"McCain braucht Sarah Palin als Krankenschwester"
Translation: "McCain needs Sarah Palin as a nurse"
Rough translation of portions of the hilarious article below the fold...
Welt Online
Briefly before the Party Congress of the republicans John McCain looks for a new strategy. With its vice-candidate Sarah Palin he seems to have found it: It sets on women. Their task is it not to let its team up to the choice look in such a way as if consist it of a betagten senator and hyper+active nurses.
With the rifle to deal they can do all. Many are millionaire inside, often from own achievement. All have like their leading candidate a vein for the unusual. On Friday 72 years old the war hero John McCain become surrounds itself with stood women, around Barack Obama up to the choice day to 4. To make November the American Wählerinnen estranged. If one takes the reaction of the Fernsehreporterin Andrea Mitchell to McCains newest Mitkämpferin Sarah Palin to the yardstick, the image change could perhaps succeed.
Sarah Palin, 44, mother of five children between eighteen years and three months, is to become vice-president of the USA, if McCain wins. At this moment it is still for Gouverneurin from Alaska, nine flying hours from Washington distant and thus far away from George W. Bush and its unpopular policy. McCain presented Palin on Friday of an astonished public. The reporter Andrea Mitchell let acknowledgment, nearly to admiration for the particulars, see through and something wants to be called. Because Mitchell is the wife of the legendary earlier head of the Central Bank Alan Greenspan. It belonged to the core that Washington society and is not easy really to impress..
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I'm not sure what's more funny. How the Germans see this selection of John McCain's running mate and how it reflects upon him. Or how the Germans see Andrea Mitchell.
I just thought we could use a little comic relief for a moment.
I don't speak a word of German, and I used Word Lingo translator to translate parts of this news article because I wanted to see how the world looked at this. I was pleasantly surprised at what I saw.
If you want to go to the website and continue to translate the rest of the article, feel free.
[Updated] to try to clean up a bit of the translation. Again, I don't speak German, but I think it's not that hard to get the gist of it...
[Update 2] I left the original translation since some of you found it pretty funny.
This isn't great, but a better translation
h/t RickBoston
On the eve of the Republican National Conventionm John McCain is looking for a new strategy. With his Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, he seems to have found it: It centers on women. Their task is to make sure that between now and the election that they do not look like an elderly Senator and a frisky nurse.
They can all handle weapons. Many are millionaires, and boast of their achievements. Each one has their own peculiarities, just as at the top of the tickets. John McCain, the war hero who turned 72 on Friday, is trying to lure away from Barack Obama the votes of accomplished women in the November 4th Election. If the reaction from [hack] reporter Andrea Mitchell to his new running mate is any indication, the image change could well succeed.
Sarah Palin, 44, mother of five children between eighteen years and three months, will become Vice-President of the USA, if McCain wins. At the moment she is Governor of Alaska, a nine hour flight from Washington, and thus far away from George W. Bush and his unpopular policies. McCain introduced Palin on Friday to an astonished public. The reporter Andrea Mitchell betrayed what was almost admiration for [Palin's] personal details, and that says something. Because Mitchell is the [over the hill] wife of the legendary [sic] former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. She is a Washington insider, and therefore not easily impressed [sic].
Note: Anything is square brackets is my addition.