Posted on 07/25/2008 4:53:31 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Barack Obama denied yesterday that he was ignoring the concerns of ordinary Americans while he tours the world, amid signs that the adulation he is receiving abroad has alienated some US voters.
After the Democratic presidential candidate holds meetings with Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron in London today, the last leg of his nine-day international tour, he returns home to a general election campaign with new polls showing him in a tightening race against John McCain, the Republican cand date.
Mr McCain and his surrogates have spent the week seeking to build the impression that Mr Obama’s trip – and particularly his speech to 200,000 in Berlin on Thursday – shows an arrogance and presumptuousness that is disconnected from voters back home, who are most concerned with the faltering US economy.
“I’d love to give a speech in Germany. But I’d much prefer to do it as president of the United States, rather than as a candidate for the office of presidency,” Mr McCain said in the battleground state of Ohio. An aide to the Arizona senator called Mr Obama’s speech “a premature victory lap in the heart of Berlin”.
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Tony Blair will be laughing on the inside.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
...and they are also learning, slowly but surely, that Obama is even more liberal, more leftist, more marxist, and more anti-American than most liberal Europeans.
So far I know two people who have changed their main to vote for him because of this tour.
Man, if McCain can beat Obama, it’s gonna be so sweet watching reporters and Europeans cry.
It will never beat Dan Rather's face in 1994!
Obama World Tour Post-Travel Briefing
While much attention has been focused on the photo-ops of Barack Obama’s foreign trip orchestrated by a highly skilled political entourage, beyond the pictures numerous questions were raised about the Democratic presidential nominee’s foreign policy positions and missteps....read the briefing here. http://johnmccain.com/images/mccainreport/7.25.08%20Beyond%20The%20Photo-Op%20Memo.pdf
On Brit Hume’s show on FOX this afternoon, even Fred Barnes agreed that Obama hasn’t done himself any harm with this Magical Mystery Tour. I disagree. I think a lot of people are wondering what the h*ll he’s doing wandering around sharing toothy grins with world leaders while we’re fighting with gas prices over here.
That was truly a beautiful moment.
Or in 2004, when he was forced to call Ohio for Bush. That was indeed priceless.
Shouldn't we call it his "World Tour" with the press corps as his groupies?
Man, if McCain can beat Obama, it’s gonna be so sweet watching reporters and Europeans cry.
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It will be sweet watching ALL of our enemies, foreign and domestic cry when he loses. He has been their biggest hope to gain MORE influence over American policy. Their hope for a true Manchurian Candidate radical socialist....
Interesting tag at the top right on th Times.
Never heard it before...
“What makes America indispensable, makes anti-Americanism inevitable”
David Aaronovitch
Even Fred Barnes?
The Mallomar Man has more spine than he has.
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
I like Rodney Dangerfield's version. IMHO,it explains the whole Obammasiah M.O.
Rodney:
"You can fool some of the people some of the time, and just jerk the rest off!!"
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)
I like Rodney Dangerfield's version. IMHO,it explains the whole Obammasiah M.O.
Rodney:
"You can fool some of the people some of the time, and just jerk the rest off!!"
You mean they are going to or not going vote for him now?
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