Germans in Tizzy over Obama and Planned Speech. What's the REAL STORY?

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What is the real story on the Obama planned speech in Berlin. Is it as some channels report that “Chancellor Angela Merkel slammed a request by Barack Obama to give a speech this month before the Brandenburg Gate,” or is it that “German Politicians Are in an Obama Tizzy,” as reported by Der Spiegel.

German media reports seem much more multi-sided that those in the U.S. press.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,k-7260,00.html

The debate surrounding the impending Berlin visit of US Presidential candidate Barack Obama refuses to abate. Even as the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is skeptical (more...) about allowing the Democratic politician to hold a major foreign policy address at the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin, many other politicians -- including some from her own Christian Democrats -- are in favor of the idea.

"Many Germans want to get to know him," Ruprecht Polenz, chair of the foreign relations committee in the German parliament, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "It's not just politicians, but the broader public. When the best possibility for that to happen is at this place, then I have no problem with it," he said, referring to the Brandenburg Gate site.