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smalll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:07 AM Original message |
I have a "concern" - so sue me: why do the Berlin rally? |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:10 AM Response to Original message |
1. I kinda agree...I don't see the good that can come from it |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:26 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. I, too, don't see any good in a demonstration of foreign goodwill and international political appeal |
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democrattotheend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
2. I share your concern |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:22 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Great. So chalk another one up for "Germans are Nazis." |
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democrattotheend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 09:03 AM Response to Reply #6 |
37. That's not what I said and that's not what I meant at all |
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thewiseguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:28 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Its not Obama's fault that you feel that way about the Germans |
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democrattotheend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 09:06 AM Response to Reply #9 |
38. I have nothing against Germans |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 05:07 PM Response to Reply #38 |
45. Don't apologize. In politics image is everything |
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Garbo 2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:36 AM Response to Reply #2 |
26. Yup. Nothing would remind one of the Nazis as much as Germans cheering a black man. |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
3. Who knows why he is doing any of this. It's getting like Citizen Kane. |
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Buck Rabbit (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
4. Do you have enough assets to cover my collection costs on a judgment? |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
5. Have you actually been to Berlin? I mean, really actually been? |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 07:47 AM Response to Reply #5 |
34. I second that, Occam Bandage. Visited Berlin and loved the city. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 09:21 AM Response to Reply #34 |
41. Nice sentiment, but NEVER bring back live plants or seeds! |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:25 AM Response to Original message |
7. I think it's sad that I'm hearing concern... |
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cbc5g (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:28 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Republicans have brainwashed Americans and the MSM into believing that |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:29 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I can't decide whether to be concerned that Germans are too socialist, or too fascist! |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:32 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. And if those fascio-socialist German bastards love Obama, |
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smalll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:31 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. I get what you're saying. And I'm pretty sure that the visuals may very well be good. Maybe even.. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:34 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. What exactly do you mean by "letting this happen?" Enormous PR coups are not things |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:36 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Obama gets bad press no matter what the hell he does. |
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thewiseguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
14. JFK and Bill Clinton have given major speeches in Berlin |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 09:11 AM Response to Reply #14 |
39. There is a bit of difference, here. JFK and WJC had already been |
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thewiseguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 09:20 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. I am sorry, but you and I are discussing two different things |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
17. I like dreadlocks.. |
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NattPang (993 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
18. I think he is doing what he has decided to do, |
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caledesi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 07:11 AM Response to Reply #18 |
30. I agree! NT |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:32 AM Response to Original message |
19. You will see by the reaction he gets there - these guys know what they are doing |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 01:57 AM Response to Original message |
20. because it's got to show that Obama commands international respect |
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bigpenguin (112 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 02:12 AM Response to Original message |
21. What's so bad? |
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MissHoneychurch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:08 AM Response to Original message |
22. At least 2 DUers will be there |
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vaberella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:19 AM Response to Original message |
23. My main concern is that he may choose to stay there.... |
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Dbdmjs1022 (369 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:20 AM Response to Original message |
24. According to Kos, the Germans are preparing for upwards of 1 million people attending. |
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RNdaSilva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 03:33 AM Response to Original message |
25. How much are you worth? |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 04:09 AM Response to Original message |
27. Thanks for your concern, but it's really not necessary |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 06:42 AM Response to Original message |
28. Don't be concerned. He'll get a hero's welcome. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 06:50 AM Response to Original message |
29. Europeans want to love America again. They just need a reason. n/t |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 07:40 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Exactly. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
31. I grimace in shame every time Dubya or one of his Cabinet members or staff |
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crankychatter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 07:40 AM Response to Original message |
33. boutique-barbarian tatted-and-pierced hipper-than-thou white-people-in-dreadlocks weirdness |
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smalll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 05:03 PM Response to Reply #33 |
44. You're welcome! /nt |
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JTFrog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
35. What a bigoted piece of shit that was to read. n/t |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
36. More Blau-Weiß than red, white and blue |
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Marie26 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
42. To remind people of JFK? nt |
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Bullet1987 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
43. I don't think there is a problem with him giving a speech in Berlin |
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Robeson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
46. Probably because it is one of the most powerful countries on Earth, is a staunch |
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JackORoses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-21-08 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
47. your concern has been noted and appropriately dismissed |
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