Two different ways how to tell "I would leave"

On Sunday, sept. 27, while all other party leaders were commenting on Friday's and Saturday's election results, Slovak prime minister Meciar reminded silent. People didn't know where he was or what he was doing. His D-day came on Wednesday evening when he appeared in a regular TV programme What next, Mr. Prime Minister?
There was just one progovernmental journalist and him. After the short invitation he started talking and he didn't stop till the end. During his speech he accused Slovak people of choosing the worse way for Slovakia when they didn't vote his party HZDS. At the end of the "interview" he sang God bless you, I am leaving you, I didn't hurt any of you.
In Germany, the elections were held on the same weekend on sunday. After suffering a crushing defeat Chancellor Helmut Kohl unexpectedly presented himself as a cool and fair looser: "Being democrats, we accept the result. It has been a great time. Life goes on."
In fact Kohl's behaviour surprised many Germans, because they expected "His Eternity" to be smugger. "During the last few years he has become increasingly annoying, arrogant and grummy ", says Rudolf Augstein, publisher of the German political magazine Der Spiegel.
Susanne Fischer from the weekly paper Die Woche reproaches Kohl for showing himself as an egoist. "He tolerated growing social injustice in Germany. Now he simply leaves his legacy to his suceeders."
This is great opportunity to compare the behaviour of two defeated politicians. Their attitude says a lot about their professionalism. While Mr. Meciar refused to meet any journalists. Mr. Kohl played fair. We can be pretty sure he was upset inside, but he didn't decide not to talk to media, because politicians simply can not do that.
Journalists have the right to ask anything. It is up to politicians how they answer. It means, Mr. Kohl didn't do favours, when he talked to journalists, he just covered out his duty. Mr. Meciar didn't do that. Then we have to ask a question. He was ruling Slovakia six years from 1992 untill 1998. How could he do that, if he now doesn't feel any responsibility to the media or the Slovak people?
Daniel Domanovsky