On a November evening back in 1989, it was impossible to take one’s eyes from the television screen. There it was, the seemingly impossible – the Berlin Wall falling as East Germans, intoxicated by the promise of freedom, scaled its once-forbidding face. Americans heard the singing, saw strangers singing, crying and embracing, and realized they were witnessing history. The end of the Cold War was at hand, and the United States – and the forces of freedom – were victorious.

The fall of the Berlin Wall was part of a chain reaction, as repressive Soviet-satellite dictatorships in Hungary, East Germany, Romania, Czechoslavakia and Poland fell. Even a year or two earlier, no one would have foreseen the rapidity and thoroughness of the Iron Curtain’s disintegration. It marked a glorious moment in the history of the world, when liberty replaced tyranny, and dictators yielded to democracy.

Next week, Germany will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall – recalling the peaceful events that sparked a new birth of freedom for a country that had been split in half, dividing family, friends and even the world since 1961. The commemorations will go forward, however, without America’s president.

Remarkably, President Obama, who could find time to fly to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago’s Olympic bid, declined the invitation from German chancellor Angela Merkel to attend the festivities. That’s notwithstanding the central role that America played in the ultimate destruction of the Iron Curtain – and the bipartisan nature of its efforts, from the Berlin airlift to President Reagan’s famous exhortation to his Soviet counterpart to “tear down this wall!”
Carol Platt Liebau : Why Won't Obama Celebrate Freedom's Victory? - Townhall.com (http://townhall.com/columnists/CarolPlattLiebau/2009/11/02/why_wont_obama_celebrate_freedoms_victory?page=full)

Why should Obama be ashamed of America's accomplishment in this instance?

P.S. :sarcasm:

I'm a bit slow this morning.

Remarkably, President Obama, who could find time to fly to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago’s Olympic bid, declined the invitation from German chancellor Angela Merkel to attend the festivities.


He's waiting for the Arab Nation to invite him back so he can kiss their azz again.

The sooner more people realize that obama is not in this for the United States, but instead in this to see how much he can get out of the United States for his friends, and certain other countries, The sooner people will stop questioning what he is doing.

Its almost like the U.S is in forclosure and obammy is parting us out to the rest of the world.
Hmmmm, could our paying taxes to support his pet countries be considered a new form of slavery? Payback maybe?

Remarkably, President Obama, who could find time to fly to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago’s Olympic bid, declined the invitation from German chancellor Angela Merkel to attend the festivities.

Perhaps because the Olympic bid was important to him personally. He had nothing to do with the fall of wall so why woulld he think it's a big deal & worthy of his attention (subscribing to the "malignant narcissism" theory).

Or, to play Devil's advocate, perhaps he has begun to listen to the criticisms of his constant travel on trips and "face time" on the news for every little thing that comes down the pike.

The sooner more people realize that obama is not in this for the United States, but instead in this to see how much he can get out of the United States for his friends, and certain other countries, The sooner people will stop questioning what he is doing.

Its almost like the U.S is in forclosure and obammy is parting us out to the rest of the world.
Hmmmm, could our paying taxes to support his pet countries be considered a new form of slavery? Payback maybe?

:yeahthat:

I just hope that by the time the Obamaites discover what is going on we have enough left to save.

Because it's a Reagan accomplishment, not a Carter. He'll probably wear a black arm band though and hug a picture of Mao!