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From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:

(BERLIN, GERMANY) Barack Obama, the citizen, looked more like a rock star today at Berlin’s Tiergarten Park, where he spoke to a crowd of tens of thousands of roaring fans waving American flags.

"Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world,” Obama said precluding the buzz that his speech today is a campaign rally.

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From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic

(BERLIN, GERMANY) Barack Obama's speech at Tiergarten Park tonight has garnered a lot of attention and some criticism that the presumptive Democratic nominee did not expect to receive.
"Let's tamp down expectations here," Obama told reporters when asked how he prepares to speak to what some reports predict could be a crowd of a million people. "I doubt we are going to have a million screaming Germans," Obama predicted, however.

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