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Obama's Berlin speech: History raises the stakes
Associated Press ^
| June 19, 2013
| JIM KUHNHENN
Posted on 06/18/2013 11:51:27 PM PDT by presidio9
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posted on
06/18/2013 11:51:27 PM PDT
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presidio9
To: presidio9
Will he attract a crowd of 45?
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posted on
06/18/2013 11:52:51 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: presidio9
If he wishes to emulate Kennedy’s speech he would more appropriately deliver it in Hamburg.
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posted on
06/18/2013 11:56:10 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Idiocracy is a documentary.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Shithausen would be the most appropriate place.
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posted on
06/18/2013 11:58:22 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
To: Cvengr
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:01:44 AM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
To: Cvengr; Jeff Chandler; laplata
AP reporter Jim Kuhnhenn: “Fifty years ago next week, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (peace be unto him) gave the most memorable and historical speech in the history of presidential speeches at the Brandenburg gate...
...Oh, and I think Ronald Reagan stopped by there once too. But nobody really remembers what he said or talked about. Also, Bill Clinton spoke there.”
Dumbass.
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:04:04 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: laplata; Jeff Chandler
Shithausen would be the most appropriate place.
I was thinking Landsberg.
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:09:32 AM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: presidio9
...famously declare "Ich bin ein Berliner," German for "I am a Berliner."Twit... more like "I am a jelly donut."
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:09:51 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: Smokin' Joe
Some wag came up with the jelly donut jibe well after the speech. “Berliner” was in fact a correct German construct for “citizen of Berlin.” That would be like poking fun at a foreign dignitary who spoke of Manhattan because Manhattan is also a kind of cocktail.
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:13:07 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
To: presidio9
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:14:41 AM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: cynwoody
Don’t care if she did enjoy the workout. She’s still not guilty.
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:15:50 AM PDT
by
presidio9
(Islam is as Islam does.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
IIRC, a "Berliner" was a cream filled donut in popular parlance at the time there, too.
Sure, it was a gibe, we all know what Kennedy meant, and that he was trying to push a sense of solidarity with the people of West Berlin.
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:21:25 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: presidio9
Ich bin ein Moslimer.
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:22:40 AM PDT
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: presidio9
...Oh, and I think Ronald Reagan stopped by there once too. But nobody really remembers what he said or talked about.
Disgusting.
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:23:24 AM PDT
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laplata
(Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
To: presidio9
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:24:14 AM PDT
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: presidio9
Something about “tear down this wall!” is memorable.
Moreso than “Ich bin ein Berliner” (”I am a jelly donut”, when he probably meant to say “ I am (born from) Berlin(-er) (German)”
(were the 450,000 in attendance laughing at him when he used the indefinite article, thinking to themselves,...”Well you don’t look like a jelly donut,...chuckle, chuckle,..applause for the guy who means well but doesn’t get it.....)
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:27:13 AM PDT
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Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: rawcatslyentist
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:30:56 AM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: presidio9
With Obamacare, and its death panels, as well as arming Israel’s enemies and the war against Christians, Buchenwald might have been a better choice.
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:38:08 AM PDT
by
teacherwoes
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To: Cvengr
Whatever the interpetation- JFK did turn into a jellied donut. Right?
To: presidio9
Obama to Berliners- East Germany was on the right path with that Communism. What does it matter Freedom? That’s a negative idea.
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posted on
06/19/2013 12:50:15 AM PDT
by
RginTN
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