Germans get excited over prospect of Barack Obama visit

Wednesday 09th July, 06:10 AM JST

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smithinjapan at 10:58 AM JST - 9th July

Well, I can understand the excitement. Still... Germans get uber-excited over David Hasslehoff in a banana hammock, so that's not saying much.
Sarge at 11:03 AM JST - 9th July

Smith - Good one.
tigris at 11:22 AM JST - 9th July

Actually the excitement is limited to Mr. Wowereit. A more balanced article about this from the German press: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,564635,00.html
Zen_Builder at 11:27 AM JST - 9th July

Hmmm, I take anything published in the "Spiegel" with a large grain of salt. They can be very biased.
skipthesong at 12:32 PM JST - 9th July

"With his message of hope, his relative youth and his trim figure, Obama has often been compared to Kennedy, especially in the eyes of many Germans." Hmm, I wonder how many are old enough to remember Kennedy. They are probably thinking he's a spin off a Milli Vanilli.
SuperLib at 12:55 PM JST - 9th July

That's going to be awesome to watch him speak there....
RepublicofTexas at 06:20 PM JST - 9th July

I like how all these non-Americans get so excited over someone who hasn't been elected yet.
Madverts at 07:45 PM JST - 9th July

Repub,

It's just a matter of time.
RedMeatKoolAid at 08:25 PM JST - 9th July

As bad as Obama is he towers above the party hacks that make it to prime minister in most of Europe's pseudo-states.
rajakumar at 12:49 AM JST - 12th July

Germans/Europe want and love barrack obama, to be next president.