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Election Day is finally here

November 4, 2008

We made it!  It’s been a long campaign season and I gotta say, it’s pretty interesting being in a swing state for once, but I’ll be plenty happy for Virginia to go solidly blue in the future.  I can’t imagine how people in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida go through this every four years.  I guess [...]

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The Where We Live Interview and More on How Germans View the US Presidential Election

October 29, 2008

I just finished the interview and wow, I think I sucked pretty hard.  I just am not good at immediately spitting out answers, I like to think things out a bit more, plus I’d spent the time before the interview perusing the German coverage, so my brain was still in German language mode (shoulda thought [...]

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How the German Media Covered the 3rd US presidential Debate

October 20, 2008

Sorry it’s taken me so long to get this up.  My desktop died, I’ve got a stone age laptop (can you spell S-L-O-W) and then we didn’t have internet for most of the weekend. This time I chose two articles from the main news magazines of Germany, Focus and Spiegel.  Actually, the one lucky thing [...]

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How German media is covering the 2008 US presidential election – 28 days to go

October 7, 2008

Wondering what the main German media outlets are presenting regarding the 2008 US presidential election?  This new AmiExpat feature will appear weekly until the election.  This week we’ll look at two articles on the news sites of ARD and ZDF television stations, from which most Germans get their nightly news.  I’ve picked a recent article [...]

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Barack Attack!

July 27, 2008

I’m guessing that if you hadn’t heard Obama was in Berlin last week, you probably live under a rock and are therefore not reading this blog. I really wanted to go to the speech, but had to watch it on television instead. In retrospect, it was a really good speech, but when I was watching [...]

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It’s been awhile

July 26, 2008

Lots has happened since I last posted. Oliver had his first birthday and made his first Baby Sign (hungry), Obama spoke in Berlin, Laaber is having a Bürgerfest (I’ll be heading off there in a little while). I also went through a bad case of food poisoning, but I’m back up and at ‘em again. [...]

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Hitler Beheaded!

July 6, 2008

A new Madame Tussauds wax figure museum opened July 5th in Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate. There was some controversy over the museum’s decision to include a wax figure of Adolf Hitler, and what do you know, the second museum patron in the door pushed guards aside, jumped over a desk, and ripped off the [...]

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