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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (36247)	7/24/2008 1:17:18 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224708

Dem says Hitler's youth "Sieg heil" will come to voters minds if Empty O has a large Berlin crowd: Obama Needs Europe to Restrain Its Enthusiasm: Margaret Carlson Commentary by Margaret Carlson July 24 (Bloomberg) -- This is the first election in memory when a small crowd is better than a large one, a passionate crowd inferior to a bored one, where drawing a million people in Berlin is less likely to be compared with Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy but to Hitler Youth chanting ``Sieg heil!'' Following Hillary Clinton's successful tack, Senator John McCain has picked up the theme that there's something sinister in Barack Obama's appeal. Some in the media are buying it. All of us are repeating it. To give a rousing speech is to appeal to our basest instincts, an adoring crowd abroad the kiss of death. For all we know, there might be socialists or soccer hooligans among them. For sure, they're foreigners. By this standard, less -- or rather fewer -- is more. Dare to be boring in front of a monument that no one has seen before or will again. Assemble a sparse, tepid audience. Deflate it. I fell into the trap myself saying on TV that the more admiration Obama elicits on his trip to the Middle East and Europe, the less voters in Kansas will trust him. Entire article at realclearpolitics.com