7.22.2008

Obama flunks history?

Ich habe einen Überidioten in meinen Television:



Ugh. Where to begin? Maybe the first sentence! Because JFK, following his "Ish bin ein Bearleener" speech at the Rudolph Wilde Platz, didn't have much to say while visiting the Brandenburg Gate:


Next, you just knew that it was going to be too damned tempting for the knuckledraggers at FoxNews not to bring up teh Nazi. The Siegessäule is "a monument linked to Adolf Hitler?" WTF does that mean in a city where just about everything else the Prussians built was in some way later "linked" to the Nazis? Other monuments "linked" to the Nazis include...the Brandenburg Gate:


Finally, as for the Siegessäule "not being any kind of symbol of multiculturalism and can't-we-all-get-along globalism," may I present the Loveparade: