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Obama's Walesa Moment - A Snub Heard Round the World
The American Spectator ^ | June 4, 2012 | Paul Kengor

Posted on 06/04/2012 4:48:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Last week, President Barack Obama rejected the world's most powerful living symbol of anti-communism, anti-Sovietism, and victory in the Cold War. The White House declined to have Lech Walesa stand in for the late Jan Karski, who posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Our president spurned Walesa, first president of free Poland, who had once risked everything to courageously join Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II in keeping Solidarity alive in Poland. Like Reagan and John Paul II, Walesa knew that Solidarity could be the wedge to split the Communist Bloc from top to bottom, as it indeed did, thereby making possible elections in Poland in June 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the execution of Ceausescu on Christmas Day 1989, the liberation of Eastern Europe en masse, and peaceful victory in the Cold War.

Obama's snubbing of Walesa follows several peculiar actions that upset the people of Poland. On September 17, 2009, he canceled plans for a joint missile defense system between the United States and Poland, one of our most dependable post-Cold War NATO allies. Obama did so for pro-Russian reasons. His action on that particular date was stunning: It was precisely 70 years to the day, September 17, 1939, when Russia invaded Poland, in compliance with the sinister Hitler-Stalin Pact. Poles certainly noticed the irony.

Obama's snubbing of Walesa also follows his recent private assurance to Dmitri Medvedev and Vladimir Putin...

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allies; communism; nationalsecurity; poland
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Our president spurned Walesa, first president of free Poland, who had once risked everything to courageously join Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II in keeping Solidarity alive in Poland.

Look on the bright side. Barky unintentionally spared Walesa the embarassment of having to spurn Barky to keep his own hands clean (like the Russians three years ago).

21 posted on 06/04/2012 6:03:20 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: MuttTheHoople
They [the NAACP Legal people] must’ve saw something that nobody else did in 2008.

That candidate eval sheet would be a fascinating piece of paper, if it made its way into the hands of Julian Assange, don't you think?

Of course, he has troubles of his own and doesn't need to wake up sleeping with the fishes in Lake Huron.

22 posted on 06/04/2012 6:07:13 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: BuffaloJack

Even more - we’d consider it an HONOR to have a bust of Winston Churchill once again remind us that Britain stands with us in the face of maniacal foes who seek to destroy the freedom we have.

In 2008 America was taken hostage to the lawless thuggery of a communist-Islamist alliance and ended up putting a foreign enemy combatant in our own White House - a maniacal foe who seeks to destroy the freedom we have, in keeping with his communist and Islamist puppet-masters who put him in power.

It was a mistake we will not repeat.

A lot of us have been praying for a Winston Churchill, Lech Walesa, or Ronald Reagan who could lead us out of the damage caused by Obama and all the corruption, crime, and lies that helped to put him in power.

What Obama snubbed is dearly precious to us and if Britain would be kind enough to give it back we would consider it a huge favor and be deeply honored to once again take our place with the leaders of the free world against the enemies of freedom.


23 posted on 06/04/2012 6:07:13 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: PLD

Nationalist Socialist Workers Party BUMP


24 posted on 06/04/2012 6:09:45 AM PDT by newfreep (Breitbart sent me...)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
Any one who doesn’t want this hunk of crap out of the White House ASAP is one un-patriotic a-hole

There are a LOT of unpatriotic a-holes out there right now who can't WAIT to put this moron back in the White House for a second term.

Rather than bringing the country together, Zero has split it apart - permanently.


25 posted on 06/04/2012 6:16:42 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Worst. President. Ever.)
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To: Joe Boucher

“You sure you wanna tell that joke in here?”
“Nope, I wouldn’t want to have to explain it 5 times.”


26 posted on 06/04/2012 6:19:06 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
Any one who doesn’t want this hunk of crap out of the White House ASAP is one un-patriotic a-hole

You are behind the times, Comrade. Patriotism is so passe. We are living in a one-world Utopia now, generously provided by our social engineering citizen-of-the-world expert leaders who suffer and sacrifice so much on our worthless behalf.

27 posted on 06/04/2012 6:28:57 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The Communist Bloc was a friend to the Democrat Party. Remember Ted Kennedy went to meet with them when Reagan was President. That meeting was about aligning the democrats to them.
Anyone who helped defeat the bloc is no friend to any democrat.

Democrats have no use for American Conservatives, our values or American traditions.

Zer0’s apology tour was to tell the world just that.

28 posted on 06/04/2012 6:37:09 AM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: PapaBear3625

Poland has been resisting Muslim immigration.
....................................... From what I experienced there, looks like they resisted more than Muslims. The only foreigners I saw were Vietnamese at the flea market and Chinese restaurants. I guess after being free then occupied and boundaries relocated a couple of times, they only wish to be all Polish? Lots of churches in Poland, and they are active.


29 posted on 06/04/2012 6:50:47 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO WE ELECT AS PRESIDENT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft
I guess after being free then occupied and boundaries relocated a couple of times, they only wish to be all Polish?

Gee, I guess we can't have that now, can we....an actual nation with one culture....the globalists won't stand for it.

30 posted on 06/04/2012 6:55:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Poland is also overwhelmingly Catholic—and we all know what Obama thinks of Catholics.


31 posted on 06/04/2012 6:58:54 AM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Do you think Barry hates Poland because of all the Poles in Chicago area? We know he hates the English because of his Kenya daddies views of the imperialist. Obama is a little man who holds long seeded resentments. He is the last person on earth who should be president.


32 posted on 06/04/2012 7:02:04 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Of course he spurned Walesa. Obooboo is a communist. Walesa fought to free Poland of communism.


33 posted on 06/04/2012 7:41:53 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: butterdezillion

What Obama snubbed is dearly precious to us and if Britain would be kind enough to give it back we would consider it a huge favor and be deeply honored to once again take our place with the leaders of the free world against the enemies of freedom.”””””

I would like the following ceremony:

Prince William and Kate come to official visit to Romney in the White House & they make the presentation of Churchill’s bust in a televised ceremony. Maybe Rush could be the Master of ceremonies???

I predict a very high audience for such an occasion and I predict we will hear strangling sounds from the Liberal media.


34 posted on 06/04/2012 7:44:52 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Fiji Hill

Gosh,
were I you,
I’d not say you have the same thought as me,
Folks will know you’ve lost it.


35 posted on 06/04/2012 7:45:43 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: BuffaloJack
And by the way, my British friends, we’d consider it a favor if you guys could return the bust of Winston Churchill when the Kenyan gets booted from office in November.

Not gonna happen. The Brits know we're always one election away from another bitter snub. They won't give us another chance.

36 posted on 06/04/2012 2:45:26 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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