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To: combjelly who wrote (401393)	7/24/2008 4:22:43 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576250

You bet you US guys never would have a problem with a future German Chancellor candidate requesting to make a speech in front of the white House while campaigning?? When those guys travel to the US to enhance their domestic campaign yields, they are indeed happy if they can get a 12 minutes audience with the current US president. Taro

To: combjelly who wrote (401393)	7/24/2008 4:35:39 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576250

"Out of courtesy to Merkel, Obama did not speak at the Brandenburg gate although the crowd did stretch to the gate." I saw that earlier when you posted it. The amusing thing is that Merkel herself had few compunctions about using foreign travel to boost her campaigns. If the current Chancellor was a Social Democrat, Obama would have been speaking at the Brandenburg Gate. This turned into a brouhaha between the S. Dems, the mayor of Berlin being one of them, and the righties, Merkel and the Christian Dems. My German friends were laughing about it.