http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/24/obama.speech/index.html
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“The people in the crowd aren’t voters so in that sense it’s not designed to get them to the polls. It’s not a political rally,” he said aboard his flight to the German capital. “Hopefully, it will be viewed as a substantive articulation of the relationship I’d like to see between the United States and Europe.”
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Berliners were getting ready early for Obama’s address, setting up food stalls and entertainment platforms along an avenue near the site of the event.
A huge crowd gathered at the Victory Column, the site of Obama’s speech, as musicals acts performed in the hours leading up to Obama’s arrival.
Obama volunteers set up shop on street corners and were registering Democrats who live abroad to vote.
“Anyone an American citizen?” bellowed one woman holding a homemade “register to vote” sign.
Some in the crowd were looking to cash in on the Obama frenzy. For 5 euros (about $8), one could pick up two unofficial Obama buttons.
One button that seemed popular among shoppers had a picture of him superimposed with President Kennedy. Another had Obama’s head atop the body of a beer garden waiter holding seven huge glasses of German brew. The button’s slogan said “Obamafest.”
Obama said Thursday his speech will not be “a wonkish policy speech.”
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“I think the world is keenly interested in this election, and I think they’re hungry for a sense of where America is going,” he said.
Did Slash also perform?
If I had a band, I’d get a permit to play.
I’d make it a rock festival. Everybody would get drunk, and the fun would ensue when Little Barry takes the stage.
‘It won’t be wonkish’ is code for ‘I don’t know my rear end from a hole in the ground’.
PUKEFEST is what I'm thinking here.
This trip is in line with his quote that americans are not going to just be allowed to keep the thermostat at 72, drive SUV’s, and eat what we want without the rest of the world’s (in this case the Eurostans’) permission. So he is laying out his agenda and awaiting “approval”. Then he can safely promote his plans at home. R U LISTENING MCCAIN PLANNERS!!!!!!?
FYI ~~ from Major Garrett
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“The Obama campaign will run the show now that Obama has arrived in Amman.
The US embassy provided almost no help in arranging the visit to the Citadel (where the press conference will be held) and is not facilitating the meeting between Obama and King Abdullah.
The movements and pictures from this day forward are entirely dictated by Obama’s presidential campaign.
While it is true Obama is traveling as a senator, he’s also the Democratic nominee and the trip is intended not only to show his ability to maneuver comfortably on the world stage, it’s also designed, by the campaign’s own admission, to give voters back home a chance to grow more comfortable with movements and settings on the world stage that convey commander-in-chief imagery.
Lastly, the campaign repeatedly dodged questions about whether it would position a camera crew of its own at the Berlin speech for the express purpose of shooting the scene for future campaign ads.
The campaign will bring its standard videographers who shoot for the campaign website to the Citadel today and there are no arrangement for a separate commercial camera crew at that event.
That there may be one at the Berlin speech suggests that event could produce footage for future Obama campaign commercials. That is not certain, but it is a possibility.”
http://bourbonroom.blogs.foxnews.com/
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Does gravity exist?
Global presidency planned, it appears.
Mark my words, folks.
The anti-Christ has arrived.
Obama went overseas to promise the “people of the world” that he would end the divide between rich and poor nations, and said, “people of the world, this is our moment, this is our time.”
Obama is running for a hostile takeover of the US on behalf of the anti-American international community. His plan is quite plainly to rape and pillage America’s wealth, and redistribute it to the rest of the world. His speech was brazenly candid about this.
He has already put forth this very plan in the S.2433 Global Poverty Act of 2007, which he authored in the Senate.
“I think the world is keenly interested in this election, and I think they’re hungry for a sense of where America is going,” he said.