in protest against the status quo; Schröder was (probably) on his way out as chancellor, and the political classes were headed for weeks of confusion after a snap election he had called himself. Looking for \"clarity,\" he\'d delivered his nation into the fog. Embarrassing, right? But there was one thing for Schröder to celebrate, and he was giddy with it on television just after the polls closed: Angela Merkel hadn\'t won. Of course, strictly speaking she hadn\'t exactly lost either. But just weeks before the election pundits and pollsters were still expecting her to wipe the floor with Schröder. Schadenfreude over her failure to do so affected the chancellor like cocaine.
In fact he was so high on life during the election night debate, that FDP liberal party leader Guido Westerwelle asked Schröder on live TV if he had been drinking. The chancellor has since officially stated that he hadn\'t touched a drop, but has admitted that his excitable behavior was slightly irregular.......
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