I base my comment on the now most probable result.

Most people in Germany (and in many neighbouring countries) will not be happy at all with that choice. The German conservatives will be particularly unhappy. Bush gives being conservative a bad name. Kerry would have been a guy slightly right of the middle of German conservatives, a guy to their taste.

Some people in the German government are happy now without showing it. Kerry perhaps giving the UN the opportunity to take over in Iraq would have made it extremely difficult for Germany to say NO to German soldiers in Iraq. With Bush, that's easy. So one worry is off their souls now.

Wolfgang (being a bit tongue in cheek in the second paragraph)