US presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Thursday kicked off a European tour in Berlin, saying he aimed to give a fresh start to transatlantic ties, from the city where the Cold War was won. (AFPTV/POOL)
Posted on 07/24/2008 12:35:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
BERLIN (AFP) - Barack Obama Thursday told a staggering crowd of 200,000 people in Berlin that Americans and Europeans must tear down walls between estranged allies, races and faiths, in a soaring challenge to a new political generation.
... humanity must build "a world that stands as one," before the biggest crowd of his campaign.
"The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another," said Obama, who has scorched through US politics at lightning speed to challenge Republican John McCain for the White House in November's election.
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The crowd was put at more than 200,000 people by Michael Bengsch, media relations officer of Berlin Police.
The Illinois senator's previous record crowd figure was 75,000, ...
The Illinois senator rebuked both his country and Europe for blaming one another for strains in their relations, but took pains to insulate himself from critics back home who doubt his patriotism.
"I also know how much I love America. I know that for more than two centuries, we have strived, at great cost and great sacrifice, to form a more perfect union; to seek, with other nations, a more hopeful world."
"In Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong in our world, rather than a force to help make it right, has become all too common," the 46-year-old first term senator said.
"In America, there are voices that deride and deny the importance of Europe's role in our security and our future. Both views miss the truth."
Obama, who trails McCain when voters are asked who would be the most credible commander in chief, used Berlin's triumph over division and totalitarianism as a metaphor for the world he hoped to forge.
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US presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Thursday kicked off a European tour in Berlin, saying he aimed to give a fresh start to transatlantic ties, from the city where the Cold War was won. (AFPTV/POOL)
Yes, I'll never forget how the brave Germans triumphed over Hitler and won WWII.
Maybe he should run for president of Germany.
last post said it was 100000...it grows with every post...
Not mentioned is the free performance by popular Rock Stars during the event. Same thing that happened in Oregon.
BARF is right. Absolutely nauseating.
PARSE alert!!
Obama gives Germany the familiar raised-armed hand salute.
Somebody tell me again: WHY is a U.S. Presidential candidate giving a CAMPAIGN SPEECH in a FOREIGN COUNTRY? Has this ever happened before? Why are so many of the media traveling with him and covering this AS THOUGH HE WERE ALREADY PRESIDENT? Has THAT ever happened before?
How do you starve an Obama supporter?
Hide his food stamps under his work boots!
> “In America, there are voices that deride and deny the importance of Europe’s role in our security and our future. Both views miss the truth.” <
Well, we know what the truth is.
Without American muscle AND security, Europe would be under the 3rd Reich right now.
Why not 200K? Obama is declaring that the US is no longer a world power, and the socialists over there are eating it up.
Why no mention of the two bands that played before hand. The people were there to meet the bands! Sickening how the media leaves out details like that!
Or a bar of soap
He’s a rock star and the leftist media are his groupies.
They’d follow him to Tehran in a heartbeat... today.
Forget that thingy called an election that needs to happen first. We’re ruled today by a media consensus, don’tcha know?
The Mediocracy Uber Alles!
Getting an early start on Oktoberfest, I gather.
Actually, I was hoping for 400,000...it’d make a great video in October....with Hitler in one clip, then Obama....then going back and forth....with the final comment in B&W....”81 million Germans would like to pick your Fuhrer but they can’t vote this time around”.
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