" “I think a lot of the problem he had today was the late afternoon sun in Berlin ruined his use of the teleprompter and so his usual dramatic windup was ruined,” Matthews said immediately after the speech. “I think he was really struggling with the text there.” "
Obama spoke in front only about 5,000-6,000 spectators, all of them invited guests.
"Fast forward to 2013, and many are now saying that Obama's reputation is "tarnished," by his recent snooping scandals, his extensions of the war on terror, and the hard luck realities of failing to deliver on all your promises."
UK Mail; What a difference 5 years make: Obama braves blistering Berlin heat to make speech before invite-only crowd of 4,500
Freedom needs to be backed by strength. Otherwise it loses. "Otherwise we see what Leo Strauss called "the sorry spectacle of justice without a sword or of justice unable to use the sword.” Contra Obama, the lesson of 1953—and of the Weimar Republic, to which Strauss was referring—is that merely wishing for justice, and seeking freedom, is not enough."
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