Can you imagine the reaction in the liberal press if a white Republican candidate had chosen to hold a big public rally in Berlin?
Why not just hold it in Nuremburg?
Excellent, except for that snide and rather pointless remark about Waterloo. Wellington had more than a little to do with the allied victory over Napoleon.
Bravo to Obama for exhibiting an arrogance; a hubris; and just a gross ignorance on our behalf. All to say Obama's actions speak far louder than the 'merci beauceaup' he lamented in our name.
Is there any precedent for US presidential candidates holding rallies in other countries?
Nonsense. The cathedrals were built around the 12th century, long before the Reformation.
Obambi goes to Berlin to get first hand knowledge on how to set up a National Police Force.
False. It reminds Europeans of nothing. Americans often are more aware of the significance of historical places than the Europeans living there. Germans (and many French) are frighteningly superficial and ignorant to their own history. A very large number of Americans (okay at this part I'll say that I hate generalizations, and speak from my own experience in Europe and with American tourists I know) visiting Germany or France visit the concentration camps, know about the Berlin Wall, visit US military cemetaries in France, is aware of the Battle fields etc.
Germans, I encountered, with few exceptions, don't care about their own history (I guess they simply want some sort of closure and distance from their past). I bet a single digit percentage of Berliners know the story of the Victory column or the Reichstag. When I visited Normandy in 2004, during the commemoration of DDay, I saw almost exclusively Americans, Brits and Canadians there. Some French also. There were a group of German tourists near Caen aswell. Somehow we got into a chat and I asked whether they'll visit the WW2 locations as well. They shrugged in disbelief and responded something along the lines of "who cares about that old sh*t".