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Obama Berlin visit to recall JFK speech likely
Published: 6 Feb 13 13:39 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20130206-47805.html
US President Barack Obama is reportedly planning to visit Berlin in June to commemorate the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's legendary "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech given at the height of the Cold War.
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"The timing is pretty realistic," an unnamed US diplomat told the paper, saying a Berlin visit was "likely" considering it would be so close to the anniversary of Kennedy's speech made on June 26th 1963.
The paper reported that Chancellor Angela Merkel had long hoped Obama would visit Germany before she faces re-election this September. Offering the US leader a chance to hark back to JFK's address expressing solidarity with West Berliners not long after the Berlin Wall was built would present her with a chance to appear as a worldly stateswoman to German voters.
It would also make good on her snub of Obama before he became president in 2008, when Merkel kyboshed his wish to make a speech in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate.
Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert told the paper Obama had a long-standing invitation to visit.
"The chancellor once again invited President Obama in her note congratulating him on his re-election and she would be please to welcome him here," he said.
DPA/The Local/mry
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Personally, I think it'd be a great weekend to run the "love parade", in the midst of the speech.
But the point of interest was the fate of JFK as the most outspoken U.S president who dared to call a spade a spade and the continued action of U.S policing wars all over the globe even after his demise. What the spirit of German unity and freedom which JFK inspired at Berlin's Tempelhof, can the diplomacy of Obama end the wars and restore peace and prosperity to all humanity?
You have set a new low for the standard of most uninformed. Dems have moved to the right? Completely clueless