[Bernard]

Well, I took my kids to Wrigley Field and local museums when they were old enough to apprecrate the places I thought highly of. So this behavior by Obama does not seem strange to me; just different priorities.

[DeusExMachina05]

Obama is a weird dude. Plain and simple.

[Diogenesis]

“Western thinking has become conservative:
the world situation should stay as it is at any cost;
there should be no changes. ....
The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support
from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see
communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In
our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero
and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with
empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to
withstand the East.”
[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn at the Commencement, 8 June 1978, Harvard University]

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
President Ronald Reagan

[Qbert]

“...Here is Kremlin; some of the worst dictators and mass-murderers in the history of the world walked in these hallways? Did Obama explain this to his kids?”

Actually, yes. He told them daddy’s not in their league yet, but give him a couple years when the camps are completed...

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Why shouldn’t Obama “bow down to Stalin”? He’s bowed down to everyone else, so why miss this chance to keep his record going?

[piasa]

Did he tell the kids about the Great Patriotic Purges, the Great Patriotic Gulags, the Great Patriotic Famines, and the Great Patriotic Bread Lines?

[oyez]

If Russia were a free country back then, there would have not been a GPW.

I do not hesitate to give the Russian public and military full credit for their sacrifice. Stalin was just a butcher who occupied the Kremlin at the time.

[opentalk]

He is giving intentional messages and signals to our enemies and the rest of the World. This is from the group behind the teleprompter.

[Texas resident]

Name another American who called WWII, “The Great Patriotic War”.

Maybe the New york times, but there are no others.

[NormsRevenge]

Ironic, No?

They took a Stalin statue down today in his hometown.

Maybe they can put an Obama statue up in place of it. ;-)

A combination photo shows the pedestal in the central square of Gori, some 80 km (50 miles) west of Tbilisi, before (top) and after where a statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin used to stand. Top picture shows people attending a rally marking the birth anniversary of Stalin December 21, 2008. Bottom picture shows workers standing next to the empty pedestal June 25, 2010. Georgia dismantled the statue on Friday, two years after a defeat in a five-day war with Russia. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili

some of Uncle Joe's old girlfriends milling around the pedestal, asking where he went?

[Aria]

His wife was ashamed of this country until she figured she’d end up in the White House.

Little marxists have got to be taught to hate.

[TigersEye]

He has his top general bowing to Russian Muzzies too.