[RobinMasters]

Ping.

[uncitizen]

He’s still exhausted from all the festivities around the celebration of 60 years of Communism in China?

[avacado]

It is a joke to call Obama the leader of the free world.

[OnTheDress]

If he went it would be as a mourner.

[Bushbacker1]

The grieving Obama can't bring himself to face the one spot on this earth, Berlin, that is symbolic for the fall of his religion, Communism!

[Red Steel]

Hey Barone, when The Wall came down that was a very sad day for Obama, he doesn’t want to relive it.

[dfwgator]

So he can go to Berlin to give a campaign speech while running for President, but he can’t go there as President?!?!?!

[sickoflibs]

Berlin Wall?? Sept 13,1939 USSR invades Eastern Poland, Sept 13, 2009 Obama betrays Poland to Russia,

[RobbyS]

Of all the commentators I find Barone most congenial.

[colorado tanker]

but somehow can’t find the time to travel to Berlin to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

He's prolly declared it a day of mourning for the White House staff.

[Red Steel]

Hey Barone, when The Wall came down that was a very sad day for Obama, he doesn’t want to relive it.

[a fool in paradise]

Barack would shed a tear at the collapse of Communism and the victory of Reagan’s policies.

[Deb]

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.

[kabar]

The truth is that Obama doesn't understand why the Wall came down. In his speech in Berlin, he said the following"

"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.

[MamaDearest]

Snips from the article you posted:

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.

[bray]

Commie slaves being released is nothing to celebrate for Maoists.

Pray for America’s Freedom

[NonValueAdded]

Excellent money quote:

"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."

[Right Cal Gal]

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.

[dinoparty]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

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.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Unlike last time he was in Germany there are no good music acts who will open for him. When Obama was running for POTUS in Germany, people came from all over Europe to see the highly popular group Reamonn. If I was there, I probably would have and left when Obama came up. Here's a video;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw-h9dGoSNw

[Mike Darancette]

I Hope the Presidents Bush are going.

[Mike Darancette]

I Hope the Presidents Bush are going.

[SueRae]

Send a patriot instead, say, Sarah Palin. Let him stay home. Pansy.

[nkycincinnatikid]

mark

[Cicero]

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.

[Joan Kerrey]

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.

[phredo53]

You mean he's going to turn down a wonderful opportunity to give another apology speech?
He could go:
"In times past and in different administrations we clenched our fist when you extended your hand. We reacted with the drums of war when you tried to secure Cuba with shipments of peaceful weapons. We reacted with mistrust, suspicion, and at times, yes, arrogance."
That might be good for starters, eh?

[Thunder90]

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.

[GOPJ]

Actually, Obama can’t make it because he’s playing golf that day - and midnight basketball that evening...