Obama Will Not Speak at Brandenburg Gate
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 19th, 2008 4:41 am by HL
Obama Will Not Speak at Brandenburg Gate
Sen. Barack Obama will give a speech at the Victory Column in Berlin next week, “avoiding the Brandenburg Gate after a political spat broke out over plans to speak there,” according to Berliner Zeitung.
According to Bloomberg, “a stage will be set up at the column, a 19th-century fluted structure that lies at the opposite end of a tree-lined boulevard from the Brandenburg Gate… An appearance at the Victory Column, capped by its trademark gilded angel, will still give the Illinois senator the Brandenburg Gate as a backdrop in the distance. A political squabble erupted after Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed apprehension about the gate being used for electioneering.”
