Here’s a sampling of negative reactions to Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin
July 24th, 2008 at 04:13pm Pat Cunningham
Just for the laughs, I’ve pulled together a few examples of what the booboisie have had to say about Obama’s speech:
“SELF-SERVING…pretty thin…forgettable.”
“TELLS GERMANS about unenlightened Americans.”
“HO-HUM…full of shallow, right-thinking sentimentalism…underwhelming.”
“DISAPPOINTING and insulting to the American people…utter and complete nonsense…rubbish”
And this one is my favorite: “THE CROWD of over 100,000 young people in Berlin today were there because of a day and night of rock concerts more than they were there to see Barack Obama…They had no choice but to sit through Barack’s performance.”
There’ll be more of this kind of stuff in the right-wing blogosphere tonight and tomorrow. I can hardly wait.
POSTSCRIPT: Incidentally, here’s the SKINNY on why John McCain didn’t have a sizeable media contingent traveling with him on his last trip abroad.
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1. Orlando Clay | July 24th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Here’s some more nonsense, courtesy of right-wingnut AM radio here in Central Florida:
“How dare he go over to Germany and throw his own country under the bus.”
“You know, unless McCain has Romney as his running mate, I think we conservatives should stay home on Election Day. Let the libs run the country into the ground, and then come 2012 we can get Mitt in there and begin a return trip to the good years we had under Ronald Reagan. Then it’ll be decades before another commie lib gets anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
“Does anyone other than the kooky left really believe that anybody in Europe really cares what Senator Hussein Obama has to say?”
2. LD | July 24th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
What no Fuhrer references yet? The far right is getting lazy.
Oh and people aren’t usually interested in the opening act of a rock convert. Somehow judging by the pics and vids, this wasn’t the case here. It looked pretty impressive if you ask me.
3. Pat Cunningham | July 24th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
LD: Of course, that crap about the rock concert is the same stuff the right-wing nuts said in trying to explain away the big crowd Obama drew in Portland a few months ago.
4. Mike Carroll | July 24th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Not to throw too much rain on this lovefest but the crowd didn’t seem that enthusiastic to me in the news reports I saw.
5. Tom McMahon | July 24th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Send a tingle up your leg now, did it?
6. Pat Cunningham | July 24th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Tom: You’ve got me confused with Chris Matthews. He’s the guy who gets man-crushes on Bush, McCain, Obama and who-knows-whom-else. As for the crowd in Berlin, I’m reliably informed that the leg tingles occurred only during the rock music part of the show. You know, nobody came to see Obama.
7. Millard Fillmore | July 24th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
No Pat, I’m afraid Tom knows exactly who he’s talking about. He can read this blog as well as anybody.
8. Tom McMahon | July 24th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
When they heard a Black Muslim was coming to speak, they thought it was Muhammad Ali
9. Craig Knauss | July 24th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I’m not sure which is more moronic: the jackass Lunch Counter commentary or the comments of a couple of the above bloggers. It’s time for some industrial strength enemas. Maybe a couple of the above geniuses can explain why there were several thousand people at an Obama speech in Pendleton, OR. Pendleton is only the size of Belvidere and is in a die-hard Republican area that is all ranches, farms, etc. And yet, about 1 out of every 5 people showed up, despite the fact there were NO rock bands or any other entertainment. Where has John McCain ever drawn 20% of the population to one of his speeches? Oh, and for Tom and MIllard’s information, the earth is round. Deal with it.
10. Menlo Bob | July 25th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Obama is doing a great job attracting that part of the demographic which votes in the lowest percentile.
11. Pat Cunningham | July 25th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Bob: If you’re talking about young people, this passage from a column by E.J. Dionne might interest you:
“The conventional wisdom on certain subjects is so deeply rooted that no amount of evidence disturbs its hold. That’s how it is with those dreary predictions that young Americans just won’t vote.
“Since the late 1960s, the same chorus has been heard from election to election: The young don’t care. They’re disengaged. They’re too wrapped up in their music, their favorite sports and their parties to take an interest in politics. Predicting that the young will vote in large numbers is like saying the Cubs will finally win the World Series.
“As it happens, the Cubs are doing well this season, and the evidence is overwhelming that this year the young really will vote in large numbers — and they just might tip the election.
“The trend started four years ago. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or Circle, electoral participation among 18- to 24-year-olds increased from 36 percent in 2000 to 47 percent in 2004. For the larger 18-to-29 group, participation rose from 40 to 49 percent.
“The 2006 midterm elections brought a greater increase in off-year voting among the under-30s than in any other age group.”
12. Mike Carroll | July 25th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Nice little lead into the front page tease on the Obama speech from the RRS today.
“If only they could vote”
Now that’s fair and balanced reporting.
13. Millard Fillmore | July 25th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Craig, you got me all wrong. I think it is rather remarkable (and that’s understating the case) that 100,000 people turned out to see Sen. Obama … in Berlin. An amazing scene.
My chiming in had to do with Pat protesting his Barack crush, which just about any reasonable person can see is going strong.
14. Craig Knauss | July 25th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Millard,
OK. I’ll buy that. Thanks.
15. redrover | July 26th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Here are my negative reactions to Obama’s Berlin speech.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/berlinvideo/
They have nothing to do with rock concerts or phony patriotism. They have everything to do with what Obama really stands for, and it sure as hell ain’t “Change We Can Believe In”
Obama said:
“My country must stand with yours and with Europe in sending a direct message to Iran that it must abandon its nuclear ambitions.”
But he said absolutely nothing about the nuclear weapons that Israel has developed and has threatened to use. Nor does he say anything at all about the illegal settlements that Israel continues to build and expand in violation of international law. Why should there be one legal standard for Iran and quite another for the Zionist entity?
Obama said:
“Will we stand for the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the blogger in Iran, or the voter in Zimbabwe? Will we give meaning to the words “never again” in Darfur?”
But he does not even mention the horrific violations of basic human rights that are happening this very minute in China. Is Obama unaware of Communist China’s relentless persecution of Tibetans, Uighurs, Falun Gong practitioners, Christians, and democracy activists, or just indifferent to it?
Obama is just another lying lowdown lawyer whore parasite who has, for his whole life, gone along in order to get along. If Obama really stood for real Change, he would not even be close to being the Democratic Party nominee.
Rather, Obama has shown himself, time and again, to be an eloquent front man for the Corporate Mafia’s greed, and for Zionist racism, and for an economic and political system that exploits and feeds off the unjustified suffering of innocents all over the world.
So, the next time you hear Obama spewing forth his soaring rhetoric, look more closely at what he says and doesn’t say. That’s where you’ll find who this man really is and what he truly stands for.
Lawyers are liars!
Lawyers are whores!
Obama is one of the best,
Oh my!
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