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Obama, Clinton: Walls of tyranny still remain (video)
Obama, Clinton: Walls of tyranny still remain (video)
President Barack Obama has paid tribute to the fall 20 years ago of the Berlin Wall in a video message to the main anniversary event. Obama said in the messa...
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Clinton, and an Obama video, in Berlin
Ben Smith's Blog — Clinton introduces and Obama video commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Obama casts it in terms of universal values, "the light of freedom" and "the darkness tyrany," with no direct reference to the specifics of the era. (video from the Russian propaganda outfit Russia Today)

Video: Obama addresses Berlin on the fall of the Wall
Hot Air » Top Picks — Surprise: Obama addresses Berlin on the fall of the Wall posted at 5:43 pm on November 9, 2009 by Allahpundit Share on Facebook | printer-friendly I’m giving you two versions, the unedited BBC transmission and the censored version that ran on Russian state television (which omits the passage about the Declaration of Independence but not, curiously, the one about the Iron Curtain), thus proving that the old Soviet spirit is alive and kicking. Even in a two-and-a-half minute speech about an event as epochal as the fall of the Wall, somehow he finds a way to make it about him :“Few would have foreseen … that a united Germany would be led by a woman from ...

Greg Hengler: Hillary Pays Tribute In Berlin To Those Who Ended The Wall; Doesn't Mention Reagan or Thatcher
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Somehow she manages to give a "shout out" to Obama for tearing down wall(s), though.

Russians Edit Out Reference To Declaration Of Independence From Obama’s Berlin Wall Video Address
Say Anything — Here’s the unedited BBC version of Obama’s remarks (including the bit of self-adulation he managed to slip in that I posted about earlier): Here’s Obama’s self-aggrandizing quote: “Few would have foreseen … that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that ...

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