Obama to join Germany's Merkel in Berlin next month

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

Former President Barack Obama will join German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a forum in Berlin next month in his first appearance alongside a foreign leader since leaving office in January.

The discussion, "Being Involved in Democracy: Taking on Responsibility Locally and Globally," is in honor of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, which began in Germany in 1517. Obama was invited to Germany for the anniversary last May. The Obama Foundation is co-sponsoring the discussion.

"President Barack Obama’s attending the Kirchentag in Berlin, which will ring in the Reformation Summer, underlines the international character of our 500th anniversary celebrations," Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, the Evangelical Church in Germany Council chair, said in a statement.

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Despite tensions that emerged after revelations in 2013 that the National Security Agency had tapped Merkel's and other German officials' phone lines, the American and German leaders were seen as having a cooperative relationship. During a trip to Germany in November, Obama called Merkel his "closest ally."

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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/328220-obama-to-join-germanys-merkel-in-berlin-next-month

[Chicago1980]

1. She's going to cling to him as say, "please don't go".

[MiniMe]

4. Or "Please come back"

I think she is scared of the orange man, as most of us here are.

[Javaman]

2. Yes, I'm sure that's all they will be talking about LOL nt

[OnDoutside]

3. If they look presidential, Donnie will go berserk.

[harun]

5. +1

[Sentath]

6. In other words, 'Tuesday'.

[OnDoutside]

7. +1 :)

[moonscape]

16. LOL!

[kimbutgar]

8. It's going to be a huge rally

When I was in Frankfurt someone asked me why we have an insane man as President now after having such an intelligent thinker in Obama. The Germans know more about our government than a majority of Americans.

[DallasNE]

9. The Absence Of Fox News Explains Much Of It

[Doreen]

11. My boyfriend is in Frankfurt at this time and a lot of Germans ask how we can be so

stupid and and not have learned from history.

I think Obama should take some Trump jokes to share with Merkle.

[moondust]

10. "discussion at the Brandenburg Gate"

https://www.kirchentag.de/english/programme/obama_and_makgoba.html


Previous Obama visit to the Brandenburg Gate:





Donnie? Donnie?

[adigal]

13. Donnie would get as many, but they'd have signs w his face. With a tiny mustache drawn on it

Since they think he is our Hitler.

[Cha]

12. Mahalo for this, highplainsdem!

[AwakeAtLast]

14. I can't wait for Kate McKinnon's version!

Just thinking about it!

[AgadorSparticus]

15. The love they will show Obama will drive Cheeto NUTS!

He will in turn do something passive aggressive like defund meals on wheels....oh wait. He did that already. Not sure if there is anything else he can do to "hit back 10 times as hard".

[moonscape]

17. Maybe he'll bomb Syria again ... or NK n/t

[tavernier]

19. Cancel Christmas

Sheriff of Nottingham style.

[betsuni]

18. Merkel totally has a cush on Obama.

"Closest ally." Not that there's anything wrong with that.