Obama entrances Europe in vague tones

In the Steven Erlanger, New York Times article, I was not surprised to hear griping, moaning, whining and complaining. The fact is, if Senator Obama's speech was "vague" at all, he could have done nothing more because he is not the President of the United States and he's is well aware of it. Had he been less "vague," more specific, today the New York Times would be filled with articles screaming, "Who does he think he is!" In fact, there is absolutely nothing that Senator Obama can say or do that the media doesn't complain about, after all, every media outlet in the United States is owned by multi-millionaires and has CEOs that don't want change. They like the way the Bush administration has pandered and catered to Big Business for almost 8 years and they don't want it changed. As for Senator McCain, if HE had been the one who was giving the speech in Berlin, two things would have happened: First, it would have been held in the "Bratwurst" aisle of the local grocery store; and second, five people would have shown up to listen to him ramble, mumble and stumble around until he once again made a complete jerk out of himself, . . . tell me Bush and McCain aren't twins who were separated at birth.

Since you brought up the entire trip you left yourself open to Isreal where his campain distributed Obama 08 posters to the locals to be hung when he made his "surprise" visit to the West Bank earlier the other day. I find it truly hard to believe that this entire trip isn't a political stunt to show people that even with his 186 days in the US Senate it fully qualifies him to be the leader of our country. Change just for the sake of change? Be careful about the change you seek, it might bite you later.

As for the speech being compared to President Reagen's speech, HELLO REAGEN WAS OUR PREISIDENT. This is a stunt by the Obama campain to distinguish himself (although he said that he probably didn't look like the other Americans that spoke in Berlin, I wonder didn't Gen Colin Powell and Condelezza Rice speak in Europe?) as someone willing to cross the aisle on all fronts including to the EU. Last I checked his voting record shows he couldn't even stumble over to the other side let alone walk so what does he think the EU is going to do fall over there heels trying to get on his good side?

This just shows ignorance on all levels in our system of Government, usually a candidtate has some qualifications or stances that make you wonder if you will vote for them. But when they don't have any stance at all or keep changing their mind to go along with the polls shows their complete ineptitude and I will fully question their ability to lead. Leadership is the ability to infuence and direct others to accomplish a mission or goal. Obama's only goal is to breed socialism (seeing is how he votes to the left of the self declared socailist in the Senate) and malcontent towards any one that either doesn't agree with him or unfortunatly comes between him and his legacy to become the first half black/half white President of the United States.

The Devil can't say the word................ "Jesus" .........................................

Obama can't say: ...............I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America., and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
So, why should he be President.

Obama was politically forced to wear an American flag pin. He didn't choose to by himself, his campgane managers forced hm to wear one or the campgene was over. He doesn't deserve to be pressident.

..His wife was never proud to be an American until Obama's campgene managers forced her to say that she was proud to be an American and she was only proud to be one for the purpose of getting her husband elected. A family like that shouldn't be in the White House.

After 20 years of being induced with hate and racisim by Rev. Wrong. Obama says that he didnt pay attention to those times of disgraceful prejudice remarks from his pastor. He's lying through his teeth.
He for lying so blatenly to the American shouldn't be President.

It goes on and on whith this man. Why in the hell would anyone vote for him. He and his wife are closet racist.

Can u say anti-Christ? it's spelled barackhusseinobama.

"Obama entrances Europe in vague tones. Leaders remain unsure where candidate stands on issues of trade, defense" So the basic theme here is, just as it is in America, that people love him, but it's only because of his ability to stir emotions in speeches, not because of what he would actually DO as President. Great, let's all vote for a person based on stirring emotions, and then he can push through his Robin Hood economic proposals and all of our costs can jack up and screw the poor and middle class. Makes a lot of sense. This is a big problem in my opinion, especially if the rest of the world sees the same thing. They love to listen to him speak, but don't know what he can actually accomplish as a President. While the article went out of its way to make him sound like he is still a decent candidate, the entire world's reaction to him everywhere he goes shows that he is not. We would have cries of happiness when he speaks at the beginning, but then the policy pushes start and we all suffer. Bush won because of the same reason people support Obama, reasons that no politician should ever be voted in for. Now that he is receiving such support everywhere he goes, but the type of support is made more and more apparent, it is obvious that after the speeches are all done we would have a serious problem maintaining any sort of favorable world view. It's like watching Bush at the beginning all over again, the same cries from all over the world, followed by the inevitable questions of, "well, what is he actually doing?" I think the type of favorable responses he's received compared with the rather negative responses shows a candidate that does not have the support from world governments needed, nor at home, to be President, nor does he have the support for the experts in the fields he's trying to change, with cries (from his own party even) against his desire to bring back certain economic styles from the past that have hurt us. The reactions everywhere he goes demonstrates exactly why this man should not be President.

do u have to be born in germany to be chancellor? he's so popular there, let them have that sell-out punk!

What's this vague stuff that people are always talking about? It's just the stupid meme that the press is putting on Obama. I'm sorry, when has McCain or any other presidential candidate given the smallest details during a campaign speech?? Nobody would show up to hear someone talk about the legal details of policy. If you don't know what Obama stands for, then you need to brush up on your comprehension skills.

Of course Oscumma was a hit in Europe---one @!$%# Socialist talking to a whole continent of Socialists. Why shouldn't he receive rave reviews? They're long of theory and short on memory. They owe this country for their existence--we owe them nothing.

Obama just asked Germany for soldiers and a strong commitment to stabilize Iraq ...

In a rather vague way of course!

LOL! So our anti-American New York Times got that right at least.

But that's GOT to be an off putting message to the Germans! And Europe in general.

Our German "allies" to this day have refused to participate in Afghanistan even!

So in a way Obama challenged them.

The irony is Obama is demanding our euro-chicken allies to have more of a BACKBONE against "terrorism" than his own political base here in America can possibly GROW. Obama is demanding more skeletal substance from Europeans than Americans!

He promises us Americans he'll run us out of Iraq. Then he turns around and asks our most spineless european ally who've refused troops to Afghanistan he wants *them* to help on both middle eastern fronts! How's that for a cohesive message!

Did the Germans even notice that? Evidently not. Did we notice that? Course not! Too funny.

But it's all in line with Obama's mish-mashed, conflicted, and ever fluid "vision".

Why do the Europeans have to throw down while we Americans throw down ... the towel? Well? The europeans can't vote against him. Americans can.

Hey. They guy's going to save our world, right? So why not? I'm all for an unconditional surrender in Iraq and having the Germans take over where we left off! LOL!

But if Obama can sway our naive Euro-Buddies to commit in a big way to Iraq, Afghanistan and ultimately Iran and Pakistan?

I'll vote for him!

Hey. Bush tried to reason with them. It didn't work. Maybe Obama can talk them into it! A good looking, smooth talking, well dressed, cologned black guy talking his way to laying hundreds of euro-chicks over spring break. It's been done before. Can Obama do it on a mass scale? Or is it just TALK?

Play to any audience, tell everyone what they want to hear. at some point barackhusseinobama will have to pay the price for selling his soul and when he does we will all, world wide, suffer the consequences.

A couple of personal observations about his speech. He got rabid applause when he alluded to the bad things he believes about the U.S., but when he suggested Germany, Europe and the rest of the world join the U.S. in defeating terrorism and the terrorists the silence was deafening.

With respect to the latter, maybe now he can understand what the U.S. has been facing for the last 5 or 6 years, having to pretty much go it alone, at least on the battlefields, in the effort to defeat those who wish to destroy us and other free nations in the world. Much of Europe doesn't have the will or courage to commit to the sacrifices that are necessary to win the war against terrorism and terrorists and which the U.S. has been committed to over the last several years.

On the former point, it became clear to me that the crowd's enthusiasm for Obama may well have been because he shares their views, i.e., the U.S. is evil, it embraces capitalism rather than the Europeans' preference for the failed economic system of socialism, and it believes a country's strength, values and success flow from its individual citizens and their efforts rather than from the government and its programs.

I believe a candidate for President of the U.S. who could offer such views of his country to Europe and the world and deliberately ignore and fail to mention any of the good that our country has brought to Europe and that world through its massive sacrifices and those of its citizens is reprehensible and a disgrace to our great nation and its leaders who together with our ordinary citizens assisted much of the world in securing and protecting the freedom it enjoys today.

Presidents Kennedy and Reagan delivered their speeches without denigrating our nation while pledging strong support for our European allies, and as a result, gained their support and respect. Candidate Obama chose to disrespect those great leaders and our country by disparaging the U.S. to curry favor with those same allies. President Reagan said, in effect, he wanted to tear down that wall; I believe Obama said he wants to tear down the United States. I hope we, the American voters, will not provide him that opportunity.

For Laura

Maybe Obama knows the borders but he doesn't know how many states there are.

I don't know who will get elected but Hussain Obama has no business on a tour of Europe discussing US policy.He does not represent us(yet).This is all political bull.I guess if we were all rich we could all go to Iraq and get a first hand explanation of the war.

Miesque,The "who does he think he is" still applies,as it does to Jimmy Carter and Jessy Jackson.The more this goes on the more I would like to see Obama elected.We'll see if you people are still laughing a few years into his term.

Obama was there as a citizen, not a president....................yet. When he is, he'll be back to answer all of the questions. I was extrememly proud to see Obama in other countries as a citizen and potential president of MY country. He is our promise to the world, that the US will be back as the leader we once we can be again. He let them know that they have nothing to fear and he offers hope for a peaceful future for all!

Racism in another shoes! People want to see useless people like McCain and Bush to be in power. How insane!!!

But he doesn't know how many states there are!

I watched the speech given in Berlin,I think if you want to describe the speech as vague,fine,but if he made it less vague,you people would be complaining,why is he acting like a pres, and to any who think he didnt have a right to speak in foreign country,last month Mcaine was in Canada doing the same thing.Just because 200,000 people(mostly germans and alot of them even waveing american flags.)didnt show up to listen to MCsame,that's no reason to hate on Obama,But most of you haters hate Obama for no reason anyway,you hide your raceism behind some rumors and gossip,spread by email and oppisition,I guess you just enjoy being lied to and spreading gossip,I should'nt be surprised since you probably voted for Bush twice, and secrets and lies are the strength of the neocon's,if you cant win fairly you lie, spread hate,Obama is not a muslim,and mcsame should really try to run on something other than Obama's coat tails,wah,wah,wah, I bet mcsame wishes he didnt prompt Obama's visit overseas now,cuz IT's TIME OUR Generation makes a mark on history and Great speech in berlin Obama !!!!!!

It really sounds like Obama is admitting that Europe doesn't play their part. I want them to apologize for it.

I want Obama to admit that the Iraq war wasn't a mistake and that when the plan works it very well could make for a much more stable and productive region in the world. Without Saddam.

Then I want him to admit publicly he was wrong about the surge. Finally I'd like him to stop telling us all what is wrong. We all know things are wrong. We don't need somebody to tell us that there are things wrong, but that's where his "crock concert" speeches end with no plausible answers.

WOW! What is wrong with me? I must be in the wrong generation. Last time I knew I was a citizen of the UNTITED STATES OF AMERICA! Is Obama running for president of the US or president of the world? Maybe we should look closer at him, he is scarey! The president of the US cannot do what is best for the US, if he is trying to appease the other governments of the world! Do we want a world government and toss away what our forefathers fought so hard for? Do we want our country run on what is best for other countries? Why is he even campaigning in other countries? The news goes around the world now for other voters. I live in Illinois. within 100 miles of Chicago. We must be small beans...I do not recall him ever campaigning in our area...maybe I should move out of the country. If I want to know what he thinks I have to watch it on TV. Is this the way he is going to spend our money? He is frivolous with his own campaign money, worrying about what the world thinks of him...but has been too busy to come to his own back yard to campaign....where he may actually pick up some votes.

The article starts out "Leaders remain unsure where candidate stands on issues of trade, defense". This shouldn't come as a surprise. This was just a photo op for him. He's not going to say anything with substance. That's why McCain said he'll speak in Europe when he's president not while he's a candidate. He wants to focus on speaking to the people here. I'm not a fan of either candidate but I think it's a smart idea for candidates to speak to the people who vote for them not people who don't.

Some of you just hate Obama, obviously. Obama said that there is only one president at a time. What was he supposed to do? He did not go there and attack Mcain and bush as our own president has attacked him in Israel.

He did not go over there and air our domestic issues on foreign soil as bush and Mcain have done.

He went over there, inspired, and garnered support from our European allies without stepping on the toes of the current administration or his Republican rival. Its called "Class". You conservatives should get some.

He had 200,000 Germans waving American flags....wow.

He was not going to spell out policy on Foreiegn soil when he is not the president. If he did you would be attacking him for that....you cannot even admit when he does something right.

You all suck and don't even think for yourselves. You hate this man for reasons unbeknownst to anyone except for your own small minds.

Hello jealous Americans, have you noticed that every time you make disparaging remarks about Obama you only strengthen him. The turn out for Obama in Germany was a sight to behold. Maybe it is only lame white Americans who are so selfish and shortsighted that you are unable to see the "forest for the trees". Why can't you see that America has no respect on the world stage. We are thought of as ignorant bullies. Foreigners can see what is before you and you can't. White America get ready for a new regime. Your reign is so OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so sick of the lousy reporting we have been getting on Obama. Why should he detail what he stands for to the European nations when he's speaking as a private citizen. He is not running for president in Europe. The truth is all the gaffs that grandpa McCain has made is not interesting so you keep tearing Obama down because he's well received in Europe.

i figured the repugs would be up in arms about obamas speech and i was right.after 8 yrs of bush i dont think repugs should have any rights at all.the way i see it is if you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem and anyone voting for bush twice is a problem.they seem to be more concerned with their facist repug party than they are for america.i hope when obama wins in november that these repugs will move to the green zone in iraq and take bush,chaney and the rest of the repug crooks with them.obama 08