Comments on: From Der Tagesspiegel: Barack Obama Must ‘Take a Stand’

By: Neocon

Neocon — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:22:59 +0000

Runasim

Its going to be a loooooonnnnngggggg 4 years for you. In post after post you reveal how sick you are of what people are saying about Obama and hes not even been elected yet.

If Obama slips to the right he is going to be getting the same treatment that they just gave Clinton and our former ex president Bill Clinton. That made the treatment they gave Bush look Mild and CLINTON was ONE OF THEIR OWN.

By: runasim

runasim — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:16:33 +0000

Germans should pay more attention to eheir own affairs.

I hope Obama sticks to his guns and does things his way. Obama must do this, Obama must be that, at home and abroad.
I'm really sick of it, particualrly because most of the advice is so bad.
They don't listen to him when he speaks and insist he speak about things he can't predict.

What nonsense.

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:37:45 +0000

Well on the one hand, European criticism of Obama will bode well for his middle ground support. On the other hand, liberals usually identify with the European opinions...so....

It just goes to show that he is moving away from his "liberal" political birth and rapidly sprinting towards any-way-the-wind blows.

I'm sure we can count on him in a pinch to take a firm stand.

Not.

Meanwhile McCain is like the robotic clone of the Bush/Cheney sellout of America to the BigOil monopoly and anti-American economic sabotage.

Who to choose? Slick or Oil Slick?

Gosh, I wish there was another democratic candidate who got more votes than Obama. A candidate who has experience in the Whitehouse, who was say, one of the top confidants to a past president who carved our economy back into the strongest its ever been in US history. A candidate who has a history of being respected by foreign dignitaries and has experience consulting and repairing domestic troubles, creating oh, say 22 million new jobs... And a candidate that could unite the democratic party instead of splintering it into a million pieces.

If only. If only...

By: JSpencer

JSpencer — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:29:38 +0000

Maybe the Germans have the same fickle dynamic that our own media does when it gets bored. Or more likely they don't fully grasp the sometimes convoluted nature of our political system in the US, which in this case refers to Obama's need to appeal to non-liberals in order to be elected. John McCain will have the same challenge when it comes to appealing to non-conservatives. In any case, the Europeans have my sympathy; even folks who have lived here all their lives sometimes have trouble figuring it out.

PS, I just read VWcat's comment, and see we have some overlap. Great minds think alike.

By: vwcat

vwcat — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:29:36 +0000

Germans sound like French. I am half french and the minute they like something they look for a reason not to.
But, most in europe don't understand that Obama must pull more to the center. Not just because it's something done in the general but, even more so with Obama who has been haunted by the rumors of him being some scary fringie. He has to go more mainstream just to keep some people from freaking out.
Germans do not understand the practical politics – as most of Europe doesn't.
But, in a few weeks he will be in Europe on a visit and they will be in love again.
So it goes.
My cousin Doris is here visiting from France and I'll have to ask her on Friday in Chicago, where she is staying with my sister, what the thoughts are about our elections this year.