Barack Obama in Berlin

"The Guardian headline said: 'Obama gets RockStar welcome.' One Berliner called it, 'an anti-Bush rally.' And the Financial Times Deutschland called it 'an ad for the war on terror.'"

"In a speech laden with cold war rhetoric, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama stood before more than two hundred thousand people in Berlin on Thursday and summoned Europeans and Americans to work together on many issues from Iraq and Afghanistan to the war on terror and climate change.

"An editorial in the left leaning Berliner Zeitung said, 'Obama's agenda seems to contradict George W Bush's foreign policy on almost every point. His agenda is well thought through and could easily have been drafted by political thinkers in Europe. However, it is very abstract on many points. When he eventually gives them substance, then these differences with the Bush administration's policies fall away"