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Walesa Stands Up
IBD Editorials ^ | May 27, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 05/27/2011 6:14:34 PM PDT by Kaslin

Courage: Someone who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for actually doing something just snubbed someone who won it for nothing. But Lech Walesa's refusal to meet President Obama is also a cry to save Poland.

Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and heroic leader of the Solidarity trade union that helped liberate the entire Eastern European Soviet bloc from communist rule, has his moral courage indelibly engraved in the history books.

At 67, Walesa is a living legend with nothing left to have to prove.

But on Friday, Walesa once again answered the call to duty and announced he would not accept fellow Nobel Peace laureate President Obama's invitation to meet with him in Poland after the G-8 Summit in France.

The decision makes perfect sense, considering the obvious rationale behind Obama's Polish visit. Obama is meeting Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk not to help them defend their state against its obvious enemy: Russia under ex-KGB thug Vladimir Putin.

Nor is Obama holding his much-hyped conference with a dozen presidents of formerly communist states to find out how the U.S. can best help keep them from once again being bullied by Moscow.

No, Obama, the White House tells us, is meeting them for advice on how to turn the so-called Arab Spring into a Mideast version of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

That of course is the cover story

Close observers of this president for the two-plus years of his rule know he isn't interested in listening to the likes of Walesa, any more than he wants to hear the leaders of former Soviet satellite states explain how the low, flat tax rates they adopted in recent years led their nations to double-digit GDP growth.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: communism; lechwalesa; obamasnub; poland; walesa
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1 posted on 05/27/2011 6:14:35 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Where is our Lech ??


2 posted on 05/27/2011 6:17:12 PM PDT by onona (Yes, my state does suck ! No wait, the POLITICIANS and LIBERALS in my state suck)
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To: Kaslin

The parallel solution would be for Zer0 to make the Egyptians all become Copts.


3 posted on 05/27/2011 6:19:40 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Kaslin

At least week have people with REAL: GUTS.


4 posted on 05/27/2011 6:19:51 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Kaslin

Somebody had to say it.


5 posted on 05/27/2011 6:20:10 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Kaslin

That’s like getting slapped down by the pope to American unions that have long used Walesa’s image despite the obvious differences.


6 posted on 05/27/2011 6:22:41 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: onona

She’s standing right in front of you.


7 posted on 05/27/2011 6:26:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (How do you starve an Obama supporter? Hide his food stamps under his work boots.)
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“The message Poland’s leaders should deliver to our self-satisfied president is the one Walesa is delivering by his absence: Neither your Nobel nor bin Laden’s head, Mr. President, is a substitute for U.S. help in keeping a liberated Eastern Europe liberated.”


8 posted on 05/27/2011 6:26:40 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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9 posted on 05/27/2011 6:27:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (How do you starve an Obama supporter? Hide his food stamps under his work boots.)
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To: nuconvert

Unfortunately, you’ve got to follow the money. One headline in a Polish newspaper says it all “ Manna from Air Force One”.


10 posted on 05/27/2011 6:28:47 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Kaslin
Here's why:

Lech Wałęsa talks about missile shield

He has a long memory.

11 posted on 05/27/2011 6:28:55 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Kaslin

Give Lech Walesa credit, he refuses to have Poland thrown under the bus!


12 posted on 05/27/2011 6:29:22 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: onona

13 posted on 05/27/2011 6:29:54 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Kaslin

Lech Walesa simply did what Bibi Netanayahu did last week: Hand to President Obama his rear end once again.


14 posted on 05/27/2011 6:33:32 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Kaslin

Been posting while listening to the Warren Brothers song: “Hey Mr. President.”


15 posted on 05/27/2011 6:34:41 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Kaslin
Lech knows communists*. Lech hates communists.

* aka: Community Organizers

16 posted on 05/27/2011 6:38:14 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: Kaslin
NETANYAHU / WALESA 2012!!!

17 posted on 05/27/2011 6:38:20 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
Print it and they may just buy it.

I would.

18 posted on 05/27/2011 6:41:22 PM PDT by norton
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To: Servant of the Cross

Because he had to live under communism, and PBO is a communist in community organizer garbs.


19 posted on 05/27/2011 6:43:28 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

We can dream, can we? :)


20 posted on 05/27/2011 6:45:16 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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