George W. Bush is yesterday, the Texas version of the arrogant world power. Obama is all about today: the “everybody really just wants to be brothers and save the world” utopia. As for us, we who sometimes admire and sometimes curse this somewhat anemic, pragmatic democracy, we will have to quickly get used to Barack Obama, the new leader of a lofty democracy that loves those big nice words — words that warm our hearts and alarm our minds.
Let’s allow ourselves to be warmed today, by this man at the Victory Column. Then we’ll take a further look.
I really want to eat this plate full of crap, but I realize it’s a plate full of crap, so don’t judge me.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/24 @ 7:59 pm #
huh. I thought Germans were supposed to be much less emotional than us. well, he’ll have to get in line to have Obama’s love child.
Comment by JHoward on 7/24 @ 8:11 pm #
Perhaps the height of Obama’s mendacity is taking credit for Bush’s foreign policy. That’s what I said: Despite all the self-induced McChimpyBushCo America hatred (read: leftist self-loathing) only a collectivist cretin with literally no creds like The O! would emerge have the audacity to bask in the relative safety brought about by the previous eight years.
Comment by serr8d on 7/24 @ 8:13 pm #
‘President of the World’, ‘utopian’, ‘idealist’…well, Dan, I guess we’re just on the wrong side of the entire rest of the planet’s infatuation-fest.
Care to fist bump?
Comment by yourdaddy on 7/24 @ 8:36 pm #
Soon, once Obama is President, this sort of criticism will be extinguished and you will bow down.
Seig.
Heil.
Comment by TmjUtah on 7/24 @ 8:38 pm #
They never did grow those testicles back after ‘45, did they?
Bismark would be ashamed. Not to say that this is a bad thing, but it is sad, just the same.
Comment by Good Lt. on 7/24 @ 8:38 pm #
Yes, we can will become YES YOU WILL.
Comment by Cincinnatus on 7/24 @ 8:43 pm #
The hippy love is new and fresh.
Democracy in the ME is so yesterday.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/24 @ 8:43 pm #
Geesh, I’m re-reading Jonah’s “Liberal Fascism, and at the same time, I’m re-reading Jonah’s “Liberal Fascism”.
Comment by Squid on 7/24 @ 8:53 pm #
In a few years, we’ll look back fondly on these days when we were merely reading about Liberal Fascism.
*sigh*
Comment by psycho... feels bomby on 7/24 @ 8:55 pm #
We have the technology to append …or so the Germans would have us believe to the end of anything any German ever says or writes. So let’s.
Comment by McGehee on 7/24 @ 9:02 pm #
Bow down
Bow down
Before the Hopeyness of Obama
Or be crushed
Be crushed
By-y-y-y-y
His flappy ears of
doomChange!*Comment by mojo on 7/24 @ 9:10 pm #
“Will it be a fair fight? Is this ‘moose’ armed with any sort of projectile weapon?”
Comment by Ouroboros on 7/24 @ 9:23 pm #
A couple of white proggies in my office were gushing over O! today and how beloved he is all over the rest of the world .. I remarked that “with all this build up it sure will be something to see if McCain wins this, cause polls are only showing him trailing by a few percent..” to which they replied, “That’ll just be proof of how racist and hateful this country is..”. I snickered a little thinking they were kidding.. making a little joke out of the liberal stereotype of the self loathing white men.. but they weren’t smiling.. and it dawned on me that there really are people that believe the only reason one wouldn’t vote for the Messiah is because he’s black.. That not to support O! really IS evidence of ones racist beliefs…At that I felt a cold chill go up my back. There’s a storm coming in this country.
Comment by Stout Republican on 7/24 @ 9:30 pm #
My wife put it best as I read this column to her:
“The world where everybody gets to go out to pizza after the game…no matter who wins.”
Comment by AJB on 7/24 @ 9:35 pm #
OBAMA IS LIKE HITLER!!
OH MAN THAT’S HILARIOUS I NEVER HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE!!!!
Comment by happyfeet on 7/24 @ 9:36 pm #
travelin’ along there’s a song that we’re singin’
c’mon get happy
ok no not feeling it. If you let me play the tambourine… maybe.
Comment by poppa india on 7/24 @ 9:58 pm #
Needs more cowbell.
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[...] Because I still can. Soon, once Obama is President, this sort of criticism will be extinguished and you will bow down. [...]
Comment by U238 on 7/24 @ 10:31 pm #
Was this the “substanitive” speech we were promised by his campaign? I only ask because not once did he ever say “HOW” he intended to do any of the things “we must do” as citizens of the world.
Comment by Sdferr on 7/24 @ 10:41 pm #
How’s are for the little people like the generals in Iraq who are only there to carry out the wishes of the Great Strategist who sets the tone and determines the what. “How”? Piffle.
Comment by Freedoms Truth on 7/24 @ 10:46 pm #
“OBAMA IS LIKE HITLER!!”
“OH MAN THAT’S HILARIOUS I NEVER HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE!!!!”
What a yawner.
To the humorless “Obama=Hitler” dolts: *NO* re-education camp soup for you!
(That’s okay, more for me, and dibs on the top bunk!)
Comment by Sean M. on 7/25 @ 2:26 am #
I like…
…coupled with…
They’re not very big on the whole irony thing, huh?
Comment by B Moe on 7/25 @ 2:37 am #
…Barack Obama, the new leader of a lofty democracy…
These folks have forgotten what a stone cold bitch Karma is.
Comment by Rusty on 7/25 @ 5:00 am #
lofty democracy…
That’s some pretty high rent democracy, that is. Does it have a doorman?
Comment by BJTexs on 7/25 @ 5:08 am #
Hasn’t somebody informed AJB that I OWN THE ALL CAPS FRANCHISE HERE?!?!
ELEVENTY TO THE POWER OF HEART!!11!!11!!
Comment by ccs on 7/25 @ 5:17 am #
The way I saw it he didn’t drive Hillary out of anything, he just kind of squeeked by.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 7/25 @ 6:01 am #
…bow down before the one you serve
you’re going to get what you deserve…
Comment by Evil Old Rich White Guy on 7/25 @ 6:37 am #
I am only disappointed that Andrew Sullivan is off this week, so we can’t read about how this speech was the most “searing, gut-wrenching, nuanced, and deeply, deeply, Christian” since the last one that the Obama-lama-ding-dong gave.
Comment by Pablo on 7/25 @ 6:41 am #
#27 Mikey
RACIST!!!
Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 7/25 @ 6:50 am #
Ouroboros: “I remarked that “with all this build up it sure will be something to see if McCain wins this, cause polls are only showing him trailing by a few percent..†to which they replied, “That’ll just be proof of how racist and hateful this country is..â€Â. I snickered a little thinking they were kidding.. making a little joke out of the liberal stereotype of the self loathing white men.. but they weren’t smiling.. and it dawned on me that there really are people that believe the only reason one wouldn’t vote for the Messiah is because he’s black.”
The time that the nation will be ready for a black man to win the presidency will be the day that one can lose without this petty, whiny claptrap being spewed. Now, me, I’m a “walletist” — I listen to the candidates and vote for the one who doesn’t see my salary as the solution to all the world’s ills. It is a policy that has served me well in the past several elections.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 7/25 @ 6:54 am #
“That’ll just be proof of how racist and hateful this country is..â€Â
I thought that was already proven according to them?
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 7/25 @ 7:55 am #
“…bow down before the one you serve
you’re going to get what you deserve…”
Black as your soul, I’d rather die than give you control (seeing the creepiness of the O! brownshirts, that may be an option).
Comment by bergerbilder on 7/25 @ 8:06 am #
Bush is Moses to Obama’s Joshua.
Moses did all the grunt work, pissed off everyone, and couldn’t enter the Promised Land.
Joshua blows his horn, the walls crumble, and everyone celebrates.
What a contrast! Arrogant, grumpy Moses and cheery Joshua with all his blow-his-horniness.
Comment by Ouroboros on 7/25 @ 8:23 am #
“The time that the nation will be ready for a black man to win the presidency will be the day that one can lose without this petty, whiny claptrap being spewed.”
Dc: Exactly.. Wish I could fit this sentence on a t-shirt.
“I thought that was already proven according to them?”
Apparently it was.. I thought they were kidding.. Some ignorance is just so huge that when you’re too close to it you cant see it…
SecProg: THIS IS THE MOST HATE FILLED, VILE PLACE IN THE WORLD TO BE A PERSON OF COLOR..!! WHITEY KEEPS THE BROTHERS DOWN IN POVERTY SO THEY’LL BE FORCED INTO THE ONLY OPTION THEY HAVE: THE MAN’S ARMY, WHERE THEY’LL BECOME KILLBOTS OF BROWN BABIES AND WOMEN IN THE THIRD WORLD!!
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
SecProg: ….
Me:M Ahahhahaha… ahhahaha.. aha..heh…. You’re kidding, right?
SecProg: ….
Comment by mojo on 7/25 @ 8:56 am #
People who think Hilly is done, gone, finished? Well, they don’t know her vewy well, do dey?
Comment by mac on 7/25 @ 9:34 am #
What is it with Germans and mass outdoor spectacles?
Barack Obama, Uber Alles!
Comment by SevenEleventy on 7/25 @ 9:37 am #
People who think Hilly is done, gone, finished? Well, they don’t know her vewy well, do dey?
I’m with you mojo. Her endorsement was tepid, at best. Hillary
Comment by TmjUtah on 7/25 @ 9:46 am #
…. said that Hillary will be at the front of her herd, on the floor in Denver.
And I don’t think “lofty” is going to describe that democracy in action.
It’s going to be a real “woot” moment. Maybe even an eleventy!11!.
I see things spinning out of control about the time some O! speaker mutters “Get over IT!” from the podium.
Comment by charles austin on 7/25 @ 11:56 am #
My favorite lines from this piece so obviously stolen from The Onion:
Anyone who saw him make the short way from the Victory Column in Berlin on Thursday to the podium saw a man with the serious gait of a basketball player… Not only that, but because he hasn’t been tortued, he can raise his hands over his head in celebration!
Anyone who listens to him realizes that he is not only ambitious but will also make demands. I seem to recall hearing something about not being allowed to be complacent and having to work on utopia.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 7/25 @ 11:59 am #
I’m with you mojo.
Me, too. Hillary is still out there, circling like a vulture.
Obama better hope his mask doesn’t crack any further before the convention, ’cause Hillary will go for his throat at the slightest provocation.
Comment by MarkJ on 7/25 @ 7:02 pm #
From Obama’s favorite musical, “Cabaret”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdM8PDu6VMg