Talk:Oskar Lafontaine

Bild newspaper (Marriex)

Hi Marriex,

while Bild has historically be rather anti-left, that does not automatically make it right wing. It very much lacks the traditional right-wing anti-semitism, for example, and it has been rather friendly to Schröder through much of his tenure. Guest editorial are written by politicians from all major parties, as well as from unionists and managers. So I really think that populist (and pro-establishment) is a better term than right wing. --Stephan Schulz 10:03, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

The Bild-Zeitung is considered right-wing (which is in fact a problematic term) and that is why Hans-Jochn Vogel for example is so outrageous. Moreover I think populist and pro-establishemt is a contradiction. But to resolve the dispute I will change the text. Marriex 10:12, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Populism and pro-establishment are very much compatible if most of the population (for some reason or other) mostly supports the status quo. Populism and interlectualism are usually contradictionary. I looked at your edit, and while it qualifies right-wing somewhat, it also makes the text more cumbersome. Maybe we can come up with a better solution? --Stephan Schulz 10:32, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Lafontaine`s New Party?

The Linkspartei isn`t Lafontaine`s new Party. It´s a new party for all left people (Socialists, Communists, Christians, Jewsh, foreign population, Germans, ...). But it`s not the party of Lafontaine.

No, mainly it's the party of the former SED-Members. That's a fact. I think you can call the party Linkspartei Lafontaines party. In Germany many folks believe that if Lafo leaves the party, the Linkspartei will die. He's the important leader of the party. You know, he's the chairman of this party and he founded it. But you shouldn't forget: When the "Linkspartei" was "founded" 52.000 people comes from the communist PDS and the 7.000 people from a very small party called WASG. --80.128.96.132 23:17, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Excuse me, but.. "former SED-members" presupposes, that there are still masses of old SED-members existing. In the same way you could propagate, that the german conservatives (CDU/CSU) is a party of former NSDAP-members an Nazis. Just dumb. :-) --78.46.33.233 (talk) 08:55, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

~30% are former SED Members.... -- 87.182.125.23 (talk) 23:59, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't think that "many folks" is a verifiable source. Also, the PDS has been a highly pluralistic party, with only a minority being communist.

Criticism

Apparently, the FAZ article given as a source in the fourth annotation has been misunderstood. Lafontaine's fellow Linkspartei politician Gregor Gysi coined the phrase in response to the criticism mentioned, not Lafontaine himself. http://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gregor_Gysi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.245.71.38 (talk) 20:49, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

Has cancer

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,662018,00.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.20.178.167 (talk) 19:36, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Neue Freundin?

See your article on Sahra Wagenknecht. How does this relate to the information about his marital status? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.162.253.101 (talk) 20:03, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Nothing about Assassination Attempt?

Who attacked Lafontaine? Why? What happened? Isn't this something you should include in the article?

Sorry, I'm not an English Native speaker: Should Oskar Lafontaine (and Wolfgang Schäuble) be in the *Assassinated* German politicians category? They both survived the assassination attempt. 77.1.234.48 (talk) 10:55, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

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Sons

has two sons by his second and third wives...

I think that it is meant that there are only two sons in all, but, at least to a native speaker of English, there could be four sons, two by each of these wives. Clarification would be valuable. Also, names and dates of birth for these young men would be nice, as I am sure that such are fairly readily available in numerous reliable German-language sources, but my own German skills are too marginal for this to be a viable project for me to undertake. 72.105.6.185 (talk) 23:20, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

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