German politicians welcomed Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama’s choice of Senator Joseph Biden as his vice presidential running mate, calling him a known quantity with decades of experience.
A member of Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) has called on US presidential candidate John McCain to retract his spokesman’s comment labelling Germans as “fawning” for turning out in great numbers for a speech by Barack Obama in Berlin last week.
Barack Obama says he was "played" and "hustled" by German tabloid daily <i>Bild</i> after they published a rather embarrassing unauthorized article the day after his popular speech in Berlin last week.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has attacked his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, for cancelling a visit to an American military base during his stop in Germany on Thursday.
As evidenced on his recent stop in Berlin, Barack Obama is so loved by Germans that many perhaps wish he were German. Now, they can comfort themselves in the knowledge that he is a little bit German – 4.6875 percent, to be exact.
A day after Barack Obama’s wildly successful public appearance in Berlin, German politicians and media lauded the US presidential candidate’s speech on the challenges facing Europe and America.
Over 200,000 jubilant Barack Obama supporters shut down the centre of Berlin on Thursday evening to listen to the US presidential candidate give an impassioned speech on the global challenges of the 21st century.
US presidential candidate Barack Obama tried played down the massively hyped expectations for his speech in Berlin on Thursday, saying he was not trying to make a historic address like JFK and Ronald Reagan.
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama will on Thursday kick off a European tour in Berlin, where he can expect a rapturous welcome amid a deep yearning on the continent for change in Washington.
A German man was detained on Wednesday afternoon after driving his car through the barricades near Berlin's Victory Column where workers are preparing for tomorrow's speech by presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, police reported.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would resist any pressure to send more troops to Afghanistan during talks Thursday with US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Germany might be feverishly awaiting Barack Obama’s visit to Berlin on Thursday, but the US presidential candidate will have a tough time keeping the country’s affections if he’s elected this November, writes The Local’s <b>Marc Young</b>.
The debate over presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s visit to Germany should have an end, according to Karsten Voigt, government coordinator for German-American relations.
On the eve of presumptive US presidential nominee Barack Obama's highly-anticipated speech in Berlin on July 24, Democrats Abroad delegate, Shari Temple, tells The Local what's important to American voters living in Germany and why Germans are so fascinated with Obama.
US presidential candidate Barack Obama will not speak in Berlin next week in front of the city’s landmark Brandenburg gate, the <i>Frankfurter Rundschau</i> newspaper reported on Thursday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed misgivings about US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama speaking in front of Berlin's famed Brandenburg Gate.
Democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama has requested permission to give an address at the Brandenburg Gate when he visits Berlin later this month, according to German media reports.
Democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama - widely adored in Germany - has been slammed by German politicians for comments supporting the death penalty for child rapists.
Barack Obama won a landslide victory with 80 percent of the votes on Tuesday night in the Berlin leg of the Democratic primaries. The vote at the Max and Moritz bar in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin attracted 200 of the 10,000 living in Berlin. Americans who are registered to vote in a state can vote directly in their state elections via an absentee ballot.
