Obama having a speech in Berlin by Martina Janeckova

On Thursday July 24, 2008, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was having a speech in Berlin, Germany. Obama said that he was speaking as a citizen, not as a president, but the evening was full of politics. It’s estimated that there were more than 200.000 people, nearly three times the 75.000 Obama drew in Oregon this year in his largest audience. Earlier that day Obama met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and they discussed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, climate change, energy issues and more. Obama’s speech was the centerpiece of his tour through Europe designed to reassure skeptical voters in the U. S. that he can lead the country and handle the cross-Atlantic alliance. In his speech Obama said that “the walls between old allies on either side of Atlantic cannot stand”. He also stated that there shouldn’t be walls between natives and immigrants, Christians and Muslims and Jews. He mentioned war in Iraq only in passing and devoted more attention to Afghanistan as he said that it is in U. S. and Europe’s interest to success. He also referred to the Berlin airlift, launched by the Allies 60 years ago when the Russians wanted to isolate Western Berlin. He said that “now the enemy is different but the need for an alliance is the same as the world stares down terrorism and the extremism that supports it”. He stated that “the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together and even a change of leadership in Washington can’t change this. He added that in this century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more, not less.”

by Martina Janeckova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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