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Speeches in Berlin by our Presidents
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 12:08 pm
by RealJustme
"Ich bin ein Berliner!"
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
"Uhhhh, uhhhh, I, I, save the uhhhhh planet uh recycle, huh, yeah"
Re: Speeches in Berlin by our Presidents
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 4:04 pm
by johnforbes
Obama in Berlin years ago, 200 thousand listened.
Today, Obama drew only 4 thousand.
Five years of Obama have caused America to be bloated with debt, ridden with high unemployment, and with no respect in the world.
Re: Speeches in Berlin by our Presidents
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 4:27 pm
by RealJustme
Today, Obama drew only 4 thousand
German news papers reported that were approximately 2, 000 were union workers highly "encouraged" to attend. Another estimated 1,000 were college students in Berlin who were given the day off if they attended by their professors. The other 1,000 were made up of police, security and staff of all the VIP and politicians that were there.
Re: Speeches in Berlin by our Presidents
Posted: Fri Jun 21, 2013 5:34 pm
by sillydaddy
He probably won't be visiting Oslo.....they might want their Prize and money back ! Lol !
Re: Speeches in Berlin by our Presidents
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 1:47 pm
by sillydaddy
The speeches in Belfast and Berlin smack of Obama trying to piggyback on past historic events – the Good Friday Agreement and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It didn’t work because Obama’s own contribution to history has been so limited and so flawed. The big problem is that Obama still hasn’t rhetorically moved on from 2008: he still talks like a candidate, dishing out clichés about overcoming the odds with hope and teaching the world to sing. But he’s lost the saintliness of his earlier incarnation as a candidate. He is now a President, dithering around Syria, tarred by various security state scandals and marred by the general air that the US has lost its will to lead.
Barack Obama has lost his magic. There’s nothing unusual about that: Reagan and Clinton looked tired at the dawn of their second terms, too. But the difference with Obama is that he’s nothing without his magic. Without that winning story of hope and change overcoming the odds – without the adulation of crowds who believe – he’s just another lame duck President trying to find something to do for the next four years.
Dr.Tim Stanley is a historian of the United States.
Maybe that's why he's going to Africa.......to find that old black magic!