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Ja Wir Können

Posted by Mick on Jul 25, 2008 - 11:57 am

A quarter of a million Berliners came to the tiergarten yesterday to listen to Barack Obama’s first international speech. The crowd, abound with Yankee hats and American flags, was probably the most pro-US international crowd I have seen at any event in my lifetime. By the end of the speech, one of the largest newspapers in Germany, der Spiegel had been so convinced of Obama’s merit, they published an article proclaiming his victory: Number 44 has spoken.

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