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[> [> [> Re: The Anti-Obama Hours/ He's jealous of him -- Obama will always do wrong in Harry's eyes, 09:44:11 07/24/08 Thu [1]

First he says he has no experience in oversees affairs. Now Obama is getting the experience and he is picking on that too.

Candidate Obama Makes Debut in Europe
By DAVID RISING and PATRICK McGROARTY
AP

BERLIN (July 24) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as climate and energy issues at Germany's chancellery Thursday, part of a tour aimed at lifting the first-term senator's international standing.
Their meeting featured "very open" and wide-ranging talks, Merkel spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said in a statement issued after the hourlong session. Obama and Merkel also stressed the "great significance of close and friendly German-American relations," he said.
Obama Abroad
Other topics included Pakistan, the Middle East peace process, the trans-Atlantic economic partnership, the global economy and "the need for cooperation on the international level and in international organizations to solve important global questions," Wilhelm said.
The highlight of Obama's schedule was an evening speech in front of the Tiergarten's 226-foot high Victory Column before a crowd predicted to be in the tens of thousands.
Aboard his chartered campaign jet, Obama told reporters: "Hopefully it will be viewed as a substantive articulation of the relationship I would like to see between the United States and Europe. ... I am hoping to communicate across the Atlantic the value of that relationship and how we need to build on that."
Not surprisingly, Obama sought to limit comparisons to famous speeches that Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan made in Berlin during the Cold War.
"They were presidents, I am a citizen," he said, "but obviously Berlin is representative of the extraordinary success of the post-World War II effort to bring the continent together and bring the West together and then later to bring the East and the West together. And so I think it is a natural place to talk about."
Obama flew to Berlin from the Middle East, where he had toured the Holy Land and met with leaders of Israel and the Palestinians. A column of black BMW and Mercedes-Benz cars ferried Obama from the Tegel Airport to the chancellery, which sits across from the city's famed glass-domed Reichstag.
Overhead, a police helicopter kept watch. Some 700 police were being deployed during Obama's visit, which lasts through Friday morning.
Obama paused inside the gates of the chancellery to wave to a group of Bavarian 11th-graders whose class happened to be ending a tour of the building.
"We were really close," said an excited Michaela Schmid. "It was super, a real highlight."
Vernon Thomas, an 18-year-old from Omaha, Neb., who waited outside to see Obama, said he was astounded by the support for the Democrat in Germany.

"There are more people to see him here in Berlin than in my hometown," said Thomas, who said he has seen Obama speak twice in Omaha. "I think he's trying to show that he is capable of handling things overseas."
The chancellery is an imposing sandstone and concrete cube. The 205,000-square-foot building faces the restored Reichstag in the heart of Berlin's new government quarter. It dwarfs the White House and has more than three times the area of the French president's Elysee Palace in Paris.
Inside, Obama and Merkel shook hands and exchanged small talk before going into her office. On Wednesday, Merkel told reporters Germany will stand by its refusal to send combat troops to southern Afghanistan.
Obama's motorcade drew cheers from knots of people along his route from the government building to the Hotel Adlon, the hotel where President Bush stayed in 2002 and, later that year, where pop singer Michael Jackson drew criticism for holding his child out a window from his room.
As Obama got out of his car, one man yelled out in English, "Yes we can!" � the senator's campaign refrain.
The hotel was closed off for 10 minutes while police checked a suspicious package � it was found to contain only a book. It was unclear whether Obama was in the building at the time.
Later Thursday, Obama met with Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at his office in the Foreign Ministry. Steinmeier called for strengthened trans-Atlantic cooperation above all on issues such as the environment, climate and disarmament, his spokesman Jens Ploetner said. Steinmeier and Obama talked about Germany's commitment in Afghanistan and its focus on combining civilian reconstruction with military protection, the spokesman said.
Obama's speech at the Victory Column has symbolic value because several U.S. presidents, including Bill Clinton, have made significant addresses in Berlin.
Former German President Richard von Weizsaecker said the Obama event could help pave the way for a new trans-Atlantic relationship.
"Kennedy said the famous sentence, 'Ich bin ein Berliner,'" von Weizsaecker told the Bild newspaper. "Obama could send the Berlin signal: America is counting on Europe for its future."
"We have long believed that nobody in America is interested in our continent any more," von Weizsaecker added. "The appearance and the speech of Barack Obama are evidence that this preconception is false."

Associated Press writer David Espo contributed to this report.

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[> [> [> [> Re: The Anti-Obama Hours/ He's jealous of him -- What experience????, 11:32:58 07/24/08 Thu [1]

You call giving a speech overseas experience?

Drink the Kook Aid man. This Obama will bring our great country down...

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: The Anti-Obama Hours/ He's jealous of him -- The country is already down, 14:42:40 07/24/08 Thu [1]

This Obama will bring our
>great country down...
Bush's belief is in the toilet. Only 15% believe in him in New Jersey.
He is a draft dodger.
The Saving and Loan scandal
Drinking problems
He started a war on false alligations
He didn't go through the UN
No weapons were found
A war keep going for what?
Who is making money off of it? His family?
The oil companies? His family companies?
He's happy about going to war. No President in history EVER was happy about going to war. Everytime you see him he is "happy and doing great" he always says. But yet bodies come home everyday to their families. Do you EVER see him with them?
He banned the bodies being seen. Clinton stopped the prices from rising but Bush keeps it going. He said: "Let them stopped spending so much money on other things and they will have money for gas." Remember when he said that?
Your too scared to say anything about the other side. Because it will make you a LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have BLING Faith.
Your a kook

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: The Anti-Obama Hours/ He's jealous of him -- No name, 14:45:14 07/24/08 Thu [1]

Remember...Jane Fonda gave a couple of speaches overseas also. Guess she has overseas experiance too. You people amaze me. You are right. Drink the Kool Aid

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[> [> [> [> [> [> Re: The Anti-Obama Hours/ He's jealous of him -- You didn't address the question, 04:37:22 07/25/08 Fri [1]

>Remember...Jane Fonda gave a couple of speaches
>overseas also. Guess she has overseas experiance too.
>You people amaze me. You are right. Drink the Kool Aid

Why didn't you address the question that someone wrote here? Why didn't you answer the part about Bush? That makes people think it must be true.
Jane Fonda never ran for office. What experience did Bush Jr. have? I'm thinking back myself now..

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[> [> [> Re: The Anti-Obama Hours -- No name, 14:41:27 07/24/08 Thu [1]

Learn to read and write you half brain. You could also try spell-check. You are a typical B. Hussain Obama backer. Make that NOBAMA

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[> [> [> [> Re: The Anti-Obama Hours -- Why are you so scared of the truth?, 14:51:29 07/24/08 Thu [1]

>Learn to read and write you half brain. You could also
>try spell-check. You are a typical B. Hussain Obama
>backer. Make that NOBAMA

Why do you always resort to insults? Everytime when someone tells the truth and you can't dispute it, you call people names. You did it to that female who called you on your lies.
Now you trying to get everyone too scared to call and defend Obama by rattling on with endless garbage. Trying so very hard to find something wrong with the man.
Hey Harry, remember when you didn't like Mc Cain? Remember when you said to Arlene, "Well I don't like Mc Cain but he is all what we have. He's better than Clinton." We remember. We all remember. Then you would slam Hillary to no end. But stuck up for Obama. Once you saw she was loosing you stuck up for her and dissed Obama. Flip flopping Harry? Mc Cain can change his mind but Obama is a flip flopper.
ALL YOU CAN TALK ABOUT IS THAT HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE.
Well Bush Jr. didn't either. What is his experience? taking money from a bank? Drinking? Draft dodger? uh huh.
I'm ready for your insults.. blind person

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: The Anti-Obama Hours -- No name, 08:52:57 07/26/08 Sat [1]

It is spelled McCain not Mc Cain you uneducated nimrod. NoBama