One could easily imagine the more devout television evangelists rushing to the airwaves with apocalyptic warnings that the District of Columbia had become a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah, and that the president's moral lapses would cause the mighty American eagle to shed all its feathers.
On Greece's debt repayments, "I could imagine that we do something about the time frame, " German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on German television channel ZDF.