On Senator Obama's recent visit to Berlin he was cheered by 200,000 people, the largest crowd ever assembled to hear him speak his repeated message of "hope and change." I wonder how many of these people were there for the free concert given by the popular German reggae artist Patrice and Reamonn, a well known rock band in Europe that played prior to Mr Obama's speech . He proclaimed "I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen of the world."    

"The walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christians and Muslims and Jews cannot stand." Obama was channelling the speech President Reagan gave in 1987 at the Berlin Wall, when he urged Gorbachev of the Soviet Union to "tear down this wall," to allow free speech and democracy in the Soviet Union and end Communism.

As an American, I have been hearing his message of hope and change, and the many speeches filled with empty rhetoric and cliches. I have seen the cult of personality mesmerize the many captured by the mystique that is Senator Obama, during this long political campaign. Words are words, but as we all know actions speak much much louder.

The Democrat senator speaks one message in Berlin and quite a different one in America.  Fellow Democrat Representative Keith Ellison, the country's first Muslim congressman volunteered to speak on Mr. Obama's behalf at a mosque, Obama's aides asked him to cancel the trip because "we have a very tightly wrapped message".  

That sounds much different than the message we are told. "Our campaign has made every attempt to bring together Americans of all races, religions and backgrounds."

To this day he has visited churches and synagogues but not a single mosque. He has even gone so far as to ignore repeated invitations by Muslim and Arab American organizations. Just recently, two Muslim women wearing head scarves were barred from appearing behind him at a rally in Detroit.

When Muslim supporters voiced about being uncomfortable with his strong denials he has made in response that he is secretly a Muslim, the senator appearing on 60 Minutes, said the rumours were offensive to Muslims because they played into "fear-mongering"

Interesting, that on his own website he classifies the claim he is Muslim as a "smear". Doesn't this perpetuate the thought that many people in America have that being Muslim is a bad thing? Is this the kind of message from "a citizen of the world ?" I am waiting for him to say there's nothing wrong with being a Muslim. Throughout this campaign many Muslim groups often failed to persuade Mr. Obama's campaign to at least send a surrogate to speak to voters at their events. Finally in February, they wooed surrogates from the Clinton and Obama campaigns only after telling each that the other was planning to attend.

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