Posted on 07/21/2008 2:31:32 PM PDT by kristinn
“Looks like the Germans figured out why Obama won’t allow anyone to bring anything into his big show,” Beethovenqueen writes.
The Bild headline reads “Barack Obama bans protest signs in Berlin.”
The article then goes on to say:
Obamas Organisatoren wollen nichts dem Zufall überlassen. Auf Handzetteln, die seit Montag für die Rede im Berliner Bezirk Tiergarten ausgeteilt werden, heißt es: „Plakate oder Transparente sind nicht gestattet.“
Aus Sicherheitsgründen sollen die Besucher auch keine Taschen und Rucksäcke mitnehmen dürfen.
Translation:
Obama’s organization is leaving nothing to chance. As of Monday flyers are being passed out near Berlin’s Zoo that read “Posters & banners not allowed.” For security reasons visitors should not take purses or backpacks.
The latter will put off Germans. How are people supposed to stand out there for hours with no water and no worldly possessions? Or is someone making a killing on selling Kool Aid? Anyway, the headline is a hopeful sign that at least some of the German press see through Obama’s “security demands”.
Update #1: Sen. Obama’s website clearly states: “For security reasons, do not bring bags. Please limit personal belongings. No signs or banners permitted.”
Note that the location posted on Sen. Obama’s website is stated as the Berlin Tiergarten (the zoo), with the Siegessaulle (Victory Column) in finer print. One thing we can count on is the Obama campaign’s willingness to distract and distort reality.
Other German newspapers—Zeit Online, Berliner Zeitung—back up the Bild’s story. Word came from the Obama campaign.
Update #2: Both Wonkette and Ben Smith at The Politico got the memo.
Update #3: Aaron Klein at World Net Daily picked up Beethovenqueen’s post. You can read about it, with link back, here.
The difference between him and REagan and Kennedy is striking. The European press is tough. They’ll see through this guy like water.
Yeah, But they won’t let him into the bars at night?
Great graphics on this thread!
Still hunting for another article, but found this for you. The BO is such a jerk, I could spit nails reading all the (_________________________deleted words) about him today.
Good point. When I was there (April), it was mostly about Hillary v. Obama.
and we have nothing to protect us except clinging to guns and religion...wait...that might be enough.
What this really means:
“Thou shalt not criticize the Ubermessiah in banner or poster form”.
How fitting-a triumphant rally in Germany. People just dont pay attention to history anymore..
Socialist Realist style.
You nailed it.
When did the Germans grant him police powers?
Has anyone yet made a comparison between B. Hussein’s political rallies and those of a certain other little demagogue with a funny mustache?
is leni reifenstahl doing the filming?
Let the arrogant socialist do his stupid speech FROM HITLER’S BUNKER.
I can't believe he offended Andrea Mitchell's journalistic sensibilities! After the way she shilled for Hanoi John in 2004, I expected her to be the neurotic type of woman, unable to sustain a relationship, that overwhelmingly supports Obama.
It's NOT the beginning of a trend, boys and girls. If her colleagues don't Hillary Andrea Mitchell, I'll eat one of my hats. They'll marginalize her, just as they're doing to McCain, because their messages don't agree with what the bulk of the media wants to be reality.
Obama’s speech to a thousand German Youths.
“Still think you can control them?”
Bill Clinton felt right at home in Bejing. Barack Obama would find the Chinese uncomfortably conservative. Which creates a whole new level of international problem.
MORE proof Obama is a Nazi!
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