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Tim Shipman: Barack Obama will chase John F Kennedy's mantle when he comes to Europe

[Tim Shipman is Washington Bureau Chief at the Sunday Telegraph.]

The Democrat candidate has picked Germany, the country where the Iraq war most strained relations with America, for what is billed as a major address on transatlantic relations.

That choice is also deliberately reminiscent of Kennedy's address in West Berlin during one of the bleakest periods of the Cold War in 1963, when he declared "Ich bin ein Berliner" - I am a Berliner.

The Democratic nominee has long been compared to both JFK and his brother Bobby in the US, where supporters say his message of hope echoes the days of Kennedy's "Camelot" administration.

His wife, Michelle, is routinely compared to Jackie Kennedy; John Kennedy's daughter Caroline is helping to select Mr Obama's running mate.

But his desire to speak in shadow of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin's most potent monument, is so loaded with symbolism that it has run into controversy...
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)