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gianluca_b, on July 24th, 2008 at 9:04 pm Said:

it was really strange here in berlin today,
I ve been in many political rallies of several kind
but it was just something totally different
almost 10% of the crowd was american
and around 20% was german
the rest was basically from every single corner of the planet
as is the city by the way

personally I didn t know how to listen to it
since it was not a rally for any specific issue
nor something related to our history
the faces around where smiling to a certain degree
but mostly thinking
that is may be the word that best describe it
a thinking crowd
when obama arrived with the motorcade and all the rest
there has been cheers and screams
but almost suddenly the entire place went silent
and remained silent till he finally came out
and trough all the speech
it was almost like a new form of communication
people gathered together to listen to a world analysis
by someone that may end up with a lot of power in it
we all listened carefully and then just went away
mumbling about what he said
and what we were all doing there
it made sense, it really did
but it is still difficult, at least to me,
to understand in which way

may be “new” is the word

David Weinberger, on July 25th, 2008 at 12:11 am Said:

Thanks, Gianluca. It’s great to hear from someone there. Very interesting and nicely put. — dw

gianluca_b, on July 25th, 2008 at 7:12 am Said:

thank you for this space David, as always ))

TAR ART RAT, on July 25th, 2008 at 8:51 am Said:

I was very fortunate to have been there yesterday, it was a great experience overall - checkit: PHOTOS HERE

cheers,
p

Cytaty, on August 8th, 2008 at 12:16 pm Said:

This is very intresting article :P

Obama’s speech