Holy crap...
(Video and a full transcript of today's speech are behind the link).
Just hearing lines like these make me excited to be volunteering for the campaign - when was the last time you heard anything like this come out of a President's mouth, let alone a candidate's??
So history reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
That is why America cannot turn inward. That is why Europe cannot turn inward. America has no better partner than Europe. Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the Atlantic. Now is the time to join together, through constant cooperation, strong institutions, shared sacrifice, and a global commitment to progress, to meet the challenges of the 21st century. It was this spirit that led airlift planes to appear in the sky above our heads, and people to assemble where we stand today. And this is the moment when our nations - and all nations - must summon that spirit anew.
Meanwhile, not to be outdone, John McCain, not wanting to be left out of the German luv fest, visits a German restaurant here in my own home of Columbus Ohio for lunch...
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Wait, wait, wait.. is that a joke? Obama gives a speech in Berlin, and McCain chokes down "Sauerkraut-Bratwurst Balls" at a "Sausage Haus"? Man, whoever running that campaign should be fucking fired. Like, immediately. I mean seriously... who's his campaign manager - the lead writer for the Tonight Show? Maybe he figures he'll just skip writing the jokes and actually live them first person?
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