On The Next Right, Patrick Ruffini ranted about the fact that the Obama campaign printed a flyer advertising his speech in Berlin in German. Of course, Berlin is in Germany, where people speak German. Ruffini’s lingual complaint crescendos in an accusation that using a nation’s language to inform them of an event is a “lapse in judgment.” His lingual complaints of course also fail to mention the fact that McCain hasn’t been above using other languages in his campaign. He then complains about the fact that the flyer was paid for by Obama for America rather than his Senate office(thus in his mind making it a campaign event.)
Ruffini alledges that the event is an Obama campaign rally despite the fact that Obama said the word “president” only once and that was to say that “I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.” and that he never said the phrase commander in chief. Ruffini goes on to argue that it isn’t a “high-minded foreign policy speech” despite the fact that the focus of the speech was the fact that we need to work together in order to create a more hopeful world and defend freedom by doing things such as ending the Iraq war.
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