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.
Now, now...let’s go back to the rally’s he held...for 50,000 plus PEOPLE...in the palm of his hand.
Yawn. Not much of a news item when McCain does the same thing.
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http://www.wecanbelievein.com/index.php?change=socialism
What a jerk. If I was in Berlin and a German National, I'd tell him to FO.
Nah.... the "messiah" is planning to pull off a neat trick with some fishes and loaves. LOL
Seems to me Obama is obligated to make some allusion to Germany’s heroic defeat of the French and Danes, else why be there. It would be like a foreign politician having a campaign rally at the Washington Monument and not mentioning Washington.
It’s not the signs that are critical of him that Obama fears. It’s the signs his supporters are likely to carry that are critical of his opponent, or U.S. policy that scares the crap out of him.
When we’re talking leftist wing nuts, which his supporters are to a man, you’ll be seeing the myriad of signs that would be carried by the participants of the A.N.S.W.E.R. events.
The last thing Obama wants is for someone to notice who his followers are, and what they support.
Except for the ones that are anti-American.
Suppose he gave a speech and nobody came?
I've never heard that before. Are you sure? I've seen political rallies with signs and banners before and since when does the Secret Service make the rules for events in Germany?
Nahhhhhh.... Just tell the protestors to throw there signs and banners into a pile and torch them....
They will only allow signs that are made by the campaign and no sticks.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I recall a local appearance Bill Clinton made - no signs were allowed, but people who showed up were handed pro-Clinton signs!
So I won’t be surprised if there are signs at the rally after all - “Germany loves Barack!”.
Suppression of speech in *Germany* has bad historical connotations.
No cheers, unfortunately.
Me too. If McCain will choose a good conservative running mate; maybe it will. Obama will pay the price for his stupidy.
See also here for a nice slam on the New York Times as concerns Hitler.
(Those liberals never DO get it right, do they?)
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