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Saturday, July 12, 2008 --- 40 days ago http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/obama-merkel.html
 Ticket readers no doubt remember our item the other day about German Chancellor Angela Merkel sending out a spokesman to express "great skepticism as to whether it is appropriate to bring an election campaign being fought not in Germany but in the United States to the Brandenburg Gate." It's a really nice-looking gate allright, not in the Wyoming sense, but in that monolithic, stone European horses-and-chariots sense. In fact, the Brandenburg has horses on top . It would make a terrific backdrop for some freshman senator from Illinois with not that much foreign affairs experience to be seen giving a speech on, say, foreign affairs. Ronald Reagan , who was also from Illinois, spoke there as a sitting president, not someone running for it. And when he went against his advisors' urgings and called on Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, the Gate was a symbol of the Cold War. Today, it's a symbol of German unity. But to Americans, it just looks really foreign -- in large part because nothing in the United States would be allowed to stand like that for 219 years. Not without being rezoned for lofts. Foreign- looking is all an American candidate really needs anyway. Friday, just two days after the Germans seemed to.... ...put the schnitzel on his campaign appearance at the Berlin gate, Barack Obama was speaking in Dayton, Ohio, which is a good place to talk about foreign affairs because of its proximity to Indiana. The Times' ... |
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