"When will they start laughing at him?" is still the biggest question about Obama in Europe. Berliners have a long tradition of laughing at pompous conquering heroes, including Hitler. Berliners immediately turned JFK's famous line, "Ich bin ein Berliner" into a joke, because a "Berliner" is a famous jelly doughnut. And today, we see the Victory Column, associated with Germany's big Gay magazine because it's, well, shaped like a different kind of victory column, surrounded by two perfectly symmetrical Obama balloon spheres. Just take a look at this picture, and tell me it ain't so.   The New York Sun headlines the photo, "Obama at a war symbol," and Berlin's  SiegesSaeule certainly celebrates  Prussia's war victories. Berlin was the capital of Prussia, remember.  Otto von Bismarck, the founder of the first Reich, was a Prussian, and Prussia was the ideal model of the modern bureaucratic state that unified all...(Read Full Post)