Huge crowd for Obama in Berlin, Why?

A crowd estimated at 200,000 people jammed into Tiergarten park in Berlin thursday, 50,000 or so American reporters I imagine, to hear what senator Obama had to say. Why did so many Germans come to see senator Obama? Could it have been to hear what he had to say about repairing the relationship between the United States and Europe, I know that sounds exciting but really 200,000 people? I wonder if the free concert performed by Raemmon and Patrice before Obama's speech had anything to do with the size of the crowd? Raemmon is a German rock band well known all over Europe and Patrice is a reggae star. This is just a guess but I'm willing to bet there was some beer at this event also, now I'm no Obama supporter but I may have showed up for that "speech". Would anyone like to bet on which network will report this free concert just as it is always reported that Cheney and Bush were speaking in front of a friendly crowd, i.e. the military or the NRA or "Big Oil". I'm pretty sure we won't hear anything about Obama's "friendly crowd" on the networks.

Should Conservatives Stay Home?

Many conservatives have threatened to stay home in the November election to punish the republican party for not nominating a candidate who is conservative enough. The question I have is not whether John Mccain is conservative enough, but whether we can afford an Obama presidency.
A few of the key issues are the possible appointment of two supreme court justices, making the Bush tax cuts permanent, the Iraq and Afghan wars and the threat of national health care being implemented. After an Obama presidency we could be left with two extremely liberal justices. We could be left with the Bush tax cuts being left to expire,which would lead to the biggest tax hike in american history. We could be left with our troops being pulled out of Iraq when we are so close to victory, leaving the deaths of our brave troops to go for naught and we could be left with the implementation of a government run health care system that would destroy the greatest healthcare system in the world. Sitting this election out will serve only to shoot ourselves in the foot. Our hand is being forced, we must support Mccain. We must also support conservatives at the local level. The reason the "conservative movement" is faltering is that we don't have enough conservatives moving up through the ranks from the local to the national level. We need to regain control of the house and senate,and eventually the presidency, when we get the chance.
Should conservatives stay home in November? Absolutely not, on the contrary, we need to come out in full force. We need the appointment of these justices to go our way, that alone may be enough to support Mccain, so keep the faith, suck it up and vote Mccain in November, if not only to stop the onslaught of liberalism in our government and institutions.

Obama "little doubt" we're in a recession

Mr. Obama says there is "little doubt we've moved into a recession at this point." Now I'm not saying the economy is in great shape, but we are not in a recession. That is according to the widespread definition of a recession, which is a decline in GDP for two consecutive quarters. In the 1st quarter of 2008 GDP grew by 1%, so I would say Mr. Obama is a little premature in saying we've moved into a recession. Maybe he just doesn't know what a recession is or maybe he's trying to mislead the american public into believing president Bush's economic policies are no good.
I think that the fact that oil prices closing in on $150 a barrel and gas prices over $4 a gallon and our economy still growing, all be it slow, shows that the presidents economic plan has the U.S. on solid footing. Mr. Obama says "the sooner we get money into people's pockets, the sooner we are going to get our fundamentals right."
If this is the case why doesn't he support making the Bush tax cuts permanent, and don't give me this bologna that it's "only a tax cut for the rich." Combined with my wife we make about $50,ooo a year, owning a house and having 3 children, the Bush tax cuts have helped us immensely. Now if we could only get New York state to cut taxes we would be in good shape.
Mr. Obama also says we should "get serious about creating an energy policy that will create greater energy efficiency over the next decade or so." Yet he doesn't support offshore drilling or drilling in anwar . Wouldn't those 2 things help to create more energy efficiency over the next decade? He supports ethanol from products such as corn. When we have an abundance of oil in the world and in our own country, why should we burn food in our cars instead of feeding the world with it. We need to put more oil on the market and develop cars that use less gas and more electricity, which means we need to produce more coal, natural gas and nuclear to produce more electricity.
It is time we, the american people take our country back from the environmentalists who are stopping us from using our own natural resources. With the technology we have we can have energy independence and protect our environment.