So many bloggers are busy remembering how John F. Kennedy at the Berlin Wall said "I am a jelly doughnut" (link). Ich bin ein Berliner? Berliner= Jelly doughnut? Well, maybe you had to have been there.
In fact, Kennedy knew he was having trouble with the language. What he really said was "Ich bin ein Berlitzer."
And years later, Richard Nixon went to the Great Wall of China and said "I am a Pekinese."
Well, maybe you had to have been there.
Note: The headline is nothing more than a cheap-shot homage to the man who, by his own account, personally brought down the Berlin Wall. So far as I can tell, no candidate has made any such claim in this campaign. Yet.
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