Barack Obama Quotes
If I were German and I had a vote, I might support Angela Merkel.
Obama, Barack. "Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in Joint Press Conference." The White House, 17 Nov. 2016.
Wilson was disabled and there was no provision for Presidential Disability then. Some suggested that he should be pressured to resign.
The problem for McCain was that many of the Bush supporters did not want change, and the opponents did not believe that McCain and the other Republican members of Congress really wanted reform and change from their policies of the recent past. McCain lost to Barack Obama.
Kennedy had gone to West Berlin in the midst of the Cold War and the worst of the Berlin Wall. This quotation was a great example of symbolism in politics. His presence. his delivery of the line in German, the statement identified him personally and the United States with the Berliners who were surrounded by Russian dominated East Germany, endeared him to Berliners, Germans, Europeans and freedom loving people the world over even though he stated no policies, goals, or programs. His identification said it all.
There are very few places in America where a public official could get away with statements like this one.
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
