Posted on 07/08/2009 1:15:27 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
No Winner
The president is in Russia and he sat down for an interview with our own Major Garrett. You won't believe his answer to Major's very first question:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MAJOR GARRETT, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: In your speech this morning you said the Cold War reached its conclusion because of the actions of many nations over many years.
Mr. President, are the Russian sensitivities so fragile that you can't say the Cold War was won? The West won it and it was led by a combination of Democratic and Republican American presidents?
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: There were a whole bunch of people throughout Eastern Europe who showed enormous courage and I think that it is very important in this part of the world to acknowledge the degree to which people struggled for their own freedom.
We don't have to diminish other people in order to recognize our role in that history.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
Now that's interesting because Lech Walesa, the leader of the Polish Solidarity Movement, said this about the end of the Cold War: "We in Poland took him [Ronald Reagan], so personally. Why? Because we owe him our liberty. This can't be said often enough by people who lived under oppression for half a century."
Mr. President, if I were you, you may want to consider hitting the history books before your next foreign trip.
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The Kenyan Pretender does not read history. He reads Alinsky and he listens to Wright
Soetoro knows the history, as he is doing his best to re-write it.
If the West hadn’t stood firm brave people like Lech Walesa would have ended up on the floor of the Lubyanka Prison (or the Polish equivalent) in a pool of his own blood. Obama doesn’t seem to get that.
Obama continues to marginalize America
Many believe that continuing to marginalize America and Americans certainly does not look good, nor does it feel good to Americans who see this action from the Obama administration all too often.
With Obama in I'm not so sure I could say we won the Cold War...
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