From the International Herald Tribune:
Barack Obama’s popularity extends far beyond Iowa and into the heart of Central Europe. Germany has swiftly developed a serious case of Obama-mania.
Obama’s high standing goes beyond his opposition to the Iraq War, which has always been unpopular here. The sudden crush is intimately bound up with the near constant comparisons here between the young senator from Illinois and President John F. Kennedy – still admired in Germany and particularly in Berlin – which have stuck fast as his identity in the German press.
The Berliner Morgenpost over the weekend ran with the headline, “The New Kennedy.” The tabloid Bild went with, “This Black American Has Become the New Kennedy!”
An editorial in the Frankfurter Rundschau went one historic president better with a headline that read simply: “Lincoln, Kennedy, Obama,” adding that “hope and optimism” are “the source of the nation’s strength.”
Obama’s newfound popularity among Germans underscores not only the breadth of his appeal but also the opportunity he might have as president – though he is still far from the White House, much less his party’s nomination – to mend fences abroad as well as at home.
“There are similarities between JFK’s time and today,” said Karsten Rossow, 49, of Berlin, who was visiting the small Kennedy Museum by the Brandenburg Gate on a dark, snowy afternoon Sunday with his wife. “People are ready for the politics of change.”
Will “the Black Kennedy” go over there, and declare, “Ich bin ein Deutchlander”?
Hat tip: This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here (also, check out his link to a European who thinks Europeans should be allowed to vote in U.S. presidential elections….kind of like Vicente Fox dictating to us on illegal immigration).
Barack Obama, Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton stand for the National Anthem during the 30th annual Harkin Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa, September 16, 2007. REUTERS/Joshua Lott
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
My respect for the Germans just dropped more than a notch. There is no there there. Did Mr. Anti-Iraq vote against funding our peace keeping efforts in Iraq? Do Germans really think they will be safer with a man with heavy muslim sympathies in the Whitehouse? This thinking is more shallow and knee-jerk than I’d have expected from educated and serious folk. Germany, apparently, ain’t what it used to be.
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Deep down Germans resent having their a**es kicked in WWII even if they were at the time supporting a mass murderer. It’s no different when they support Islam and Osama Obama. Deep down Obama is nothing more than an educated Islamic con man. Ask yourself where the truck loads of cash are coming from. Shrillary’s cash cow is the Chi Com, and Obama’s is radical Islam. All want you dead and millions of ‘Americans ?’ are willing to help them with the slaughter. Ask yourself where is the American Nazi party, The American Communist party, The Islamic radicals (Cair), and the American socialist party. All folded into what was once the democrat party. Dangerous, yes.
Shrillary’s cash cow is the Chi Com, and Obama’s is radical Islam.
So those FEC filings from Obama (showing 300,000 donors all across the US) are I guess a total fabrication? In a way it’s reassuring to see that freakish paranoia is not exclusively the domain of some of the people on the Paul forums I frequent. Just substitute the ChiComs and Soros for the CFR and Rockefeller and it sounds about the same.
I didn’t think much about it when I heard Obama didn’t put his hand over his heart during the national anthem, but the photo isn’t what a Presidential candidate would want to use in his campaign literature, is it?