Posted on 07/12/2008 7:39:38 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government denied on Friday that Washington had put any pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel to block a proposed speech by U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama in Berlin in late July.
Merkel's spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm said the Illinois senator was welcome in Berlin even if details of his visit are still unclear. He said, however, that Merkel had not dropped her objections to Obama speaking at the Brandenburg Gate.
Leading German newspapers, including Bild and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, reported that Bush administration officials attending a G8 summit in Japan this week expressed reservations to the German delegation about Obama speaking at the landmark.
"The reports are completely unfounded," Wilhelm said when asked about the reports and a suggestion from Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit that the Bush administration had pressured Merkel.
West Berlin was a focal point of Cold War tensions, kept alive during a Soviet blockade six decades ago by a U.S.-led Air Lift. Since then, American presidents from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan have delivered major speeches here.
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Funny how Bilge didn't name the administration official. My tin-foil hat is tingling. I'm thinking maybe somebody from the Obama campaign TOLD Bilge and Frankfurter Alles Meine that a Bush administration official objected to Obama visiting Berlin.
Obama is such a phony. Trying to capitalize on JFK.
He probably thinks he is like JFK. I got news for him,
JFK was a lot more conservative that George Bush.
Obama is no JFK.
Oops! Not allowed to talk about Obama's paranoia. It's off limits as are the size of his ears, his middle name, his wife's hate for America, and his life accomplishments....
It might also have to do with the fact that Obama once admitted to admiring Marxism, the same ideology that enslaved millions just behind that wall.
How can we talk about his life accomplishments? He hasn’t got any? ;-)
obammy speaking at the Brandenburg Gate was probably the hare-brained idea of Caroline Kennedy Whatever.
If it were up to the Obama’s of the world, the Berlin Wall would still be standing. God bless, Ronald Reagan. Obama should go to Havana to make his speech. He’d be right at home.
Do editors know the English language anymore?
Thwart
1. To prevent the occurrence, realization, or attainment of: They thwarted her plans.
2. To oppose and defeat the efforts, plans, or ambitions of.
Did anyone stop this visit? No, Obama will appear in Berlin. Therefore nothing was "thwarted".
Does obama plan on giving this “speech” in German...otherwise he’d embarrass the heck out of all of us.
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