A blog about politics.

The Speech

Here's a link to my story, and to Callie Shell's fabulous photos.

Afterward, the candidate made a surprise pop-in to a dinner with the traveling press corps and his campaign staff in downtown Berlin, and had a celebratory vodka martini (olives, very dry).

UPDATE: Baggage call tomorrow is at 10 a.m. As my grandmother would have said, bless their hearts.

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