Obama Foreign Policy Team Drops the Ball

Jennifer Rubin has this short (and funny) take on a potential foreign policy flub by Obama:

["Sen. Barack Obama's campaign said today that his speech in Berlin on the future of trans-Atlantic relations will be delivered in front of a Prussian war monument, rather than the Brandenburg Gate. The announcement triggered criticism in Germany that the Victory Column, or Siegessaeule, was an inappropriate landmark for the Thursday speech, since the 226-foot column honors Prussian triumphs over Denmark, Austria and France.The Siegessaeule, built in 1873, stood in front of Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, until the late 1930s, when Adolf Hitler's architect, Albert Speer, moved it to its current location in the middle of the Tiergarten park. Since German reunification, the column has become known as the central location for Berlin residents to party."]

Really, if you are going to argue to the world what a dunce George W. Bush has been, it is better not to be a dunce yourself. (The notion that he might take advantage of the location to extol the virtue of “victory” is as delightful as it is remote.)