak, even better: fails in doing so). Maybe he went to the same school as Guido Westerwelle (watch out for our post about the fake profile "Westerwave"). The video has been posted in blogs, on Twitter on Facebook and nearly every German knows it. Sometimes some politicians wish, youtube wouldn’t be the memory of every embarrassing performance.

But parties do also love youtube. They can upload videos of their greatest speeches, funniest slogans and most embarrassing performances of political enemies. Honestly, they concentrate on their greatest speeches, or what they think to be the greatest speeches. And sometimes it seems as if they'd simply upload every speech. The question is, do the voters love the parties who  love youtube?

Two years ago, the famous German magazine “Focus” has analyzed the youtube-situation on three pages with examples of awful youtube-performances. They come to the conclusion: Only printed election-programs are more boring. But what has changed since then?

Simple answer: It can be even more embarrassing. Believe it or not.

Just one example: election-songs. The CDU has called their song for the parliament in NRW: “NRW in guten Händen”. Honestly, I am not sure, whether they have asked Dieter Bohlen or Ralph Siegel to write the song, but the melody consists of not more than three different notes. The performer obviously failed in one of the first rounds of any of the hundred casting shows. Okay, it is not easy to write a song which includes words like “Nordrhein-Westfalen”. But rhyming “mehr” und “fair” in a political song is as cool as rhyming “Herz” und “Schmerz” in a love song.

But take a look on your own, here are the links for CDU, SPD, Green Party , FDP, Linke.

P.S.: Watch a Netherland's journalist becoming a youtube-star with the help of German chancellor Angela Merkel. He asked, how the hell she could give the job of the finance minister to Wolfgang Schäuble who has once forgotten 100.000 DM in his drawer. And please, if you watch it, look for Horst Seehofer, who is sitting at the left side, how he is actually smiling and then trying to have a serious glance.

By Ger_Watch