Posted on 07/25/2008 11:54:58 AM PDT by jamese777
British and German press reported 120,000 in the crowd - 200,000 in US press. Must be a EURO to US conversion thing...
The other 45% speak English.
I watched it... It was a horrible speech... Its delivery was flawed and the message was insane... It was a we are the world speech given to a gang that hates the U.S. and Freedom in general.
We would expect Obama to give a good speech, especially since he has access to many talented speech writers.
The question is whether it was appropriate for him to do so in the context that he did because the purpose of the speech was clearly the Presidential campaign and the spectacle of appearing worldly.
I for one am strongly of the opinion that one runs for the US Presidency from the shores of America. I am also of the opinion that the sitting President is in charge of foreign policy until the inauguration of a new President.
We expect candidates to make clear their foreign policy awareness and direction; we do not expect them to behave in public overseas as if they are entitled to usurp existing policy until that policy is theirs. This view is no more than the flip side of a previous President keeping his public mouth shut while the new Sheriff establishes his regime.
Note that I have no problem at all with the idea that Obama (or any other candidate or member of Congress) might travel overseas, see what is to be seen and learn what is to be learned, privately meet with officials, be photographed for home consumption looking Presidential, or honestly express their own views at an individual scale as they might reaffirm or represent departure from existing foreign policy. Obama’s inappropriateness arises in speaking from the contrived accoutrements of the Bully Pulpit that is not his. It is an insult to Bush, as well as a presumptive insult to McCain.
I hope the telling point does not prove his abandonment of a visit to injured troops when it became clear that he could not treat such visit as a media event. This is dissappointing because it is the little things that first make obvious character and Clinton is the last President I want to see that behaves more poorly in private than when in the public eye.
What is happening to this country? How depressing.
He didn’t even speak in German either, man was I embarassed.
Now, that is funny.
Unless they weren’t working and saw it live, they probably saw the MSM’s edited highlights.
He said nothing but cliches. This poll means nothing. I want to see a debate with McCain.
Thanks!
Did these people know he stole his defining line from Bono?
I rather doubt it.
Oh mon dieu! Merci beaucoup.
I doubt most of them heard it. They were asked if they had heard ABOUT it, and those people were polled. Since most of them just heard what the media said about it, they had a good impression.
bulldinky! It sucked.
and many were other people’s cliches..Rush pointed out “This is Our Moment”, or whatever it was exactly, was first said by Bono!
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