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Obama Cancels Plans To Attend Berlin Wall Anniversary

Spiegel | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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US President Barack Obama has shelved his plans to attend festivities marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Secretary of State ...

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Obama: Ahmadinejad Should Come Visit Concentration Camp (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

UPDATE: President Obama visited a World War II concentration camp Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Holocaust survivors Elie Wiesel and...

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"Stop It, All Of You": Obama Knocks German Press Over Coverage Of Alleged Tensions With Merkel

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

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At a joint press availability in Dresden, Germany Friday morning, President Obama knocked the German press for playing up alleged tension between him ...

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Obama In Dresden Calls On International Community To "Redouble" Efforts For 2-State Solution

AP | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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WEIMAR, Germany — President Barack Obama absorbed the stark horrors memorialized at the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday and said the lesson...

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Obama In Germany At Start Of WWII Memorial Tour

AFP | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

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DRESDEN, Germany (AFP) - US President Barack Obama arrived in this eastern German city Thursday at the start of a solemn two-day mission of World War ...

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Obama Has German Roots: Researchers

AP | DAVID RISING and CHRISTOPH NOELTING | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

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BESIGHEIM, Germany — Barack Obama in traditional German lederhosen? It may be hard to imagine, but researchers in the U.S. say they have located...

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Obama's Trip: Middle East 1: Europe 0

Robert Guttman | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

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President Barack Obama has made it perfectly clear that the centerpiece of his current trip to the Middle East and Europe is his speech tomorrow in Cairo.

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Obama To Kick Off Mideast Trip

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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* Scroll down for a slideshow President Obama leaves tonight for his third major international trip, stopping first in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a recent...

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Obama In Germany Will Meet With Injured U.S. Soldiers

AFP | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama will visit US soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan at the Landstuhl medical center in Germany during ...

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Obama's Muslim Speech To Happen In Egypt Next Month

AP | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to deliver a speech in Egypt on U.S. relations with the Muslim world when he sets out on an overseas t...

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Obama Can't Escape Americans At European Town Hall

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics

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STRASBOURG, France — Who knew Europe had so many Americans? President Barack Obama found out when he held a town-hall meeting for German and Fr...

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Obama and the Berlin Wall

Lester Sloan | Posted 03.29.2009 | World

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Susan turned to me and said, "Obama's election was like the fall of the Berlin Wall." Given that she has three history degrees, including a Ph.D., I felt that she spoke with some authority.

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Who Needs a Vice President?

Richard Klass | Posted 08.09.2008 | Politics

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In a breathtaking series of inaccurate and mud-slinging television ads, all featuring McCain, he has accused Obama of being willing to lose in Iraq to win the election, a charge just short of treason.

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Michelle's Miley Cyrus Moment

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 08.08.2008 | Home

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In the latest issue of Park Avenue, sort of a German version of Town and Country, there is an Annie Leibovitz photograph of "Miche," posed like European aristocracy.

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Obama's "Disney" Realpolitik

Christopher Farah | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

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By emphasizing the commonality of the U.S. and Europe's destinies above all else, Obama is beginning the healing process after eight years of Bush pompously dictating to the world.

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McCain's Double Standard on Campaign Visits to Military Bases

Brandon Friedman | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

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McCain is demonstrably criticizing Obama for following a Pentagon rule to which the McCain campaign itself has been subjected recently. That's a fact.

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Bush Does Berlin (in My Dreams)

Charlie Reina | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics

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These days, whenever a statesman stands at a podium, I imagine President Bush there instead, and I wonder: "How much more eloquent would his words be? How much more visionary?"

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Obama Cancels Military Base Visit: "Inappropriate"

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

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UPDATE: When Obama cancelled his military base visit, he was responding to a Pentagon ruling:"We learned from the Pentagon last night that the visit ...

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Obama's "Bizarre" Bauhaus Flyers

John Lumea | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home

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By employing Bauhaus-inspired graphic cues, the Obama campaign was tapping in to the German cultural psyche, speaking to Germans in a design language that is familiar to them. That was smart.

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McCain Plays Catch-Up: Attends German Restaurant In German Village, Ohio

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

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John McCain is still playing catch up to Barack Obama. As the Illinois Democrat speaks before the picturesque Victory Column in Berlin today, the Ar...

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Report: Obama To Speak At Victory Column, Not Brandenburg Gate

Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

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According to German papers, Barack Obama will speak at Berlin's Victory Column instead of the Brandenburg Gate on his trip to Germany. Bloomberg repor...

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All the World's a Photo Op

Kiku Adatto | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

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When anyone with a cell phone is a potential member of the paparazzi, and anyone with a laptop a potential blogger, the contest for the control of images has never been more intense.

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Report: Bush Privately Told Germany He Had Misgivings About Obama Speech

Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

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**UPDATE** German papers find more evidence that the Bush administration voiced strong opposition to an Obama speech at the Brandenberg Gate. Ben Smi...

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German Chancellor Skeptical Of Obama Speech Plan

AP | GEIR MOULSON | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has signaled unease over the prospect of a possible speech by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Ob...

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