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Defend America on Friday, October 30, 2009 10:19:27 AM
O's embarrassment
Berlin rhetoric vs. DC reality
By MICHAEL BARONE
Last Updated:
9:41 AM, October 26, 2009
Posted:
1:18 AM, October 26, 2009
PRESIDENT Obama,
who found time to go on a 24-hour jaunt to Copenha gen on Oct. 2 to
seek the 2016 Olympic Games for Chicago, apparently can't find the time
for a 24-hour trip to Berlin on Nov. 9 for a celebration of the 20th
anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Well, we all have our
priorities, and the president can't be everywhere at once, and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will surely represent America ably in Berlin.
Still, it seemed an odd decision to me -- until I went back and got the
speech that candidate Obama delivered on July 24, 2008, to a crowd of
200,000 in the Tiergarten in Berlin. As I reread the text, it struck me
that there would be an embarrassing contrast between what Obama said in
Berlin 15 months ago and many policies he has been pursuing as
president.
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