The Obama Report

"I know my country has not perfected itself... We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions."
Barack Obama - Berlin speech July 24, 2005

Monkey Crash lists some of his favorite moments from Barack Obama's speech. His comments are added in red.

Here's a sampling from his post:

Obama: "Ours is a partnership that truly began sixty years ago this summer, on the day when the first American plane touched down at Templehof... The size of our forces was no match for the much larger Soviet Army. And yet retreat would have allowed Communism to march across Europe." (Obama repeatedly called for retreat in Iraq and still denies that the surge has worked. As McCain has said, he [Obama] would rather lose a war than lose an election.)

"In Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong in our world, rather than a force to help make it right, has become all too common." (Who the hell cares what Europeans think of us!)

"I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions." (Is this presidential? How dare you go to Europe to give a speech in which you decide to bash the American people. Again Obama makes it clear that he is embarrassed to be an American. He longs for a European Socialist lifestyle in America.)

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