Posted on 10/20/2009 5:21:33 AM PDT by dmartin
It is pretty clear why the president is refusing to accept the personal invitation of the German chancellor and attend festivities marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It would smack of American triumphalism - our success in defeating perhaps the most odious of all the odious ideologies of the 20th century. Obama doesn't do "triumphalism." That would place America above other nations - something that he has explicitly condemned.
So he will be conspicuous by his absence. And another European ally has been embarrassed by this president.
A simple declaration of thanks that communism fell would do wonders for Obama’s imnage. We will not hear those words. He might say something that he’s glad millions of people are now choosing their own destiny. But we will not hear a particular condemantion of socialism from a Lenin wannabe.
Thanks JJ,
The list, ping
LOL! Consider it stolen, and thanx.
;0)
Feh. To ‘The One,’ Communism isn’t dead! He preaches it every d@mn day!
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