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I wonder just how much of a German protector would Obama be as a US president?

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From: Joe Brewoo <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, January 6, 2008 10:36 pm
Subject: Barack Obama's popularity soars - in Germany
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>  Global Obama-mania!!!!
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>  Barack Obama's popularity soars - in Germany
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>  BERLIN: Barack Obama's popularity extends far beyond Iowa and into 
> the heart of Central Europe. Germany has swiftly developed a serious 
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>  Obama's high standing goes beyond his opposition to the Iraq War, 
> which has always been unpopular here. The sudden crush is intimately 
> bound up with the near constant comparisons here between the young 
> senator from Illinois and President John F. Kennedy - still admired in 
> Germany and particularly in Berlin - which have stuck fast as his 
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>  The Berliner Morgenpost over the weekend ran with the headline, "The 
> New Kennedy." The tabloid Bild went with, "This Black American Has 
> Become the New Kennedy!" An editorial in the Frankfurter Rundschau 
> went one historic president better with a headline that read simply: 
> "Lincoln, Kennedy, Obama," adding that "hope and optimism" are "the 
> source of the nation's strength." Obama's newfound popularity among 
> Germans underscores not only the breadth of his appeal but also the 
> opportunity he might have as president - though he is still far from 
> the White House, much less his party's nomination - to mend fences 
> abroad as well as at home.
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>  "There are similarities between JFK's time and today," said Karsten 
> Rossow, 49, of Berlin, who was visiting the small Kennedy Museum by 
> the Brandenburg Gate on a dark, snowy afternoon Sunday with his wife. 
> "People are ready for the politics of change." His wife, Änne Rossow, 
> added that "after so much disappointment" - she was referring to the 
> Bush administration - "one seizes on these liberal ideals." While all 
> of Europe keeps a close eye on U.S. elections, Germans learned to pay 
> particularly close attention because of the influence that America had 
> as both occupier and protector after World War II. That is true not 
> only for supporters but also for detractors on the political left, who 
> held furious demonstrations against the Vietnam War and the nuclear 
> arms race with the Soviet Union.
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>  During the Cold War, West Germany was dependent on the United States, 
> nowhere more so than in West Berlin. President Kennedy is remembered 
> here for the support that he gave the city as the Berlin Wall was 
> built during his presidency in 1961, crystallized in his "Ich bin ein 
> Berliner" speech.
>  Fair or unfair, the comparisons to Kennedy stand Obama in good stead 
> here. The man who could best lay claim to the title of importer of the 
> Kennedy association is Christoph von Marschall, Washington bureau 
> chief for the Tagesspiegel newspaper and author of a book released 
> here last month called "Barack Obama, The Black Kennedy."
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>  As for many American voters, von Marschall said, Obama represents a 
> change from the present government and policies in America, even if he 
> was until recently an unknown quantity compared with Hillary Clinton. 
> "Only a small, informed minority knew about Barack Obama in December," 
> said von Marschall, who returned to Germany for the release of his 
> book. After the Iowa caucuses Thursday, however, interest in Obama and 
> sales of the book took off. Despite the fact that Obama is not 
> associated with Europe in general or Germany in particular, he has "a 
> cultural record that the rest of the field does not have, a better 
> international and intercultural record," von Marschall said.
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>  His race also plays well here, according to Uwe Andersen, a professor 
> of political science at Ruhr University in Bochum: "In Germany, there 
> is great sympathy first for Native Americans and second for black Americans."
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>  Some are still reserving judgment.
>  "It's too early," said Udo Schacht, 53, at a train station on 
> Friedrichstrasse, the street where the border crossing Checkpoint 
> Charlie once stood. "Too early to say that he's the new Kennedy."
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>  Victor Homola contributed reporting.
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