Jul 25
200,000 . . . or 20,000? Obama’s Crowd in Berlin
“Obama Addresses 200,000 in Berlin” — thus ran the AP headline the day after Barack Obama’s much-hyped speech in front of Berlin’s Siegessäule or “Victory Column.” This 200,000 figure has quickly become the standard estimate of the crowd for Obama’s speech in both the American and the German media: so standard indeed that it is for the most part
More sycophantic twaddle in the DT; but PJM has got some realism for those suffering from Obamaitis.
Egads I agree with Simon Heffer.
His speech in Berlin on Thursday was atrocious in its cynicism – he didn’t even offer a German translation for his audience – and mindless in its content. America loves its rock stars and film stars, and now seems to want to have one for a head of state.
It is rather a shame that we might have to endure the consequences, too. In its posturing and complacency, Berlin could be to Mr Obama what the Sheffield rally of 1992 was to Neil Kinnock.
Obama uber Ales might not be the best thing to evoke in the mind of some American voters with a memory.
