Posted on 11/05/2009 9:48:15 AM PST by Starman417
Apparently, he only has time to go to Berlin when it's all about him!
Rich Lowry points out that:
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 (3) and George W. Bush(11). 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.Obama had time to fly all the way over to Copenhagen to plead for Chicago to get the Olympics but no time to attend an anniversary which marks the restoration of peace and freedom to a Europe that was divided and on a knife's edge in the years following World War II?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel personally invited Obama in June to this historic event and he had accepted. But now he tells the Germans that he's just too busy.
Yet somehow, Obama will find time to fly to Sweden in a few weeks time and accept a Nobel Peace Prize which he hasn't earned. Still, he'll be the center of attention at that event and he'd be just another world leader at the events in Berlin.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net
I heard that call. He is throwing a temper tantrum because he didn’t get his way before.
Obama cannot celebrate the Berlin wall falling because he knows that imprisonment remains essential to every Communist regime. Anyone who doubts that the BO Gov would hesitate to do the same here?
Great articles regarding 1989 Fall of the wall:
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/forum1106.html
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