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| back from obama speech in berlin -- part 1 By Caliu - July 24, 2008, 4:41PM There has already been excellent commentary by Greg Sargent on the content of Obama's speech on TPM, so let me give you all the on the ground view. The security was intense, but the Germans managed to secure the area around Obama's podium and checked the bags and possessions of 200,000 (police estimates) of the attendees. We were asked to turn on digital cameras and telephones and the woman in front of me was asked to dispose of a tiny aerosol bottle. We waited forty minutes pressed against a fence and other people before we got through. Berlin's population turned out in all of its diversity -- punks with pink mohawks, a Turkish family with veiled mother, business women with four inch heels, and a large number of English speaking Africans --Kenyans??? Once inside the security lines, there was beer for sale, warm up bands and schnell imbiss, or all sorts of grilled meats sold from tents. Berliners know, after the World Cup 2006, how to throw an outdoor party at the drop of a hat. Unfortunately, The Rolling Stones' old favorite, Sympathy for the Devil was played, but no one seemed to notice because Europeans don't pay attention to English lyrics. Obama appeared at 7:15, and was eloquent, comfortable and relaxed. He was restrained in his address of the crowd, and emphasized the kind of liberal internationalism that made me think of the very best moments of the Cold War. He referenced the Berlin airlift a number of times, drawing a reaction from the older members of a very young crowd who had no particular memory of that moment in Berlin history. Obama, however insisted upon invoking that sense of place and history -- and the popular reaction was, I would say, hesitant, but positive. Perhaps it was because he gave the speech in English with no German translation...although it did seem as if everyone did speak a form of Euro-English or other. The crowd cheered his statements about cooperation and responsibility in dealing with situations like Darfur and global warming and were less enthusiastic when Obama invoked NATO and the war on terrorism. As the gigantic crowd broke up, one Scandinavian asked another behind me, "What did you think?" and the other replied, "He was very American." I couldn't help myself and said, "That is how we are, we Americans, we're very American." He laughed and said, "I guess the Swedish are very Swedish!" If the Europeans expected Obama to be European, then they must have been disappointed, but what he was, was something else, -- a poised, level-headed, powerful orator...an American, who could evoke his African roots in the same breath as his love of country. My son, who was a real hero and waited through the steam security line, and then for two hours for Obama to finally speak, asked me why he didn't say, "Yes, we can!"I tried to explain that that was something that he did in America, and that the Germans didn't really understand the chant, and that that idea of infinite possibility and optimism didn't translate into other languages. I would say, if there hadn't been two hundred thousand spectators that the Germans are reserved in their curiosity about and enthusiasm for this American, who is after all, so very American, but in this extremely international and cosmopolitan city, the very presence of African housewives, pressed against environmental activists, pressed again young professionals and the occasional football hooligan just goes to show how deeply Obama has resonated with all sorts of people, who find in his very public success as a US presidential candidate grounds for dreams of a different world. In that sense, Obama brought together one of the most diverse crowds I've ever seen in Europe and in his very presence at the foot of a monument whose historical significance he did not fail to cite, he is the very embodiment of that idea we call the American Dream. And in that sense, yes he can inspire us to imagine that we can be dreamers and thinkers, immigrants and fighters for social justice, black and white, Americans and Germans, looking for that critical slice of common ground that we have taken for granted and given up on.... |
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I absolutely will not be surprised to see Obama be assasinated. He will definitely be the most marked President in the history of the US.
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| Originally posted by Dj Smitty20 I absolutely will not be surprised to see Obama be assasinated. He will definitely be the most marked President in the history of the US. |
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| Originally posted by shaolin_Z Jesus Christ. The Obama boners are popping up globally now. *shakes head* People  . |
The Messiah!
It's getting a bit annoying seeing his face everywhere. People are just obsessed to much with this man. There is not much difference between McCain and Obama. So what is he saying that is so much different?
But I guess American politics have turned into a Hollywood movie.
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| Originally posted by Kapedano The Messiah! It's getting a bit annoying seeing his face everywhere. People are just obsessed to much with this man. There is not much difference between McCain and Obama. So what is he saying that is so much different? But I guess American politics have turned into a Hollywood movie. |
another crowd shot
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| Originally posted by Kapedano It's getting a bit annoying seeing his face everywhere. People are just obsessed to much with this man. There is not much difference between McCain and Obama. So what is he saying that is so much different? |
I can't wait until the debates. I highly suspect that Obama will destroy the old man.
but then again, I thought Gore completely trumped Bush in the debates eight years ago and we all know who won that election. Well actually we do don't we?
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| Originally posted by LazFX another crowd shot |
it's a famous picture and it is believed to be Hitler sometime shortly after WW1. I don't think it's ever been confirmed to have been him though.
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| You may remember that Obama has been rather critical of the role the private security firm Blackwater USA has had in helping to rebuild postwar Iraq. �I don�t believe that they should be able to run amok,� he told The Nation in March, �and put our own troops in danger, get paid three or four times or ten times what our soldiers are getting paid. I am the one who has been opposed to those operators.� Obama even suggested in an interview just three weeks ago with Defense News that Blackwater and other private security firms are �eroding the core of our military�s relationship to the nation and how accountability is structured.� Guess who provided Obama�s personal security detail during his trip to Iraw and Afghanistan? You can�t make this stuff up folks. And at U.S. News & World Report, Paul Bedard has Obama satisfied enough with the company�s expertise to say that �Blackwater is getting a bad rap.� |
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| Originally posted by Kapedano The Messiah! It's getting a bit annoying seeing his face everywhere. People are just obsessed to much with this man. There is not much difference between McCain and Obama. So what is he saying that is so much different? But I guess American politics have turned into a Hollywood movie. |
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| Originally posted by Krypton Point taken.. He has far more money, from GRASSROOTS supporters. He's characteristics are young, charming, charismatic. Some say like JFK. The hype surrounding him is unprecedented. He promises "change". Obama's campaign managers are PURE GENIUS. |
; what real change is this guy going to bring ?? lol hes full of it! not only is he a zionist but you do know he`s goin to keep using illegal wiretapping?
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| Originally posted by SiLveR_NrGy_985 JFk huh....? the man who was going to send soldiers to vietnam before he got killed ; what real change is this guy going to bring ?? lol hes full of it! not only is he a zionist but you do know he`s goin to keep using illegal wiretapping? |
Good article from the Washington Post
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| "Obama the Unknown" By Richard Cohen Tuesday, July 29, 2008; Page A17 "Just tell me one thing Barack Obama has done that you admire," I asked a prominent Democrat. He paused and then said that he admired Obama's speech to the Democratic convention in 2004. I agreed. It was a hell of a speech, but it was just a speech. On the other hand, I continued, I could cite four or five actions -- not speeches -- that John McCain has taken that elicit my admiration, even my awe. First, of course, is his decision as a Vietnam prisoner of war to refuse freedom out of concern that he would be exploited for propaganda purposes. To paraphrase what Kipling said about Gunga Din, John McCain is a better man than most. But I would not stop there. I would include campaign finance reform, which infuriated so many in his own party; opposition to earmarks, which won him no friends; his politically imprudent opposition to the Medicare prescription drug bill (Medicare has about $35 trillion in unfunded obligations); and, last but not least, his very early call for additional troops in Iraq. His was a lonely position -- virtually suicidal for an all-but-certain presidential candidate and no help when his campaign nearly expired last summer. In all these cases, McCain stuck to his guns. Obama argues that he himself stuck to the biggest gun of all: opposition to the war. He took that position when the war was enormously popular, the president who initiated it was even more popular and critics of both were slandered as unpatriotic. But at the time, Obama was a mere Illinois state senator, representing the (very) liberal Hyde Park area of Chicago. He either voiced his conscience or his district's leanings or (lucky fella) both. We will never know. And we will never know, either, how Obama might have conducted himself had he served in Congress as long as McCain has. Possibly he would have earned a reputation for furious, maybe even sanctimonious, integrity of the sort that often drove McCain's colleagues to dark thoughts of senatorcide, but the record -- scant as it is -- suggests otherwise. Obama is not noted for sticking to a position or a person once that position or person becomes a political liability. (Names available upon request.) All politicians change their positions, sometimes even because they have changed their minds. McCain must have suffered excruciating whiplash from totally reversing himself on George Bush's tax cuts. He has denounced preachers he later embraced and then, to his chagrin, has had to denounce them all over again. This plasticity has a label: pandering. McCain knows how it's done. But Obama has shown that in this area, youth is no handicap. He has been for and against gun control, against and for the recent domestic surveillance legislation and, in almost a single day, for a united Jerusalem under Israeli control and then, when apprised of U.S. policy and Palestinian chagrin, against it. He is an accomplished pol -- a statement of both admiration and a bit of regret. Obama is often likened to John F. Kennedy. The comparison makes sense. He has the requisite physical qualities -- handsome, lean, etc. -- plus wit, intelligence, awesome speaking abilities and a literary bent. He also might be compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt for many of those same qualities. Both FDR and JFK were disparaged early on by their contemporaries for, I think, doing the difficult and making it look easy. Eleanor Roosevelt, playing off the title of Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, airily dismissed him as more profile than courage. Similarly, it was Walter Lippmann's enduring misfortune to size up FDR and belittle him: Roosevelt, he wrote, was "a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for office, would very much like to be president." Lippmann later recognized that he had underestimated Roosevelt. My guess is that Obama will make a fool of anyone who issues such a judgment about him. Still, the record now, while tissue thin, is troubling. The next president will have to be something of a political Superman, a man of steel who can tell the American people that they will have to pay more for less -- higher taxes, lower benefits of all kinds -- and deal in an ugly way when nuclear weapons seize the imagination of madmen. The question I posed to that prominent Democrat was just my way of thinking out loud. I know that Barack Obama is a near-perfect political package. I'm still not sure, though, what's in it. |
If I were told, "Tell me one thing John McCain has done that you admire," I'de say, "...his flip flops, gaffs, and dirty campaigning."
I admire his sinister laugh
interesting... accurate??
Fact Check please
historically that map is quite accurate concerning free/slave states as the Civil War began.
I'm not sure about the current political map, but that does look legitimate doesn't it?
Very interesting, indeed.
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| Originally posted by Krypton This blog actually believes Obama is the Anti-Christ... CLICK |
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