Lech Walesa snubs Obama, fellow Nobel winner

AFP/Breitbart ^ | 5/27/11

[markomalley]

Lech Walesa, Poland's Solidarity-era legend, ex-president and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner said Friday he would not accept an invitation to meet with fellow Nobel winner US President Barack Obama.

"It's difficult to tell journalists what you'd like to say to the president of a superpower. This time I won't tell him, I won't meet him, it doesn't suit me," Walesa told Poland's public broadcaster TVP.

Obama is due to arrive in Poland later Friday after the G8 summit in France.

Walesa was originally scheduled to meet Obama Saturday along with other key figures in Poland's post-1989 transition from communism to democracy.

[1010RD]

Excellent.

[roaddog727]

Exactly

[1010RD]

Absolutely true. Solidarity united Americans across a broad spectrum and sadly too many American’s of Polish descent are now Democrats.

That they cannot tell communism from Americanism is a true tragedy.

A smart GOPer would be on the next flight for a meeting with Lech or inviting him here for high level talks right in Chicago. That would pay off handsomely.

[C210N]

This makes lots of sense. Why the heck would Walesa want to relive his distant past? It would be like stabbing himself in the eye.

[1010RD]

We are a Republic. A Democracy is exactly what Obama and Co. want because it leads to a dictatorship quickly.

[taildragger]

Last of the Lions that helped bring down the Soviet Union. So many have past, The Pope, R. Reagan, and now Lady Thatcher has Alzheimer's.One may ask, did he speak for himself ( by not saying anything at all ) or is he also speaking metaphorically for the Lions that have gone West as well...

[originalbuckeye]

Netanyahu, Walesa......is there anyone in this country as strong and responsible as these two men? We need to find him/her NOW!

[FatherofFive]

Lech Walesa is one of the greats. One of the reasons for that is that he does not compromise his values.

Lech, Reagan, JPII, and Lady Thatcher. They brought down the Soviet Union.

[nuconvert]

Somehow, I really doubt that.

[240B]

Nobel Peace Prize “winner”. How do you ‘win’?

Is it like the Olympics or Gin Rummy or what?

[Candor7]

Walesa knows a liberal fascist, nationalist socialist when he sees one. He still bears personal wounds from their ilk.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Lech Walesa was a type of union man we no longer have in this country. One that fights communism...

[FrankR]

[Buckeye McFrog]

you just know this is going to end up with another translator telling the Poles that our President lusts for them...

[dennisw]

Lech Walesa!!! I’m so happy he snubbed Obama. To meet with Obama gives him a stamp of approval

[Honorary Serb]

Lech Walesa deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. Barack Hussein “Less Than Dirt” obama did not!!!!

“Less than dirt”: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2725597/posts?page=3#3

To be fair, the Nobel Peace Prize has had abysmally low standards of late: the muslim mass-murderer Yasser Arafat, the vile “human-rightser” Serbophobe Martti Ahtisaari, etc. obama much more fits THAT mold than does Walesa.

I hope that the Norwegian Nobel Committee can refocus itself, and make the Nobel Peace Prize worth what it’s supposed to be again!!!!

[technically right]

Barakski Obamaneski

[Mich Patriot]

"Nobel Peace Prize “winner”. How do you ‘win’? Is it like the Olympics or Gin Rummy or what?"

Exactly. I still think this sign was priceless...

[bert]

Poland...... can’t wait to see the Wookie doing the Polka

[LachlanMinnesota]

I wonder what body language experts would say about your picture of O’bama and the Mooch ‘olding a Guiness with pursed and frowning lips...