... or they'll forcibly rub Germany's shoulders.
Why does the Bush White House hate freedom? TPM: A new report in the German press says that WH officials are plooping in their drawers over the idea of Senator Obama's July 24th speechification at the historic site, and have said as much to representatives of Chancellor Angela Merkel...
The respected Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported this week that a member of the Bush delegation approached Merkel's foreign policy advisor, Christoph Heusgen, at the G-8 summit in Japan to discuss misgivings about Obama's planned speech. The government is also acting out of respect for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has long enjoyed strong ties to Germany and good personal relationships with a number of high-level government officials in Berlin.
Of course, the German government has denied the whole thing.
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