Springtime for Obama in Germany

                                                                     Obama for President of Germany!

 

Obama in front of Hitler's favorite symbol: “The Siegessäule in Berlin was moved from the Reichstag to its current position by Adolf Hitler," he told the Bild am Sonntag. "It was a symbol for German supremacy and victorious wars against Denmark, Austria and France.”

                                                                     

  "Obama for Chancellor" (I second that!)

UPDATE: Germans were told to leave their placards home - seems that didn't want all those anti-American signs dotting the Obama carefully planned landscape.

UPDATE: Did Obama Recycle Words in Berlin Speech? Bov McCarty

Comments

[RISE_UP]

Of courses they love him. Even the most dim witted know an anti american when they see him.Obama must not remember how this foreign love affected john F**** Kerry.

[Miluimnik]

It's a bit more than "Foreign" love.......now shut up and get into the cattle-cars!

[sheik yer'mami]

Berlin is moonbat-country:

it has always been deep-red, not simply far left. Even when it was surrounded by the commies under US protection you would find the most rabid commies, anarcho's, utopians and lunatics in Berlin.

No wonder they go for the Bomma, these people are not sane. Besides, the German media is totally infiltrated with demented America-haters who paint America regularly as the worst place on earth, where poor black people are oppressed and die in the street while filthy rich capitalists like GWB enjoy the spoils of war. I don't know what's gone wrong there, but not many in Germany have an accurate picture or unbiased idea what the US is all about.

And yet, there is still a thriving Jewish community there...

[kobi]

the germans love obama.

any comments?

[thebronze]

I can't stand O'Bama just as much as you, but comparing him to Hitler?

Come on...

[Pamela Geller]

I did not compare them, I compared the images. The similarities were too eerie pass up. The religious fervor they both inspire(d) is striking in similarity as well.

Obama speaking in front of the Siegessäule was particularly disgusting. That was his choice of photo op? Stupid or scary?

[Schlusselfan]

@Miluimnik:
the thriving Jewish community consists mostly of people who hate Israel just as much as the next guy or Americans=Nazis moron.
The biggest (and probably only) German Jewish organization recently defended a Turkish anti-semite who claimed that the Turks were the Jews of today in Germany.

most Jews in Germany seem to be as leftist as Soros and as blinded by their own importance as Jon Steward.

[EJO]

I don't care if it rains or freezes
'Long as I got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car.
Through my trials and tribulations
And my travels through the nations
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far

Dear Pamela;
B. Hussein O. is a plastic Jesus. A huge phony. And is so full of shit he stinks.
Also. Two popular German acts,(reggae artist Patrice, and rock band Reamonn) entertained the gathering audience. So a lot of those people probably came to hear the music, and just decided to stick around.
And did you listen to the speech? What a load of crap. The nerve of this flip-flopping prevaricator trying to sound, or be like JFK, or Mr. Reagan.
Take about narcissism.
Sincerely;
EJO

[neverforget]

He may not be Hitler, after all the Democrats have gleefully called President Bush this for almost 8 years, but Obama sure the hell is a totalitarian thinker and actor.

[songdongnigh]

A picture is worth a thousand words, but this piece says it all.

[sheik yer'mami]

"The biggest (and probably only) German Jewish organization recently defended a Turkish anti-semite who claimed that the Turks were the Jews of today in Germany.

most Jews in Germany seem to be as leftist as Soros and as blinded by their own importance as Jon Steward."

From a posting above.

Hard on the money, mate. But does that not make them just like the Jews in the US or Australia who are how different, exactly??

[oneuniverse]

Ms. Gellar, thank you very much for your inspired and hard work on this important website.

re: Obama's Berlin speech
I listened to his speech on SkyNews yesterday, and got the same slightly disturbed feeling I had the only other time I'd watched a speech of his.

The degree of positioning and opportunism was amazing. He couldn't acknowledge the recent success in Iraq without spotlighting his substantial lack of judgement about the issue, although he almost managed to pass this off as a modest reluctance to crow about America's success in Iraq in the face of European disapproval of and lack of support for the project.

It was a strange speech. His historical review was twilight-zonish, and felt like a description of an alternative reality (somehow, in the speech, there was missing a clear identification of the evils fought in Europe by America, and a consequent drawing of moral equivalences between the various regimes. Of course the venue made it difficult to address this (but why?)). His "proud to be American" message didn't quite ring true. His 'stirring' church-preacher cadences at times seemed to be falling very flatly (like a tombstone) on the audience, and were thus thankfully transparent.

Also, strangely (am I the only one who noticied this), if one didn't know better, parts of the speech could be interpreted as hawkish and neo-conservative, although by not going into details this aspect remained as only a potential interpretation.

The 'world without nuclear weapons' idea was interesting - the necessary suspension of reasoning required to swallow and keep down this idea must have helped the 'euphoric' mood (although I thought the crowd was also somewhat muted, and even sullen during Obama's announcement of his patriotism).

The SkyNews English commentator's immediate comment after the speech was very timely. He made it clear that he thought Obama's speech little more than vacuous fakery (although not put so bluntly).

[StillBreathing]

Who am I to criticize you, who does such good and brave work... but the juxtaposition of photos is silly. Why not show the Kennedy speech? And then you have the smiling Fuehrer and the smiling Changeling -- so what? You could have shown any political picture, or even a wedding!

Also, this is throwing mud at the Germans themselves -- who are increasingly aware of the common danger of jihadist violence and immigration.

[Schlusselfan]

@StillBreathing:
yes, a few people realize those dangers. but most, about 99% see those dangers and blame Israel and America for it and "right wing radicals" in Germany for inciting those poor terrorists to do nasty things.
the German media has one mindset, one opinion and one message: everything evil comes from fighting for your own values, for your own survival and for your freedom.
and people believe it.
Germany is lost

[kobi]

one has to wonder: in israel, obama has to sneak to the western wall in the wee hours and he still gets heckled. no 'adoring crowds' in israel. his visit to the holiest place was 'not on the schedule'?? crass campaign posters at the kotel, which nobody else ever does. he gets smiling warm responses from nazi admiring fatah with arafat's photo overhead.

then he goes to germany and gives this big whoopla speech at a location associated with the nazis.

ya gotta wonder.

[Donut]

Okay Pamela, the Siegessäule is not a Nazi monument, so the whole juxtaposition of the crowd that came to see Obama with pictures of Nazi rallies is just...well, it's silly. It's not even worth trying to argue with you over. Did you even bother to do a little research on the Siegessäule? Yes, it sure is a war memorial. No, it has nothing to do with Nazis. It was built in the 1870s. Last I checked, Adolf Hitler wasn't even born until 1889.

You know, we have these same kinds of war memorial in this country, too? Were you aware of that? As a matter of fact, most countries have them.

Wow.

[Pamela Geller]

Yes as a matter of fact I did research it. And I know that Adolf Hitler adored that symbol, so much so that he moved it to that location to impress his adoring fans. The Siegessäule (Victory Column) has nothing to do with the U.S. and German relationship. It is all about Prussia’s victories over Denmark, Austria and France; what a slap in the face to those American allies (which I previously posted here)

Slow down on the donuts, Donut.

[Donut]

I don't eat Donuts. It's a pun on my surname.

Look, you are comparing "apples to aardvarks" and you know it. This is strained and simplistic juxtaposition you're trying to create between Obama and Hitler. The monument predates Hitler. We agree on that. Good. Now, so what if Hitler happened to admire it and had it relocated? What does that have to do with Obama? NOTHING. Think about it, Pamela. Just think for a minute.

Okay, now, the point is that the monument existed independent of Hitler. The fact that it still stands, when Germany has so completely repudiated Nazism and Hitler and all the man and his party stood for, should tell you something. Shouldn't it? Huh?

Can you even explain why you think the monument is relevant here? Thanks.

[WRpeach]

Donut: As even just a cursory look at Wikipedia will tell you "The Victory Column originally stood in Königsplatz (now Platz der Republik), at the end of the Siegesallee (Victory Avenue). As part of the preparation of the monumental plans to redesign Berlin into Welthauptstadt Germania, in 1939, the Nazis relocated the column to its present site at the Großer Stern (Great Star)... At the same time, the column was augmented by another 7.5 meters, giving it its present height of 70 meters." Hitler added a fourth section honoring himself and had it moved to its present location. You saying, "the monument existed independent of Hitler" is not exactly correct.

[Non-Lemming]

Just reading the comments posted here I can see why a foreigner might dislike some Americans. Many of the people posting here have probably never been to Germany or Berlin and know very little about Germany or its people. So what makes your comments about Germany & its people any better than any Anti-American comments made from other ignorant people in foreign Nations?

Regardless of whether or not you like Obama, most people have little or no understanding of WWII Germany except for limited facts like the Holocaust and Hitler being a bad man. One cannot constantly carry these things over to the current population of Germany and make constant stupid references to Hitler. The modern day population of Germany is more open and far removed from National Socialism then the World would admit. Everyone loves to sterotype Germans as being evil people harboring Nazi sediments and hating the "democratic United States." The reality is that Germans actually like America and American people very much but some Germans had voiced opinion against Mr. G Bush during his term.

I hardly hear anyone constantly bicker about Stalin when they discuss Russia and Moscow? What about all the Gulags that were used to kill far more people than Hitler's Regime ever did.

The bottom line is that the Nazi soup has been warmed up so many times that it is simply annoying to hear. So let history be history and get over it. Obviously no one learned from the Holocaust because there have been several in many countries since then and no nation has spoken against them or done anything about them. The US has done their share of mass murder on it's hands with the native Americans peoples. So stop being so hypocritical and one sided.