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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)

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: borders; merkel; obama; trump
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To: DoughtyOne

The Berlin wall was to keep people from leaving the socialist hell. Bammy allowed thousands of people into the country: MS13 and jihadis. It was a traitor’s act.


61 posted on 05/25/2017 2:01:08 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Acting consistently in a way that is contrary to nature results in insanity.)
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To: I want the USA back

I agree.

When people compare something like the wall we wish to build to the wall Soviet Russia built, it discounts how terrible the Iron Curtain was.

This man is an insufferable idiot.

I would hope at least some of the people in the crowd could see this rat bastard for what he is.


62 posted on 05/25/2017 2:04:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: All

I bet the Poles wish they had some walls back around 1939 to 1941, big ones too.


63 posted on 05/25/2017 2:13:05 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (If I had a dollar for every time Stephen Colbert has made me laugh, I'd be broke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcXXy-Jb6wU

They love him in Germany but they still hate him in Egypt. The press has a very selective attention to foreign opinions.


64 posted on 05/25/2017 2:16:58 PM PDT by BestPresidentEver
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama, knock down that wall around your house, you damn hypocrite.
65 posted on 05/25/2017 2:20:58 PM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I see the krauts continue to dominate their media. Goebbels is alive and well. They obviously don’t know what a blithering idiot looks like.


66 posted on 05/25/2017 2:36:29 PM PDT by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
obama to the folks; you can’t hide behind a wall, but I can.

(No, I will not use a cap “O” in obama. He is only a small boy and he only gets a small “o”)

67 posted on 05/25/2017 2:37:20 PM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet (If it is to be, it's up to me))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL, 70,000? Who were the opening bands/acts? How much beer was available? How many EUs were paid to those in attendance? His last appearance there, had a small crowd. Poor guy, he needs more attention, without it, no one would care about him.


68 posted on 05/25/2017 2:41:23 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Again it disapeared? Damn cursor is in cahoots with the tag line.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Take away his Secret Service and taxpayer funded transportation, then, and let him live without his “walls” like the rest of us.


69 posted on 05/25/2017 2:46:31 PM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: jonno
Some nice points, jonno.

Personally I think Obama better start getting his vacation time in right now. He's gonnna be very tired of fences and walls pretty soon.


70 posted on 05/25/2017 2:50:22 PM PDT by poconopundit (FR: Self-Reliant Lovers of Liberty who can't stop the Chatter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Germans have a tendency to be “star struck”.

While stationed over there in the late 60’s (Air Force), we had a small band and play out in some pubs and guesthouse son weekends. We weren’t that great, just having fun.

On several occasions, Germans would come up to us wanting “autographs”, obstensibly because we were Americans.

They went gah-gah, over nothing.


71 posted on 05/25/2017 2:51:50 PM PDT by FrankR (FULL REPEAL, OR NO DEAL)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Really.

Then he just spoke German as well as Austrian huh?

72 posted on 05/25/2017 3:04:23 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama just go away! Just do the right thing and just go away!


73 posted on 05/25/2017 3:08:43 PM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

World of walls: How 65 countries have erected fences on their borders – four times as many as when the Berlin Wall was toppled – as governments try to hold back the tide of migrants
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3205724/How-65-countries-erected-security-walls-borders.html#ixzz4fsLXqfPZ


74 posted on 05/25/2017 3:21:05 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

adoring, funny


75 posted on 05/25/2017 3:29:26 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Then take the doors of your house off of their hinges, bozo, because those are portals in walls which you hide behind every damn day.


76 posted on 05/25/2017 4:25:09 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Germans need to see a montage of Obama’s pro-Islamic highlights, starting with his description of the call to prayer as being the most beautiful sound in the world. Just to put Obama’s remarks into context as the next waves of middle eastern “refugees” come flooding in.


77 posted on 05/25/2017 4:40:13 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

1stDivVet

Right on - perhaps Barack Hussein Obama is wanting to be Chancellor of Germany. He could change his name to Adolf Hussein. The name seems to fit his ideology.


78 posted on 05/25/2017 4:47:34 PM PDT by lecram
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To: lecram

Or Barack Schicklegruber.


79 posted on 05/25/2017 4:51:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The nazis and islamists shared a lot in common.


80 posted on 05/25/2017 5:25:07 PM PDT by onedoug (KEK)
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