Kevin Drum is as astonished at the response of the further right of the Republican party to Obama overseas as I am. Here's yet one more post on the topic.
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OBAMA AND TERRORISM....The Cornerites are in such an apoplectic frenzy over Barack Obama's Berlin speech that I'm almost afraid of being hit by a barrage of spittle flecked pixels if I head over there again before they've calmed down. In the meantime, though, how about this from Byron York?
York: It's a small passage from Obama's Berlin speech, but this formulation, common in some circles, grates on some ears, like mine:
Obama: The terrorists of September 11th plotted in Hamburg and trained in Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over the globe on American soil.
York: Yes, the victims were from all over the globe — places like Brooklyn, and the Bronx, and Manhattan, and Queens, and Staten Island, and New Jersey — all over. And most were Americans, weren't they?
This is crazy. Obama was in Berlin. He was trying to connect with a European crowd. He was trying to convince those Europeans that the fight against terrorism is their fight too. Isn't that a good thing? Isn't that a point that conservatives try to make all the time? What better way to make it?
—Kevin Drum
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