Obamanation's European Vacation

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: Dieses ist unser Moment; dieses ist unsere Zeit! (If, you know, he actually spoke German)

BERLIN SPECTATOR: Typisches amerikanisches Arschloch.

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The Ego Trip departs the region he doesn't want to understand for the region that will bow down to him like no other (and yet still fall short of the level of devotion he craves)....

SUNDAY, JULY 20: For some unfathomable reason, rather than be hosannahed at several European stops and blow his head up to Zeppelin dimensions, the American Democrat assumptive presidential nominee with a vast fondness for fascistic flamboyance chose the capital of the country that made such spectacles famous for the site of his keynote "coming out on the world stage" address.

Although, to be fair, the Bane of Cynicism wanted to upstage two of his assumptive predecessors by speaking in front of the Brandenburg Gate, even though, as referenced at the top, he doesn't speak German (rendering him unable to ape JFK's "Icb bin ein Berliner") and thanks to the Gipper, the Berlin Wall was torn down nineteen years ago.  As per usual, everybody on the planet, including most especially the German government, recognized the overpoweringly offputting display of callow, unearned conceit except Senator Obama himself, and the regime of Chancellor Angela Merkel managed to persuade him to seek out another Berlin venue instead.

So where did the man with the taste for giant, loud arm-extending rallies chose as his alternative?

Would you believe right smack in front of a Hitler-relocated statue glorifying German imperialism?:

Still, even as the issue of his speech’s location has now been settled, a number of politicians in Berlin are still dissatisfied with the site. The Siegessäule — or Victory Column — was erected in memory of Prussia’s victories over Denmark (1864), Austria (1866) and France (1870/71). The column originally stood in front of the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building, but was moved by Adolf Hitler to its current location in 1939 to make way for his planned transformation of Berlin into the Nazi capital “Germania.”

“The Siegessäule in Berlin was moved to where it is now by Adolf Hitler. He saw it as a symbol of German superiority and of the victorious wars against Denmark, Austria and France,” the deputy leader of the Free Democrats, Rainer Brüderle, told Bild am Sonntag. He raised the question as to “whether Barack Obama was advised correctly in his choice of the Siegessäule as the site to hold a speech on his vision for a more cooperative world.”

Andreas Schockenhoff of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats said, “the Siegessäule in Berlin is dedicated to a victory over neighbors who are today our European friends and allies. It is a problematic symbol.”

"Problematic" - heh.  I suppose it is "problematic," at that.  Although, again, to be fair, there could have been worse venues - like, say, Nuremberg itself.  And, given Lucifer's emblematic bottomless ignorance of anything and everything not drilled into his skull by left-wing academia (and racist/Marxist pastors and Weathermen terrorists), it is entirely plausible that he and his flunkies were simply looking for the an outdoor site that had (1) room for the biggest mob of arm-extending worshippers and (2) SOME sort of statue in the background, in order to make it look authentically German.  If that statue happened to be diametrically symbolically opposed to everything he's claiming to stand for, well, a god can appropriate any symbol he wants for his own propaganda purposes, right?

Come to think of it, maybe that's why he didn't schedule companion stops in France, Denmark, and Austria.

TUESDAY, JULY 22: Ho, boy.  There are Freudian slips, and then there are FREUDIAN SLIPS.  And then there's whenever Barack Hussein Obama - or one of his disciples - opens his mouth:

But senior aides engaged in a bit of rhetorical gymnastics Tuesday as they faced reporters who questioned their resistance to acknowledging the political aspects of Obama’s week-long, high-profile tour against the backdrop of an intense American presidential campaign.

At a morning background briefing, reporters parried with senior advisers on the characterization of Obama’s speech Thursday in Berlin as a campaign rally. The outdoor speech at the Victory Column could draw thousands of people, similar to the size of Obama events in the United States.

“It is not going to be a political speech,” said a senior foreign policy adviser, who spoke to reporters on background. “When the president of the United States goes and gives a speech, it is not a political speech or a political rally.["]

“But he is not president of the United States,” a reporter reminded the adviser.

“He is going to talk about the issues as an individual … not as a candidate, but as an individual, as a senator,” the adviser added.

Added hastily after realizing what s/he'd just said, that is.  The biggest hoot of this exchange is that the Obamanoid had to have his/her stratospherically arrogan presumption pointed out by a reporter.  One who probably had to spit or swallow first.

It continues to be transparent to everybody who doesn't burn incense to this guy that Barack Hussein Obama and his entourage are absymal at thinking things through.  In this case, his "senior advisor" (Ensign Ed has placed his money on Susan Rice) only took a stab at doing so after being challenged on the quite evident, and so taken for granted in Obamanation that the outward appearance never ever occurred to them, fact that this political rally in Berlin was....a political rally in Berlin.  I mean, doesn't EVERY American presidential candidate stage giant crusade-like public glory-harvesting sessions overseas?

Never thinking they'd be called on it by their ocean of press sycophants, "senior advisor" showed what's in their hearts - and delivered another powerful blow to her boss' PR pastry bag.  Jesse Jackson must be so jealous.

To answer the above rhetorical question, no, American presidential candidates DON'T stage giant crusade-like public glory-harvesting sessions overseas.  Generally because (1) rally attendees can't vote in our elections (maybe that'll be another of Messiah's "reforms") and (2) it tends, as John Kerry found out four years ago, to REALLY alienate most Americans who can and do.  And though some may believe in their hearts that their November election is a mere formality, none have EVER evinced the abject stupidity of publicly coming out and saying so.

It's a funny thing about abject PR stupidity - it has a natural tendency to metastasize.  In this case, it reached back in time to contextually infect the first portion of Barry's Excellent Adventure:

Oh, come ON, Gerg.  Stop trying to make the Chosen One jump through all those tedious civic hoops of actually getting his party's nomination and actually having to campaign and actually having the election and so forth.  Just drink the Kool Aid and acknowledge Team Hussein's undisguised hubris, which is like an open attitudinal book: "Barry is going to win, everybody knows it, so let's all just accept it and get on with the transition."

Literally:

With less than six months to go before he would be sworn in as the nation’s 44th president, Senator Barack Obama has directed his aides to begin planning for the transition.

"Barack is well aware of the complexity and the organizational challenge involved in the transition process and he has tasked s small group to begin thinking through the process,” a senior campaign adviser said. “Barack has made his expectations clear about what he wants from such a process, how he wants it to move forward, and the establishment and execution of his timeline is proceeding apace.”

Last month, the Post’s Chris Cillizza reported that campaign advisers were sounding out John Podesta, a former White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and currently the president of the Center for American Progress, for his advice.

An aide confirms that Podesta will probably be asked to head the transition team, which would take over from the campaign if Obama wins in November, and would be tasked with ensuring a smooth handover of power….

A campaign spokesperson confirmed that transition planning had begun but would provide no further details. An adviser said that the campaign wants to keep the process as low profile as possible in order to minimize distractions. [emphasis added]

Uh-huh.  SUUUUUURE they did.  Even if so, fat chance of that happening in this communications age.  So will reporters start addressing Senator Obama as "Mr. President" voluntarily or will his campaign have to circulate a memo?

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23:  False Messiah rested.  Or somebody stapled his lips shut.  Or something.

THURSDAY, JULY 24: Not-A-Political-Rally Day!  Not-A-Political-Rally-Day!  Getcher Hopeandchange foam fingers, "I was touched by god" t-shirts, and souvenier knee pads here!

Sadly for all of St. Barack's diplomat fans in Berlin, they can't attend.  Why?:

The U.S. Embassy in Berlin has instructed Foreign Service personnel stationed there not to attend Senator Barack Obama’s public rally today, which the State Department this week labeled a “partisan political activity” prohibited under its regulations for those serving overseas.

Damn Bushitler and his redneck brownshirts for not letting American diplomats bask in the Shekinah glow of their deified already-ruler in front of a monument to Nazi militarism!  Talk about sour grits...uh, grapes.

Whether you think they missed anything rests principally on whether or not you think just being in the reflection of the divine aura was the point, even if all Barry did was exclaim, "Berlin!  ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?!?," belch, and pass out face-down on the podium with the obligatory streamer of drool oozing out of his piehole.  For those predestinated to reside outside the sway of his ungodly swagger, it failed in that most crucial of senses from Team Hussein's point of view: It just wasn't rhetorically memorable:

Indeed, some reports have the assembled mob of chanting Deutsche untermenschen leaving the event more than a little underwhelmed, as though their giddy expectations of seeing another Incarnation were dashed by the vapid, vaccuous, cliche-ridden reality:

WOLF BLITZER: Did you get a sense, Christiane, that he actually delivered with his presentation, with his speech, his appearance in Berlin? Did people walk away seemingly satisfied or disappointed?

AMANPOUR: Well, I don’t think they were disappointed, and I’m not sure that they were thoroughly satisfied. I did ask some people as they were leaving what they thought. Everybody said good, good. But I was surprised that there wasn’t this sort of euphoria afterwards, given how many people had come to listen and how much it had been anticipated.

The good news for Obamanation is that his underwhelming address to "the world" was quickly overshadowed.  The bad news is what it was overshadowed by:

Spiegel Online has learned that Obama has cancelled a planned short visit to the Rammstein and Landstuhl US military bases in the southwest German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The visits were planned for Friday. “Barack Obama will not be coming to us,” a spokesperson for the US military hospital in Landstuhl announced. “I don’t know why.” Shortly before the same spokeswoman had announced a planned visit by Obama.

Landstuhl happens to be one that treats our wounded soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq.  A detail I would think should make BO want to squeeze that stop back onto his schedule simply for the opportunity to use them as anti-war props.

Oops, there's that interfering Oval Office squatter getting in the way again:

One military official who was working on the Obama visit said because political candidates are prohibited from using military installations as campaign backdrops, Obama’s representatives were told, “he could only bring two or three of his Senate staff member, no campaign officials or workers.” In addition, “Obama could not bring any media. Only military photographers would be permitted to record Obama’s visit.”

The official said “We didn’t know why” the request to visit the wounded troops was withdrawn. “He (Obama) was more than welcome. We were all ready for him.”

I swear to you, it's a Bushkin conspiracy.  Maybe he even brought Don Rumsfeld back to mastermind it.

The thing is, military officials at Rammstein and Landstuhl weren't ready for him.  The message?  If St. Barack can't exploit the troops for his own partisan ends, then bleep 'em, he's a busy Supreme Being and can't have his omnipresence put to the test like that.

Besides, (and I swear I'm not making this up), he had some serious shopping to do:

Obama noted that in a break from his whirlwind schedule, “we’ve got some down time tonight. What are you guys gonna do in Berlin? Huh? Huh? You guys got any big. plans? …I’ve never been to Berlin, so…I would love to tour around a little bit.”

"Typical American asshole," indeed.  Clark Griswold really did have more dignity than this.  And a better arranged order of priorities.  And more qualifications to be president of the United States.

Maybe Barack Hussein Obama's closing words should have been borrowed from that great American: "Fellow citizens of the world, I'm not a normal person.  I'm President Barack Obama."

FRIDAY, JULY 25 (post-script): I guess the Tiergarten Address really was a political rally after all:

Shortly after 6 pm Central time — just a few hours after Senator Barack Obama, D-[Heaven], gave his speech in Berlin, which his campaign insisted was not political — his campaign manager, David Plouffe, sent out a fundraising solicitation using the speech to raise campaign cash.

“As you may have heard [snicker], Barack has been in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia this week,” reads the email, with a big red “DONATE” sign. “Today, he spoke in Berlin, Germany. In a city where a wall once divided the free from the oppressed, he talked about tearing down the walls that divide all peoples so we can address our common problems — the threats of terrorism and nuclear weapons, global warming and genocide, AIDS and poverty. Watch Barack’s historic speech and share it with your friends.”

Wow, and to think he almost had me convinced.  For 0.68 seconds, anyway.  I guess Barry ran a little short on his Berlin shopping spree.

Here's a spontaneous question: if every speech that BO gives is "historic," are ANY of them really deserving of that description?

At the very least, the Middle East portion of the Ego Trip hasn't translated into any poll number improvements.  To the contrary, John Sith McCain appears to be in the midst of a [*AHEM*] "Surge" of his own.

Precisely the outcome I would hope to see to a man who is the ultimate political "pig in a poke".