Over at Hot Air, Ed Morrissey is examining the Barack Obama campaign’s second choice for their big German election rally. Hmmm, he isn’t also running for the German Chancellorship too, is he? Hah! Still the Obamessiah and his seemingly clueless rank and file trip planners have stepped in it again. First they planned to hold the rally at the Brandenburg Gate, site of historic speeches by presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, but the outcry over the neophyte Senator’s ill-considered choice of venue forced them to make a “CHANGE”. Of course, they really like “change” over at Obama & Co. so that didn’t bother them all that much. True to form though, if they couldn’t be successful at conjuring up memories of Kennedy and Reagan to bolster their feckless leader’s International chops, why not go all out and channel the aura of one of the all-time greats and his paen to Germanic domination — the Siegessäule monument?

Hitler didn’t just move the monument to its more central location. He had a taller column built for it as well, to emphasize its message of German military domination over Europe. He saw it as a message to Germans of their destiny — as well as to other Europeans as their destiny as well. It was never meant as a symbol of peaceful, multicultural co-existence.

Team Obama has outdone themselves on symbolism with this choice. They’ve managed to make their hosts uncomfortable for a second time with their choice of rallying point, and perhaps more so this time. If one wanted to talk peace, what worse location could one choose than Adolf Hitler’s favorite monument to militaristic domination? One has to wonder how France, Denmark, and Austria will feel about Obama rallying German masses under the Siegessäule. Deja vu?

But before he gets to all those shenanigans in the EU, good ol’ Barack is tearin’ up the tarmacs first in Afghanistan and now in Iraq. In his meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai he delcared that our fight against terror is now centered in that country and not in Iraq. The LA Times writes today:

Obama, the presumed Democratic nominee, wants to wind down U.S. involvement in Iraq and redeploy troops and resources to Afghanistan, a country that he said had devolved again into a sanctuary for terrorists intent on harming the United States.

“There is starting to be a growing consensus that it’s time for us to withdraw some of our combat troops out of Iraq, deploy them here in Afghanistan,” Obama said in an interview Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “And I think we have to seize that opportunity. Now is the time for us to do it.”

Arrogance, they name is Obama. First, you haven’t been over there in years, haven’t met with the senior military advisers, never held sessions in a committee that you have jurisdiction over regarding Afghanistan, and then you declare a time-table to leave Iraq, and tell the Afghans that we need to take those troops and stick them in-country there. Ya know, our Chairman of the Joint Chiefs might wish to disagree, as he did yesterday during his Fox News Sunday interview, first about Iraq, second about the war in Afghanistan.

I think the consequences could be very dangerous in that regard. I’m convinced at this point in time that coming — making reductions based on conditions on the ground are very important.
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I think we’ve made a lot of progress in Iraq, and certainly every indication is that we’re proceeding in the right direction. I would not say in any way, shape or form that we’re losing in Afghanistan.

In a related event, evidently the New York Times’ Op-Ed editor David Shipley, who was a Clinton Administration Special Assistant to the President and Senior Presidential Speechwriter, has rejected a John McCain response to an essay written by Barack Obama which they printed last week. The Drudge Report writes:

A top McCain source claims the paper simply does not agree with the senator’s Iraq policy, and wants him to change it, not “re-work the draft.”

Drudge also presents the full draft as submitted to the NYT. While the three network anchors worship at the Obamessiah’s feet on his grand world tour, the NYT watches his back at home.

Media bias? Nah — couldn’t be . . . ?

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