The Obamafication of Obamamania

A 50 foot wall of media breaks over Europe.

By Denis Boyles

It’s only Wednesday in Europe, but it’s already difficult to put into perspective the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4084 of the visit starting tomorrow of Barack Obama, with his backup band, the three network anchors, fresh from the Middle East.

It’s huge. Think of Walt Disney arriving in Berlin, with mouse, duck, and dog. The excitement has been building for weeks ahead of the Berlin apparition. The continent is ga-ga for Obama, but nobody loves him more than the press, Euro- and otherwise, including the wires, who seem to be writing for each other.

“Europe is about to give Barack Obama one of the grandest of stages for statesmanship,” the Associated Press reported in a dispatch headlined “Obamamania in full flight ahead of tour of Europe.”http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmJmOGIyZmEyYThhODQ3NjFiMDgwMTBlODI0NTRlYzc=

2008-07-23