Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 7/28/08
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OBAMA LIVE TICKER 07/24/2008 ++ Pop Concert for Obama Fans ++ (Der Spiegel, Germany)
6:33 p.m.: The tens of thousands of Obama fans are being entertained as they await the senator. The reggae musician Patrice kicked things off, followed by the rock band Reamonn.
Is it possible that some of the people who attended the Obama Berlin speech were there for the free music?—Caro
‘Will a German Speak at the Washington Monument in 2009?’(Der Spiegel, Germany)
“The speech of a global citizen,” “perfect performance,” an “homage to Berlin” — After Thursday’s big Obama show at Berlin’s Siegessäule, most German politicians seemed impressed by the senator’s performance. But some political experts thought it amounted to nothing more than “rhetoric.”
Change Germans Can’t Believe In (by Susan Neiman, the director of the Einstein Forum, is the author of “Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists.”
WITH gestures that ranged from a wink to a sneer, most anyone you met here this week volunteered the view that Barack Obama’s visit to Europe caused unprecedented frenzy. But it’s been hard for me to find a European, aside from two Harvard-educated friends in Paris, who confessed to excitement — not just about the visit, but the prospect of an Obama presidency… Europeans will be as relieved as 72 percent of Americans to see the end of the Bush administration, but their attitudes toward the Democratic candidate are far from being the same as the ones he arouses at home. Mr. Obama makes Europeans uncomfortable.
Actually, he makes a lot of Americans uncomfortable, too—many of them Democrats.—Caro
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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
