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Obama tells adoring crowd in Berlin: ‘We can’t hide behind a wall’
The Manchester Guardian ^ | May 25, 2017 | Kate Connolly in Berlin

Posted on 05/25/2017 1:01:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Barack Obama received a hero’s welcome when he reunited with Angela Merkel for the first time since leaving office, calling on the audience to engage in democracy and telling the tens of thousands in Berlin: “We can’t hide behind a wall.”

Speaking in front of the Brandenburg Gate, which was once cut off by the Berlin Wall, the former US president was greeted with cries of “Barack, Barack” as he urged the 70,000-strong crowd to “push back against those trends that would violate human rights or suppress democracy or restrict individual freedoms” and to “fight against those who divide us”.

He said he was heartbroken by the suicide bombing in Manchester on Monday, which killed 22 people. Calling the world a “very complicated place”, he said: “We can see the terrible violence that took place just recently in Manchester. It is a reminder that there is a great danger of terrorism and people who would do great harm to others just because they’re different. How heartbroken we are by the loss of life, and we grieve with the families.”(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: borders; merkel; obama; trump
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I seem to remember another politician who wowed the crowds in Berlin, and I don't mean Jack Kennedy or Ronald Reagan.
1 posted on 05/25/2017 1:01:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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“The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right”

-Mark Twain


2 posted on 05/25/2017 1:03:17 PM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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This guy needs to have his passport confiscated.


3 posted on 05/25/2017 1:04:46 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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How much did he get paid for this speech?


4 posted on 05/25/2017 1:04:54 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Barack Obama received a hero’s welcome when he reunited with Angela Merkel for the first time since leaving office, calling on the audience to engage in democracy and telling the tens of thousands in Berlin: “We can’t hide behind a wall.”

G-D D-mn hypocrite!!!

5 posted on 05/25/2017 1:05:13 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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Yeah, Obozo, the world is complicated but some things are simple: if you import more jihad terrorists you will have more jihad terror attacks. Period. Full stop.

One way to limit/reduce the number of jihad terror attacks is by refusing to import jihad terrorists.


6 posted on 05/25/2017 1:05:55 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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0bama selling himself as Barack Schickelgruber; a guttersnipe like the original..


7 posted on 05/25/2017 1:07:06 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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Get off the stage, Moron! As though we weren’t sick of hearing from him for eight excruciating years. Hopefully, he’ll be locked up somewhere soon, away from the media.


8 posted on 05/25/2017 1:07:42 PM PDT by txrefugee
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Sure, he can talk. Obama doesn’t have to live like the rest of us. He is surrounded by walls of security protecting him from the common rabble.


9 posted on 05/25/2017 1:07:48 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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YES WE CAN!..................
10 posted on 05/25/2017 1:08:06 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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Tremendous difference in a wall built to keep people OUT and a wall built to keep people IN.....


11 posted on 05/25/2017 1:08:21 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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UPDATE: PRESIDENT OBAMA BUILDS A WALL AROUND NEW $5 MILLION DOLLAR MANSION IN WASHINGTON, DC


12 posted on 05/25/2017 1:08:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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He is Beelzebama, the son of lies!


13 posted on 05/25/2017 1:09:26 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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Si! Se Puede!.................
14 posted on 05/25/2017 1:09:56 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: GraceG

15 posted on 05/25/2017 1:10:13 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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The imposter is afraid of being put behind walls, eh? We’ll have to find him a prison that serves Islamic food


16 posted on 05/25/2017 1:10:17 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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.... members of the audience held up banners saying: “Can we keep you...”

Yes, and please dont send him back.


17 posted on 05/25/2017 1:10:37 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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While he’s hiding behind a Wall at the podium ?


18 posted on 05/25/2017 1:10:59 PM PDT by butlerweave
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gag me with a spoon


19 posted on 05/25/2017 1:11:09 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Please. I don’t want to know about Obama as a private citizen. I don’t want to hear about him at all. Many of us are in recovery after eight years of his traumatic reign.

Please FReeprs, refrain from Obama posts. We don’t want to know. We want to forget about him and move on to reveling in our new period of restoration of freedom and prosperity under Trump.


20 posted on 05/25/2017 1:11:33 PM PDT by Jim W N
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