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ORIGINAL: bipolarber

Meanwhile, John McCain is giving an electrifying speech in front of a cheese display somewhere in "flyover" country, about how he wasn't at all wrong about Iraq's "Awakening" movement haveing started after the surge, when in fact it had begun almost a year before... See, there was this "secret surge" that was going on for a year before the public surge took place...

There was a crowd of electrified... dozens.

Oh, and his boss, George Bush? He got caught telling the truth about what's been causing our economic troubles, on a camera phone... OMG, he told the truth when a lie could have done just as well! What's the world coming to? (He said it was because Wall Street was drunk... i.e. it went nuts because of the lack of lending regulation.)

(Once again, a republican learns the hard way about consumer video tech, and this funky thing called "youtube." [It must be named after one of those "series of tubes" that make up the internet thingy...]  )

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But not everyone, of course, is euphoric about the conditions under which Obama will appear in Berlin.
Those wishing to attend have been advised that signs and posters will be prohibited at the speech -- a move that has come in for criticism particularly from the left. There has been speculation that the Obama camps wants to avoid pictures of Germans making anti-American statements that could hurt the candidate back home.

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Moreover, some residents of Germany's perennially cash-strapped capital have taken umbrage at the fact that Obama's visit will cost a half-million euros ($786,000) -- half of which will be born by German public funds.
"How come the German and the Berlin taxpayer has to pony up 250,000 euros so that Obama gets a nice television backdrop for his campaign?" asked one irritated blogger on the website of a local newspaper.

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ORIGINAL: bipolarber

When a foreign dignitary comes to our country, I wonder what our cash outlay is? Combining security, transportation for the offical, and his entourage, food, five star accomedations, media junket...

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Slaveboy we are talking about this ,the fact the speech was made in Germany was no accident....his percieved weakness is in experience and foriegn affairs...he went abroad made speeches...this is what politicians do.The speech was given in Germany ,but beleive me the message and the image was for the American electorate

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Actually his campaign paid for the Germany leg of the tour.

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Slaveboy are you actually asking me if this trip qualifies as foreign affairs experience.Let me ask you how it could not...he has sat with heads of states heard their views on the issues confronting them exchanged his views on what his actions has Head of State would be...in what way could that not be experience