ich bin ein berliner!

in '68, nixon's campaign team concluded that potential presidents are "measured against an ideal that's a combination of leading man, god, father, hero, pope, king, with maybe just a touch of the avenging furies thrown in." looks like mccain has the god part down:



tv coverage, however, has not treated the mccain campaign quite as well. yesterday, as obama prepared to address a crowd of 200,000 at the victory column in berlin, germany, mccain talked to the press at schmidt's sausage haus in columbus, ohio. we know it's hard to compete against a candidate who's considered all of the above and has indie/street cred to boot, but mccain's gonna have to try harder than that.

check out danish photographer hans nyberg's panorama of the berlin crowd here.














via TPM