As everyone must know by now, Sarah Palin was selected to be John McCain’s running mate. From everything I have read and heard on the radio, her selection surprised more than a few people. Politically, I do not agree with her on most everything. However, I do hope that she comes away from this relatively […]
Entries Tagged as 'politics'
A bit of a surprise.
August 31st, 2008 · Comments Off
Tags: politics
Barack is (was) in the house!
July 24th, 2008 · Comments Off
Tonight, I was part of an estimated 200,000+ gathering to watch Barack Obama give a speech in Berlin. The speech was a little shorter than I had expected, but I really enjoyed what I did hear. He claimed he was speaking as a ‘citizen of the world’ and not a candidate for president, but there […]
Back in Germany
July 21st, 2008 · Comments Off
I am back in Germany and finally starting to catch up on my sleep. I am now in the home stretch of my stay here – busy trying to finish up things with work and beginning to really plan the next steps forward. I am also trying to figure out how to do all the […]
Tags: Berlin · Culture ? · Friends · Germany · Life · politics
In like a lion and out like a lamb ??
March 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off
Isn’t the month of March saying ‘In like a lion, out like a lamb?’ March arrived this past weekend with a very strong storm sweeping across central Europe, killing some 14 people. Most of the severe damage and accidents took place south of Potsdam. However, there were still a fair amount of broken branches lying […]
Tags: Germany · politics · Potsdam · weather
Mark your calendars
January 21st, 2008 · Comments Off
I was going to make an attempt to keep this a fairly non-political space. However, as I am pretty fascinated by politics and as this blog is called ‘the world according to bob’, I figure what the hell. Today marks the first day of the last year of the Bush administration in office! The next […]
