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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LOL!
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!)
It would have been a better fit for him in 1948, before they tore down the gallows.
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.
I wonder if I’m winning any converts with my bumpersticker.
hehehe...
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.
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.
“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?
“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’?
You have just stated succinctly that which I have been too lazy to post. McCain gets my vote. Nobama!
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?
“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.
The European trip *will* help Obama add to his number of non-Moslem countries visited.
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).
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.
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. :-)
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.
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