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Has Obama bombed out on his second pick for his big Germany speech?

Posted by: ST on July 20, 2008 at 6:31 pm » 2 Comments

The German magazine Spiegel Online has an interesting piece up that discusses Obama’s second and (supposedly final) choice for where he’ll make his big speech next week – the Victory Column – and how some German politicians are still unhappy with his choice, because of what the area symbolizes: Finally, Barack Obama’s campaign has settled on a [...]

 

ObaMedia weekend update

Posted by: ST on July 20, 2008 at 11:24 am » 2 Comments

As expected, the mediots are doing their duty in faithfully reporting on Obama’s first overseas trip since becoming the Dem nominee for president by portraying him as a near-rock star in Afghanistan. Newsbusters has a couple of reports on the mainstream media’s fawing weekend coverage of Obama’s trip: Day 1 of Obama’s Magical Media Tour: [...]