Obama’s Berlin speech (MORE: VIDEO OF SPEECH ADDED)
Drudge has the transcript posted. I’m posting it below in full as the Drudge link will probably no longer work a few weeks from now:
Drudge has the transcript posted. I’m posting it below in full as the Drudge link will probably no longer work a few weeks from now:
A speech in front of thousands of smiling Germans? Yes. Traveling to Paris for a pit stop on Friday? Still on.  Visiting US military bases in Rammstein and Landstuhl? Cancelled. Ed Morrissey is following developments.
The German magazine Spiegel Online has an interesting piece up that discusses Obama’s second and (supposedly final) choice for where he’ll make his big speech next week – the Victory Column – and how some German politicians are still unhappy with his choice, because of what the area symbolizes:
Obama has instead picked another German venue to deliver one of his fluff pieces:
Germany’s Spiegel Online reports on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s displeasure at the reports that Barack Obama is contemplating making a speech at Berlin’s famed Brandenburg gate as part of his upcoming European tour, but that some other German politicos are in favor of the idea:
Well, if you’re a child and you live in the UK, you could be branded as a “racist” for it (h/t: Moonbattery):