Next stop, Germany: Ich bin ein beginner!
Germany awaits The One. After getting heckled at the Western Wall, a fact you will be hard pressed to find reported in the American media, Barack Obama has arrived in Germany.
Wonderful Tennyson Hayes has once again produced a special Obama poster to commemorate the occasion:
The Citizen of the World is ready for his photo-op:
“Barack Obama arrived in Germany Thursday morning to much fanfare, as local television stations aired live coverage and fans gathered in the streets for a glimpse at the U.S. Democratic presidential candidate who will be delivering a much anticipated speech here later today.
Obama said the speech, which is to address transatlantic relations, isn’t comparable to famous ones in Berlin by Presidents Kennedy and Reagan because “they were presidents. I am a citizen. But obviously Berlin is representative of the extraordinary success of the post-World War II effort to bring the continent together and to bring the West together and then later to bring the East and the West together. So I think it’s a natural place.”
Yeah, never mind all that Nazi symbolism and stuff…
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I gotta stop reading this stuff so soon after breakfast. Quick where’s the Pepto?
Classic!
Ich bin ein beginner? Bei mir dissed su schoen!
Wonder if he’ll fill his beer stein with perrier water…..
wuss.
It is a good spot for him since he is using many of the same tactics as hitler did.
Together in change – how lovely.
I was unaware that eternal flip-floppers had a natural place. Oh well, live ‘n learn I guess.
I presume he will be addressing them in German so he will not be an embarrassment to our nation by only speaking English.
Obama Uber Alles!
At least he isn’t offering half of berlin to placate some terrorist group.
continent==>west===>east and west?
Is he saying first europe, then the whole western world, then the world? I am surprised he didn’t start with Poland, because otherwise he ripped off that speech from Adolf.
Nutz! eternal flip-floppers = the eternal flip-flopper
And your point is: Presidents aren’t citizens?
Can you imagine if we cared about the candidate from a German election? Would you even get off the couch for it?
I happened to watch some of the TV coverage in Germany here today and have to say that the obvious fawning of most news anchors and all the enthusiasm feels rather strange. German politicians are more often criticized than lauded by our media and the kind of unquestioned enthusiasm most of our media displays today is rather weird to watch.
On some TV channels, they have declared today officially “Obama-Day” (and they even use the term for the flashes) , devoting hours and hours of coverage to his visit in Berlin. The complete and total opposite of the usually very critical coverage of G.W. It seems that for many journalists, Obama is kind of the “Anti-Bush”…
“Germany is a strong friend of Germany”
That’s more like it.
Well, he couldn’t very well have said that he was an ordinary citizen; his ego wouldn’t let him.
I can’t wait to see what kind of reaction this speech has here at home. I hope it backfires on him in the polls. Would serve him right. He’s nothing but an empty suit.
Exactly.
Obama is so humble!
At least he didn’t use Hitlers bunker.
As an American, I’m embarrassed.
One party!
One State!
Sieg heil!!!!
Obama has the column, but America gets the shaft.
Seen on Ann Coulter’s website: Ich bin ein Berlitzer
I wonder if O’Bama will give his speech in German. It would be embarrassing if all he could manage was some trite, mal-pronounced version of his “possum” slogan.
Sorry, jsr, I overlooked that you had said the same thing.
You know, if Obummer were a fish, I’d have thrown him back. Were it this easy.
We live in a land that elects presidents because they can blow a horn or because (lgm comes to mind right now) they are better looking. If voters were more concerned with issues, Obummer would be asked to stay in Europe. DLTDHYOTWO
“Alright, Mr DeMille, I’m ready for my close up”.
My morning started out watching BO on his plane talking about the troops having FNC and wondering (SMUGLY) if it was by executive order. I guess when he moves into the white house he’ll change that. And now I read this. What’s next – sending ACORN into europe to sign up voters?
Yeah you and me both.
The vulgarity, poor taste and disrespect for the German people and nation is unsurpassed. He’s using them as cheap campaign props, just like he used Jerusalem’s Western Wall, fer cripes sake.
Because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. And this is supposed to demonstrate what – the Judgment to Lead?
Hardly. Let this disgusting stunt backfire on the little man who fancies himself King. Obama does not represent America. He only represents himself.
Ugh. I can’t take this guy.
The ICH BIN EIn BEGINNER would make a great t-shirt
MM writes
but the link says
That’s one heckler the MSM somehow forgot to report.
As for Obama supporters thinking he’s God, look at the McCain poster in this link. McCain in the clouds, maybe a little confused about where he is.
Man, if this guy doesn’t fit the description of the antichrist, I don’t know what does!
This is not intended to be yet another hackneyed religious reference, but why in the hell would people in other countries give a rat’s rear about some dork running for President?!? I’ve never ever seen anything like it, and I don’t think there is any precedent for it in history!!
There has got to be evil forces at play here, because in all places of the globe where the devil holds reign, Obama, a man with nothing going for him except the color of his skin, is literally worshiped like a god!
Nice photoshop, good thing I put my coffee down before reading it
That would have at least made sense if he made the same gaffe as he did with Israel but back before the wall came down when there really was two Germany’s. I remember living in West Germany for several years on a military base and I don’t seem to recall many German’s fleeing the Democratic and Capitalistic West Germany and risking death to cross into Communist and Socialist East Germany. I do however remember seeing many East German’s getting shot in the back in the news fairly often for trying to escape from the brutal repression that was East Germany.
Hmmm and yet our liberal friends including the great Uuuhbama keep trying to push us into a failed socialist state.
How the heck is this guy gonna get home??
His head won’t fit through the cabin door of the plane!!
What a PUTZ!!
Where was the swoop and poop picture BM made the other day, it appears our seagull has struck again.
This is more of a site seeing tour than a fact finding mission. he should be wearing an aloha shirt and flip flops.
It’s been almost seventy years and still the cold hand of the fuhrer reaches out to tap us on the shoulder.
As a cold war symbol, using Berlin made perfect sense for presidents Kennedy and Reagan. It was a valid symbol of the West against the U.S.S.R. (Hitler’s blood brothers in crimes against humanity). But now, it just doesn’t work. The context is wrong. Not that anyone of Obama’s sycophants cares. As long as there is a chance for a lurid photo-op (Obamagasm or just O’gasm?), that is all that matters to the Messiah (short for “messin’ with yah”) and his traveling freak circus.
The man gets creepier by the minute. Why doesn’t he go to the Olympics while he’s at it? He could upstage Bush, which would make at least some political sense seeing that the democrats will be running against Bush for another century at least.
Mommy, please stop the pain . . .
I refused to watch the news reports of him at the wall in Jerusalem. Disgraceful and offensive are two words that come to mind.
King David, a man after G-d’s own heart, would have thrashed him.
Someone needs to remind that egotistical jerk that he is not the President, Senators do not dictate foreign policy and campaigning overseas and attempting to influence foreign policy is in clear violation of the Logan Act.
http://law.jrank.org/pages/8357/Logan-Act.html
ich bin ein beginner!
Please Michelle, not in the morning when I’m sipping my coffee. Now I got to clean my screen.
Old trooper, not to mention Pelosi and her Syria traveling minstrel show. Logan Act is still in effect, but who has the cajones to implement it these days?
LGM obfuscated:
Fixed it for ya’!
Unless you were there, you have no valid source as to the number of protestors present for the speech.
My kingdom for some nuts!
Wasn’t one of Hitler’s first moves ; to use a militarily trained corps of the follwers of Islam as his first SS type operation?
LGM, are you really trying to say mccains followers think he is god like? You? a supporter of obama??
hypocrite is too mild of a word when I think about that comparison.
Htiler started out by scapegoating every problem of the german state onto one group (neocons), then he held mass rallies to show he had mass support, then finally he just shut down all opposition.
I am simply beside myself. How in God’s name is this guy so popular? he has zero experience and has accomplished NOTHING in his brief political life. Oh, he WAS a community organizer…I assume that qualifies him to be commander in chief at a time of war. The FT has a picture of him in Israel, with his head down, praying wearing a yarmulke…this whole freaking trip is simply a photo-op!
But he is dead set against allowing us to do the same in Iraq. Such beautiful irony!
God does not need fighter jets, It’s much better than being so arrogant that Obama and his supporters thinking he is this.
Good morning lgm; I see you are being a pain in the ass again. Rough night at the bath house?
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We understand ChrisFromGermany, just about every day is Lord Obama the Chosen One Kneel You Knaves day at most of our TV stations. And yes here too Obama the Annoited One Who Done Come Bro is viewed as an Anti-Bush. Hell the Bro is anti everything else, why not that? We were hoping the Europeans like ObamaMessiah so much they would keep him. For ObamaMessiah has raised the dead, healed the sick and lifted the lame. Jump up and down, scream and shout.
Couldn’t you use him? Please?
And therein lies the problem.
George Bush himself isn’t why there’s so much anti-Americanism in Germany and the rest of “old” Europe these days. Bush is rather a lightning rod: he’s come to symbolize everything that anti-American Europeans hate about us as a people, and not just as a president.
What’s so ironic is that the one nation on Earth that most needs to be kept on a leash for the sake of peace and humanity — Germany — is full of people who believe the same thing about the only nation on Earth capable of keeping them leashed.
With that in mind, any thinking American should be asking, “If they don’t like us so much, then why do they like him so much?”
You know why: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Germans want to see America taken down several notches. To see us humbled, humiliated, and reduced to impotence — just like we did to them in the two world wars that they started.
And lo, there comes to Berlin a candidate for the American presidency who wants to do just that. No wonder they’re slobbering all over Hopenchange just like they did with der Fuhrer seventy years ago, right down to the public hysteria at his speeches.
Germans can’t make Germany a great nation again, but they can hope for “revenge” upon the country that neutered them, and root for the guy they believe will help them have their vengeance.
sonofdy said (#46):
Look at the poster and decide for yourself.
Yes, some conservatives have disagreed with some McCain positions, but not the important ones (Stay in Iraq until the end of time, reduce taxes to explode the deficit, appoint conservative automatons to the Supreme Court). Liberals are upset with some Obama positions (caving in on FISA, merit pay for teachers, unconditional support for Israel). These people aren’t gods, but they are the best people running, in some order.
Ahh, but he is no mere senator. He is the lightworker, bringer of peace and joy to all mankind, so obviously he transcends the Logan Act and anything else that applies only to the lowly mortals who are or will soon be subservient to the Dahli Bama (as dubbed by another blogger).
Ours is to only praise and worship the pre-ordained Second Coming of JC* ….. and to vote early and often for him in November. : )
*James Earl Carter : (
This is how B.Hussein O. REALLY treated our tropps while he was “over there”:
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/07/afghan-troops-we-got-more-thanks-from.html#comments
troops..
Just kind of curious – why do folks think this guy is Hitler?
jsr
how do you say “ummm … uhhhh … errrr … and DUH!!!” … in German?
On July 24th, 2008 at 11:36 am, Ilovemycountry said:
Just kind of curious – why do folks think this guy is Hitler?
Desert Lover
In German, it’s pronounced ” ummm….uhhh….errr( rolling r’s) and Duh!!!
Christian Soldier,
I think that deserves link deserves to be posted out:
I just wanted to pass along that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for about an hour on his visit to ‘ The War Zone ‘ . I wanted to share with you what happened.
He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to the area to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here at Bagram.
As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand, he blew them off and didn’t say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take his publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service.
So really he was just here to make a showing for the Americans back home that he is their candidate for President…
I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball Players or the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be the President of the United States.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the lefties always telling us that our culture and history are too euro-centric? Still, I can’t wait to see a huge crowd of euro-weenies chanting O Ba Ma! O Ba Ma! O Ba Ma!
You think there’s any chance the media would show it to us in black & white?
MNUSMCDavid
Danke meinem Freund… Ich schätze die Hilfe…
So is Obama criticizing Germany for not allowing its troops in Afganistan to fight?
Fine. When we pull out of Iraq, let’s also pull our troops from Japan, Germany, Bosnia, Korea, and everywhere else there is an American military base or interest. Let’s call them all home and build Fortress America. Then we’ll see who was right: President Elect McCain or also-ran B. Hussein Obama.
cnn? Since when is Obama’s personal pr-dept a reliable source?
Short list
== enormous ego
== long on charisma, short on ability
== seeks to transform the world
Plus he lies more than Bill Clinton.
How about this whopper of a lie he told in Israel, from the National Review online:
Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.
But Obama is not a member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Obama just made that up so he could count the committee’s action as one of “my deeds.”
If committed by a Republican, this would be a gaffe of historic proportions. Even a Senator as inattentive to his duties as Obama certainly knows what committees he serves on. For him to fabricate the claim, out of whole cloth, that the Senate Banking Committee is “[his] committee,” strikes me as another sign of Obama’s megalomania. That, plus more evidence that he is totally at sea without a teleprompter.
Um…. Hello McCain camp, cue lie commercial.
So raising taxes to explode unemployment levels is a better option? Get real!
Maybe I should have stayed in the Army? They are better looking than Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller.
Actually I was thinking along the lines of mohammad/Stalin/the Marx Brothers but he isn’t that funny. Actually he is quite fascist in his thinking and pronoucenments but with the cartoon like education about fascism/Stalinism it is lost on many people.
Ditto! Plus Obama’s less than explicit support for the Jewish state of Israel, i.e., his “Israel is Israel’s best friend” statement.
JT
Also … how about the fact that he is the chairman of a committee with oversight for certain activities in Afghanistan …
and … has never held a single committee meeting or inquiry …
but … he knows all about it …
right?
He not only reminds me of Hiltler. I was reading a letter yesterday, written by a Cuban refugee. He has been in the States for 40 years. He said that Castro was young and vibrant, and very carismatic. People followed him, just as they are Obama. Castro pledged CHANGE, that was his platform. He promised healthcare to all, the government would take care of everyone.
The people didn’t look aat his background, or even care. They paid no attention to his friends, they just followed him like he was a pied piper. Only when it was too late, did they realize what he was, and what kind of change he had in mind.
Hitler did the same thing. Women swooned in his presence.
Don’t let it be the same with us America.
OMG – When ABC reported that the obamessiah, in response to the heckling at the Western Wall said “People were sort of, like, holerin’. You know I was expecting more reverence” I burst out laughing.
“more reverence” for the savior?
The obamessiah has bought into his own propaganda!!
Reality check, Barry: You are NOT really the messiah. You are simply a sophomoronic empty suit.
lgm,
Maybe you didn’t get it. Let’s look at what Obama had to say:
Do you know why Berlin is such an obvious success? It’s because we stationed troops there to protect the peace and help rebuild the country. In fact, we still have troops there today! World War II ended in 1945. That means we have had troops there for 63 years!
Yet you and Obama are both demanding that we pull troops out of Iraq right now. The problem with that policy is that we (and Iraq) need the troops to be there because that is a requirement to be able to repeat the success of Berlin and Germany.
Why do you have such a hard time understanding these obvious parallels?
For the record, I don’t. The visual imagery of his campaign is more than a little reminiscent of that used by totalitarian movements of the 20th century – more Leninist/Stalinist than anything else, but I don’t think Obama is those guys either.
That this is the approach he has chosen for his brand image is interesting though. That it has been effective with his sycophantic followers is disturbing.
At least he’s celebrating victory for a change! Just not American ones, of course….
You post a lot of links from talkingpointsmemo.com, yet find no irony in that at all.
This post is not about McCain, despite your best efforts to deflect. Michelle posts many things about McCain. Why not take a stroll over to those posts to discuss him?
Liberals don’t get to decide alone what is important and what is not, despite what the media might believe.
Even you couldn’t believe this strawman. I suspect a heaping amount of intellectual dishonesty here.
A poor soundbite and unfortunate, typical left view… Why is a close examination of pork spending never an issue for liberals? You might like paying for all the socialism being proposed, but a majority of us do not.
You may not like Justices Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts; but having an opinion that differs from yours does not make them automatons.
Your savior let you down, did he? And you suspect this will be only thing he changes his position on? I wonder if the liberals might stop hyperventilating on this long enough to stop and contemplate why he changed his position on this?
Yes, we wouldn’t want teachers to be evaluated on their effectiveness. That’s crazy talk. Worried about your job?
Yes, we’re happy to know that “Israel is a great friend to Israel”. I wonder how he’ll balance this so-called unconditional support with his willingness to allow Ahmadinejad to stall the world until he has weapon-grade nuclear capability.
You are delusional if you believe the candidate awe factor is a problem of the right. With the press fawning all over Obama throughout his trip, I find it laughable that you think a poster (and, no, I didn’t bother with your link) is enough to fill your tu quoque quota.
TanyaB, you are reading my mind. I too immediately flashed on the mobs cheering for Hitler and Castro and was chilled at the similarity with the obamessiah.
That’s merely a “distraction” from the Obammesiah’s sermon, don’t ya know?
Obama’s Change and Hope means
I will CHANGE the country to SOCIALISM and HOPE nobody NOTICES!
Obama the Clintonian liar claimed to be a member of the Senate Banking Committee yesterday while in Israel.
He ain’t.
Pathological liar, and a possibly a narcissistic personality disorder
Can’t wait to see a million Germans chanting “Yes We Can” in German… because that will go over really well with the American electorate. Perfect GOP ad.
The last time Germans rallied around a charismatic guy, it didn’t end so well.
Charasmatic leaders do not all ways end well, thats why you have to look deeper than the hyped up image. Something the press and obamas cult like followers clearly have not done.
I didn’t read all the way down to #68, obviously, in my zeal to post the Obamunist’s latest lie.
Desert Lover
Danken sie mir nicht..(.lol) Ich habe funf jahre in die Universitat zu learnt, und ich spricht deutsch sehr wenig und nicht so gut.
Wow, that hurt!
Good post #53. You usually write the most rational, though out, and smart posts of any conservative on the blog…MM included.
I don’t agree, and think the war with Iraq has a lot to do with our reputation abroad, but I enjoyed reading your post. You provide food for thought.
The EURO TRASH, who so much like to say that AMERICA is INCONSEQUENTIAL must be gagging over this… Can you imagine this much HOOPLA over any EURO LEADER who visits this country??? I would not pick up the REMOTE to change the channel for a EURO LEADER visiting here… The POPE did not get coverage like this when he visited… AMERICAN VOTERS better wake up, and fast, or like a BUNCH OF LEMMINGS you will let MSM pick YOUR PRESIDENT…
If the left ever gains enough control, anyone to the right of Cynthia McKinney is headed to ‘Camp’…
I don’t believe his megalomania is being buried by the press. I could understand their attention if he was 40 points ahead of McCain across the country but, he isn’t. In fact he is slipping in the polls in states that went for Kerry last election. Love to see the MSM with egg on their faces.
There. I thought it needed that little touch.
Eventually they would have to notice that it had happened. He’s just hopin’ it take the majority too long to see through him.
No joke— I ran into a colleague at the grocery store yesterday. She quipped about Obama’s warm welcome in Europe and how “presidential” it was that he make this historic trip. Baiting her, I asked if she was aware that John McCain wanted to repeal the Bush tax cuts, raise Capital Gains taxes, support late term abortions, and use the military and trips abroad for photo ops. She said that was why she supported Obama and not McCain. When I told her it wasn’t McCain to whom I was referring, but rather Obama, she said I didn’t know what I was talking about and walked away in a huff. Why are these people permitted to vote? I don’t get it. BHO has a lot of people snowed, here and overseas. If Pelosi and Reid maintain control of Congress, and Obama gets in the Oval Office, we are in for a world of hurt as a nation.
Said it at LGF, and I’ll say it here as well:
Even if I hated McCain with every fibre of my being (which I don’t), I’d vote for him just for the satisfaction of seeing this smug, arrogant little pr*ck and his elitist wife have to give a concession speech in front of the global media.
Watching the Dem party go into full frontal meltdown mode, would just be icing on the cake.
IMHO, the success of our efforts in Iraq and elsewhere will do nothing but enhance our image abroad. If for no other reason, they will understand that we mean what we say. At this time in history with Islamic jihad so strong I feel it’s better to be feared than loved on the world stage. BTW, We are respected more overseas than MSM and others here care to believe. Just look at the former Warsaw pact and Soviet spin off countries alone.
Is there a doctor in the house? This guy needs some meds.
They are so racist, too. I lived in Germany four years in the 80′s because my father was in the military, and Germans actually thought that black people grew tails at the stroke of midnight. They are still very racist. They like Obama because they think he will humiliate us Americans, and it is a way for them to feel superior.
I think this trip is backfiring in a big way. Like Regulus said, there are stupid Americans, but Americans as a whole are not stupid. (Only problem is we haven’t been assimilating immigrants, and many people that vote these days are hardly “American.”) Another problem is that we have a North Korean-like media.
Still, when they see Barack Obama cheered by a whole bunch of Nazis, and Obama preferred doing this than visiting U.S. troops, people are going to wonder, why do all the foreigners love Obama so much.
Also, Americans dislike hype. Once hype reaches a certain stage, there is ALWAYS a backlash. Could this be the moment?
Barry F,
You may have missed this yesterday – courtesy of blind_mule. Enjoy!
JT #62-
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Thank you for “posting it out” (just learned another terminology
On the bright side, since the camps will be filled with conservatives we won’t have to put up with moonbat BDS rants. Well, maybe from the guards.
I disagree. Many Americans love hype and are obsessed with Hollywood celebrities, sports stars, pop musicians etc…Unfortunately many of them vote and most are Obama supporters. They won’t tire of the hype until long after the election and the only change they see is a declining standard of living and higher taxes.
In Obama’s defense, there aren’t any landmark’s in Berlin without Prussian / Nazi / DDR significance. The Siegesaeule is probably the least offensive.
That’s nonsense. German’s still live most of American culture, and they still like most Americans. What they don’t like are Americans who act like SOBs. There’s difference between wanting to see us not be arrogant and wanting to see us humbled. This has nothing to do with Germans wanting to be free from a tether; the Germans have no interest in invading anyone and couldn’t conceivably want to do so for another generation or two. They have a weak chancellorship, a weak federal government, no federal police, and the Euro. The conditions simply don’t exist for a fascist take-over or for a fascist to stand to gain from invading anyone.
Germany is a great nation. They just aren’t, and won’t be anytime soon, strong enough to be able to act with near impunity or to invade their neighbors frivolously. You can be great without being arrogant or capricious with one’s military strength.