"But Obama's a socialist and an elitist,..."
That's what I said. here's some of what The Guardian said:
"After Obamas speech to an estimated 200,000 Germans in Berlin , a columnist for Britain s Guardian newspaper began his review this way: Barack Obama has found his people. But, unfortunately for his election prospects, they're German, not American.--
Obama's speech to the Germans left much to be desired, from an Americans perspective.
For starters, the crowds size was beefed up by the fact that the event was billed as a free rock concert for German citizens, with popular musical performers helping to draw the big crowd. Scant U.S. media even noted the warm-up rock draws of reggae artist Patrice and rock band Reamonn.
Then there was the simple stage, with the podium surrounded by three potted plants. Missing was the American flag -- nowhere to be seen. Perhaps Obamas staff might consider the U.S. flag offensive.
And then there was his speech, in which he proudly proclaimed he was in Germany as a a fellow citizen of the world.--
And there was the spectacle of the presidential wannabe going to a foreign land to apologize about the United States .
Obama told his German audience he was sorry about his country because I know my country has not perfected itself.-- [This comment was made in the former seat of Nazi power. A letter to editor published in Obamas hometown Chicago Tribune noted the irony: While America may not be perfect, there is no reason to apologize to the Germans, architects of the Holocaust.--]
As for America s role in saving Germany from the onslaught of Stalinist communism and the subsequent Cold War, there was nothing.
There was a rhetorical flourish about the Berlin Wall coming down, but nothing about the great American sacrifice, not to mention how our military might made President Reagans call -- Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev-- -- a reality.
There was a fleeting mention of the famous Berlin airlift of 1948 that President Truman ordered to thwart the Soviet blockade that sought to starve West Berlin .
As Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby wrote, Obama seemed to go out of his way not to say plainly that what saved Berlin in that dark time was America 's military might.
Save for a solitary reference to the first American plane, he never described one of the greatest American operations of the postwar period as an American operation at all. He spoke only of the airlift, the planes, those pilots. Perhaps their American identity wasn't something he cared to stress amid all his people of the world salutations and talk of global citizenship.--
The Hollywood-staged Obama event for a man who has yet to ascend to the presidency didnt sit well with all the Germans. Germany s Stern magazine carried the headline "Barack Kant Saves the World."
One of their columnists, Florian Gssgen, wrote: "The man is perfect, impeccable, slick. Almost too slick Obama's speech was often vague, sometimes banal and more reminiscent of John Lennon's feel good song 'Imagine' than of a foreign policy agenda.".......
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"John McCain is Everyman like his hugging buddy George W. Bush.........."
No he isn't, the only thing he has going for him is that he AIN'T Obama.
