Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Obama in Berlin - part 2

In 2008, Obama spoke in Berlin, and drew a crowd of hundreds of thousands - as presidential candidate. Today, as President, he spoke again, 50 years after JFK stated, in isolated Western Berlin: Ich bin ein Berliner. Obama quoted JFK quite extensively from then, and placed an emphasis on our common responsibility to look beyond our own problems and comforts. The main theme was acting against complacency, and taking history into our own hands. Berlin has been in Obama-euphoria today again, and rightly so.

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