In Germany, Obama urges closer U.S.-Europe ties

All the haters here are just that, they hate the fact that their candidate does not even come close to Obama's integrity and respect here and abroad. You can't deny that he is Presidential material, so hate all you want, you are just ignorant fools who supported the worse President in US history. W has done nothing like this in over 8 years in office. Republicans are shaking in their boots because they know what's about to come.

Mary wrote:

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So, you are one of the cult members, eh? One of those that wants high taxes across the board, wants to cozy up to the UN, have a weakened defense and military, wants those high tax dollars redistributed. Wants a President that IS a black liberation ultra liberal street activist with very shady questionable associates and an angry Marxist wife? You are one of those uh....or is it you just become weak in the knees whey you Messiah speaks and loose all sense of reality? Which is it?

Actually, he will strengthen the army by using them wisely for the REAL war in Afghanistan to get bin Laden. He will LOWER taxes for most people - only those who make $250,000 a year will see any tax hikes and middle class households will get an average $1,000 break! Marxist? Black liberation? Are you nuts? If you think that a post-traumatic stress disorder and senile McCain administration will do anything but send us further into a recession you need to put your kool-aid down and start watching a different new network. 200,000 people didn't stick around on a hot evening after 2 free concerts because they were afraid to be rude - they were there because they wanted to see the person who as next POTUS could return international respect for our country and its actions. We had that kind of support after 9/11 but W. Bush squandered that with this unfounded war and occupation of Iraq, complete disregard for the Geneva Convention and bullyish attitude. We should be grateful that Obama as a citizen of this country was able to hold the attention of 200,000 foreigners and represent our country so eloquently.

Enough wrote:

Face it. It's not about Obama it's about a change in America. We are suffering because of Bush's arrogance and his followers, who sought economic gain via the Iraq war.
Radio stations bragged about destroying Iraq within 10 days and taking control. Unfortunately, it wasn't so easy. We have certainly turned the world against us.
Hopefully there won't being any cheating of American votes this presidential election year.
Bush never demonstrated experience to me. Cockiness just isn't professional.
We need a leader who truly cares about all Americans.
America wake up and start praying for our leaders. No matter who takes office.

Bingo!!

osamabama, we're onto you boy

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/20...

Reality Check wrote:

There was 2 very popular German Music Bands opening for the Media Rock Star Obama. Also did you know that he didn't even go & visit the wounded soldiers at the Military Hospital there? This empty suit has no experience to lead this great Country. Anybody who votes for this guy is a Sheep following the bias media. His judjment on his Pastor, & friends is reason enough to never vote for him.

And let us not forget that the much touted (by the media)Oregon speech of Obama ALSO had free bands playing....

Obama's campaign is getting too plastic, everything choreographed like a movie script.

Anybody notice Obama's lack of eye contact while on this trip? He looks down, away from the other person.

In this German speech Obama talked about is his father's side of the family. Just a brief mention that his mother was born in middle America (never mentioned his mother's family) but mentioned his father,paternal grandfather and paternal great grandfather.

Hmmm, did any of his paternal family give child support, provide a solid education, pay for housing, food, clothing?

This lack of acknowledgement for what his mother's family did for Obama is poorly acknowledged.

And finally, no matter what other countries' inhabitants think and want; it will be the American public that will decide who will be president.

This trip did not give Obama the creds he was looking for TOOOO STAGED!! Fraudulent

Extra Tickets Available Who wants to go with me?......... I have 4 extra tickets for the Robbie Knievel event at Omaha Quest Center Arena this weekend if anybody wants them.He's going to attempt to jump 500 Democrats with a bull dozer. It should be a very enjoyable show!

Steve in Wellington wrote:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/n oel-sheppard/2008/07/24/will-m edia-report-concert-obamas-ber lin-speech

More right wing hate and BS. Go listen to your Rush tapes.

Joe Reed wrote:

All the haters here are just that, they hate the fact that their candidate does not even come close to Obama's integrity and respect here and abroad. You can't deny that he is Presidential material, so hate all you want, you are just ignorant fools who supported the worse President in US history. W has done nothing like this in over 8 years in office. Republicans are shaking in their boots because they know what's about to come.

You must be a Homosexual because you are backwardly confused.

Mama to an Aspy wrote:

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Actually, he will strengthen the army by using them wisely for the REAL war in Afghanistan to get bin Laden. He will LOWER taxes for most people - only those who make $250,000 a year will see any tax hikes and middle class households will get an average $1,000 break! Marxist? Black liberation? Are you nuts? If you think that a post-traumatic stress disorder and senile McCain administration will do anything but send us further into a recession you need to put your kool-aid down and start watching a different new network. 200,000 people didn't stick around on a hot evening after 2 free concerts because they were afraid to be rude - they were there because they wanted to see the person who as next POTUS could return international respect for our country and its actions. We had that kind of support after 9/11 but W. Bush squandered that with this unfounded war and occupation of Iraq, complete disregard for the Geneva Convention and bullyish attitude. We should be grateful that Obama as a citizen of this country was able to hold the attention of 200,000 foreigners and represent our country so eloquently.

It is great to read a well written, well thought out post instead of all the right wing crap.

Mama to an Aspy wrote:

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Actually, he will strengthen the army by using them wisely for the REAL war in Afghanistan to get bin Laden. He will LOWER taxes for most people - only those who make $250,000 a year will see any tax hikes and middle class households will get an average $1,000 break! Marxist? Black liberation? Are you nuts? If you think that a post-traumatic stress disorder and senile McCain administration will do anything but send us further into a recession you need to put your kool-aid down and start watching a different new network. 200,000 people didn't stick around on a hot evening after 2 free concerts because they were afraid to be rude - they were there because they wanted to see the person who as next POTUS could return international respect for our country and its actions. We had that kind of support after 9/11 but W. Bush squandered that with this unfounded war and occupation of Iraq, complete disregard for the Geneva Convention and bullyish attitude. We should be grateful that Obama as a citizen of this country was able to hold the attention of 200,000 foreigners and represent our country so eloquently.

Obama is a millenial marxist.

and 20 years of attendance in Trinity church and he didn't KNOW what his racist preacher, mentor was saying ...wow, what boldface audacity to think the American public actually believe that.

The republicans have a poor candidate in McClain.

Both parties screwed up their nominations, but the democrats threw Hillary UNDER the bus, brutalized her and made her an extremely viable candidate for 2012!

The US has defended those foreign countries with the blood of Americans and supported those countries with the dollars out of the American's pockets in aid.

And just tired of hearing Obama's comments how unperfect America is.

The last person who wanted to rule the world who spoke at this site was a little Austrian with socialist ideas. Maybe history is repeating itself.

I'll bet Germany hasn't seen such fawning/mass hysteria/cult of personality since....

Hitler.

Only Hitler didn't need teleprompters.
Ever see Obama without one? He's about as eloquent as George Bush.

Obama....thinks...that...if... he.......speaks...in...long... sentences--with unnatural pauses...people...will...assum e...he's...a....deep...thinker ....

Not...all...of...us...have...b een...
suckered....period....

...who did Obama open for?

The Scorpions?

David Hasselhoff?

Typical...the article fails to mentione the reason for the large crowd. Obama's speach took place AFTER some of the largest musical ats in Europe.

if you wonder what obama does in germany: you can thank the people who always said that obama is too unexperienced to do foreign politics.
and now its probably the same people complaining because he proved he could...

btw mccain or bush wouldn't have that much fans in germany. especially because mccain is in the same party as bush. and bush stands for brainlessly attacking countrys - and when he's finished euroep has to clean the mess up...

Breaking News/Updates
Updated at 10:45 a.m., Thursday, July 24, 2008
Obama addresses huge, adoring crowd in Berlin
Associated Press
BERLIN — Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama today summoned Europeans and Americans together to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.
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Obama said he was speaking as a citizen, not as a president, but the evening was awash in politics as the first-term U.S. senator sought to burnish his international credentials for the fall campaign at home. His remarks before a crowd estimated at more than 200,000 inevitably invited comparison to historic speeches in the same city by Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
Now a presidential candidate himself, Obama borrowed rhetoric from his own appeals to campaign audiences this year in the likes of Berlin, N.H., as he spoke in one of the great cities of Europe.
"People of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment. This is our time," he declared.
"The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand," Obama said, speaking not far from where the Berlin Wall once divided the city.
"The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christians and Muslims and Jews cannot stand," he said.

Obama's speech was the centerpiece of a fast-paced tour through Europe designed to reassure skeptical voters in the U.S. about his ability to lead the country and take a frayed cross-Atlantic alliance in a new direction after eight years of the Bush administration.
Republicans chafed at the media attention Obama's campaign-season trip has drawn. Presidential rival John McCain went to a German restaurant in swing-state Ohio, and said he'd like to deliver a speech in Germany, but as president not candidate.
In Die Welt, the German publication, Rep. Thaddeus McCotter, R-Mich., wrote scathingly of the Democratic candidate and his views on Iraq and the rest of the world: "No one knows which Obama will show. Will it be the ideological, left-wing Democratic primary candidate who vowed to 'end' the war rather than win it, or the Democratic nominee who dismisses the progressing coalition victory as a 'distraction'? Will it be the American populist who has told supporters in the United States that he will demand more from our allies in Europe and get it, or the liberal internationalist hell-bent on being liked in Europe's salons?"
Obama met earlier in the day with German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a discussion that ranged across the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, climate change, energy issues and more.
Knots of bystanders waited along Obama's motorcade route for him to pass. One man yelled out in English, "Yes, we can," the senator's campaign refrain, when he emerged from his car to enter his hotel.

For his speech, Obama drew loud applause as he strode confidently across a large podium erected at the base of the Victory Column in Tiergarten Park in the heart of Berlin.
The crowd spilled away from the Column for blocks. Police spokesman Bernhard Schodrowski said there were more than 200,000 people, nearly three times the 75,000 Obama drew in Oregon this spring in his largest previous audience.
He drew loud applause when he talked of a world without nuclear weapons and again when he called for steps to counter climate change.
Obama mentioned Iraq, a war he has opposed from the start, only in passing. But in discussing Afghanistan, he said, "no one welcomes war.... But my country and yours have a stake in seeing that NATO's first mission beyond Europe's borders is a success."
He referred repeatedly to the Berlin airlift, launched by the Allies 60 years ago when the Russians sought to isolate the Western part of the city. If they had succeeded, he said, communism would have marched across Europe.
"Where the last war had ended, another World War could have easily begun," the presidential candidate said.
Now, he said, the enemy is different but the need for an alliance is the same as the world stares down terrorism and the extremism that supports it. "This threat is real and we cannot shrink from our responsibility to combat it," he said.
He said Europeans sometimes view America as "part of what has gone wrong in our world, rather than a force to help make it right...." And in America, "there are voices that deride and deny the importance of Europe's role in our security and our future."
He said both views miss the truth, "that Europeans today are bearing new burdens and taking more responsibility in critical parts of the world; and that just as American bases built in the last century still help to defend the security of this continent, so does our country still sacrifice greatly for freedom around the globe."
In any event, he said, there will always be differences.
"But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more, not less."