You know why the Rightwingers are pissed - because McCain can't pull off what Obama did in Germany

[LynneSin]

So I watched Countdown tonight but unfortunately I caught a bit of Hardball before hand and I left the TV running afterwards for whatever was on after Keith.

And I watched all the repuke talking heads spew hatred and spin negatively what Obama did today in Germany. But you know, they're just doing their job because they know there is no way they could put McCain on a trip like that and have the same kind of success that Obama had today.

I looked at Dozens of pictures of the speech in Germany and what thing was noticably absent - large-scale protests against the United States and/or the person representing the US. The audience was filled with 200K+ who wanted to hear what Obama had to say and came with little protesting (I'm sure there was some but not obvious).

McCain can never make that trip because he risks the potential of another large-scale protest. If Germans, or for that matter other countries in general, perceive McCain as simply an extenstion of the Bush administration there is a risk of major protests that would be nothing but a negative for the McCain campaign - it would give off an image back to the US that McCain is really living up to his nickname of 'McSame' and perhaps the US wants something new and different.

Congratulations for the great job done by Obama! Today he truly looked presidential!

[NYC_SKP]

1. Let's pressure McCain to go...

I'd love to see him backpedal around that challenge.

Better still, though less likely, I'd like to see him go.

And yes, he looked like the president we never had but always wanted.

[ecstatic]

21. Good idea. McCain is getting off way too easy

:puke:

[Indiana_Dem]

2. Interesting view--nice! I think you may be onto something! nt

[saltpoint]

3. "As consolation, Senator McCain, here's a steaming bowl of sauerkraut for

you at our fine German restaurant. Bon appetit!"

[murray hill farm]

4. Well sure!!

McCain is toast and he knows it. He thought he had a clever idea to goad Obama into going going to Iraq...with Mccain being the mentor, father....showing the young boy the place, etc. It would have been a great photo OP, but............it didn't work out that way.....soooooo sorry, old man! now, all he got out of it is the chance to whine and call names and be wayyyyyyyy to pissy and angry. McCain is a pathetic and nasty old thing....and he is so pissed that he just cannot hide it. Poor thing!!!

[TwilightGardener]

5. McWhiner sniffed that he would only go to Europe to speak AFTER

he was President--because he'd get about 78 curious onlookers and some hecklers if he fucking went now, and he knows it.

[Cha]

6. And it was mccain's macaca moment when

he goaded Obama into making a trip to Iraq.

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"Senator McCain, knowing that he held an edge on Barack Obama on the "Commander in Chief" question, badly overplayed his hand. He taunted Senator Obama on his lack of foreign policy experience and he challenged Obama to go to Iraq. He sneered at Obama for formulating an Iraq policy prior to traveling to the war zone. He even offered to go with him to Iraq, as if Obama needed his hand held by the man with military experience.

McCain wanted the public to believe that Obama was a novice, a whipper-snapper who would jeopardize our nation's security.

Obama listened to McCain's attempted bullying and said, "You know what? I'll go to Iraq. And Afghanistan, Israel, Germany -- I'll make this a big foreign policy trip abroad. I'll show the voters back home that the world still really does love the United States, they just don't love President Bush or John McCain."

And Obama went abroad, with the world's press following him, clinging to his every word, oohing and aahing at his every jump shot, hoping to catch a glimpse of his every smile."

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[opihimoimoi]

19. McMacaca had goaded Obama to go...hoping to see him trip up somehow.

TaDAH,,,,guessed wrong....

McVain had just revealed ya cannot trust his judgement...espec in the Oval....

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I think you are spot on. He risks being seen as McSame and therefore being protested.

[JI7]

8. i think it has more to do with Bush than McCain

and Bush is very jealous with this.

with Obama as President think of the contrast that will be between the Bush Presidency and Obama Presidency. Bush's Presidency will look worse with time and as people look back in history.

the years of his time in office will be seen as a sort of negative stain on our nation. with Obama leading us in the right direction again.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. He'd be humiliated & disgraced. Nobody would show up.

No republican could ever do that. The timing was perfect for Obama.

[LynneSin]

13. I disagree - they would show up if McCain were to speak over there

they'd show up in protest treating McCain as nothing more than an extension of the failed Bush administration.

[doc03]

10. Hannity is flipping out.

[doc03]

11. Glenn Beck in meltdown mode.

He is comparing him to Hitler and European Marxist. Duh wasn't Hitler a right wing Fascist and not a Marxist like the Repugs claim?

[anonymous171]

22. Hitler and the Nazis were anti-communist reactionaries, actually.

[wanpete]

12. I've dealt with the total negativity from repubs today by keeping this thought in mind...

the more negative, indignant, and in meltdown mode they are, the more I know that Barack is scaring them senseless. McSame feels like a fool for challenging Barack about his foreign policy experience. Barack just handed him his rear end on a plate and he is totally flabbergasted and miffed. He's starting to act like the petulant toddler that * has been for the past eight years when things did not go his way.

[TexasObserver]

14. If McCain went to Germany, he'd draw anti war protesters & no support

[nerddem]

15. what about the dude with the umbrella? nt.

[TexasObserver]

16. he looked like an import, probably one of McCain's cousins

[nerddem]

17. "if i'm going to do this, i'll need some support"

"well, our budget's a little tight, but we'll see what we can do"

[JerseygirlCT]

18. If McCain attempted to give such a speech

*He wouldn't have been able to read the prompter or remember what he wanted to say. So he'd just stumble around, mumbling "My friends..."

*Fourteen people would show up. (Perhaps augmented by some US gov't workers told to get out there with flags.) They'd have just been wandering through, and would be talking and eating during the "event".

*But, he'd have Lindsay Graham and Joe Lieberman at his shoulders as his wingmen. Now THAT would be impressive, right?

[Johonny]

20. more than that the last two Rethug pres can't

Bush I and Bush II couldn't draw that size positive crowd yet Clinton and Obama can in almost any country they visit.