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Merkel warns Obama not to use landmark for 'electioneering'
Agence France-Presse ^ | July 9, 2008 | Deborah Cole

Posted on 07/09/2008 12:26:12 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

BERLIN (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has slammed a request by Barack Obama to give a speech this month before the Brandenburg Gate as inappropriate, her deputy spokesman said Wednesday.

The conservative leader said that while she would be pleased to meet the US Democratic presidential hopeful, it would be wrong for him to hold a "campaign rally" at the historic symbol of German unity.

"It is unusual to do electioneering abroad," spokesman Thomas Steg told reporters.

"It is unusual to hold election rallies abroad. No German candidate for high office would even think of using the National Mall (in Washington) or Red Square in Moscow for a rally because it would not be seen as appropriate."

Authorities in the capital have confirmed that Obama plans to visit Berlin on July 24 and is interested in speaking at the foot of the Brandenburg Gate.

The left-leaning government of the city-state, which has the sole right to approve such a request, has not yet made a formal decision but Mayor Klaus Wowereit gave his backing Tuesday.

Steg said Merkel had "limited understanding" for such a request and found the Obama team's initiative "a bit odd". But he said it was up to candidates such as Obama to decide what was "in good taste".

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Germany
KEYWORDS: arrogance; barackhussein; hitler; idiotbama; ignorance; merkel; nationalsocialist; nobama; notbreaking; obama; socialist
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To: george76

LOL!


81 posted on 07/09/2008 5:29:42 PM PDT by jan in Colorado (For Barack Hussein Obama TRUTH FILE see my homepage!)
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To: blam

Whoa! There are any number of places he could choose. All we can hope for is that at one of them, he manages to step on a minor appendage and does himself in.

(But don’t get me started!)


82 posted on 07/09/2008 5:42:31 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain.)
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To: toddlintown

83 posted on 07/09/2008 5:56:49 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: TheWasteLand
Nuremberg *would* be a better fit for him.

It would have been a better fit for him in 1948, before they tore down the gallows.

84 posted on 07/09/2008 6:00:44 PM PDT by Vigilanteman ((Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This guy is such a complete doofus.

However, the good news is that maybe this type of thing will snap some of the Euroweenies out of their infatuation with the Obambi one.


85 posted on 07/09/2008 6:29:42 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Rush was right when he said: "You NEVER win by losing.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The new Marxist
86 posted on 07/09/2008 6:30:14 PM PDT by PleaDeal (Don't settle for a squishy moderate -- concretebob in '08!)
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To: xkaydet65; BufordP
But unless right of center Americans get over their funk ...

I'm waaaay right of center and I'm not getting over my funk!!! I know I'll be funky for at least 4 more years no matter which of these clowns is the next POTUS. But I'll vote for McPain for, as BufordP says, "he sucks less."
87 posted on 07/09/2008 6:39:36 PM PDT by PleaDeal (Don't settle for a squishy moderate -- concretebob in '08!)
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To: PleaDeal

I wonder if I’m winning any converts with my bumpersticker.
hehehe...


88 posted on 07/09/2008 6:52:38 PM PDT by BufordP (Had Mexicans flown planes into the World Trade Center, Jorge Bush would have surrendered.)
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To: TheWasteLand
Nuremberg *would* be a better fit for him.

I watched part of a program on TV tonight RE: Hitler and the Ocult. I swear to GOD, that nearly everything they talked about, about the people allowing him to just walk away with the government and allow the democratic process to end and the people just did not care!! The crap about how all the people just gushed over him, sounds exactly like this Obamanation crap. Sounds EXACTLY like Obama. My wife was watching it also and she agreed that this was exactly like Obamanation.

89 posted on 07/09/2008 6:55:36 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Congress in session, the White House occupied - Your freedom, liberty and rights are in jeopardy.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Is it appropriate for Obama to request that he be allowed to make a speech anywhere in Germany, or any other country for that matter? That sounds quite arrogant, presumptuous, egotistical, etc, to me.

Has any foreigner(not invited) ever been allowed to make a speech at the Washington Monument?

He is just grand-standing. I hope the Germans are smart enough to see this.

90 posted on 07/09/2008 7:26:10 PM PDT by jch10
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To: maine-iac7

“and he just had to reconnoiter on the raffle scheme for seats at his coronation - that was also illegal”

So much Obama Drama that I missed this one...would you mind pointing me the way?


91 posted on 07/09/2008 7:43:19 PM PDT by JavaJumpy (We should be embarrassed by a presidential candidate who's embarrassed by us. - Mike Church)
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To: Grampa Dave

“His bs of calling the UK our poodle didn’t win him any points with the Brits over there and here who aren’t on welfare.”

I heard this on talk radio but thought....nah. Did he really call the UK our ‘poodle’?


92 posted on 07/09/2008 7:46:00 PM PDT by JavaJumpy (We should be embarrassed by a presidential candidate who's embarrassed by us. - Mike Church)
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To: frankiep
This guy has accomplished a couple of things I once thought was damn near impossible. First, he has made me actually nostalgic for Hillary - cankles, cackles and all. Second, he has turned me into a strong fan of John McCain. So all I can say to Obama is ‘keep it up!’, because you might turn out to be exactly what is needed to unite the Republican Party again.

You have just stated succinctly that which I have been too lazy to post. McCain gets my vote. Nobama!

93 posted on 07/09/2008 8:09:23 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: JavaJumpy
“Barack Obama’s presidential campaign modified a solicitation for donations on its national website Tuesday evening to comply with Minnesota lottery laws after it was informed by a state law enforcement investigator that it was violating state law.”

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/president/24086689.html?location_refer=Most%20Viewed:Homepage:8

And tonight, there was a clip with his wife and kids that they did for Access Hollywood - and almost immediately, he comes out and says “That was a mistake...we won't be doing that again”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25594061/

The point is - he has to reverse just about every thing he says/does. Is this a person to lead the world?

Just imagine had he been president on 9/11?

94 posted on 07/09/2008 8:18:20 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (No trees were killed in sending this message but a large number of electrons were terrible agitated)
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To: JavaJumpy

“I heard this on talk radio but thought....nah. Did he really call the UK our ‘poodle’?”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043086/posts

Barack Obama looks to end Britain’s ‘poodle’ status
Telegraph UK ^ | 7/9/08 | Al Spillius

Posted on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 2:35:17 PM by pissant

Senator Barack Obama is expected to tell Gordon Brown that he wants the Special Relationship to be a more equal partnership when he visits Britain later this month.

Sources in Washington said yesterday that on his first overseas visit since winning the Democratic Party’s nomination, Mr Obama will tell the Prime Minister that he wants to eradicate the impression of Britain being Washington’s poodle that emerged during the Bush-Blair years, after the UK followed the US into the unpopular war in Iraq.


95 posted on 07/09/2008 10:35:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (America's Mugabe, the Obamination.will bring Mugabe Change to America!)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

The European trip *will* help Obama add to his number of non-Moslem countries visited.


96 posted on 07/09/2008 10:40:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: NCjim

You are mistaken. The inclusion of the indefinite article “ein” totally changes the meaning.

Ich bin ein Berliner = I am a Berliner (jelly doughnut).
Ich bin Berliner = I am a Berliner (native of Berlin).


97 posted on 07/10/2008 7:17:42 AM PDT by August West (To each according to his ability, from each according to his need...)
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To: toddlintown

You spent 4 years as a translater in Germany? Then you really should know better. A German would never use the indefinite article (”ein”) in front of a adjective serving as a noun to denote his city of origin. (Likewise, Germans do not say “Ich bin ein Deutscher.”) Kennedy misspoke; however, what he meant was clear by context.


98 posted on 07/10/2008 7:38:04 AM PDT by August West (To each according to his ability, from each according to his need...)
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To: August West
Interesting. You are obviously more qualified than am I (as a student of the German language) so I defer to you. Another example of how one can fall into the abyss of various stages of literal translation.

My favorite is my male friend who on one warm day told his female German tutor, "Ich bin heiss", and learned that there was a better way to express himself. :-)

99 posted on 07/10/2008 7:50:01 AM PDT by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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To: August West

Man, read the link I also posted. There’s a contexual meaning to his usage of ein. BTW, it’s translator, not translater.

The story’s dead. So’s Kennedy.


100 posted on 07/10/2008 8:42:38 AM PDT by toddlintown (Morons; all of 'em.)
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