Video of Obama getting rock star status cheers from the troops in Kuwait

[TeamJordan23]

http://thepage.time.com/obama-in-kuwait-from-cnn /

[Muttocracy]

1. thanks, couple of good videos over in the DU video forum too. nt

[NightWatcher]

2. HAHAHAHAHAHAH blows up in McSame's face. He Shoots He Scores

the military is thinking: this is the president that will bring us home so we will stop getting killed over here.

Thanks for the advice on going to Iraq, McSame- it worked wonders

[Happyhippychick]

10. What's that expression McBearings?

Oh yes: "be careful what you wish for..."

[otohara]

3. Score

awesome like we knew he would be,

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

[lame54]

5. SWOOOOSH!

[WillyT]

28. Nothin But Net !!!

[Faygo Kid]

6. Nothin' but net. Love it.

OK, he got some rim. Let's see McCain try that one.

[Hope And Change]

7. K & R!

[CitizenLeft]

8. FAAAAAAAANTASTIC!

[Frances]

9. Did anyone else notice all of the smiles and happy looks

on the faces of the soldiers?

I seem to remember that when Bush was popular and he visited the troops, the troops never looked happy.

[npincus]

15. would you be happy if someone tried to feed you a plastic turkey?

That turkey looks awful... and so does the bird on the platter.

[Quantess]

36. I bet Karl Rove wouldn't let Bush carry a real turkey,

worried that Bush would do something dumb, like let it slide off the pan and make a mess on his shoes.

[mrs_p]

37. lol

[Phx_Dem]

16. I have never seen the troops

look so happy for a visitor before. Most of them looked like 10-year kids on Christmas morning.

I hope Lieberhole enjoyed seeing that.


(Mrs Phx_Dem)

[Bullet1987]

11. If that happens in Iraq...it'll make McCain look really bad

They're just praying for some foreign politician to upstage Obama, or for Obama to have some HUGE gaffe (which is pretty unlikely). They know if that doesn't happen, next week SHOULD be pretty good for Obama.

[DevonRex]

12. Wow. Nothin but net. Thank you! nt

[Vinca]

13. I've never seen a reaction like that from troops before. WOW!

Bet old McBush is happy he pressed Obama to visit them.

[jefferson_dem]

14. Kick-er-amma!

[Ichingcarpenter]

17. Wow, just wow.......... I've never seen so many smiling enthusiastic happy troops

for any politician in ages. That news snip just won the election and was nothing
but air, on a three point political shot. The cameraman and editor really caught
the troops enthusiasm, which I found surprising for CNN.

Thanks

[blogslut]

18. Ahhh, that's nice

It's gonna be a great week.

[Disturbed]

19. Why wouldn;'t the US Troops be happy with Sen. Obama?

Don't they want to get out of Iraq?

Even the gung ho ones seem to want to go to Afghanistan to fight
the Taliban & al Q.

[blogslut]

27. You'll get no argument from me

[my3boyz]

20. The people over youtube are commenting that it is only black

soldiers that support Obama. WHATEVER!

[Diamonique]

24. Who the fuck do they think is fighting this gawdawful war?!?

It's the low income folks who join up in this all-voluntary military. Unfortunately in this country low income usually means a lot of folks with an abundance of melanin in their skin.

But just ftr, I saw white soldiers in there, and they were just as happy to see our next president as the black soldiers were.

[AspenRose]

29. Stop making sense!

*nodding in agreement*

Good enough to fight the wars and die in them, but somehow not good enough to be president

[goodgd_yall]

39. They just see what they want to see

I saw plenty of white faces in that crowd.

[Hippo_Tron]

21. Republicans are thinking... how do we say that all of those troops were black

without sounding racist?

[populistdriven]

32. those would be the same bigots that complain if they see an obama commercial where everyone is white

and cry about a double standard and obama being racist, i work with one of these cretins

[liberalmuse]

22. As stupid as this is going to sound...

Obama's making that basket was an important image, because it emphasizes that this is a man who will do exactly what he sets out to do. We need someone with that golden touch after 8 years of gross incompetence from the administration run by a man who turns everything he touches to shit.

[fadedrose]

23. I can understand why the troops are cheering....

but why do I have tears in my eyes?

Thanks for posting..

[senseandsensibility]

25. Me too.

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

[Quixote1818]

26. The reaction from the soldiers alone is going to give him a bump in the polls.

The energy there is incredible!

[zulchzulu]

30. I'm not sure of those soldiers next to Obama are socialists...

Breaking...on...HANNITY!

[berni_mccoy]

31. FREAKIN AWESOME!

[NattPang]

33. This does my heart good!

[NatBurner]

34. nice...

in your face, mummy!

[ClayZ]

35. Whoooo Hooooo! K and R

[goodgd_yall]

38. Love it!

I didn't expect anything less, to tell you the truth.

Now I know Fox news isn't going to show one bit of that.