1.0link111638<![CDATA[German Chancellor Skeptical Of Obama Speech Plan]]>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/09/obama-speech-plan-draws-g_n_111638.htmlBERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has signaled unease over the prospect of a possible speech by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama at Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Merkel has "only limited understanding for using the Brandenburg Gate as an election campaign backdrop, as it were, and has expressed skepticism about pursuing such plans," Thomas Steg, a spokesman for the chancellor, told reporters.