Politics Buzz Barack Obama addresses a crowd of 200,000 in Germany’s capital. The moment was the high water mark of his European tour, and sounded like the ambitious, inclusive foreign policy speech many Europeans (and Americans) have been hoping for.
Politics Buzz Ever since his 2004 keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama has won praise for his eloquence, even earning comparisons to Martin Luther King. But as Karl Rove and others have observed, Obama was the only candidate relying on a teleprompter for his big election night speeches, which makes all that “yes, we can” stuff feel a bit…calculated.