PHOTOS Carnival Time - German Style

[Jackeens]

A carnival float showing a flying US President Obama followed by a flying Europe, is seen prior to the traditional carnival parade in Dusseldorf, Germany, Monday, Feb 23,2009

[camera obscura]

1. What exactly is "Europe" holding on to?

[Sequoia]

3. coat tails

Hitch your wagon to a star sort of thing.

[asteroid2003QQ47]

20. "Coat tails"? Never heard them called that before! eom

[Jackeens]

4. ROFL. I dread to think.

[liberal N proud]

5. I was wondering the same thing

[Arugula Latte]

6. Europe has quite the view.

Wonder if our prez is doing as the Scots do and going commando? ;)

[Kahuna]

7. Yikes!

:scared:

[Jackeens]

8. It looks like the US/Europe 'special relationship' is back on.

[Whalestoe]

9. Why do you think Prez. Obama is smiling so wide?

;-)

[hileeopnyn8d]

2. What an odd float.

I don't like it, at all.

[tavalon]

32. It is an odd float

I like it. I'm highly amused by it.

[AspenRose]

10. What scares me is that the expectations worldwide for Obama are so damn high

He's only human, he WILL make mistakes, and he WILL piss off specific portions of the global community from time to time.

It's nice that he's so well-loved, but....*concern*

[uponit7771]

11. He'll meet them, if he admin executes the way his campaign did he'll be ok then they'll

...love him

High risk but he's been doing A- work up to now IMHO

P.S. He'd get an A+ if they do some better message control

[Aristus]

16. Better to have high expectations and risk disappointment, than to have low expectations

and risk satisfaction.

The last eight years must have been very satisfying for those with low expectations...

[AtomicKitten]

12. I LOVE Obama propping up the Statue of Liberty.

As opposed to this:

[Hekate]

14. So true: I love the Statue of Liberty float. nt

[Clio the Leo]

21. Yeah, that is very moving.

A bit of hyperbole perhaps .... but it's a float! If you cant use hyperbole on a float when can you? lol

[eshfemme]

13. Um... I can't help but be creeped out by the coattails thing.

Am I being overly sensitive? I don't know... I kinda hope that people don't keep relying on Obama and thinking that they can have an easier time just following him... instead of coming up with some of their own ideas too-- it seems to come off as they expect to keep leeching off of Obama. I guess I'm thinking of all the world changes that are still necessary that the US can't all be responsible for without some more active input from the other countries. It's just annoying for people to expect the US to do everything and then to get pissed off at the US if the US somehow offends their sensibilities because the US got so used to doing everything for them. I dunno...

Well at least this means that Obama still has a ton of goodwill to work with, which might make it easier on him in international affairs.

[Numba6]

15. WHY must furriners always check our new presidents for "testicular fortitude"? -- eom

[LynnTheDem]

17. LOVE the propping up Statue of Liberty float...

*sniff*

Just a dust mote in me eyes...

Love it.

[dalaigh lllama]

18. Sigh. I still don't know how to post pix

without stealing bandwidth (and I don't even know what that means, really.)

But this picture is from the 2007 Carnival parade in Mainz, Germany and shows just how much they loved Obama's predecessor.

[dalaigh lllama]

19. Wait. I think I finally figured it out. Here's the pic

Yahoo News: A float depicting U.S. President George W. Bush being spanked by the Statue Of Liberty passes by during the Rose Monday carnival parade in Mainz, western Germany, on Monday, Feb. 19, 2007. Thousands of spectators attended the traditional street carnival parade in the state of Rhineland-Palatinates’s capital. (AP Photo/Bernd Kammerer)

The photo of Obama raising the Statue of Liberty bookends nicely with this one, I think. :D

[Beacool]

24. Well deserved spanking!!!!

On the other hand, the perv probably would have enjoyed it..........

:eyes:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

22. I didn't know Jay Leno was black.

[annabanana]

23. Thank God they've been able to differentiate our disastrous

leadership of the previous administration from our people...

[Beacool]

25. Hmmm, what precisely is Europa holding on to???

:eyes:


:evilgrin:

[file83]

30. The Stimulus Package.

:crazy:

[Beacool]

31. Well, that's certainly one way to stimulate the economy................

even the Republicans would agree to that kind of stimulus package.

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[craigmatic]

26. I especially like the statue of liberty one

[Odin2005]

27. I hope that's coat-tails Europe is holding on to and not something else...

:rofl:

[leftofthedial]

28. Fasching!

Mach spass!

[democracy1st]

29. K & R