Karl Rove has got to be shitting himself today.
This is exactly the kind of thing he would be having his candidate do, if his candidate could pull it off.
And Obama did it right again, he could have spoken a couple of phrases in German, but that would have been too much, he hit it just right with his speech, and he now has some really great images in the can. Speaking German would have been a "Dukakis in the tank moment", as it would have forced the comparison to Kennedy and Reagan with too heavy a hand.
These images will dominate the news for a few cycles, effectively shutting McCain out of the public arena, and since McCain has nothing scheduled this week, I think he loses this weeks contest and drops a few more points.
Why isn't McCain addressing a big crowd somewhere, to at least provide some counter to this, is he just laying down?

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