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Obama's historical moment of choice was the Berlin Airlift, which began 60 years ago this summer. As explained in Andre Cherny's new book, "The Candy Bombers," the relief of the besieged West Berlin was a triumph not just of courage and military skill, the qualities emphasized by McCain, but of imaginative leaps of collaborative problem-solving that led freedom-loving people of the world to, in Obama's words, "look to Berlin." That Berlin is once more looking to us.

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  • Posted By: Diogenes 08 @ 08/03/2008 3:32:23 PM

    So, am I to understand that Barack Hussein Obama is NOT a news magnet like Paris Hilton or Britany Spears? Give me a break, I'm not as stupid as the Obama team thinks Americans are. Just listening to him is very TAXING. Get to know the man, look at where he has been the past 20 years, and I mean nit just the racist church he supported, but ALL of the man; that is very . . . eye-opening.

    The only constant in the Democrat change is to increase taxes; proof: raise the gas tax 40% to 60% at a time that we are already suffering from the oil barrons at the pump.

  • Posted By: jarcher1 @ 07/29/2008 8:33:13 PM

    LOL, favorite tactic of the right's knuckledraggers, ripping things out of context, and thinking everyone else so stupid as swallow them whole. McCain has had a backroom operation going for a year now, with no body to concentrate on but Obama since June. If there was any truth in fineman's assertions, McCain's campaign would have them pasted all over the media. Oh, I forgot, they can't do that because of the liberal media conspiracy.

  • Posted By: jarcher1 @ 07/29/2008 8:11:35 PM

    Well I would go a little farther. Lincoln has a strong claim on being the greatest President of all our Presidents. He is part of a very small, select group. Those are the Presidents that stepped up and preserved our national existence when there was good reason to doubt it would continue.

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