Obama is a hit in Europe

Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 4:07 am

Barack Obama on Thursday (July 24) challenged a new generation of Americans and Europeans to tear down walls between estranged allies, races, and faiths in a soaring call for global unity at an unprecedented mass campaign rally in Berlin.

The Democratic White House candidate told tens of thousands of people near the footprint of the old Berlin Wall that humanity faced a perilous turning point, and it was time to build “a world that stands as one.”

“The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another,” said Obama, who has scorched through US politics at lightning speed to challenge Republican John McCain for the White House in November’s election.

The strikingly audacious speech, in a fevered atmosphere in Berlin’s famed Tiergarten, took the White House race out of US borders in a way never seen before, and was designed to portray Obama as a leader with unique global appeal.

“The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand,” he said, referring to festering divisions between Europe and the United States opened up by the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

“The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand,” said Obama, in an address beamed live on US and German television channels and to viewers
around the world.

“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,” Obama said, drawing cheers and applause.

(With inputs from PTI)

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Obama is a hit in Europe

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