"Truely, an awe inspiring moment seeing 200,000 Berliners waving American flags," Andrea Mitchell.
MSNBC, July 26, 2006.
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One of the many autographs Barack signed in Iraq.
It reads:
" To Jesse- We're proud of you! Barack Obama."
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► So how did the Berlin trip play in middle America – they DUG IT!!
ABC News: Today, as Senator Obama took Germany by storm, Mansfield, Ohio, took some notice. At the Coney Island Diner, teacher Tom Finery was impressed that Barack Obama seemed so at ease with presidents and prime ministers.
Tom Finery: To me, I think this guy's really a mover and a shaker. And that's my way of looking at it.
ABC News: Sergeant Molly Irwin in the Air Force Reserve, said she was pleasantly surprised that Obama listened to soldiers from top-to-bottom.
Is it important for you that Obama did go to Iraq and Afghanistan?
Sergeant Molly Irwin: I think it's really important. I think that it's good that he went to both to see what they're actually really like.
ABC News: Over at the VFW post, baseball not Barack, was on the TV. Did Obama's performance oversees change any minds in here?
Patron: Obama, in my opinion, has not showed me anything that respects our soldiers.
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ABC News: But the post commander liked what he heard about Obama's message on Iraq.
Bill Chapman (Post Commander): We're being stuck in a war too long. And we'd like to see our guys come home.
ABC News: Chris Bury, ABC News, Mansfield, Ohio.
► Jack strips off the bark.
CAFFERTY: I'd be willing to make you a bet. If you added up all of the people who have attended every political event John McCain has held since the campaign started, the number would not get to 200,000, which is the number of people that watched Barack Obama speak in Berlin.
That ad that he put out is nothing more than the same jealousy he displayed last week when Obama was on this tour.
McCain went to Canada, Mexico and Colombia. And the only thing I remember about any of those three trips or visits was some hostages got released one day while he was in Colombia. It had nothing to do with McCain being there.
So, you know, Obama is getting a lot of attention and McCain doesn't like it. It's jealousy.
But at the beginning of the campaign he said -- this is the guy who rides around on something called the Straight Talk Express -- this will not be that kind of a campaign. We're going to keep it on the high road. We're going to talk about the issues. And he's come out with one snarky, low rent piece of television after another.
Now, that being said, McCain's running on short money.
So how do you compensate?
You put out these goofy commercials with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton in them and then people like us run them over and over and over again for free.
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► This is a delicious piece of comedy. Just three months ago, on May 7th, Cindy McCain went on The Today Show and insisted three times her husband wouldn’t go negative, and how they’d rather lose than go negative.
HA! - McSame will say and do anything to get elected.
What an interview - Cindy was full of one-liners:
- She express anger over Myanmar(Burma) which is hilarious considering a one of top guys running their campaign was a lobbyist for Myanmar.
- She whines about her Tax Returns.
- She says GIs are in Iraq for democracy (that wasn't in the war resolution, Cindy).
- She says her husband is an energetic dynamo (Oh, Brother! Hey Cindy, pass the vicodin).
McCAIN: And what you're going to see is--I believe, we're going to see a great debate, which the American public deserves, more importantly. None of this negative stuff, though. You won't see it come out of our side at all, because...
Curry: None of the negative stuff will come out of your side?
McCAIN: My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all.
Curry: Cindy McCain expressed strong feelings on numerous subjects, including the devastation in Myanmar.
McCain: I can't sit still. I want--you know, I want to be there and I want thousands of people to follow me. I'm appalled at the government of Myanmar doing what they're doing. They didn't tell their citizens, number one, warn them that this is coming. And number two, now that this disaster has occurred, they're not allowing humanitarian help in? I don't understand it. I'm shocked, appalled and I'm angry.
Curry: She also feels strongly about Iraq.
Curry: You say you want to bring them home with honor.
McCAIN: Mm-hmm.
Curry: Some people might say, `We just want to bring them home alive.' Why is Iraq worth risking the lives of your sons, American...
McCain: Freedom. Freedom. Freedom from oppression. Freedom...
Curry: For Iraqis?
McCain: We live--we--yes!
Curry: She defended her own right to keep her tax returns private.
McCain: You know, my husband and I have been married 28 years and we have filed separate tax returns for 28 years. This is a privacy issue. My husband is the candidate.
Curry: So you'll never release, you're saying?
McCain: No, no.
Curry: Never.
McCain: No.
Curry: Even if you're first lady?
McCain: No.
Curry: Because that is, even though not an elected position, you would be in a very public role.
McCain: I'm not the candidate.
Curry: She disputed what has been described as her husband's temper.
McCain: It's not a temper, it's passion.
Curry: And she laughed when asked if she has any concerns about his age.
You're laughing. Why are you smiling about that?
McCain: Come spend a day with him.
Curry: There's never been an older president at 70, so you've got--this is--this is a fair question.
McCain: It is a fair question.
Curry: And you've seen, as a wife of a senator...
McCain: Mm-hmm.
Curry:: ...what that job does to the men elected to it.
McCain: Mm-hmm. I would challenge anybody who has a question about his age to come travel with us for a day on the campaign. Because I have to pull off sometimes, he's too much for me. This is about experience. This is a man who not only has experience, but has the compass that his life skills and his life experiences have given him.
Curry: Can't take away the numbers. Seventy-one.
McCain: Oh, he's 70--oh, listen. I'm 53 and he's much younger than I am, I can tell you.
Curry: Really?
McCain: Yes.
Curry: In what way?
McCain: Oh, he--listen, he's going to hike the Grand Canyon again this summer with our sons. I'm not going to go, I'll freely tell you right now. He just--he's just a ball of fire.
Curry: It's six months to go before the election. You talk about that none of the nasty kind of campaigning that we've been seeing will come from your side. But are you prepared for the next six months, knowing that that's how it generally does go?
McCain: Well, I'm never ready for those kind of things, particularly when it involves my children. But I can tell you that having been through this before, I'm actually glad, grateful that I've been through it before. Because if things do turn that way from the other side, I would hope that I would behave the same way I did before, and that is with grace and dignity and rise above it.
Curry: Even if it doesn't help you win the presidency?
McCain: I believe I can speak for my husband on the same thing, we'd rather not win than to have to do that. That's not worth winning for.
BWHWHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA!
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► Ooops, he did it again. McSame stuck his foot in his mouth.
Wolf Blizter: Senator John McCain seems to have a thing for his loafers.
But will they give him a foot up on his rival?
Jeanne Moos: We don't expect John McCain to be on a shoestring budget when it comes to shoes.
It wasn't pretty when the liberal Huffington Post style section revealed Loafer Gate -- photos of McCain wearing the same $520 Italian shoes on a golf cart ride and on a stroll to a grocery store where his Ferragamos narrowly missed getting buried in an apple sauce avalanche.
The author of "The Perfect Fit: What Your Shoes Say About You," had this to say about what the enator's shoes say.
Meghan Cleary: I would say flashy. And I wonder if McCain fancies himself a bit of a fashion plate.
Jeanne Moos: We're guessing maybe the senator has some help in the shoe shopping department from his fashion plate wife.
But wasn't Senator Obama the guy being called an elitist?
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LASTLY:
McSame has settled on a running mate – McSame/Corporate Media ’08.
McSame is the WORST candidate in the modern era.
Worse than Goldwater. Far, far worse the Bob Dole. He may even be the worse candidate in history, but it’s hard to judge without footage of Alf Landon and Tom Dewey.
This campaign would be over, right now, if the Corporate Media didn't pick him up every time he stumbled.
I knew they were going to favor him, but the amount of bumbling they have covered is ridiculous (see: CBS News).
Let’s take two simple examples.
- Pandering for votes, Mr. Maverick reversed his 30 year opposition to offshore oil drilling. The Corporate Media said nothing.
- But when Barack ditched public financing, the Corporate Media savaged him and called him every name in the book. To top it off, they gave McSame a free pass when he flip-flopped in-and-out of public financing, during the primaries.
Barack delivers his acceptance speech in just four weeks. Four weeks from today, to be exact. Looking at the horizon, the only thing that can stop us is the Corporate Media. Their power is immeasurable and they’re not going to give up their filthy capital gains tax cut without a fight (see: Charlie Gibson).
It’s the end of the month – if you can volunteer or contribute to the campaign, please do.
Barack's Contribution Page
Don’t let the Corporate Media take this away from us - not again (see: Al Gore).
Bonus:
Caution - the above clip is graphic, dark, disturbing, and involves sexual content.
Parental discretion is advised.
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Baaaaadaaaaas Women!
They're Blackhawk pilots AND sisters.
See, women Rock.
(for my Sis - love ya!!)