Fall Of The Wall? U.S. Sends Regrets

Investors Business Daily ^ | November 4, 2009 | IBD editorial staff

[raptor22]

Cold War: The White House has announced our absence at ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Meanwhile, Russia has been practicing a nuclear invasion of an abandoned Poland.

The Berlin Wall has been a famous backdrop for American presidents sounding the battle cry of liberty in the struggle against tyranny. It was there that John F. Kennedy expressed our solidarity with the encircled residents of that outpost of freedom with his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner." And it was there that Ronald Reagan, with a defiant "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," voiced our determination not to merely contain or get along with Soviet Communism, but to defeat it.

On Nov. 9, 1989, the people of Berlin did just that, secure in the knowledge that an economically and militarily revived America had their back. But that was then and this is now.

Today, American leaders travel the world expressing their regrets for our alleged past transgressions, and American exceptionalism is no longer part of our vocabulary. We're just another one of the gang, sandwiched alphabetically between Uganda and Upper Volta, whose votes cancel ours in an international community to which we pledge our fealty.

[oyez]

For a tall man, DeGaulle was really small in character.

[oyez]

Hope and change will not be sacrificed because of freedom and liberty is in the way of the progress of the people...

[kara2008]

“Obama is a disgusting human.”

Calling him human is making an assumption.

LOL. How about "BHO is a disgusting, shameful marxist PIG?"

[hinckley buzzard]

Great idea. If Obama is too good to commemorate a historic victory for freedom, then the GOP should send Palin! Not only will it embarrass the turd world socialist in chief, it will destroy the euros and their idiot impressions of Sarah.

[Rapscallion]

Gee, Obama's friends are enemies of America and Obama's enemies are old friends of America. We are seeing strange days as he takes America into the realm of Socialist countries and worse.

When do the re-education camps open, comrad?

[Hamilcar_Barca]

JFK: “Ich bin ein Berliner”

Obama: “Ich bin ein Loser”

[LearsFool]

What a disgrace this man is. What an utter disgrace to all who have suffered and died for freedom.

[Prole]

Obama is skipping the event because he is a communist sympathizer.

I cannot believe we have such a dangerous and irresponsible narcissist running our Republic.

[a fool in paradise]

He’s turned his back on Honduras, Poland, and the Czech Republic in favor of Socialist and Communist despotism.

He’s selling out our Allies. He and his champions claim that he’s put America in a positive light “again”. Selling out our Allies and siding with dictators is NOT a positive trait.

[a fool in paradise]

No one put up obstacles to GHW Bush travelling there on his own.

[Gritty]

Why would a Communist celebrate the tearing down of the Communist Wall?

Besides, he probably has better things to do - like watching more fawning reruns of his election and erecting a new Communist Wall of Tyranny in America!