Obama Cancels Plan to Attend 20th Anniversary of Berlin Wall Fall

I agree with A & M, anything that casts a negative light on Communism or authoritarian control, is not an event to celebrate.

The problem with this juvenile attitude is that you paint yourself into an ever smaller corner; i. e. courting the gay vote, but by doing so he is expected to recognize gay marriage; yet, to save face and preserve stature in the Muslim World, he must distance himself from the gay lifestyle and their demands. Perhaps his refusal to function as a war time president is rooted in these same conflicts.

Oh please, lets be real for a minute. You guys would criticize Obama no matter if he stayed home or went to Germany. You’re not fooling anybody. If he had decided to go, you would be whining about him not meeting with the generals in Afghanistan or bitching about his inattention to domestic issues or some other phony non-issue.

The one thing conservatives are very good at is complaining. You’re terrible at governing, but you’re definitely masters of faux outrage.

Why didn’t Obama take time to visit the USS New York? He has no clue what she represents!

Given the fact that the pretender is notoriously thin skinned, after all, he’s still bemoaning that his date night entered the political realm, FOXnews dares to question his policies, etc. Could it be that he still has a burr under his blanket over his lost chance to appear Reaganesque at the Brandenburg Gates during his Obamapalozza? Also, the Sarkozy/Merkel public opposition to his Iran policy? Might he be quietly employing the same tactics to Germany?

Michael Barone wrote this Obama, “then and now” column a couple of weeks ago that just may have something to do with the absence noted by the whole world. Barone might be facing a few slings and arrows from the Obama camp for writing this but, to make sure Obama doesn’t have to face anymore of it from the tip of Barone’s poison pen, he’s sending his gaff master Biden, which should render plenty of material.

,blockquote>O’s embarrassment Berlin rhetoric vs. DC reality

PRESIDENT Obama, who found time to go on a 24-hour jaunt to Copenhagen on Oct. 2 to seek the 2016 Olympic Games for Chicago, apparently can’t find the time for a 24-hour trip to Berlin on Nov. 9 for a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Well, we all have our priorities, and the president can’t be everywhere at once, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will surely represent America ably in Berlin.

Still, it seemed an odd decision to me — until I went back and got the speech that candidate Obama delivered on July 24, 2008, to a crowd of 200,000 in the Tiergarten in Berlin. As I reread the text, it struck me that there would be an embarrassing contrast between what Obama said in Berlin 15 months ago and many policies he has been pursuing as president.

Some conservatives were irritated that Obama introduced himself at the Tiergarten as “a fellow citizen of the world.” But before that, he declared himself “a proud citizen of the United States,” and of his 46 paragraphs only one was devoted to an apology for America’s misdeeds, “our share of mistakes,” “times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.” Quite a contrast here from the more profuse apologies he has made abroad this year.

Obama, in seven stirring paragraphs, also recounted America’s airlift of food and fuel to Berlin when the Soviets cut off land access in 1948. True, at one point he suggested that the Berlin Wall came down because “there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.” But he also spoke of “the bullet holes in the buildings and the somber stones and pillars near the Brandenburg Gate,” evidence of Soviet oppression.

These portions of the Tiergarten speech looking to the past could be repeated, with different phrasing, in a speech commemorating the fall of the Wall. But the portions of the Tiergarten speech looking to the future would pose some problems.

In the Tiergarten, Obama spoke of “the terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan” and of the need “to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda” there. That doesn’t mesh well with his recent reconsideration of the Afghanistan strategy he announced in March and reiterated in August or with the White House spin doctors’ suggestion that the Taliban and al Qaeda aren’t necessarily allies anymore.

In the Tiergarten, Obama asserted his “resolve to work with Russia when we can, to stand up for our values when we must and to seek a partnership that extends across this whole continent.” That doesn’t mesh very well with the “reset button” policy toward Russia that looks past its attacks on Georgia and Ukraine and propitiates the Putin regime with unilateral withdrawal of missile-defense installations from Poland and the Czech Republic.

In the Tiergarten, Obama said America must “stand with Europe in sending a direct message to Iran that it must abandon its nuclear ambitions.” But that message, if sent, has evidently not had the intended effect on the mullah regime, which is drawing out negotiations while presumably continuing its nuclear program apace.

“Will we stand for the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the blogger in Iran or the voter in Zimbabwe?” Obama asked in the Tiergarten. “Will we give meaning to the words ‘never again’ in Darfur?”

Well, the administration has toughened up a bit on its negotiator’s recommendation that we give “cookies and gold stars” to the Sudanese regime that has terrorized Darfur, and our diplomats have tried to help out in Zimbabwe. But we haven’t done much of anything for the dissident in Burma, and Obama, while truckling to the mullahs, showed stony indifference to the thousands protesting the stealing of the June 12 Iran elections.

Last year, Obama told Berliners that we and they are “heirs to a struggle for freedom.” This year, his administration has been busy trying to appease dictatorial and authoritarian regimes. So maybe he was wise to skip a return appearance in Berlin. Let Clinton gloss over the embarrassing contrast between his rhetoric then and his policies now.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/embarrassment_ysgnpIlJWYMuwW5PZzdjBI

No, I think Dirty Sanchez is right. Nice name by the way, typical of a liberal to spew haughty comments from their high horse, but carry a name that implies dirty meanings from the gutter. Anyway, by saying that we complain about everything, implicitly makes the counter point that liberals or D.S. does not. So I am looking forward to your positive stance once republicans take things back over.

However, I can only guess that by then you will have plenty of “valid” reasons to not support our government (we’re just too stupid to draw the lines?) So in short, you should troll elsewhere because your comments are asinine and border on outrageous. No wait, they are outrageous.

You would for one minute support Obama’s decision to /not/ attend the anniversary in Berlin? It was the U.S., under a president that knew how to lead, that pretty much ensured the destruction of that wall. To not attend its 20th anniversary is a slap in the face. But you don’t agree? Why? And don’t point to my political leanings to support YOUR faux outrage at us being upset about the fact our president is a self-serving panty-waste (modified quote of course). True or False: the president should attend the anniversary in Berlin. This isn’t a hard test like the ones at your community college.

I assume that Obama was perfectly happy when the Berlin Wall was still standing.

Obama the first and last Marxist president ever to be elected in this country, would not celebrate the fall of the East German communist regime for all the tea in China. If he did go, all he would do is apologize for the part the US played in this. It’s better he stays home and blames Bush for this problem too.

President Obama has proudly declared that since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany has enjoyed the fruits of freedom. Yet another ignorant statement based on complete lack of knowledge. WEST Germany was enjoying the fruit of freedom from 1945 right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall. EAST Germany on the other hand, not so much!

This juvenile tool in the hands of others (George Soros, Warren Buffet – to name but a few) is completely without the ability to form coherent thought without his teleprompter.

He embarrasses America every time he opens his mouth extemporaneously!

There is no way to celebrate the fall of the Berlin wall without paying due respect to Ronald Reagan and our armed forces that stood toe to toe with our enemies at the IGB for decades. Obama cannot bring himself to do that under any circumstances. He must find something else that is more important for him to be doing, like pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey.

Considering his woeful lack of support for the Democracy Movement in Iran maybe he realized that to go to this ceremony would set a new standard for hypocrisy. Actually, now that I think about it further, the less this President shows up at International events the better. All he seems to do is denigrate our nation and seek to appease Dictatorships and radicals.

Just as well ObiWon (PBOH) is not blathering in Berlin. The fall of the Wall is a day of mourning for him and his Weathermen bros, and he would only have apologised to the his fellow Stalinist Cits O Da Wold for our badnesses on them.

@Skookum:

It was a pleasure ripping off your idea. Now where’s my bumper sticker machine……