"McCane Blows up and It is only the start - Stop the Insanity - you know
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> On Jul 24, 12:23?pm, James Of Tucson <james0tuc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> There's no need to talk about what you "think" Obama said.
>> It's not as though it was given in secrecy. ?For those right-wingers
>> who can read at the sixth-grade level needed to understand one
>> of these speeches, we have the wonderful tool of Obama's own
>> words. ?Ask a Republican to read this and tell us specifically ? what
>> he disagrees with.
>>
>> Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let
>> me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for
>> welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin
>> Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.
>>
>> 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 op****tunity 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.
>>
>> That is why I'm here. And you are here because you too know that
>> yearning. This city, of all cities, knows the dream of freedom. And
>> you know that the only reason we stand here tonight is because men and
>> women from both of our nations came together to work, and struggle,
>> and sacrifice for that better life.
>>
>> Ours is a partner****p that truly began sixty years ago this summer, on
>> the day when the first American plane touched down at Templehof.
>>
>> On that day, much of this continent still lay in ruin. The rubble of
>> this city had yet to be built into a wall. The Soviet shadow had swept
>> across Eastern Europe, while in the West, America, Britain, and France
>> took stock of their losses, and pondered how the world might be
>> remade.
>>
>> This is where the two sides met. And on the twenty-fourth of June,
>> 1948, the Communists chose to blockade the western part of the city.
>> They cut off food and supplies to more than two million Germans in an
>> effort to extinguish the last flame of freedom in Berlin.
>>
>> 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.
>> Where the last war had ended, another World War could have easily
>> begun. All that stood in the way was Berlin.
>>
>> And that's when the airlift began - when the largest and most unlikely
>> rescue in history brought food and hope to the people of this city.
>>
>> The odds were stacked against success. In the winter, a heavy fog
>> filled the sky above, and many planes were forced to turn back without
>> dropping off the needed supplies. The streets where we stand were
>> filled with hungry families who had no comfort from the cold.
>>
>> But in the darkest hours, the people of Berlin kept the flame of hope
>> burning. The people of Berlin refused to give up. And on one fall day,
>> hundreds of thousands of Berliners came here, to the Tiergarten, and
>> heard the city's mayor implore the world not to give up on freedom.
>> "There is only one possibility," he said. "For us to stand together
>> united until this battle is won...The people of Berlin have spoken. We
>> have done our duty, and we will keep on doing our duty. People of the
>> world: now do your duty...People of the world, look at Berlin!"
>>
>> People of the world - look at Berlin!
>>
>> Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together
>> and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on
>> the field of battle.
>>
>> Look at Berlin, where the determination of a people met the generosity
>> of the Marshall Plan and created a German miracle; where a victory
>> over tyranny gave rise to NATO, the greatest alliance ever formed to
>> defend our common security.
>>
>> Look at Berlin, where the bullet holes in the buildings and the somber
>> stones and pillars near the Brandenburg Gate insist that we never
>> forget our common humanity.
>>
>> People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a
>> continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge
>> too great for a world that stands as one.
>>
>> Sixty years after the airlift, we are called upon again. History has
>> led us to a new crossroad, with new promise and new peril. When you,
>> the German people, tore down that wall - a wall that divided East and
>> West; freedom and tyranny; fear and hope - walls came tumbling down
>> around the world. From Kiev to Cape Town, prison camps were closed,
>> and the doors of democracy were opened. Markets opened too, and the
>> spread of information and technology reduced barriers to op****tunity
>> and prosperity. While the 20th century taught us that we share a
>> common destiny, the 21st has revealed a world more intertwined than at
>> any time in human history.
>>
>> The fall of the Berlin Wall brought new hope. But that very closeness
>> has given rise to new dangers - dangers that cannot be contained
>> within the borders of a country or by the distance of an ocean.
>>
>> The terrorists of September 11th plotted in Hamburg and trained in
>> Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over the globe
>> on American soil.
>>
>> As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the
>> ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and
>> bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.
>>
>> Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets
>> from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in
>> Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The
>> poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. The
>> genocide in Darfur shames the conscience of us all.
>>
>> In this new world, such dangerous currents have swept along faster
>> than our efforts to contain them. That is why we cannot afford to be
>> divided. No one nation, no matter how large or powerful, can defeat
>> such challenges alone. None of us can deny these threats, or escape
>> responsibility in meeting them. Yet, in the absence of Soviet tanks
>> and a terrible wall, it has become easy to forget this truth. And if
>> we're honest with each other, we know that sometimes, on both sides of
>> the Atlantic, we have drifted apart, and forgotten our shared destiny.
>>
>> 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. In America, there are voices that deride and deny the
>> im****tance of Europe's role in our security and our future. Both views
>> miss the truth - that Europeans today are bearing new burdens and
>> taking more responsibility in critical parts of the world; and that
>> just as American bases built in the last century still help to defend
>> the security of this continent, so does our country still sacrifice
>> greatly for freedom around the globe.
>>
>> Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe. No doubt,
>> there will be differences in the future. But the burdens of global
>> citizen****p continue to bind us together. A change of leader****p in
>> Wa****ngton will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans
>> and Europeans alike will be required to do more - not less.
>> Partner****p and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the
>> one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our
>> common humanity.
>>
>> That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide
>> us from one another.
>>
>> The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot
>> stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with
>> the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives
>> and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now
>> are the walls we must tear down.
>>
>> We know they have fallen before. After centuries of strife, the people
>> of Europe have formed a Union of promise and prosperity. Here, at the
>> base of a column built to mark victory in war, we meet in the center
>> of a Europe at peace. Not only have walls come down in Berlin, but
>> they have come down in Belfast, where Protestant and Catholic found a
>> way to live together; in the Balkans, where our Atlantic alliance
>> ended wars and brought savage war criminals to justice; and in South
>> Africa, where the struggle of a courageous people defeated apartheid.
>>
>> So history reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is
>> never easy. True partner****p 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.
>>
>> This is the moment when we must defeat terror and dry up the well of
>> extremism that sup****ts it. This threat is real and we cannot shrink
>> from our responsibility to combat it. If we could create NATO to face
>> down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partner****p to
>> dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman; in London
>> and Bali; in Wa****ngton and New York. If we could win a battle of
>> ideas against the communists, we can stand with the vast ...
>>
>> read more ?
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> And Obama is going to do all of that ?????? uh huh ...
Better than bush,jr, McCain, or any other Republican!
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