200,000 people. That's the police estimate for the turnout in Berlin. 200,000 people! That's incredible. Meanwhile, I should probably find a picture of this, but from the television coverage, the setting sun threw a brilliant wash of gold over the whole tableau. It made Thomas Kincaid look like a hack (well, a bigger hack), and must have required some serious juicing of whoever's in charge of the sun. After hiring McCain's economic surrogates and Nouri al-Maliki, I didn't realize the Obama campaign had enough cash to put God (or possibly Ra) on the payroll, too. Clearly, I underestimated the power of small donor fundraising.
