OBAMA ON DER STUMPF - Just a Minute for 07-28-08

It’s Monday… I hope you had a nice weekend…

 

            Time to check in on the rising “Citizen of the World” – who somehow missed the appointment at Downing Street in London and was scheduled to make his news conference alone. Not a promising beginning for “President of the World” as Der Spiegel characterized his appearance in Berlin on Thursday.  Obama’s whirlwind tour of the Middle East Europe and anyone else who was interested achieved it’s purpose apparently for he came home with a pocketful of clippings and all the excitement one could hope for from the youth of the world. Now the question: Does that translate into ruling horsepower when it comes to getting elected President of the United States. Maybe the crowd in Denver late next month can tell us – meanwhile we are stuck with the polls – and this season they’ve been like a weathervane in a windstorm.

 

            So… we’re about to conclujde the tail end of dog days… on the 11^th… the day’s length will shrink from about 13 and ¾ hours at the beginning of August to about five minutes less than 13 by the end of August. So all the children can feel the hot breath of school days breathing down their collective collars. We’re on the steep downhill run toward another term of school. I’m sure that cheers up mothers who have wondered when the long hot summer will end. Teachers are probably ambivalent. It won’t be long now.

 

            There are things going on in the world besides politics – Praise the Lord. I think Fall is a wonderful time of the year – if you discount raking leaves. The leaves are pretty – for the most part… but they do come at a price.  We’ve put off doing things in the yard trying to get our stuff that’s not gotten unpacked from the move sorted out yet. But that’s coming along.  We’ve got a lot of “stuff” to give away, sell or e-bay or will to our descendents – God bless ‘em.

 

            Well… have a good day. Don’t wait for the weekend.  Carpe dieum (I got it right…I think ) seize the day… It’s one the Lord has made!

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

OBAMA ON DER STUMPF

Just A Minute – OK here’s my take on Mr. Obama’s Berlin speech. -- Uncertainty about the the crowd abounded -- … estimates between two million down to 20 thousand. So take your pick. 

The NEW YORK TIMES opened its coverage on Obama's citizen of the world speech with (quote) "a tone poem to American and European ideals and shared history… “We defer to the New York Poetry Digest.

Der Spiegel‘s chief editor suggests the German media are even more im der Tank für Obama than US media. Our translation says approximately “Anyone who saw Obama in Berlin on Thursday could realize this man will become the 44^th president of the U.S. and he wants not only to be president of the USA but the world. Der Spiegel  continued … his speech encompassed the Berlin Airlift, polar ice caps, Iran, Afghanistan, terrorists, poorly guarded nuclear material, World War Two, American mistakes, Iraq and concluded was a ton too much to absorb – in a speech delivered in less than 30 minutes.

Nobody wrote – “Perhaps he ought to get elected first.”

 

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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