(CNN) - Sen. John McCain sharpened his attacks against Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday, saying he'd rather give a speech in Germany as president than as a presidential candidate.
Obama was in Berlin for the latest leg of an international trip intended to bolster his foreign policy credentials at home and set out his vision for a new era of transatlantic cooperation.
Watch: McCain says he'd prefer to speak in Germany as President
McCain was campaigning Thursday in Ohio, focusing on health care.
Speaking to reporters outside Schmidt's Restaurant and Banquet Haus, a German eatery in Columbus, Ohio, McCain responded to Obama's Berlin speech, which attracted large crowds at the Victory Column.
Watch: McCain discusses Obama's Berlin speech
"Well, I'd love to give a speech in Germany ... a political speech or a speech that maybe the German people would be interested in," he said. "But I would much prefer to do it as president of the United States rather than as a candidate for the office of the presidency."
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Once again, McSame shows that he has nothing useful to offer. He had a perfect opportunity to give counterpoints, but what did he do instead? He just said that he'd like to give a speech in Germany someday.
Seriously... McSame offers up that pointless nugget, and some people still yet say that Obama's speeches aren't substantive?
and another thing, McCain's advisor criticizing Obama for calling himself a 'citizen of the world' is an idiot. We are all 'citizens of the world' and the fact that McCain's campaign would criticize him for saying that illustrates the way McCain thinks and is further proof that McCain would only alienate the USA further from the rest of the world.
The people are interested did you not see the thousands and thousands of people waiting for BO speak?
The future president is speaking.
Go Obama
Obama is nothing but an opportunists! He just goes wherever his spit falls. I hope that when he blows in the wind, his spit falls right back on his face.
Substance over Hype!! McCain '08!!
I guess you wont be giving a speech in Germany since you wont have the chance to be president.
Who are you going to address, President Putin?
McCain's good luck is that the mainstream media hasn't connected the dots that Phil Gramm wrote his economic policy AND Phil Gramm also is responsible for legislation that has caused increases in energy prices (enron loophole author) and the mortgage crisis (bank deregulation).
The economy is the number one issue, and McCain's policy maker is a huge part of the problems we face today.
I kinda like Obama, but this showboating isn't helping me change my vote. A house of cards only falls one way.
COM ON, DON'T BE SO HARD ON THE OLD IDIOT.
HE JUST WANTS A CHANCE TO INFORM THE
GERMANS THAT PUTIN IS THEIR PRESIDENT.
McCain needs to show more personal respect. As Obama said, he disagrees with policies and opinions, but doesn't attack McCain personally. To say that Obama doesn't care if he wins the war, especially when he is out of the country, is going to the bottom of the barrel. Desperate? Show some respect.
lol...i had to laugh but McCain's got a point.
I do recall Mccain recently giving a speech in Canada which was certainly a political sppech as he talked about NAFTA, etc. He was not President when he gave this speech. So where does Mccain draw the line of his speech in Canada versus Obama's in Germany? Do we note some jealousy here in the fact that McCain had 150 in attendance in Canada of which 125 were asleep whereas Obama had 200,000 in Germany.
Proper etiquette,as usual,for a modest American Hero!
I agree. Obama is pretending to be the President and he hasn't been elected yet. Shouldn't we the people of the US be able to elect the president and not have someone just push his way into office?
This sounds more like a dictatorship instead of a democracy!
Has someone tald Obama that Germany isn't one of the 57 states, and they can't vote for him?
My God, is CNN reporting positive news about an Obama-opponent. Where are your propaganda police today?
What a Losser and a lost old man.
Your time has come and gone
The world want a change!, real change
No more rat RACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Retire and go home, spend time with your family
Just go way, war monger!!!!!!!!!!
The KKK generation need to retire.
OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUD
Well my friends John Mccain is just like Greg Stillson From the 1983 movie Dead Zone with Christopher Walken. Mccain would hide behind a baby like he hides behind the american Flag.
Lee,
Why dont you crawl into the fox hole you came from. Oh yea, McCain may win but no won will like him like Obama. And the world will be in shambles.
Two Hundred Thousand people showed up and they can't even vote!
Talk about an inspirational leader. Barack is the man.
I would like to see the reception McCain would get if he tried the same trip abroad.
Obama in 08!
Thank you Barack Obama for taking these first steps in extending good will to the nations of the world. The damage done by the current administration – the bullying, arrogant, elitist attitudes seemed insurmountable for too long and has left us increasingly isolated... Now our neighbors abroad are realizing – just as so many of us here at home have been able to – that there is hope.
Yes We All Can! Obama '08!!
John, sounds kind of petty to me. Kinda like school playground bluster. Does not enhance your image one iota.
Reading these posts on the ticker often makes me sick to be a registered Dem. You people need to tone down the hate rhetoric. You've become what you profess to despise.
negative, negative, negative.
It is sad that McCain has taken to just basically attacking Obama and talking about Obama instead of hyping up his own policies and strengths. Guess that is how Bush did it....wait he isn't like Bush remember?
Obama 08'