Early this morning, in advance of Obama's big speech in Berlin, radio announcers boldly predicted that the attendance for Obama's speech would come close to 1 million people. Well, results are now in...and it appears that he had somewhere near 200,000 people at his speech in Germany...one-fifth of what was predicted.
What is interesting, though, is Obama's "cult of personality." It appears that the old world is interested in Obama and believe that he is a "rock star." How will this play in the United States -- where people who really matter (i.e., those of us who have a vote in the 2008 presidential election) have to assess whether Obama has what it takes to be president.
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article discussing this very subject today. In it, Gerald Seib and Laura Meckler make the point that the race, to date, is more of a referendum on Obama than a competition between Obama and McCain.
Bad news for Obama. His campaign desperately needs the race to be a comparison between Obama and his so-called plan for change and McCain, who the junior Illinois Senator has tried to paint as Bush III.
Only time will tell if Sen. Obama can "sell" the American people that he is stable enough to lead America and function as an effective commander in chief. But, as GOP pollster Neil Newhouse says in the article, "It's not Obama's race to lose. It's his to win."
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