After receiving a hailstorm of criticism for considering Brandenburg Gate
for a public speech, as
well as official German dissuasion, Barack Obama moved the venue to the
Siegessäule monument. Obama will speak about “historic” US-German
relations, but once again, Obama’s own grasp of history has
been proven deficient. Not only does the site contain a monument to
Prussian victories over other American allies in Europe, its placement was
decided by Adolf Hitler — in order to impress crowds in his idealized version of
Berlin called Germania:
Since he thinks there's at least 57 states in the Union, no one should be surprised by this little gem:
"the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years.
