Well, it's actually recorded from yesterday, but I watched it live at the time he gave the speech (thanks to CNN) & was just again impressed (as I usually am) by his ability to speak so forcefully & so eloquently of his audacious hope not just for a better country, but for a better world. Even people whose first language isn't English (or who may not speak English at all) share & can grasp that message. The over 200,000 people who packed into Berlin's Victory Column in the Tiergarten park could see that, obviously, as he noted in his speech, he doesn't look like "the Americans who have previously spoken" in the historic city of Berlin. Quite an appropriate observation from an American leader who is dedicated to changing so much about not just how the world sees Americans, but how we see ourselves.
The full speech is posted here...
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