Wash. Post cropped Obama quote in purporting to contrast Obama's and McCain's identities as Americans

SUMMARY: A Washington Post article falsely suggested that in a speech in Berlin, Sen. Barack Obama referred to himself only as a "citizen of the world." In fact, in that speech, Obama referred to himself as "a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world," a self-description very similar to President Reagan's assertion in a 1982 speech before the United Nations that "I speak today as both a citizen of the United States and of the world."

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