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To: i-node who wrote (401651)	7/25/2008 12:09:42 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576163

It is important to remember, too, that the Obama rally in Germany wasn't spontaneous. They were trying to attract as many people as possible to make it LOOK big -- Obama advance people were there several days in advance handing out flyers and promoting it. Just more arrogance. LMAO. You are such a sore loser.

To: i-node who wrote (401651)	7/25/2008 12:20:41 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576163

Obama's brief stop in Paris belies his popularity By ELAINE GANLEY, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 9 minutes ago Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama expected to spend just enough time in Paris on Friday for talks with the French president and a joint news conference, not a rousing speech like the one he delivered in Berlin. Most newspapers headlined Obama's pending arrival, with the leftist daily Liberation giving a full front-page spread to "Obamania." After Berlin, where Obama drew some 200,000 spectators for a speech Thursday, the conservative newspaper Le Figaro wrote that Obama is not looking to draw crowds in Paris "because he knows his huge popularity in our country could ill serve him with a part the American centrist electorate." That was a reference to the negative image France had for years among some Americans because of Paris' vocal opposition to the invasion of Iraq. Only one venue was on Obama's Paris schedule — the presidential Elysee Palace. President Nicolas Sarkozy greeted Obama as the 46-year-old senator stepped from his car and, after a round of posing for photos, the two disappeared inside the building. A joint news conference was scheduled immediately following their meeting. Sarkozy, a conservative, had rushed back from a summit in southwestern France to host Obama. Although Sarkozy and Obama are on different sides of the political fence, the French leader seems to have a soft spot for the U.S. senator. "Obama? He's my buddy," Le Figaro quoted the president as saying before Obama's arrival. "I am the only Frenchman who knows him." Sarkozy, elected in 2007, first met Obama in 2006 while a candidate for the French presidency. Sarkozy offered considerably less to Obama's Republican rival, John McCain during a March visit to Paris. After 45 minutes of talks, McCain was left on his own, fielding questions from reporters in the courtyard of the Elysee. French supporters of Obama were excited about the visit. "He is young, not from the establishment. It's a change of U.S. politics, of the U.S. image in the world," said Samuel Solvit, the 22-year-old head of a Paris-based Obama committee. "We are not here to influence the American vote, to use it politically. We are here to say that what is going on in the US has an influence on the world," Solvit, an economics student, said in an interview with Associated Press Television News. After his brief trip to Paris, Obama was scheduled to travel to London, the last stop of a tour of the Middle East and Europe designed to reassure voters in the United States about his ability to lead the country and make his way with aplomb through world diplomacy. In Berlin, Obama underscored his desire to take a frayed cross-Atlantic alliance in a new direction after eight years of the administration of President Bush. "People of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment. This is our time," Obama declared from a large podium erected at the base of the Victory Column in Tiergarten Park, located in the heart of Berlin and not far from where the Berlin Wall once divided the city. "The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand," he said. "The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christians and Muslims and Jews cannot stand." Obama urged Europeans and Americans to "defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it" just as they joined to defeat communism a generation ago.