Gerard Baker on Obama’s overseas tour
“He ventured forth to bring light to the world” is how the column starts, and it only gets better. 🙂
Obama campaign using video of Berlin speech in campaign emails – complete with “DONATE” button
What was that they were saying again about how he was going overseas as a “Senator and not a presidential candidate”? Uh huh.  Here’s an mass email sent out tonight by the campaign:
Barack Obama surrogate Wesley Clark: Stuck on Stupid (INCLUDES VIDEO)
None of us are strangers to the foolish words that have come out of (Ret) Gen. Wesley Clark’s mouth over the last several years.  During the run up to the 2004 presidential primaries, Clark declared that he was “delighted” to have the support of Bush-hater Michael Moore, and refused to condemn his hateful remarks in which he called President Bush a Vietnam war “deserter” and mocked his service in TANG.  A few months prior to that, he bumbled his way through the revelation that he praised President Bush and his administration a little over a year before slamming them during his failed run for the Democrat nomination for president.
Obama’s Berlin speech (MORE: VIDEO OF SPEECH ADDED)
Drudge has the transcript posted. I’m posting it below in full as the Drudge link will probably no longer work a few weeks from now:
Afternoon food for thought
The WaPo’s Chris Cillizza has an analysis up of a recent WaPo/Quinnipiac poll and finds that McCain has made “significant gains” in 4 key battleground states: Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Â
Obama in Germany (MORE: EXCUSE GIVEN FOR CANCELLATION)
A speech in front of thousands of smiling Germans? Yes. Traveling to Paris for a pit stop on Friday? Still on.  Visiting US military bases in Rammstein and Landstuhl? Cancelled. Ed Morrissey is following developments.