{"id":5575,"date":"2008-07-25T08:53:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T08:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/07\/germans-attending-obamas-speec.html"},"modified":"2008-07-25T08:53:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T08:53:52","slug":"germans-attending-obamas-speec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/07\/germans-attending-obamas-speec.html","title":{"rendered":"Germans attending Obama&#8217;s speech had to leave their &#8220;placards and posters at home?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,390963,00.html\">According to a German broadcasting station<\/a> (oh, and for those of you who enjoy the fallacy of poisoning the well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bild.de\/BILD\/news\/politik\/2008\/07\/21\/obama-verbietet\/schilder-bei-seiner-berlinrede.html\">here&#8217;s a preemptive strike<\/a>). I wonder if he set up a special protest zone? <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gmqNTRCmbmBq9bVLWtA5QBUqKQFAD923PHFG0\">Even Communist China is allowing protesters to express themselves in special protest zones<\/a>.<br \/>\nI know this will probably upset the commenters who value free speech and have noted how evil McCain and Bush are for ejecting those who disagree with them from their public speeches. It&#8217;s sad that their guy is doing the same thing. I feel your pain, Obamanites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a German broadcasting station (oh, and for those of you who enjoy the fallacy of poisoning the well, here&#8217;s a preemptive strike). I wonder if he set up a special protest zone? Even Communist China is allowing protesters to express themselves in special protest zones. I know this will probably upset the commenters&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Germans attending Obama&#039;s speech had to leave their &quot;placards and posters at home?&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/07\/germans-attending-obamas-speec.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Germans attending Obama&#039;s speech had to leave their &quot;placards and posters at home?&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"According to a German broadcasting station (oh, and for those of you who enjoy the fallacy of poisoning the well, here&#8217;s a preemptive strike). 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