POLITICO: OBAMA doubts "a million screaming Germans"

[flpoljunkie]

July 24, 2008



Obama doubts "a million screaming Germans"

In advance of his Thursday address in Berlin, Obama chats with reporters on the plane, Carrie Budoff Brown reports:

Asked if he expected a million screaming Germans, as some of predicted, Obama said:

"I doubt we are going to have a million screaming Germans. Let's tamp down expectations."

He continued:

"I did not realize - my staff just told me the space is bigger" than he'd first realized, he told the press, who asked if that was a bad thing.

"It is a potentially bad thing," he said to laughs. "We are sort of on the high wire. I was like, 'I'm sorry, how many does this accomodate?'"

ALSO, more praise for Crocker and Petraeus.

On Ambassador Crocker: "A real unsung hero in this whole process. Incredibly savvy, but humble and self effacing."

Petraeus: "an extradinarily capable person."

[Inuca]

1. From the German press

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3507071,00.html

Those who want to hear Obama live have been told to start arriving three hours earlier. Berlin authorities say that as many as a million people could attend. Four TV stations are broadcasting the entire speech, and the rest are scrambling to secure prime locations at the site.

[WinkyDink]

2. Why the word "screaming"? Isn't the USUAL term "cheering"? "Screaming" is for terror and fright.

[tsuki]

6. Cheering is for old, white, male candidates. Screaming is for

women and minorities. That is Corporate M$M speak.

[Cha]

7. Screaming is for

Rock Stars.

[Gman]

3. The world is starving for order and sanity

They too see Obama as The One.

[uponit7771]

4. wow...great minds think alike :-)

[Alter Ego]

5. Meh, Dubya can pull in crowds twice that size.

Of course, 9/10 of them are protesters burning him in effigy, but still...

[President Decider]

8. Obama will get at least 200K while McSame can't seem to fill a smokefilled lounge at the Holiday Inn