Via Edward, John Rosenthal makes an interesting point. The “200,000″ figure from yesterday’s speech in Berlin appears to have originated from Team Obama itself. German tv actually gave an estimate of 10x less than that number, estimating a crowd of 20,000.

Then John points to this:

As the Berlin-based writer Christian J. Heinrich notes: “During the big anti-Bush demonstration after the fall of Baghdad, there were 250,000 people. And it looked totally different from yesterday. Then, you couldn’t move all the way from the Brandenburg Gate to the Technical University [on the western side of Tiergarten park, another kilometer beyond the Siegessäule].”

And if you look at the picture of the rally, you don’t see that.