Berlin Speech: 200,000 for Obama in 2008; Only 6,000 Today [“a brutal sobering up”.....]

Weekly Standard ^

[Exit148]

With all the “stuff” that went overseas with O— the limos and equipment and all, don’t count out that there may have been bus loads of people, too, just in case.

[Rapscallion]

Obama suffers from a diminishing influence because he gets such bad advice and because he depends on the communism he has relied on in the past. The world sees that Obama has no answers.

[KarlInOhio]

Ich bin ein Teleprompterreader.

[Utah Binger]

[Conserev1]

Did you see the pick on Drudge?
Did the Wookie bite a chunk out of his lower lip?

[ScottinVA]

6,000 on hand, eh?

A large portion of that would be Moochelle’s personal staff.

[MrB]

Did anyone in the world understand that Obama wasn’t running against George W Bush?

[ScottinVA]

I’ll bet that original Kaiserskirche was a sight to behold in its day.

[NonValueAdded]

That's 6 k invited; what if half of them don't show?

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Jawohl, ich bin ein Scheisskopf.

[SeekAndFind]

Very little has changed since the 1930’s. These Germans are very easily swayed by rousing speeches and fancy rhetoric.

The difference is this -— they never got the chance to listen to Adolf’s encore in 1945... I wonder how many would have attended then had he been alive...

[ScottinVA]

“full of wholly unrealistic expectations of what kind of miracles Obama could work.”

Well... Americans and Euros have more in common than one might think, after all. Difference is... the Euros seem to be quicker on the uptake.

[cripplecreek]

It was an invite only crowd.

[Utah Binger]

In 1963 I spent a week in Berlin in a dive hotel. Never forgot that experience. The church was only 100 yards from the hotel.

Don’t know why I posted this. Memories of Berlin.

[MrChips]

Enough to fill a public square, apparently. Just look for the tie-dyed shirts and the aging hippies smoking pot. Peace out, man!

[newheart]

And obviously neither he nor his speech writers knew of the gaffe when JFK said it the same way—unless they intentionally flubbed the language to get the same kind of endearing soft criticism that Kennedy got.

Then again, maybe Obama really thinks he's a jelly donut. At various times he has fancied himself a messiah, a doctor, a rocket scientist and a general. To think that he has any claim to those titles is to suggest that he is as looney as a man who thinks himself to be a jelly donut.

Ich bin ein berliner.

[pallis]

The novelty of a black guy in the White House has warn off, and now he is just another incompetent boob on the public dole.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Wolkenkuckucksheim.

[VeniVidiVici]

From the way he said, Ich bin ein Berliner, it's obvious that Obama never studied German.

Did he really say 'Ich bin ein Berliner'? Is this guy ever original?

Maybe he said it in Austrian.

[a fool in paradise]

Broose Springstein must not be as popular these days.

Who is it the kiddos are all listening to today? That Lady GooGoo somebody??