As usual, right wing fanatics fail to see the significance of Barack Obama’s historic appearance in Berlin. Sure, world leaders have sallied about there, chit-chatting and even orating like JFK but never has a South Side Chicago community organizer been permitted to wallow in the undying adulation of goose stepping, sausage and sauerkraut eating Socialists. Austrian paper hangers with a funny little booger brush perhaps but not community organizers!

Photo opportunities abound for a fawning media. Imagine the presumed candidate doing a peppy polka in lederhosen and a Tyrolean hat. That’s enough to make people forget the goofy grinning Michael Dukakis astride a tank, wearing a steel pot with no liner and will certainly equal if not exceed the pompous landing on the deck of a moving ship sporting a flight suit.

Don Hart

Maryland Heights