200,000 Germans turned out to listen to Barak Obama speak in Berlin. That many Germans haven't gathered in one place to listen to a speaker since about 1938 or so. This time, instead of listening to some psycho rant and rave, I'm speaking Reagan in 1984 of course, they gathered to plead with the United States to elect this man President so they could like us again. It didn't matter what he said, it didn't matter what he didn't say, this was a plea to Americans to think about the rest of the world again. We like you folks, we hate your President. Please think about us a little bit when you vote this November. Show us you have moved beyond being afraid of your own shadow. Show us you've grown up and don't want political equivalents of mob thugs protecting you anymore. Show us you'll elect an adult to lead the free world and not some smirking frat boy or an old man with a get off my lawn temper. Show us you care about the rest of us and we'll help you out on that terrorism thing. Obama is that guy. He will show the rest of the globe that we Americans aren't scared of the boogie man anymore and will stop blowing up entire houses to kill a pesky gnat. He will get people to like us again. Who doesn't like being liked?But my faith in Americans has always been skewered by where I live. Genetic Republican Land. The place where people driving rusty 1985 Ford Fiestas have W'04 bumper stickers still attached to the bumper held on by duct tape. So the rest of America needs to step up. Do what you did in 1992. Throw these bums out once and for all. I doubt it will happen but what other choice do we have? Keep the Audacity of Hope alive.
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