Then we take Berlin !

Barack Obama pretty much got away with passing himself off as a Berliner today in JFK fashion , although not as charismatically as Kennedy by all accounts , as  Berlin is now a leftward leaning  cosmopolitan city with a grim past but a certain sympathy for vibrant  youthful colourful characters who hold out promise of making the world more alive.  Obama easilly inhabited  the role and he may well give JFK  a run for his money yet.

Here's how Obama introduced himself to the 200,000 strong crowd at the Tiergarten

I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen - a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.

 

 

I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya. His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.

 

At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning - his dream - required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West. And so he wrote letter after letter to universities all across America until somebody, somewhere answered his prayer for a better life.

 

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