German paper: Obama dazzles over 200,000 in Berlin

[Coexist]

Yes...

OVER 200,000

http://www.thelocal.de/13277/20080724/

Over 200,000 jubilant Barack Obama supporters shut down the centre of Berlin on Thursday evening to listen to the US presidential candidate give a major foreign policy speech.

People from all walks of life streamed to the German capital’s Victory Column memorial at the heart of the city’s Tiergarten park hoping to glimpse of the popular US senator from Illinois.

“Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany,” Obama told the crowd to wild applause. "Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.”

As the sun set on the German capital, Berliners listened intently to Obama speak of the common challenges facing Europe and America in the 21st century.

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. "Feel free to email this story to the media"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Coexist]

4. 'about 100,000' my ass.

[WHAT]

6. for that last comment,...

I had to recommend :-).

[CountAllVotes]

2. wrong forum

delete

[eleny]

3. K&R with thanks for the report!

[gratefultobelib]

5. Did he give Angela Merkel a hug?

[Joanne98]

7. I knew they were lying about the numbers.

[Coexist]

9. of course they did.

[MadrasT]

8. ARGH!

I have seen a bunch of reports on US sites that say "tens of thousands" :wtf:

Sorry, M$M pukes... we have the intertubes and live video webcasts from Europe... "tens of thousands", (if you multiply 10,000 enough times, you get 200,000) rat bastards...

[tledford]

11. You're right. "Twenty tens of thousands turned out in Berlin to hear Obama speak."

I'm sure they'll correct their mistake.

:eyes:

[Barack_America]

10. Congratulations Berlin, you now officially hold the record for largest Obama rally.

1. Berlin - 200,000
2. Portland - 75,000
3. Philadelphia- 48,000

[Coexist]

12. how cool is that.

[DebJ]

17. What is McCain's top draw?

[Barack_America]

19. When he was on the College Tour with Chris Matthews...

No shit. (at least so says CM)

And that was a few thousand people, MAX!

:rofl:

[Coexist]

21. funny that - Matthews just took credit for giving mccain his larget crowd on last night's show!

[Danascot]

23. Dozens! ... at least!

According to a video report posted by Scranton, Pennsylvania's Times-Leader, John McCain's town hall event in Wilkes-Barre earlier today featured an underwhelming turnout -- more than half the seats were empty. About seven hundred folks showed up -- a decent sized crowd, perhaps, but it left nine hundred seats empty.

Meanwhile, when Barack Obama visited Wilkes-Barre on April 1, more than two thousand people attended -- not including the line of people that were turned away by fire department officials.



http://www.jedreport.com/2008/07/what-if-mccain.html

[Coexist]

25. Tens of tens!

[bdamomma]

22. they take their politics seriously

[Buck Rabbit]

24. We Portlanders demand a rematch!

In the Primary they didn't setup to stretch the length of Water Front Park and he wasn't even the presumed nominee yet. We want a do over!

[Barack_America]

26. Yeah, well we here in Philly still have a beef with you...

We had our rally during 90 degree heat!

Do over, do over!

;)

[polichick]

13. The good ol' U.S. of A. has fallen pretty far when we can't even get the truth about a crowd size.

[Coexist]

14. I am so used to it. they always WAY underestimate anti-war demonstrations.

[Coexist]

15. Holy Crap! David Shuster just said "a crowd of over 200,000 people"

yeah, David!!

[rox63]

28. I also heard them report 200,000 on NPR earlier today

A few outlets are telling the truth about the crowd size.

[Imagevision]

16. While 200,000 came out to protest against Bush showing up...

[catgirl]

18. Kick!!

[IndependentDem]

20. "He can't change much from here," the 60-year-old told The Local....

my favorite part of the article--
--snip--
Uwe Bley came all the way from the northern port city of Hamburg with his wife to see Obama on Thursday. "He can't change much from here," the 60-year-old told The Local, expressing his desire for the presidential candidate to take America in a new direction. "But he's the new hope now."

[Soul Creature Media]

27. Obama vs McCain on Moral Amnesia

The Moral Amnesia of america will end with the new president. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-6yf2iVaWo Who will you vote for?