Now that Senator Obama's Berlin address is in the can, get ready for the backlash from the very serious corporate media. Get ready for profuse around-the-clock praise of Senator McCain and/or unfair, invented criticism of Obama. Because reporting news, however accurate, about his successful trip to the Middle East and Europe isn't news. It's obviously biased reporting against the McCain campaign.
Berlin is girding itself for up to a million spectators. The security cost to the city is closing on $500,000. And some Germans are already preparing not to like what Obama has to say.
At no point does the McCain campaign or anyone in the media point out what, exactly, is the danger to America if our closest allies actually, you know, don't hate us.
McCain aides said that the senator's journey to the Internet will span five days and will take him to such far-flung sites as Amazon.com, eBay and Facebook.
In the wake of the New Yorker flap, a shock Obama t-shirt has made news, raising questions about whether the provocative message it bears is ironic or just plain ugly.
This type of insulting nonsense will not go unnoticed or unchallenged by the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who've fought in both McCain's war in Iraq, and in the other war in Afghanistan.
Both candidates are embracing, rather than challenging, the fundamental irrationality of Bush's "war on terror," which substitutes hysteria for rational analysis in appraising the dangers the country faces.
If managing a presidential campaign is any indication of how these candidates will perform day one in the White House, it is McCain's campaign, not Obama's that should be worrying American voters.
As Obama's plane touched down in Afghanistan, Maliki's comments had a far-reaching effect on the war and presidential politics, with the Maliki government withdrawing from Bush and making McCain appear foolish.
"Be Obama, be change, be Berlin," the Berliner Zeitung babbles this morning. Obama is clearly campaigning here, no matter what Americans think, and certainly young Europeans embrace him as a leader.
It isn't just the American people who want us to leave Iraq. Now it's the U.S.-backed Prime Minister of Iraq. That leaves Bush, McCain and the neo cons as the only people still committed to this war.
The part I find so maddening about this turn of events is the reason given for the absence of a female contender.
Activists here say there are at least 100,000 dual national Israeli-American voters. During a 4th of July picnic in Jerusalem, "the volunteers were constantly busy, not a moment to rest. People were lining up to register."
What would you do differently in Iraq? Say it up top and be specific. Get readers and morning commuters to spill their coffee, what I call the "shock and awe" lede. Ok, maybe a bad pun.
McCain, the former press darling who once referred to the media as "my base," is so upset that press is following Obama, he's become whining and petulant about it.
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Very interesting. Alex Gage (Chief micro-targeter of B ush/ Chen ey 2004) of Targetpoint consulting did a study of independent voters, and released his these interesting findings:
"Among the key findings: Democrats have a built-in structural advantage among independents to the score of between five and ten points. But Mc Cain remains competitive because a lot of those independents are ideological conservatives who have weak partisan attachments to the Republican Party. Without being pushed, 45% of the sample, including 59% of the self-described moderates in the sample, said they would vote for O bama and 39% said they would vote for Mc Cain. With leaners, Mc Cain makes up two points of the margin."
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/who_are_independents_and_what.php
This is the moment when we must defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it.
This is the moment when we must renew our resolve to rout the terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan
This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons..
This is the moment when every nation in Europe must have the chance to choose its own tomorrow free from the shadows of yesterday.
This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created,
This is the moment we must help answer the call for a new dawn in the Middle East
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet
And this is the moment when we must give hope to those left behind in a globalized world.
That was yesterday and nothing happened. I guess the moment passed.
Found out that he plagiarized the speech from B0no.
http://www.hpol.org/fdr/chat/
The media calling Sarkozy a conservative is soooo funny just like calling Merkel a conservative.
In America Rethuglicans would call Sarkozy the most liberal politician in America.
There just is no such thing as a conservative party in Western Europe. They have progressed far beyond that failed ideology. The fact is Western Europe would never give up their social programs like universal health care because they work.
BS we gave up universal health care here in Holland.......Its single payer now..........100 euros a month for full coverage. Its mandatory and who can't afford a lousy 100 Euros? Chicken feed.
All the ignorant trollz see is "conservative".
They have no comprehension of what the word means in Europe.