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So would Obama have even supported the Berlin Airlift?
Vanity | 7/24 | Wil H

Posted on 07/24/2008 5:27:08 PM PDT by Wil H

Obama's damp squib speech today to 50,000 Germans (yes, that's all that was actually there, despite the free food, free drink, and the concerts) started off with Obama recounting to the Germans their own history.

They must have loved that.

There's nothing better than being told something you already know and was very personal to you by someone who wasn't there and had no part of it.

It crossed my mind as he droned on, just what would have Obama done had he been in the Senate when the Berlin Airlift was proposed?

Would he have supported it or would he have insisted that we had talks with the Russians with no pre-conditions?

Would he have voted to cut off supplies to the citizens of Berlin while the Airlift was in progress?

Would he have denied the effectiveness of the strategy once the Russians finally capitulated and then attribute the success to some exterior circumstance?

It seems we can easily surmise what his actions would have been just by looking at how he responded to The Surge.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; messiah; obama; obamavisit; victorycolumn; wwii

1 posted on 07/24/2008 5:27:08 PM PDT by Wil H
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To: Wil H

I suspect he would have supported the airlift. Obama is no George McGovern. He sees himself as another Kennedy or Woodrow Wilson.


2 posted on 07/24/2008 5:31:55 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Wil H

No way!


3 posted on 07/24/2008 5:32:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Wil H

He would not have supported the airlift, just like he doesn’t support the surge. And if Senator Obama had been around then, Joe McCarthy would have talked about Communists in the Senate as well as the State Department.


4 posted on 07/24/2008 5:33:29 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: Wil H

He would have supported WW II . . . because our ally was the communist USSR. But not the airlift. Only if an international coalition would have sanctioned it.


5 posted on 07/24/2008 5:33:38 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: Wil H

Obama would oppose the airlift if President Bush supported it.


6 posted on 07/24/2008 5:33:43 PM PDT by caisson71 (Times change, values don't.)
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To: caisson71

Exactly.


7 posted on 07/24/2008 5:36:10 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Wil H

This is an irrelevant question because Obama would have negotiated with Hitler and there would have been peace in our time.


9 posted on 07/24/2008 5:39:21 PM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: meandog

Oh Yes!

I was wondering if someone would get that shot of him today; hillarious!


10 posted on 07/24/2008 5:45:04 PM PDT by Wil H
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To: Loyal Buckeye
This is an irrelevant question because Obama would have negotiated with Hitler and there would have been peace in our time.

Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Obama...

11 posted on 07/24/2008 5:46:46 PM PDT by Wil H
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To: Wil H

No. I’m expecting the same mushy foreign policy we got with Carter.

APf


12 posted on 07/24/2008 5:49:41 PM PDT by APFel (Regnum Nostrum Crescit)
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To: meandog
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13 posted on 07/24/2008 5:55:10 PM PDT by cruise_missile ('')
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To: Wil H
no because the democrats would have surrendered after the FIRST DAY of D-DAY when we lost more soldiers than during the entire Iraq war

actually he may have never even let d-day happen after losing several hundred soldiers rehearsing their roles for D-Day months before the invasion.

On April 28, 1944, in south Devon on the English coast, 638 U.S. soldiers and sailors were killed when German torpedo boats surprised one of these landing exercises, Exercise Tiger.

14 posted on 07/24/2008 6:00:31 PM PDT by edzo4
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On April 28, 1944, in south Devon on the English coast, 638 U.S. soldiers and sailors were killed when German torpedo boats surprised one of these landing exercises, Exercise Tiger.

Correct - Slapton Sands, I know them well.

15 posted on 07/24/2008 7:35:24 PM PDT by Wil H
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To: Wil H

I’m proud to see that the lead opinion article in the WSJ today (first four paras) echoes the exact same premise as this post, even if they did so a little more eloquently.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051155/posts


16 posted on 07/25/2008 10:01:36 AM PDT by Wil H
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