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Obama Berlin Speech: US Foreign Service Workers Instructed Not To Attend

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Obama Berlin Speech: US Foreign Service Workers Instructed Not To Attend

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

Although it appears most of Berlin is heading to Obama's speech today, US Foreign Service personnel will be banned from the event. And they are not happy. The American Foreign Service Association, a union of Foreign Service workers are opposing the rule. Read more from The Washington Post . And watch the speech live here . The U.S. Embassy in Berlin has instructed Foreign Service personnel stationed...

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Vets blasts McCain's double standard of attacking Obama for doing what McCain did, too

AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008

I wrote earlier today about a decision by "the Pentagon" (which is actually a building, not a person) to prevent Senator Barack Obama from visiting a military base in Germany. As expected, the McCain campaign attacked Obama for not visiting the base that "the Pentagon" told him he couldn't visit. The traditional media dutifully ate up McCain's attack. (The political reporters are all worried that McCain...

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Number 44 Has Spoken (?)

Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008

Barry may be losing the media here in America, but he sure has Der Spiegel in the bag Anyone who saw Barack Obama at Berlin’s Siegessäule on Thursday could recognize that this man will become the 44th president of the United States. He is more than ambitious — he wants to lay claim to become the [...]

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Controlling The Message Leads To Obstructing The Message

The Happy Circumstance (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008

Now the Bush Administration thinks that even the act of listening to a dissenting opinion is intolerable. The U.S. Embassy in Berlin has instructed Foreign Service personnel stationed there not to attend Sen. Barack Obama's public rally today, American workers are being told they cannot attend an event, even though that activity would be legal on American soil. Government employees serving in the United...

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Political Nanny: Bush Bans Officials From Today's Obama Rally

Strollerderby (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

That First Amendment of the Constitution and its freedom to assemble. What a load! Thankfully, George W. Bush and the State Department's Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy get it. They've banned all state department officials from attending Democratic candidate Barack Obama's speech tonight in Berlin. You know, wouldn't want the citizens of Germany to think American officials are engaged in partisan political...

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Decency And Indecency

Mercury Rising 鳯女 (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008

Decency: Barack Obama decides that it wouldn’t be appropriate for him to visit the US military bases in Rammstein and Landstuhl, Germany, as part of a campaign-funded trip as opposed to a CODEC mission: Obama senior adviser Robert Gibbs told us in a statement, “During his trip as part of the CODEL to Afghanistan and Iraq, Senator [...]

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