Germany “gears up” for the Obamatacular.
“So the madness is underway. Superstar, Kennedy or Messiah, call him what you will (and he has been called all those things by a reverential press here), Obama has touched down in Berlin,” Harry de Quetteville wrote in the UK’s Telegraph.
Like rabid concert-goers however, the majority of people (who knows how many? Police reckon it could be anywhere between 10,000 and, er, a million. Only a couple of zeroes leeway then…) will be turning to the giant screens – four of them – erected on Berlin’s equivalent of the Mall, to follow proceedings. [...]
And instead of a million adulating fans hearing a message of deliverance from the Bush era, the best thing for all those Berliners who want to see Obama in the White House might be for thin crowds giving him a sceptical reception. A bit of heckling perhaps. The odd protest banner.
Will that happen? Not a chance. The atmosphere is already expectant. The roadies have already erected the stage. The helicopters are in the sky, tracking the scene. All it needs now is for the crowds to begin to assemble, to form that mass pedestrian unity that hums with excitement on the way to a big football game or a major pop concert.
Obama has arrived, and it’s only rock and roll, but they like it.
Obama’s $5 million Olympic-sized political ad buy Obama’s Olympic flip-flop “refinement”: First we learned that Sen. Obama’s campaign had officially joined McDonald’s and Anheuser-Busch as early TV sponsors of NBC Universal’s Olympics coverage from Beijing beginning August 8.
Thank goodness, Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has put this Obama “refinement” into perspective:
Just a couple of weeks ago, Barack Obama reiterated his position that President Bush should boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. Specifically, he criticized the administration for not being “aggressive in encouraging the Chinese government to make serious concessions,” and that in the absence of progress Obama would not have attended. However, as Ad Age reports, Obama has no problem sponsoring the opening ceremonies and the Games.
President Obama: MSNBC’s Howard Fineman wrote July 22, 2008:
[The] American people may be repelled at the sight of a man touring the planet in presidential style who has yet to even be nominated by his own party. There is something a little off about Obamapalooza, even if it is not entirely the candidate’s fault. The self-conscious mimicking of J.F.K. can be cloying or even worse. Kennedy went to Berlin in the midst of a Cold War crisis. To stand at the Brandenburg Gate and declare “Ich bin ein Berliner” took enormous guts. Obama has yet to match that fortitude — and he hasn’t been chosen president. However quaint it may seem, voters may want a say in that decision.
The ChiTrib’s John Kass also gets it right.
“According to a Rasmussen poll, half of all Americans believe the media will favor Obama in their news coverage leading up to the November presidential election.
Sadly, that half of Americans is wrong once again.
Because the election is over, isn’t it? Obama is president, all we’re waiting for is the transcending, when a beam of light shines on Chris Matthews’ face, carrying him to the heavens, smiling, that tingle running down his leg.”
Kyle-Anne Shiver at American Thinker has more.
Iraq: Ed Morrissey at HotAir has video and commentary on Obama re-writes history of “without preconditions” again and Obama vs McCain on the surge.
USA Today asks “Why can’t Obama admit the obvious? The surge worked.”
Afghanistan: Juan Cole at Salon opines that Obama is saying the wrong things about Afghanistan—”his plans for that other war could mean trouble,” Justin Raimondo at Antiwar.com explains why Afghanistan isn’t “doable”; and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said “she would resist any pressure to send more troops to Afghanistan during talks Thursday with US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.”
There’ll be no new troops sent to Afghanistan this year. There aren’t any to send.
Israel: Gateway Pundit provides an update on the Messiah in the Holy Land; Obama’s failure to “ensure Israel … that there will not be another Holocaust; and his denial that he flip-flopped on Jerusalem.
Sister Toldjah writes “What a complete spectacle”. ST and many others have the story and photographs of Obama campaign banners at the Western Wall in Old Jerusalem. Shameful.
Iran: Time for “saber-rattling”: Scott Johnson at Power Line exposes another Obama lie (and, yes, it has come down to counting the lies)—Obama’s time to rattle the saber at Iran has arrived, and his various “refinements” can be viewed here.
Obama Campaign $$$: Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs, hot on the trail of another Obama foreign contributor, asks who is Ronald Hickel? And Judi McLeod at Canada Free Press discusses bundler Robert Wolf, CEO of UBS Americas, the “skeleton in Obama’s money closet”.
Getting in Obama’s way? Not a good place to be!: Jay Nordlinger at NRO commented: “Many people have remarked that John McCain has come in for less-than-glowing media treatment, where he was once a great media pet. Why is this? Well, the main answer seems clear: Back then, he was in the way of George W. Bush. Now, he is in the way of Barack Obama.
Same thing happened to Hillary Clinton, as a matter of fact.”
NewsBusters’ Warner Todd Huston has more on the Obama gaffe-o-matic.
Sen. Obama, you’re unelectable (and an illegitimate candidate)
Obama’s foreign “policy”
Obamaviks
Obamaganda
PUMA/Just Say NO DEAL
Rezkobama
Courtroom Coverage
Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.--Thomas Jefferson.
