Posted on 11/10/2009 8:44:48 AM PST by vimto
There was one world leader absent for today’s commemorations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Surprisingly enough, it’s President Barack Obama, who found time last year to give a campaign speech there last year, which Der Spiegel summed up as “People of the World, Look at Me”.
The White House has cited a packed schedule, though looking at it he had nothing much on yesterday (brief chat to reporters about healthcare – by far his biggest priority) and just blah briefings and a bill signing today until a metting this evening with Benjamin Netanyahu. This time, Der Spiegel has reported it as “Barack Too Busy”.
But Obama is, of course, making time to trot over to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in December. Didn’t seem to have too much of a problem clearing the diary for that – though his acceptance of the prize and decision to give a another soaring, historical, epoch-marking etc etc speech there will be looked back on as a colossal political mistake and sign of hubris.
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What do you say to a graduate in philosphy when he knocks on your door?
“thanks for the pizza, keep the change.”
note to self -DOOR!
He actually should have been at Fort Hood by Friday. Then it wouldn’t have been a problem for him to attend yesterday’s ceremony in Germany. I don’t think he had it on his schedule even before the massacre happened. He planned to send hillary.
Being from the UK, can you provide some insights into that? I recognize that would be opion based and anecdotal, but I'm very interested.
I agree, the Torygraph seems to be getting it’s spine back.
Pip,pip!
kind regards,
DOOD!
I mean - DUDE!
He should have been in Texas Thursday night. No one would have faulted him for missing the memorial if he had stopped everything to comfort the families and the wounded instead of giving a half-assed mention of the murders during an Indian suck-up session.
Obama is in China - not because he wouldn’t like to celebrate old victories - but because he has to react on todays monetary defeat.
Likely he’s got to explain how exactly he’s planning to make generations of US citizens to work their debt off.
“He should have been in Texas Thursday night. No one would have faulted him for missing the memorial if he had stopped everything to comfort the families and the wounded instead of giving a half-assed mention of the murders during an Indian suck-up session.”
I am an Indian, and I agree with YOU 100%!
More than anything else Obama’s dream of universal healthcare resonates with the man on the street. Nearly everyone I know is fiercely proud of the NHS and the same goes for other EU countries who crow that their system is better than ours etc.
This is the nub that makes us civilized and America just rich.
There is more to it than that but I think this is the defining issue.
Of course not everyone thinks like that (I for one). The best guy in the UK is David Hannan (the hope of the true right wing) who might yet be able to touch the minds and hearts of the common man if history gives him a chance. He is a plain man with no-nonsense words and ripped Brown to bits in the European Parliament. He is the new Thatcher. But as yet he needs a platform. try this and be amazed (if you haven't seen him before) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs
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