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 Post subject: Berlin Wall? What Berlin Wall?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:14 pm 
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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Yz ... IwYjdmMmQ=
Why Obama Won’t Go to Berlin
Obama’s failure to go to Berlin is the most telling nonevent of his presidency.

By Rich Lowry

In his first year in office, Barack Obama has visited more foreign countries than any other president. He’s touched ground in 16 countries, easily outpacing Bill Clinton (three) and George W. Bush (eleven). It’s an itinerary befitting a “citizen of the world.”

But there’s one stop Obama won’t make. He has begged off going to Berlin next week to attend ceremonies commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. His schedule is reportedly too crowded. John F. Kennedy famously told Berliners, “Ich bin ein Berliner.” On the 20th anniversary of the last century’s most stirring triumph of freedom, Obama is telling them, “Ich bin beschäftigt” — i.e., I’m busy.
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An American president will skip events marking the end of a struggle to which we, as a nation — under presidents of both parties — devoted blood and treasure for 50 years. For Barack Obama, 1989 is just another far-away year — and the Democratic party of such men as Harry S. Truman and JFK has never seemed more distant.

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 Post subject: Re: Berlin Wall? What Berlin Wall?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:25 pm 
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one word why this barry sotero won't go...

FREEDOM

You really think this clown is going to any country where they're celebrating the demise of one of the greatest symbols of communism in history? A symbol that took REAL leaders of REAL people to bring on it's demise....maybe people will begin to understand why his field campaign offices were decorated with Che Guevara posters on the walls...

And besides,... he won't have top billing...Rush was right on the money when he said last week that obama is nothing more than a "little man-child" who needs to be the center of attention...

There is one good thing though....he won't have another world stage from which he can bash my country again...

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 Post subject: Re: Berlin Wall? What Berlin Wall?
PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:00 pm 
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happy jack wrote:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzIzYWM4MWRmNTE1NzQ4MGY5ODE0MGRjMmIwYjdmMmQ=
Why Obama Won’t Go to Berlin
Obama’s failure to go to Berlin is the most telling nonevent of his presidency.

By Rich Lowry

His schedule is reportedly too crowded.




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Skewed Priorities
Investors Business Daily, by Editorial


Leadership: What are we to make of a White House visitors list that includes 22 swiftly scheduled appointments with a union boss at a time when Gen. Stanley McChrystal can't get face time with the commander in chief?

Late Friday during the idle hours of the news cycle, the administration released the names of 100 White House visitors in 481 visits. It wasn't exactly the transparency the president promised. It was simply in compliance with two court rulings that ordered the names to be made public record. Unable to admit misconduct, the White House insisted its disclosure was voluntary.

It didn't intend to make this easy. Instead of just releasing all the logs, the White House released only a partial list. It asked the media and public to play a guessing game of "name that visitor." If an inquiry was made and the White House had a record, it would be confirmed.

Only about a quarter of all names have been disclosed, showing a lucky 42 meeting President Obama personally. But even the incomplete information says a lot about the White House's priorities — and they aren't good.


http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysi ... ?id=511113


QUOTE- Court Ordered "Transparency": Activists, left-wing foundations, the feminist lobby, union bosses and noted anti-capitalists get constant face time with Obama while General McChrystal got 20 minutes on the edge of an Air Force One chair.

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