Posted on 06/19/2013 6:45:23 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Berlin Speech: 200,000 for Obama in 2008; Only 6,000 Today 9:18 AM, Jun 19, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER
The White House pool report reveals that only 6,000 will be in attendance for Obama's Berlin speech today:
The stage for the president's speech is set up on the East side of the Brandenburg Gate, in the old East Berlin. The sun is pounding down and there are around 6,000 invited guests according to German authorities. There are bleachers set up either side of the square, with a big two storey riser facing the stage which has a row of bullet proof glass and 12 US, German and EU flags and the grand backdrop of the Gate. There is a large standing crowd between the bleachers.
Last time around, when Obama delivered a speech in Berlin in the 2008 presidential campaign, when he was still a senator, 200,000 folks came out to see him.
As the New York Times reports:
The last time President Obama paid a visit here, as a candidate in 2008, he was cheered on by 200,000 Germans eager to see the back of George W. Bush and, as one member of that crowd recalled Tuesday, “full of wholly unrealistic expectations of what kind of miracles Obama could work.”
When he arrived here on Tuesday evening ahead of a full day of talks — capped by a speech at the Brandenburg Gate — the reception was far more restrained.
Almost five years later, Germans have undergone “a brutal sobering up” with regard to Mr. Obama, said Ralf Fücks, who heads the board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, a nonprofit political organization in Berlin. It is, he said, as overdone as the euphoria of 2008, but also a bit alarming.
Zu viel Bier.......
No free rock concert or beer this time, eh?
Wow...didn’t think that there was that many commies left in Germany.
Wow, the Germans have finally figured out what we knew...the Obamaloon is a dork.
He is sludge.
He is waste.
He is sewage.
When you flush him, he floats back.
He should have thrown in a few lines from those stem-winding Hitler speeches that went over so well in the late ‘30s. This was really a mediocre performance.
the man who launched his campaign for the American presidency in Hitler’s motherland...I never really got that. Was an homage to Hitler, or was it intended as some sort of petty affront to the Pope?
I guess not.
Any specific comments?
Ralf has an interesting last name.
The Won just loves the sound of his own voice spewing meaning less dribble.
I bet at least half of those will be internet freedom protestors from the Pirate Party.
This is the same guy who complained about Americans abroad who don't bother to learn foreign languages.
What’s the difference between an empty suit and an empty chair? Four legs good, two legs bad.
With apologies to Orwell.
Germans have lived under the Nazis, and commies, so they've heard all the lies before.
Only 6K? That's practically casual passers-by in Berlin.
Ya, I noticed his last name too. Maybe that word doesn’t have the same meaning in German that it does in English???
Yes, well, the Germans have a history of following charismatic demagogues.
<....”No free rock concert or beer this time, eh?”....>
Exactly....no concert to crash as he did in 08, while the press ran it as if he attracted the crowds.
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