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Thursday, July 24, 2008 12:00 AM

Report: More than 200,000 watched Obama

The crowd for Barack Obama's speech in Berlin was reportedly his largest ever.

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Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:07 PM

Ha ha

Great, but how many among them can actually vote for him?

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:08 PM

scary

Arent these the same people that loved all those Hitler rallies and voted him into office. Obama is the anti-christ.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:11 PM

@mateostgo

Congratulations. Yours is the dumbest post I have read in several months!

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:16 PM

@ Xanax

And it's dumb on so many levels, too. Very impressive, indeed.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:16 PM

mateostgo

Wan't it the radical religous nut if Rev.haggee who said the anti Christ going to be a Jew. I guess the Rev. forgot that Christ was a Jewish.

The U.S already has several anti Christ candidates: James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Rev. Hagge. Tim LeHaye to name a few.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:18 PM

well well

You have to admit, it could be quite an effective TV add for Mccain.

Start by showing 200,000 germans cheering for Obama and then shift to all those Hitler rallies.

I dont think this is going to be good news for Obama. I was for Hillary and really dont like Obama. I don't want to vote Republican, but I can't get behind Obama. I thought that I would suck it up and vote for him, but him prancing around Europe and drawing these huge crowds is not going to go well with your average American. I havent lived in the US for 8 years, but I know how most people there think. It even makes me want to cringe a little. Whoever wins will be OUR president and it is OURs to decide. What does he need to be prancing around Europe for, when the US is such a mess at home.

This just reinforces my image of Obama as an attention hungry little child who will pander to anyone who will line up to kiss his butt. He makes me want to gag. After 8 years of Bush idiot criminal, I'm so mad that I'm not even going vote this time around. I cant ethically get behind either Obama or Mccain. What a crime. Most people dont desearve to vote. Populism is scary. Almost as bad as the fascists we have today.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:19 PM

MatthewY

What matter is we will once again have a leader the world loves and respects. Bush/Cheny has done so much damage, we need Obama. McCain would never get this kind of Attention. McCain can't even get a crowd in the U.S.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:22 PM

sad

All the once triumphant Republicans have to offer is hatred, bitterness, and ridiculously impotent huffing about events over half a century ago. The only thing Obama has to do is be himself... a rational, articulate, intelligent and, yes, competent politician. There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's about time

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:23 PM

mateostgo

Problem is Hitler was a right wing radical.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:24 PM

@-- mateostgo

No problemo. Obama will win without your vote. Have a nice day.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:24 PM

they dont love...

@MatthewY-

The world doesnt know anything about Obama, no one does. So how can anyone love him?? People love they idea of Obama. But the actual Obama is quite a bore. I suggest everyone read the article in the New Yorker so you can learn that Obama is just as dirty as the rest of them. Hes nothing but a political hack.

Obama is a fad. Theres no substance to any of it. And why should we care what the rest of the world thinks about our President?

But if you do care, Hillary should have been your choice.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:26 PM

mateostgo

Our relations with the world are a mess too. Bush/Cheney made sure of that. Some how I doubt you ever supported Hilary either. You appear to be a PUMA pretender.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:27 PM

scum

@ -- porsadgai.

Obama is just a Chicago mafia scumbag. I wouldnt trust anyone connected to that city. Just like I dont trust anyone connected to Texas!!!!!

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:27 PM

Just tuning in...

@mateostgo....who is this? Kelly? William? Who's turn on the GOP computers is it today to ride Salon?

From the phrasing...I though it might be Vick?

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:27 PM

mateostgo

The Clintons were the ultimate political hacks, and we knew too much about them.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:28 PM

mattyhastogogo

dumbass. the antichrist is a european jew. read revelations, assuming you even know what that is. Obama is too much for your tiny mind. He's entirely human, and eminently fallible, and ten echelons above Johnny McBombBomb, doddering fool who does know his Iraq from a hole in the ground. Nice border with pakistan. or the bouncing czech. Losers.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:29 PM

Attention hungry?

"This just reinforces my image of Obama as an attention hungry little child..."

Pray tell: How, exactly, is Obama (or McCain) supposed to win the presidency without trying to generate as much attention as possible? Attention is the name of the game. Accusing a candidate for generating attention is like blaming a quarterback for trying to throw a touchdown pass.

Oh, and that 200,000 who saw Obama in Berlin - they didn't put Hitler in power. I'd bet 98 percent of them weren't even alive yet.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:29 PM

mateostgo

scary

Arent these the same people that loved all those Hitler rallies and voted him into office. Obama is the anti-christ.

-- mateostgo

Nice. You say you haven't lived in the US for eight years but you know how we think here. I didn't live in the US for three years, but during that time I didn't assume that I knew everything about how people in the US thought. I don't assume that I know now either.

However, I can only hope that you aren't living abroad in Germany, because telling people that the people who listened to Obama today are the same people who voted for Hitler is offensive on more levels than I can mention, and I'm not German. For one thing, you are assuming that the crowd was older than 18 in the 1930's which would make that crowd 80 and older. That's quite a crowd.

You've made some pretty ridiculous statements. I know living overseas can give people a sense of superiority to ordinary americans but you've taken it to a whole new level. By the way have you heard of the logical fallacy reductio ad hitlerum...

ugh. ugh. ugh.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:29 PM

right wing trolls have arrived

I see the right trolls arrived early.

Thursday, July 24, 2008 02:32 PM

WTF?

@kalyarn

Huh? So anyone who doesnt like Obama is a Reublican operative? This is exactly my point about what is wrong with Obama. Its crazed populism. I'm a liberal democract, but liberal in the classical sense. And like I said, I just can't get behind Obama. That's my beef with his supporters: If you don't like Obama, you must be a Bush-loving torture supporter. No. I am not. But I don't support Obama. He scares me as do his supporters.

@bernbart

I remain a huge HILLARY fan.

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