Of Course. Obama Will Skip 20 Year Anniversary Celebrations of Fall of Communism
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 5:59 AM
Barack Obama will skip the 20 Year celebration of the Fall of Communism that will be held in Berlin on November 9. Rick Moran at American Thinker has more on this news from Contentions:
President Obama has reportedly informed the German government that he will not travel to Berlin on November 9 to participate in the 20th-anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is an unfortunate decision on multiple counts.
First, it is another slight to another European ally — one that is going all-out to celebrate the event. The invitation to Obama was extended personally by Chancellor Angela Merkel last June.
Second, it is a failure to correct the historical misstatement of his citizen-of-the-world address last year in Berlin, when he credited the fall of the wall to the “world standing as one” and failed even to mention the names of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
Third, it is an embarrassment for the United States not to be represented at the highest level for the commemoration of an event of this magnitude. As Matt Welch writes in the November issue of Reason magazine, November 1989 was “the most liberating month of arguably the most liberating year in human history” — the end of the Soviet Union and communism in Europe and a 50-year Cold War that was a worldwide ideological battle. It was battle led by America.
Fourth, it is an opportunity for Obama to give a speech in which he does not apologize for his country but celebrates the triumph of freedom that has been the driving force of American history from its beginning through his own election.
Barack Obama is not interested. But he is planning on flying to Europe to pick up his prestigious Nobel Peace Prize.
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Graham commented:
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IOpian commented:
It’s a sad day for him. Wouldn’t be a good idea to have to praise the collapse of a system that he is trying to establish here.
Milatant Conservative commented:
This is just par for the course for Barry. Remember he wants to FUNDAMENTALLY change America. He is doing this by destroying the values and morales that made us the best in the world. This is all due to his HATE for America. I am not suprised.
Sophia commented:
Hillary, our SOS will be attending the event even though the POTUS will not attend.
Callipygian1 commented:
I think this is a huge mistake, globally and domestically. Internationally, it sends (rather reiterates) the message that the United States no longer holds the values of freedom and democracy with as firm a grasp… Domestically, it symbolically drives yet another nail into the newest home of communism.
For anyone keeping track, we are rapidly running out of allies we have not shunned
Louis commented:
Personally I am glad Obama is Not going. I could just see him Now. Apologizing to Germany, for tearing Down The Wall in the first place.
MochaLite commented:
Is it 2012 yet?? Can we elect a President who loves his/her country next time – please?
Lars commented:
Don’t take offense by his judgement, he does not represent America, his loyalty is to the Radicalism of Termite Methodology. Destroy what was built by Goodness from within and avoid detection by working in darkness with Soros. What a grandiose theory on paper!
Scrapiron commented:
“Personally I am glad Obama is Not going. I could just see him Now. Apologizing to Germany, for tearing Down The Wall in the first place.”
But he gives away billions of dollars (our money, not his) every where he goes. He would offer to rebuid the wall and send his jackboots to help communism enslave the people, again. Hate was a word I never used and never allowed my children to use. Now I hate democrats, all democrats. That includes not stopping for a car crash if I see a demorat (Boucher, Webb, Warner, O’Dumbo) sticker on the vehicle and I have a complete EMT/EMS kit in my truck at all times.
KR commented:
I have been enjoying reading The 5000 Year Leap this week. It makes everything BO is doing stand out all the more as the opposite of what the Founding Fathers intended for the American government.
He really is the ANTI-American president!
Magnum commented:
Why fly to Germany and celebrate the fall of Communism when you can stay at home and celebrate its rebirth within America?
Gregory of Yardale commented:
And why should he celebrate? After all, his side lost.
bg commented:
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he also stomped on Patriots’ Day by renaming it National Day of Service.. neglected National Day of Prayer & celebrated Islam Ramadan..
sarc on/
how “intelligent” does one have to be
before they can connect the dots??
/sarc off
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bg commented:
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KR @ 9:03 am
worse, he’s a pro-IslaMarxist President..
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Right Wing Extreme commented:
Of course he won’t be there to celebrate. He will be in his hammer and sickle shrine mourning.
Uriel commented:
shoot…try again
he wants to put a similar type of government in America so it would be impossible for him to celebrate communism’s fall…but apparently with whats happening today, communism didnt fall and die, it fell and morphed and came to America with swords in hand.
Off Topic:
It seems our friends in Nevada need some support in the coming years…
“”Reid plan: ‘Vaporize’ 2010 GOP opponent”"
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is prepared to run a sharply negative campaign if that’s what it takes to win reelection next year, with a top adviser predicting that the Nevada Democrat will “vaporize” his Republican challengers with attack ads.
Trailing in the polls and under constant attack from the GOP, Reid’s campaign has just launched a warm-and-fuzzy million-dollar ad campaign to reintroduce the veteran senator to his constituents. But Reid’s team also wants to be the one that introduces lesser-known opponents to the electorate — and will be ready, when the time comes, to unleash a torrent of ads branding challengers as untested and unprepared for the job.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20091020/pl_politico/28490
Turn the tables on Reid…he needs to go…retire already…and let the nation heal with a new representative for Nevada.
YeahRight commented:
What do expect? And why so ‘shocked’?
If this usurper has proven anything it is that once he leaves the borders of the USA he becomes an apologist. Him and his scum minions realized that the messiah would not be able to do that this time in Berlin!
So please everyone get over being shocked by what this ‘thing’ does and put your energies into the 2010 and 2012 elections. (There won’t be enough koolaid around for his obotron’s once we take our country back!!!)
Steve B commented:
He’ll fly to Europe to stump for the Olympics, you KNOW he’d fly to Europe to accept the Nobel, but he won’t fly to commemorate D-Day or the fall of the Berlin wall. Hmm.
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