Just Have to Thank Former President Bill

After all, he was the one who promoted German-American friendship during his term in office. I have the poster from the exhibition I helped organize in Amerikahaus in Berlin to prove it. Since then, not only has the bushbaby playpen done enormous damage in the world at large and to the US at home, it has also closed down the cultural center the US had maintained here since the end of WWII and sealed off the embassy behind barricades and designed the new one on Pariser Platz to look as forbidding as possible. Therefore, I find it especially significant that Bill Clinton praises Barack Obama now and appeals for his election to restore American leadership. As he says here so well, "the power of our example" has always earned the USA more international respect than "the example of our power".

And here the link to the eloquent speech of Senator Biden, the next Vice President, making clear what this is all about.