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7/20 Oh, that crazy Obama, he couldn't get the Brandenberg gate, so he
switched to Hitler's favorite monument of militaristic dominance.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,566920,00.html
Not that he could have asked any German reporters about this.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5tqtgy (Washington Post)
\_ Yes, because Obama LOVES HITLER! He's a crazy secret muslim
HITLER LOVER! HITLER HILTER HILTER!
\_ Perhaps it is part of Obama's effort to reach out to White
\_ Don't forget he's a commie who wants to raise all our taxes
to 100% and outlaw all guns except if the state needs to use
them in an "on-demand" abortion.
\_ HITLER!
\_ Um, deal with it. When Obama wins, you'll have to learn
to live with this crap for the next 4 years just like
everybody had to deal with BUSH=HITLER nonsense for the
past 8 years. It's a small price to pay for having your
team finally win one.
\_ You are missing what is important here. Obama is
HITLER!
\_ Wait, you mean you stopped calling Dems HITLER, LIAR,
and FLIPFLOPPER when Bush became Pres.? Your weak sauce
is old news.
\_ Not sure Obama is going to survive 4 years with all
the gun-toting whackos in this country.
\_ The gun-toting whackos in the Secret Service will
protect him just fine.
\_ Just like they did JFK and Raygun.
\_ Yeah, too bad JHJr assassinated Reagan. Oh,
wait, he _didn't_. Secret Service hasn't
lost anyone since JFK. Get over it.
\_ Oh yes, because Reagan and Brady managed to
survive I guess that means the SS did its
job. Maybe Obama will just be a vegetable
so you can still stand by your stupid point.
\_ Right, it's easier for you to imagine
that the Secret Service is incompetent
than to simply accept that the fact that
no one's been assassinated since JFK is
a result of professionalism.
\_ Only in your world is the POTS being
\_ Only in your world is the POTUS being
shot and nearly dying considered a
success.
\_ Perhaps it is part of Obama's effort to reach out to the White
Supremicist vote. |
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| www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,566920,00.html BARACK IN BERLIN Is Obama Speech Site Contaminated by Nazi Past? Finally, Barack Obama's campaign has settled on a site for his Berlin speech. But some German politicians have now criticized his choice as being one full of Nazi-related symbolism. Barack Obama, when he arrives in Berlin on July 24, will hold his speech at the Siegessule monument in the heart of the city, according to an announcement made by his campaign office in Chicago on Sunday. In his speech, he will speak about the "historic US-German partnership" and about the importance of strengthening trans-Atlantic relations, according to his campaign team. Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, who is a major figure in Germany's Social Democrats, was in favor of the Brandenburg Gate site and the Obama visit quickly became yet another excuse for German politicians to fire off barbs at each other. The Siegessule is located about a kilometer down the Strasse des 17. His speech is set to begin at 7 pm and Berlin is expecting a massive number of Obama fans to show up -- between 10,000 and a million according to one city official quoted in the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel. Still, even as the issue of his speech's location has now been settled, a number of politicians in Berlin are still dissatisfied with the site. The Siegessule -- or Victory Column -- was erected in memory of Prussia's victories over Denmark (1864), Austria (1866) and France (1870/71). The column originally stood in front of the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building, but was moved by Adolf Hitler to its current location in 1939 to make way for his planned transformation of Berlin into the Nazi capital "Germania." Sign up for Spiegel Online's daily newsletter and get the best of Der Spiegel's and Spiegel Online's international coverage in your In- Box everyday. "The Siegessule in Berlin was moved to where it is now by Adolf Hitler. He saw it as a symbol of German superiority and of the victorious wars against Denmark, Austria and France," the deputy leader of the Free Democrats, Rainer Brderle, told Bild am Sonntag. He raised the question as to "whether Barack Obama was advised correctly in his choice of the Siegessule as the site to hold a speech on his vision for a more cooperative world." Andreas Schockenhoff of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats said, "the Siegessule in Berlin is dedicated to a victory over neighbors who are today our European friends and allies. Obama's stop in Berlin is part of a week-long trip which took him to Afghanistan on Saturday and Sunday. He is expected to travel to Iraq next before heading to Jordan, Israel, Germany and Great Britain. |
| preview.tinyurl.com/5tqtgy -> www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802612.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns CLOSE Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Barack Obama is on his way to Europe, where an adoring public awaits. But I wonder if the reception would be quite so enthusiastic if Obama's fans across the Atlantic knew a dirty little secret of his remarkable presidential campaign: Although Obama portrays himself as the best candidate to engage the rest of the world and restore America's image abroad, and many Americans support him for that reason, so far he has almost completely refused to answer questions from foreign journalists. When the press plane leaves tonight for his trip, there will be, as far as I know, no foreign media aboard. The Obama campaign has refused multiple requests from international reporters to travel with the candidate. As a German correspondent in Washington, I am accustomed to the fact that American politicians spare little of their limited time for reporters from abroad. This is understandable: Our readers, viewers and listeners cannot vote in US elections. Even so, Obama's opponents have managed to make at least a small amount of time for international journalists. President Bush regularly holds round-table interviews with media from the countries to which he travels. This spring Obama allowed at least one foreign reporter on trips to Ohio and Texas. But as the campaign has progressed, access has become more difficult for foreign correspondents. E-mail inquiries get no reply, phone calls are not returned. In September 2007, I gave a lecture in Iowa titled "The US in the World: How They See Us." People in the audience asked me about the working conditions of foreign journalists and were surprised to learn how little access Obama had given us. In contrast to me, they did hear back: In a letter dated Nov. The letter even said that my contact information had been forwarded to the campaign's communications department. Since I followed the Obama campaign in its early stages and published a sympathetic (and widely read) book in German about the Illinois senator, I probably have more access than most. I know the Obama "policy advisers" in Washington think tanks and the like; sometimes I manage a fleeting encounter with the senator's press staff at campaign events. Yet I can only dream of an interview with the candidate. A reported interview in France's Politique Internationale last summer turned out to be a fake. In February, Obama gave Israel's Yediot Ahronot written answers to written questions about his views on Israel and the Middle East. Perhaps Obama considers members of the foreign media a risk rather than an opportunity. Samantha Power's "monster" remark about Hillary Clinton to the Scotsman. Or perhaps we're witnessing the arrogance that comes from being so close to power. One of his campaign advisers told me recently: "Why should we take the time for foreign media, since there is Obamania around the world?" Obama is indeed popular in my country and elsewhere in Europe. But Europeans have the same questions about his experience and character that Americans do. its results, though, will affect our lives, much as it will affect theirs. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can spend a few moments with journalists from friendlier countries. The writer is Washington bureau chief of Der Tagesspiegel, a Berlin-based daily newspaper. |