You're right, Merkel does her job very good (although I only lived in Germany during Schroeder), but she's not the typical good feminine traditional woman (unlike Palin, who is obviously having a hard time now)....no wonder they call Merkel the "Iron Lady"...I mean, she studied physics!! Good for her, but I'm friends with some that studied science, and many of them are very much on the liberal feminist side with very little emotions. Real women do much better behind the scenes....