You’re invited to submit your own entries for fawning media coverage of Barack Obama. Here’s today’s entry, from the Associated Press:
In this city where John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton all made famous speeches, Obama will find himself stepping into perhaps another iconic moment Thursday as his superstar charisma meets German adoration live in shadows of the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate. He then travels to Paris and London where he can expect to be greeted with similar adulation.
It’s not only Obama’s youth, eloquence and energy that have stolen hearts across the Atlantic. For Europeans, there have always been two Americas: one of cynicism, big business and bullying aggression, another of freedom, fairness and nothing-is-impossible dynamism.
If President Bush has been seen as the embodiment of that first America, Obama has raised expectations of a chance for the nation to redeem itself in the role that — at various times through history — Europe has loved, respected and relied upon.
(Hat tip: Best of the Web Today.)
Reader Comments:
Why don’t you two guys get together and just punch each other a few times like real men?
(smiley face; no spell check needed)
Well in case you are interested in my advice of getting your degree, simply take a few online classes at University of Phoenix*, become chums with Doug Wilder and then take 2 courses at VCU. Instant higher-ed.
*A popular institution of higher-education located in someone’s basement computer, somewhere in Florida.
Larry,
No I wouldn’t. A college degree has nothing to do with a mans willingness to use spell check.
And be careful. One of the unwritten rules of posting on blogs is that you never criticize spelling because, from now on, YOU have to spell everything correctly. Without exception. Because I’ll be watching.
That’s “disciples” R. Smith, not deciples. If you’d done the right thing & completed your degree at VCU, you would’ve known that.
This is a great column on the whole Obamadrama and it’s effect on euros.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/david_aaronovitch/article4374704.ece
Personally, I think a night time ralley in the Nuremburg Sportzplatz would be more appropriate considering the freakish adulation displayed by Obamas army of deciples.
One consolation…the only thing contemporary America loves more than complaining is building someone up in order to detroy them later.
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