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Obama holds German speech at Hitler’s pet landmark

Maybe if his German was better than that “embarrassing” “merci beaucoup” French that the linguistically challenged rubes he derided us for a couple of weeks ago, this wouldn’t have nearly the hilarity factor that is currently has for me!  From Germany’s Spiegel:

Still, even as the issue of his speech’s location has now been settled, a number of politicians in Berlin are still dissatisfied with the site. The Siegessäule — or Victory Column — was erected in memory of Prussia’s victories over Denmark (1864), Austria (1866) and France (1870/71). The column originally stood in front of the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building, but was moved by Adolf Hitler to its current location in 1939 to make way for his planned transformation of Berlin into the Nazi capital “Germania.”

“The Siegessäule in Berlin was moved to where it is now by Adolf Hitler. He saw it as a symbol of German superiority and of the victorious wars against Denmark, Austria and France,” the deputy leader of the Free Democrats, Rainer Brüderle, told Bild am Sonntag. He raised the question as to “whether Barack Obama was advised correctly in his choice of the Siegessäule as the site to hold a speech on his vision for a more cooperative world.”

Just another “inartful” expression of his depth of historical knowledge, I guess.  Wait, wait, lemme guess: “This is not the Germany I knew!”  Actually, in his case, I could believe it.

July 20, 2008 Posted by crushliberalism | Euros, Obama, shameful | 5 Comments