[mojito]

This is a week full of remembrance for many Americans.

For the 0 White House, not so much.

[tapatio]

With the commemoration going on,it seems the media is trying to erase President Reagan from this.

[flowerplough]

“apples of gold in pictures of silver”? Pictures? Pitchers? Paging Johnny Cochran... Paging Johnny Cochran.

[Fred Hayek]

Reagan fought the Cold War not only with an arms buildup, but on the battleground of ideals. Not only with his line “Tear down this wall”, but also with Jeanne Kirkpatrick simply reading off the names of known political prisoners in the Soviet Union before the General Assembly of the United Nations. And there were other such actions that encouraged those who sought freedom while behind the Iron Curtain.

[Former MSM Viewer]

General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate!

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Ronald Reagan

[Iron Munro]

Those of us who grew up during the cold war spent our years watching the free world fight the encroachment of communism and socialism, waiting for the expected nuclear attack, hiding from Russian missiles under plywood school desks during air raid drills, and believing the threat of nuclear holocaust would never end peaceably.

For our generation the significance of the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall cannot be exaggerated. They are events that we never expected to see. It was the lifting of a great burden from all of the world.

It brought about a new era and new opportunities for America. And there can be no question that the resolve and backbone of President Reagan is what brought it about.

It is all to sad that our politicians chose to fritter away his legacy with pettiness, greed, fostering resentment, jealousy and hate for personal gain and political advancement. And now, as the final insult, our own government is trying to force Americans into the same chains of communism/socialism that our country fought for generations and finally defeated under the leadership of President Reagan.

Every day Obama wakes up in the White House is an insult to President Reagan and every other great American who fought to create and protect this great Republic.

[Servant of the Cross]

Great story. Makes you detest the Dems even more when you revisit how the House Speaker at the time, Jim Wright (D-TX), reacted - Not Everybody Applauded Reagan's Berlin Speech:

Wright’s face hardened. Reagan’s declaration had destroyed any chance of the wall coming down, since Gorbachev could not appear to bow to him. Wright fumed, “It just makes me have utter contempt for Reagan. He spoiled the chance for a dramatic breakthrough in relations between our two countries. It bespeaks his pettiness and self-centeredness. He just couldn’t bear Gorbachev doing it of his own volition.”

[farmguy]

I was in a Berlin Museum this last summer. There was an entire area with literally hundreds of photos dedicated to the fall of the wall and end of soviet dominance. I didn’t see a single reference to Ronald Reagan. Unless I missed it, all I saw was Thatcher, Ford, and Carter. Ticked me off beyond all belief.

[RetSignman]

[Peter Robinson was the man who wrote the speech.]

Yes, we all know that only Republicans use speech writers. /s