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Remarks of Senator Obama in Berlin Germany — Senator Obama delivered the following remarks in Berlin, Germany... Continue reading for the full remarks (as prepared for delivery)... Remarks of Senator Barack Obama (as prepared for delivery) — “A World that Stands as One” — July 24th, 2008
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Gerhard Spörl / Spiegel Online:
No. 44 Has Spoken — Anyone who saw Barack Obama at Berlin's Siegessäule on Thursday could recognize that this man will become the 44th president of the United States. He is more than ambitious — he wants to lay claim to become the president of the world.
Marc Ambinder:
GOPers Wait a Lifetime for a Moment Like This … GOPers may have a field day with at least one oft-used-line from Obama's speech today, which he amended slightly for his Berlin audience: — “America, this is our moment. This is our time” - Obama, speaking in MN the night he officially won the Dem nomination (6/3).
Spiegel Online:
Obama Calls Berlin a ‘Symbol of the Victory of Hope’ — US Presidential Candidate Barack Obama started his much-anticipated trip to Germany on Thursday, and the expectations are massive. SPIEGEL ONLINE will be following his every move through Berlin with its Live Ticker.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Obama talks to Berlin “as a citizen — a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.” — Text. … I guess we're not supposed to think about how Obama wanted and still wants to give up on the Iraq war. Surely, if he'd been there in 1948, he would have said the Berlin airlift is hopeless.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Competing optics: Cheering Germans or American military? Update: Snubbing wounded soldiers? Update: Touring Berlin instead? Update: It is/is not a campaign event? — I guess this is a question of priorities. Barack Obama apparently ran short on time in his visit to Germany today …
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
President of What? — Most of the criticism of Barack Obama's Berlin speech came before the speech had even been delivered, and focused on trivia (he printed fliers in German!) and traditions that were invented last week or so (presidential candidates don't give speeches in other countries!).
Greg Wallace / Political Punch:Just Hours Later, Obama Campaign Uses Berlin Speech to Raise Campaign Cash
Michael Crowley / The New Republic:Obama in Berlin — I caught the second half of Obama's speech in Berlin today.
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Byron York / The Corner:
Americans on American Soil — It's a small passage from Obama's Berlin speech, but this formulation, common in some circles, grates on some ears, like mine: … Yes, the victims were from all over the globe — places like Brooklyn, and the Bronx, and Manhattan, and Queens, and Staten Island, and New Jersey — all over.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
OBAMA AND TERRORISM....The Cornerites are in such an apoplectic frenzy over Barack Obama's Berlin speech that I'm almost afraid of being hit by a barrage of spittle flecked pixels if I head over there again before they've calmed down. In the meantime, though, how about this from Byron York?
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
MCCAIN QUESTIONS SPEECH, FORGETS CANADA — From NBC's Mark Murray — In his interview with NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, which will air on NBC's Nightly News tonight, McCain questions whether Obama should have given a speech in Berlin before becoming president.
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Gabriel Sherman / The New Republic:
End of the Affair — Barack Obama and the press break up. — Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama's press office. The campaign was irked by the Times' latest poll and Nagourney …
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
OBAMA'S MISSING ‘THESIS’ — NBC Senior Investigative Producer Jim Popkin looks at “Obama and the case of the missing ‘thesis’” in an item on NBC blog Deep Background. — Conservative provocateurs have been hunting for it. Investigative journalists have been on the prowl, too.
CNN:
Secret torture memo released — WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its interrogators working abroad would not violate U.S. prohibitions against torture unless they “have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering,” according …
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Anne Schroeder Mullins / The Politico:
Did today's Obama speech remind anyone else of ... This groundbreaking moment? Which reminds us of what Republican consultant Doug Heye said on FNC over the weekend: “We don't want President Hasselhoff.”
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Nicholas F. Benton / fcnp.com:
Former National Dem Chief Says Virginia is Key — The former national chairman of the Democratic Party who ran Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign this year told 200 Democratic activists in Fairfax County Tuesday that Virginia Governor Tim Kaine would be his party's best choice as Barack Obama's vice presidential running mate.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
McCain Makes Significant Gains in Four Key Battleground States — Majority of Voters in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Favor Keeping Troops in Iraq, According to Quinnipiac-washingtonpost.com- Wall Street Journal Survey — Republican John McCain has quickly closed …
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Goss among former members appointed to ethics office — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday announced joint appointments to a landmark ethics review board that for the first time will allow private citizens to review allegations against members.
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Kathleen Baydala / Clarion-Ledger:
Bishop put to death — PARCHMAN — Before he died Wednesday evening, death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop apologized to his victim's family, thanked America and urged people to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. — “For those who oppose the death penalty and want to see it end …
Cenk Uygur / The Huffington Post:
Another John McCain Gaffe — Iraq Was the First Major Conflict After 9/11 — There is one more John McCain gaffe that the media missed from the now famous CBS interview with Katie Couric. — This is the same interview in which McCain claimed the surge led to the Anbar Awakening, which is demonstrably false.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DON'T HIDE THE FUDGE! — Okay, this one's just for fun. You know, John McCain's been having a rough few days on the image and message front. Had to cancel the visit to New Orleans and the Gulf Oil rig because of the recent oil spill. And here he is doing a media availability in front …
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