Posted on 10/26/2009 12:15:24 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Michael Barone finds it odd that Barack Obama can go to Oslo and Copenhagen for mainly personal reasons, but somehow can’t find the time to travel to Berlin to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — the climax of the Cold War and the West’s triumph.
Given the key role played by the US in the collapse of Soviet Communism, people have good cause to wonder why the leader of the free world can find time to pick up an award for himself and pitch his hometown to the International Olympic Committee, but not to say a few words in honor of the free world’s vindication in Berlin. Barone theorizes that an earlier Berlin speech may be haunting Obama:
In the Tiergarten, Obama spoke of “the terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan” and of the need “to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda” there. That doesn’t mesh well with his recent reconsideration of the Afghanistan strategy he announced in March and reiterated in August or with the White House spin doctors’ suggestion that the Taliban and al Qaeda aren’t necessarily allies anymore.
In the Tiergarten, Obama asserted his “resolve to work with Russia when we can, to stand up for our values when we must and to seek a partnership that extends across this whole continent.” That doesn’t mesh very well with the “reset button” policy toward Russia that looks past its attacks on Georgia and Ukraine and propitiates the Putin regime with unilateral withdrawal of missile-defense installations from Poland and the Czech Republic.
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Ping.
He’s still exhausted from all the festivities around the celebration of 60 years of Communism in China?
It is a joke to call Obama the leader of the free world.
If he went it would be as a mourner.
Hey Barone, when The Wall came down that was a very sad day for Obama, he doesn’t want to relive it.
So he can go to Berlin to give a campaign speech while running for President, but he can’t go there as President?!?!?!
Berlin Wall?? Sept 13,1939 USSR invades Eastern Poland, Sept 13, 2009 Obama betrays Poland to Russia,
Of all the commentators I find Barone most congenial.
Obama like much of the left probably doesn’t think Reagan or the US had anything to do with the fall of Russia or the Berlin wall.
He's prolly declared it a day of mourning for the White House staff.
Hey Barone, when The Wall came down that was a very sad day for Obama, he doesn’t want to relive it.
Barack would shed a tear at the collapse of Communism and the victory of Reagan’s policies.
The Germans should tell him he’s getting “The Order of the Wall” medal and Michelle is getting the “Golden Boob Belt” for her fashion inspiration.
Oops, dang cable modem having a hiccup.
"People of the world – look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one."
The Wall did not come down because the "world stood as one." It was a triumph of good over evil because the good had the will and the strength to prevail.
I think the answer is simpler: Berlin won’t be about Obama.
It’s not that Obama doesn’t think that the fall of the wall is a good thing, but that it has nothing to do with him, and is therefore irrelevant.
Commie slaves being released is nothing to celebrate for Maoists.
Pray for America’s Freedom
"It’s not that Obama doesn’t think that the fall of the wall is a good thing, but that it has nothing to do with him, and is therefore irrelevant."
Frankely, if I were Barry, I wouldn’t want anyone else thinking about the strength and iron will of a Ronald Reagan as I stood there mealey-mouthed with my teleprompter.
No need to remind the world that there were giants in those days.
He has spent his whole life around people who saw Reagan as bad, the defense build-up as bad, the proxy wars as bad, and the Soviet Empire as a misunderstood, well-intentioned member of the world family. Moreover, the cold warriors were all a part of the “racist” past in their view.
Obama simply can never bring himself to utter words that could be interpreted as praise for those leaders.
Sad that we have someone like this in the Whitehouse. Someday, these days will be seen as very dark days for our nation.
It would be an insult to the memory of those who fought to bring down the Berlin Wall for Obama to show up.
Hell, if anything the guy is trying to erect new Berlin walls in our own nation.
He stands for everything the Berlin Wall stood for.
May he receive the same fate from historians.
Yours is the correct answer. He’d break down and weep openly at the site where his “God” failed.
The Communist Party in East Germany (or "Socialist Unity Party") later renamed itself the Party of Democratic Socialism. Maybe that's where American D-Socs or "Democratic Socialists" got the name.
Good point...
I Hope the Presidents Bush are going.
I Hope the Presidents Bush are going.
Send a patriot instead, say, Sarah Palin. Let him stay home. Pansy.
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Frankly, he pollutes any event he attends. It’s just as well that he isn’t going. He is revealing himself for what he is, for anyone with eyes to see.
Why would he want to celebrate the fall of a system that he favors? WWII in Europe was a white man’s war. He doesn’t identify with it. The few “negros” who fought had little choice and according to revised history they were put in the most dangerous situations and if they survived that then they were experimented on and discarded like trash when done with. If he went it would be to apologize for all the evil the United States was involved with during that terrible time in black history.
Obama wants to remain buddy-buddy with Vladimir Putin. He won’t go to the Berlin Wall. Also, Obama would be forced to acknowledge Ronald Reagan if he went, another no-no in his book.
Actually, Obama can’t make it because he’s playing golf that day - and midnight basketball that evening...
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