poor poor mccain careful what you wish for some things just backfire!!!!!!!!!!remember everyone mccain wanted this trip for obama !!!!!!!!!!

Wow, I almost feel bad for the guy - almost!

FROM A MODERATE INDEPENDENT I ADVISE THE MEDIA BE VERY CAREFUL IT COULD JUST BACK FIRE. I LIKE TO SEE BOTH VIEWS.THE VIEW THAT THEY CHOOSE NOT TO GIVE US I USUALLY WILL GO TO SEE MORE OF.NEVER PUT ANYONE ON A PEDESTAL THEY COULD EASILY GET KNOCKED OFF.

I am already having obama fatigue, I am voting for McCain. Both are good men, but I am sick of all the obama stuff

McCain in front of the cheese aisle is hilarious!

Obama is getting a lot of media attention right now because he is MAKING NEWS!
McCain could have made some news ,(Presidential nominee heading into Hurricane) by not running in the other direction when he heard there was going to be bad weather in the South.
He is now reinforcing the idea that Republicans won't show up anywhere until at least 5 days have passed since the bad weather.

McCain should be careful about what he wishes for. Remember Obama's foreign trip was basically because McCain forced him into it, although McCain wanted to be there as well (Not that that was ever going to happen) but the overseas trip has done as much as anything else could to help make Obama look Presidential. Meanwhile McCain has tramped around America looking as weak and out of the loop as any candidate could.

OMG! Have y'all seen how many people are at the Obama speech in Berlin???!!!

Here is the deal....If Obama's trip was a flop, nobody would complain about the media's over coverage. Get over it everybody. McCain has been in politics before I was born. We know everything about McCain. Let's find out more about Obama and let the media keep that spotlight on him in case he makes a mistake that it seems everyone wants to see.

I challenge everyone to republican and democratic to look past the party bias passed down to us from our parents. I hear a lot of people repeating media talking points and ideas from 10, 20, 30 years ago that they heard their parents say.

MAYBE STEVE WASNT BUT AFTER A WHILE IT STARTS GETTING OLD WHEN I LISTEN TO OBAMA I THINK OF MY GOVERNOR HIS TERRIBLE IN MASS WE HAVE A MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS FOR POLITICIANS TAKE A REAL GOOD LOOK HOW THIS STATE IS RUN ITS NOT PRETTY.ONE LONELY INDEPENDENT

So Obama has the real deal and McCain is the fake? Irony, irony...

Obama is not making news, the media is making him the news. For all the attention Obama is getting, McCain has gained on Obama and the polls show Obama slipping.

vicki,

What polls are you looking at?

BTW - Polls are meaingless under after Labor Day and AFTER the debates.

McCain complained and counted down the moments until Obama went to Iraq, and now that Obama has called his bluff and the entire world is embracing him.(Have you seen the crowds and the love that our brothers and sisters around the world are giving him. Clinton was the last president that generated that type of positive buzz)

He's upset at all the media attention. What a whiner. But you havent seen anything yet Senator, Just wait until the debates. Obama will eat you alive.

Good Lord! Look at the crowd!

vicki,

Obama will eat McCains lunch. McCain was HORRIBLE in the Repub debates. But man was it fun to watch!

Yes We Can, live from Germany , basking in the flow in a intelligent politician's glow.

That was my little ditty, but seriously .

Obama is a godsend for International Relations.

It's about Time!

"Yes We Can" is really infectious

"OMG! Have y'all seen how many people are at the Obama speech in Berlin???!!!"

Have you seen the latest polling numbers from Fox? This trip is backfiring among the voters.

Obama fatique is real and not just his own urge to sleep standing up.

It will be interesting to see the ratings for the networks that went into the tank for him.

Thursday, July 24
Race Poll Results Spread
Minnesota Rasmussen Obama 52, McCain 39 Obama +13.0
National Rasmussen Tracking Obama 48, McCain 45 Obama +3.0
National NBC/WSJ Obama 47, McCain 41 Obama +6.0
Minnesota Quinnipiac/WSJ/WP Obama 46, McCain 44 Obama +2.0
Wisconsin Quinnipiac/WSJ/WP Obama 50, McCain 39 Obama +11.0
Michigan Quinnipiac/WSJ/WP Obama 46, McCain 42 Obama +4.0
Colorado Quinnipiac/WSJ/WP Obama 44, McCain 46 McCain +2.0

Jane Hussein - you need to compare the numbers from a week, two weeks, a month ago. Obama is slipping. With all the media attention he is getting, with all the money he is spending, he is slipping, and he will continue to slip.

He should have had his picture in front of the cakes. Isn't that what he is telling us all to eat after we lose our jobs and homes???

vicki,

One more time....polls are MEANINGLESS until AFTER Labor Day and AFTER the debates.

From Fox News/Opinion Dynamics:
Who do you think will win in November?
Obama: 51%
McCain: 27%
Depends/unsure: 22%
Obama’s favorability rating remains at

Did he get fries with that.

I just can't wait for their first formal debate.

John McCain could never inspire that many people around the world.

This guy is an artifact… too old to be president.

he would love to give a speach?
He better ask - do we want to listen any from him.
He has nothing to say, except broken old memory.
McBush, we do NOT need Your speach! Shut Up,

I'm german and was in Berlin

Great, great, great ....

This is so sad. Obama draws 200K for his appearance and is televised all over the world; McCain visits a sauage cafe where he competes over lunch for the attention of six diners.

Obama is in Germany in front of hundreds of thousands of people and McCain is in a SAUSAGE house.

This is getting to the point of becoming comical.

Obama is going to slaughter this guy !!!!

Maybe McCain should have arranged for a popular singer to give a free concert at the sausage haus prior to his arrival - that trick seems to work very well for Obama.

It seems very odd to me that McCain went on and on about Obama not going to Iraq and seeing things for himself, and now that he is there, McCain is running all over America saying," Look I am here with you guys instead of trapsing all over Eurpoe." He is a total putz....

Wow he was speaking to 6 people? I didnt think that many would turn up.

McCain is running an awful campaign, they are completely on the defensive. React, react, react, that's all they do, they let Obama dictate the tone of the race. Obama speaks in front of 200,000 adoring fans in Germany, why in God's name would his campaign draw attention to that fact by going to a German-American sausage haus. And the attacks, especially attacks when Obama is overseas, just seem heavy-handed. Attacks didn't work for Hillary. Didn't they watch and learn from that campaign? They have no excuse, their primary battle ended months before theirs. It was covered on the news non-stop, you couldn't avoid watching it if you wanted to. How could they have learned nothing from that? If his campaign staff is going to be his White House staff, you can't abide this guy, they are all incompetent. Look at the execution of Obama's entire trip, it has been flawless. McCain's people make horrendous decision after horrendous decision. That is what the President's most important job is, to make decisions and McCain and his people have gone a couple of weeks without making a single correct one. How is this guy polling so high, he's only 6 points down? They are absolutely incompetent.

Really folks, this whole GOP vs. Democrat thing is now OFFICIALLY a thing of the past... right? The GOP are not EVEN in the race at this point... What a TRUE DISPLAY of exactly how ineffectual this party has become. You know what? It just occurred to me that GWB and Cheney and all those hundreds who now support them are in fact LARGELY responsible for the demise of the GOP we have today... I guess this last 7 years have not been an entire catastrophe after all! Thanks... I guess.

Why is obama getting credit for going over seas? We are having problems in america! Mcain has the intelligence and experience to help our our country. It almost seems Obama is unpatriotic.

How many germans will be voting for obama in germany, OH WAIT someone forgot to tell Obama that the Germans can't vote in our election. Just another bonehead mistake.

McCain is irrelevant. There's no chance a Republican is going to win in November. That much is plainly clear. And McCain, who the Republicans said wasn't nearly as good a candidate in 2000 as Bush was (cough, cough), has absolutely no chance in November. I mean, if McCain wasn't good enough to run against Bush in 2000, then how is he going to be relevant now especially after the dismal failure that Bush has left behind?

If McCain is so experienced, why is he running such a LAME campaign? Whose idea was it to send McCain to a German Village “Sausage Haus” on the day Obama speaks in Berlin? You’re fired.

And these one-half dozen will vote. Is Obama confused into thinking the Germans at his thing can vote in November? Perhaps Joe Biden, his foreign policy adviser, ought to educate Obama on this very important matter. He may even try to take this to the Supreme Court when he loses. One media called this Obamapalooza. Strange is what it is.

Maybe if McCain did a rap with Snoop Dog people might find out who he is.
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For all your McCain cronies, lets have McCain go to Germany and lets see what type of turnout he gets, that will shut you up.

McInsane says Obama has no overseas experience, so he goes, and now McInsane and his 5 supports posting on this message board are critisizing Obama for doing it. LOL!!!!!

I do not agree with McCain's ideology and will vote for Obama. However, McCain is a war hero and should be treated with respect. I don't like the sensationalism of the media (i.e. the headline that 200,000 turn out for Obama but only half a dozen for McCain- give me a break) and I believe both sides should be given fair coverage. I would also like to say that both sides need to stick to the issues and stop the name calling.

Obama, making news? The onliest(sic?) he is getting attention like this is due to the travelogue his sychophants Couric, Williams et al are publishin...he's not said anything of substance nor has he DONE a thing of substance.

I'm an Idependent Conservative who was considering H. Clinton...She's got more experience than this Hollow Man in a dirty Sports Coat and Filthy Necktie EVER will. I am looking forward to the showdown between the Obama and Clinton camps...

Somebody get a hook and pull this guy off the stage...he's a DOLT of the first order..guldurned chain smoking clown...

H. Clinton is to the DemocratIC Party what R. Reagan was to the Republican Part circa 1976

billybob has a point folks.
We saw what happened in 2000 AND 2004!
NEVER "misunderestimate" the power ignorance has in this nation! STAY VIGILANT!

somebody made a comment about McBush being in the cheese section of a supermarket......AND I TRULY THOUGHT THAT IT WAS A JOKE.

Turns out that this is true !!!!!

Republicans.....come on people,you have GOT to be kidding with this guy !!!!

ROFLMAO !!!!

It turns out the 6 people who were at the sausage house weren't there to hear McCain speak, but they were there for the happy hour 1/2 priced sausage.

However I do think the janitor paid attention to what McCain had to say.

Oh man this is so funny. He's now the Sausage King. Oh man this tooooo funny. I can't even think of something to write because he's in Columbus, Oh. and he thinks he's in Germany. Wow! Oh Man tooooo funny. I can't wait to watch how John Stewart plays this one out on Comedy Central's Daily Show! LOL

Trueamerican, the fact that Obama is where he is today with no experience or substance and a record of making bad choices is a testiment to the power of ignorance in this country.

This guy needs to focus on his own home town where the mayor is caling in the National Guard to reduce crime, yes in Barrack's front and back yard. How could he pretend to run a country when he can't influence his own neighborhood?
or maybe he did influence it..

You know, I still don't like McCain and he won't get my vote, but I have to say I like many of the Obama supporters on these posts even less. This Independent wants to like Obama, but I still don't see any substance. Yea, yea - anything will be better than Bush. I agree. But the more I see the media hype over Obama and these continuing nasty comments from his supporters, the more turned off I am. At this point,I will probably just let the rest of the voters choose between the two poor choices we have.

I love it when opponents get to cocky and belligerent, that is when they go down, this is going to be commical.

McCain is MEAN and would do anything to steal Obama'day, but without success. What nobility!!

hey BILLY BOB - speaking of experience, look what experience did for GEORGE BUSH - he has all but destroyed the economy of the U.S., he has destroyed the reputation of America among all nations. and he stinks like poo-poo.

THe only way Obama will go down is if JOhn McCain actually does something to lift himself up and what are the chances of that, he already lost to Bush and makes him a loser to Bush. Think about it he lost to Bush. Bush is better than McCain. Think about it.

billy bobina
, the brilliance of your argument just overwhelms me.

I'll take Obama speaking to 215,000 American flag-waiving cheering Berliners over McSurge lying and whining in front of a sausage and fudge haus with Miss Lindsey any day.

The writers of Saturday Night Live couldn't have written a funnier script.

A sausage house and the cheese section of a supermarket ?!?!?!

This is the WORST day for McCain and the repubs.

This is TOOOOOO funny !!!!!!!

What for a contrast to the Bush-visits in Germany. Locked up city centers, demonstrators against Bush, 5000 police men, no contact with the people.

Today 200.000 tense listeners, that hope, that America finally freed itself from the isolation and becomes again something it once, forerunners for peaces and democracy.

Hey Steve, way up at the top...

So you aren't voting for Obama because the media is covering him more than you'd like? That's what you use to choose who you vote for? Who you are more sick of seeing?

Shouldn't that be enough to disqualify you from voting? It's people like you, who make their decisions based on things like that, that have left us in the situation that we are in. Instead of allowing the medias amount of coverage dictate who you vote for, why don't you do some research and actually develop an opinion of your own. Then you may react just as millions of people have and decide that it's time for a real politician, one who knows how the world works and isn't obsessed with becoming president, but rather is obsessed with leading this country in a better, more fruitful, more WORDLY direction!

hey 'REMEMBER' the point you make says it ALL. THANKS! There is no arguing that! THANK YOU!

NONSENSICAL POST OF TODAY!!!:

I am already having obama fatigue, I am voting for McCain. Both are good men, but I am sick of all the obama stuff

Posted by: Steve | Jul 24, 2008 12:42:43 PM

Steve, if your choice for a candidate is based on that, then you need to become informed.....and stop just looking at TV so much....

I suggest you read the Audacity of Hope by senator Obama.....and study the life also of John McCain....cut your tv time and stop getting caught up in the drama......

I would like to ask McCain why the Senate voted down releasing oil from our strategic oil reserves.....This would have given Americans real relief instead of the drilling hoax that only would line the pockets of the oil companies.
On McCain saying that he would like to give a speech in Berlin......Ask him which side of the wall he wants to be on..and if he also wants to give a speech in Czechoslovakia too.
By the way...no one would go to hear him speak.

It was John McCain is voted to go to war in Iraq in the first place, THAT DECISION WAS DEAD WRONG!!!

It is John McCain's decision to vote to go to war in Iraq which has led to the deaths of 4000 soldiers.

IT IS JOHN McCAIN WHO HAS SAID THAT EVEN KNOWING THAT THE WAR IN IRAQ WAS STARTED ON FALSE INFORMATION, HE STILL WOULD STILL DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN!!!

SO JOHN McCAIN IS WILLING TO SEND SOLDIERS TO DIE IN A WAR BASED ON FALSE, AND FAULTY INFORMATION.

shalom, i have done both, and Obama is not even in the running with the life of McCain.

Wow, half a dozen. Guess the writer thought that was more tactful than "speech to five or six people of similar age." Pathetic beyond belief. Can't wait to see them on stage together.

It must be hard finding a venue SMALL enough to hold a McCain speech.

I guess he didn't feel he needed to be president to speak to canada.

Remember ... he will speak at the Branderburg Tor as a president

However, there must be an increase, the Germans plans farsightedly :-)

Wake up, republicans - your party has failed this country miserably, and in November we're going to take it back. 2006 was just the beginning.

I am another Hillary supporter that toyed with the idea of voting for Obama for a day or two. I am sooooo sick of the coverage of King Obama that if I don't vote for McCain, I will just stay home. I have OD'd on Obama Big Time...this guy is a LOAD.

80 million people live in Germany, they only work about 32 hrs/week, 9%+ unemployment. Sounds like a lot of bored germans who don't see many black people.

billy bob - polls are irrelevant at this stage of the game - they change as quickly as McCain changes his Depends. There stands Senator Obama in front of over 200,000 cheering Germans and Americans, BTW, waving American flags. And there is McCain - trying to adjust his dentures and wiping his nose with his hand in front of the Ohio cameras.

Giving a speech on an oil well was about as dumb as the sausage house idea....

Is WcCain's campaign trying to lose?

Maybe next time WcCain should hire people with campaign experience instead of just lobbyists.

He's starting to make Hillary's campaign look good....and that ain't easy.

ATTN: McCain supports - he is holding his next rally at 'Chuck-E-Cheese'

see ya there! bring a bib!

Wow. That's pretty pathetic. Is McCain even trying anymore? How sad.

hey Bob - regarding your post to Billy Blob - 5 stars!!!! * * * * *

I should've said sausage "haus" instead of "house". Scheit!

My apologies to the spelling police....

Poor John he just looks so old lately and this is coming from a 64 year old woman. And a German restaurant?? He should be going in another direction. I am concerned that he is letting his anger get the best of him, you can see it on his face and in that smirkey smile. For people who are interested as I am I wonder what I ever saw in him 8 years ago. Do people change that much? or is he that desparate??
I think as most CEO's have to retire at 60 or 65 there should be a cutoff age for President unless it's his second term.

that is wrong drobb!

82.9 million live in germany and most of the work 41 hours. It was 7pm local time. We have more export than the USA and really hope that the USA will find the way back to be a partner.

The peace of tomorrow is not made alone in the USA. Simply start to think over the ocean

I have been reading all the news on McCain and Obama's trip overseas. Sorry, but it just sounds like sour grapes from McCain because he is not getting all the media attention right now. All the comments McCain has made in the last week make him sound like a whining, jealous little boy who is trying to get mama's attention. I have not decided who to vote for yet, but based on this week, it wouldn't be McCain.

Obama is a fraud. He reminds me of the boy bands that rich lib producers used to shove down our throats in the 90's. Obama is the perfect example of a sterling marketing campaign, selling Americans something they really don't want or need (and will probably endanger them)
Obama wants change. Unless he can rid Washington of EVERY elected official there, we will have no change. Only higher gas prices, higher food prices and higher taxes.
Obama's speech in Germany also does not impress me. What I heard him say is that he has no respect for his country, will go anywhere and disrespect his country and basically thinks the American people are hicks who don't live up to European standards. Well, I'm not European and don't want to be. I speak English and have no desire to speak another (well, maybe some Spanish 'cause it's getting harder and harder to place my order at McDonalds).
Do you libs really want someone who doesn't even like you to be your president? That's sad. At least Mr. McCain loves his country and the people who live here.

p.s. I sure do hope I didn't spell anything wrong, cause I know how much you libs hate that, as if there aren't 2 million more important things to worry about.

McCain is running for pres so he can satisfy his own agenda and that of his cronies.

OBAMA is running for pres to serve his country and the American people!

OBAMA WINS!
OBAMA WINS!
OBAMA WINS!

This is truly sad. McCain should just accept reality and give it up. How can his campaign put the poor man through this? Wow. If, on the other hand, it was McCain (fat chance of that happening) instead of Obama who was garnering all this attention in an overseas trip, his supporters, few as they are, would be lapping it up and yelping for more (yes, yelping - not yelling). Alas, that's not to be. And if McCain is leading (or close to leading) in the "polls", who is getting polled? 80 year olds sitting in their rocking chairs waiting for their land lines to ring?

Is it true that McCain is losing in his own home state? hmmm

is it true that today Obama had 199,994 more people turn up to hear him speak than McCain? hmmm

Is it true that the last Republican to visit Germany, Bush, never spoke to the people, had thousands demonstrating against him and his policies, and had to constanty whisked away behind protective barriers because the Germans couldnt stand the thought of him on their soil? hmmmm

remember-wrong you forget to average in all the time off afforded Germans and that Women do not work the same schedules as American Women. As far as 82.9 million vs, 80 million typical German Nit Picking (Narcissistic attitude).

the ONLY reason McCain is even close to OBAMA in the polls is, the young people dont do polls, nor are we approached, leave the polls to the seniors, we have better things to do, like VOTE, YES WE CAN!

P.S. i dont even like sausage. yuck

Tracy Lynn - way to take the bait. FISHED IN! LOL

Good for McCain. He know that Iowa can vote for him. OBama doesn't seem to realize that Germany can't vote for HIM!

caliguy, i apologize, the post was meant for SAMC

Who the heck cares that he went to a restaurant and a grocery store? Oh my god, no normal person has ever done that before! Just wait until Obama isn't reading a speech that was prepared for him...