Obamessiah's Berlin Speech to Take Place at Controversial War Memorial

The Obamessiah's campaign staff really knows how to pick 'em:

Senator Barack Obama will speak here on Thursday in Tiergarten Park, beneath the monument topped with the statue of a golden angel known as the Siegessäule. According to the campaign, the event will be free and open to the public, raising the possibility of a huge crowd in Obama-crazy Germany....

As expected, several German politicians criticized the location because of the historic overtones of the militarist monument. The Victory Column “is dedicated to victories over our neighbors, who today are our European friends and allies,” said Andreas Schockenhoff, a leading member of Mrs. Merkel’s conservative party, according to the local Berliner Zeitung. “I consider it to be an unhappy symbolism.”

“I think it’s a less-than-perfect venue,” said Michael Cullen, an American building historian based in Berlin, who has written extensively about the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and other Berlin landmarks. “It doesn’t connote anything but Prussian military prowess and that’s not a great symbol.”

The Siegessäule is one of Berlin’s most recognizable landmarks, a monument to Prussian war victories that now acts as a gathering place during public events like the parade on Berlin’s gay pride day, known as Christopher Street Day. Gates open at 4 p.m.

Some of the pro-Hillary/anti-Obama sites are describing the Siegessäule as "Germany's tallest phallus". Heh.