Okay, so tides and rising sea levels are technically two different things, but seriously, are they really that different? I mean, if rising sea levels are bad, isn’t high tide bad too? Shouldn’t we try to stop that? Think of the additional beach property that would be created.

NT

Unfortunately for Sen. Obama, his Berlin shindig was upstaged by this more important breaking news out of Ukraine:

Lytvyn personally milked a cow in the Vinnytsia Oblast

Hey, at least that gent has his priorities straight….

(For what it’s worth, I got back last night from a short jaunt to Hungary and Romania. The messiah’s visit to Europe was receiving zero coverage there….)

Some fisking, if I may…

The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand.

What walls? Disagreements, sure. But walls? What walls? We still work closely with even the French and the socialist-controlled Spanish…

The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand.

Tell that to the despots who murder, starve, rape, and otherwise subjugate their people and keep the aid from the nations with the most out of those in their own countries who have the least.

Also, through free-trade policies we’re trying to knock down those walls… no thanks to you and your anti-prosperity colleagues.

The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.

If you mean xenophobia, racism, and the like, you’re addressing the right crowd when you talk to Europeans — far more likely to be xenophobic than Americans. And if you mean we need to *continue *battling against racism here at home, then great.

But I must say, “knocking down the walls” between religions in anything except an “end the violence” sort of way, then you seem to be advocating a “one religion is as good as the next” attitude. And neither Islam (which we know you’re not), nor Christianity (which you insist you are), nor Judaism (which no one suspects you of), allows for that sort of relativism.

This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. The two superpowers that faced each other across the wall of this city came too close too often to destroying all we have built and all that we love.

Is it just me, or does that sound like he is setting himself and the rest of “we” apart from both of those superpowers, while seeking to be the next President of one of them. And I wonder what the devil he claims as what “he” built as part of “we built”?

With that wall gone, we need not stand idly by and watch the further spread of the deadly atom.

Um, no… thanks. Hey, while you’re on this theme, why don’t you schedule a meeting of your European subcommittee to address Russian nukes… or pay attention to how the world has already been addressing the threat of a nuclear Iran and stop undermining that process with your idiotic notions of unilateral unfettered talks.

It is time to secure all loose nuclear materials; to stop the spread of nuclear weapons; and to reduce the arsenals from another era. This is the moment to begin the work of seeking the peace of a world without nuclear weapons.

Right. check. Started that one nearly 20 years ago when “this wall” did come a-tumblin’ down. Get with the times, Barry.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

Gee whiz. I was really looking forward to starving my kids nearly to death and then drowning them at the last moment… Ah well.

But then, my personal favorite:

Bring a “new dawn” to the Middle East (Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict).

Barry is already planning his end-of-term, last-ditch “legacy building” efforts… Because what’s a lame-duck Presidency without a push for peace in Israel and Palestine? It’s almost a rite of passage anymore.

I’d offer more commentary, but Obama is so vapid as to deserve only:

Yawn… To quote the inestimable Bugs Bunny, “What a maroon.”

…why you all are against setting a high bar for success? is it not better to aim high than aim low? should we not set aspirational goals?

you all sound mighty defeatist to me.

One would posit Obama would have supported the surge if he wanted a new dawn? Here is a good articulation of Obama’s “new dawn”;

Now that Obama has become a leading Presidential candidate, he has assembled a body of foreign policy advisers who signal that a President Obama would likely have an approach towards Israel radically at odds with those of previous Presidents (both Republican and Democrat). A group of experts collected by the Israeli liberal newspaper Haaretz deemed him to be the candidate likely to be least supportive of Israel. He is the candidate most favored by the Arab-American community.
Ed Lasky, The American Thinker

…I come in peace.

That about sums up the transcript. As usual, there’s no “there” there.

McCain is gaining in every state according to the Quinnipiac polls. This trip is hurting Obama. McCain is closing in on Obama in all the key states.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x4141.xml?ReleaseID=1195

He’s over there, and McCain is over here addressing the issues.

I love seeing the Repubs shut the Dems down by telling the Dems to go shove it on Anwar.

If we fight the Dems on the issues, we will win. That’s what our base wants.

People are starting to find Obama unlikable. The like McCain more – he’s humble, dogged, and principled.

.. i thought barack said just the other day that we all have to learn another language so we can go to europe and be able to say more than ‘merci beaucoup ‘ … so why was his entire speech delivered in ENGLISH ?!? could anyone understand him ? he could have at least thrown in an “ich bin ein beginner” for the locals.

“With that wall gone, we need not stand idly by and watch the further spread of the deadly atom.”

Since when is an atom dangerous? Contextually I suppose it’s a warning against nuclear weapons, but really, he needs some better speech writers.

every time I hear this man talk I want to puke. He is worst then the two faced john kerryless. lie lie lie your moment obabyh

that McCain is regretting having challenged Obama to go to Iraq. His campaign really needs to stop the whining about the media and do something a bit more interesting than visiting the “Fudge Haus” (although his gaffes from the past week certainly earn him a seat at the heads of the Fudge Table)

… I think those Europeans are just happy that they won’t have to hang with Bush anymore, and will take either candidate. =P

Doesn’t duel citizenship disqualify him from being president? I thought you could only be a natural born citizen of the US hmmmmmm.

is obviously deranged and unfit to be commander in chief.

And if any of his handlers want to say that’s just a goal I say that’s crap. Should the Miss America candidate who gives the best Kumbaya answer be President too? Tell us what you’re really going to do for a change instead of spouting a bunch of content-free pap.

Out of touch with reality. Read the comment on #44

Der Spiegel’s take

Sheesh.

Will we acknowledge that there is no more powerful example than the one each of our nations projects to the world? Will we reject torture and stand for the rule of law? Will we welcome immigrants from different lands, and shun discrimination against those who don’t look like us or worship like we do, and keep the promise of equality and opportunity for all of our people?

People of Berlin — people of the world — this is our moment. This is our time.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality *for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when *our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Reject torture? Hmmmm who is being accused of torture and breaking international law? He’s talking about America. And who is not welcoming immigrants and not shunning discrimination? Well, that must be America too.

And in the last paragraph here he begins in present tense and then switches to past. So which is it? Have we “not perfected ourselves” because of things we have done in the past, or are we not perfect because we’re “struggling to keep the promise of liberty…” right now?

He was stating the complaints of European America-haters and distancing himself from them. He was validating the accusation of torture against our president and our military and validating the accusation of discrimination and xenophoby against Americans and promising the Germans that “we’ll do better.”

And he was doing this all on foreign soil.

The Germans got the guy with the Spiderman credit card. The AmEx Gold card guy is back here in the States, taking care of business.

….an awful lot like he was running for supreme ruler of planet earth. That passage about eliminating walls between nations who have and nations who don’t, eliminating walls between religions, etc…. sounded awfully anti-christ like where all the people of the world live under one leader. Absolutely frightening stuff…..

And I also like how it was implied that if he’s not elected then the oceans will rise, our children will starve and storms will ravage the earth. His narcissim is endless. Are we the only ones who really get who this guy is?? Is the rest of our great country really this stupid that they would vote for this Marxist??

but we all heard the speech in our own native tongue.