Why did Obama give a speech in Berlin if his voters are in the United States?

Question

There must be a reason but I missed it somehow.

Answer 1

Foreign relations - which is part of being president. Sounds like someone needs to educate themselves before voting in November.  

Answer 2

For the same reason that John McCain gave speeches in Colombia and France before Obama went overseas.

Next!

Answer 3

I think it was because of his ego.  I never heard a reason out of him so one can only fill in the blank.

Answer 4

Obama keeps trying to copy JFK.  Kennedy made his famous Ich bin ein Berliner speech from the Berlin Wall. Of course that speech had much meaning given the political situation at the time and Kennedy was speaking as the US President.  

Obama is just a candidate and the Berlin Wall is long gone.    

Answer 5

Obama was trying to show that the world will love the USA if he's president.  Obama has a very sophmoric attitude.  And I honestly believe that's the most important issue to the Democrats.  They need to be loved by the world.

Mike B:  Let's talk facts, please.  What allies have we lost?  We've actually gained allies.  The world has fun spewing bigotry at Americans, and people like you want to give in to those type of people, but give me the facts about what allies we've lost.

Answer 6

He wants it to look like he's already the president.

Answer 7

I think wal mart has an opening for a cart pusher.  

Answer 8

Practice. Presidents need to be good at this sort of international diplomacy. It's better to have our allies supporting us instead of alienating ourselves from them, like Bush has.