Obama Draws Criticism for Sitting Out Berlin Wall Anniversary
Fox News, Oct. 9, 2009
President Obama squeezed in a trip to Copenhagen last month to lobby, unsuccessfully, for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. He plans to travel to Oslo next month to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, an award that even Obama has said he does not deserve. And this coming week, he sets out on a weeklong tour of Asia.
But the president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated criticism from those who say he's ignoring a shining triumph of American-inspired democracy. (link)
Comment: His absence speaks volumes. It is an outrage that he skipped this celebration. We know a JFK or Ronald Reagan would have been there and I cannot even imagine Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton skipping this celebration of the event that ended the cold war. My dislike of Barack Obama just went up several notches.
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Yep. This is one place he should surely go. I'm curious what the rationale is for his absence?
ReplyDeletePost hoc ergo proctor hoc.
ReplyDeleteThe destruction of the Berlin Wall didn’t cause the Cold War to end.
It was a symptom of it.
This is like the whole flag lapel pin issue, a minor distraction that the right wing will gin up into a major issue by using Fox News and the conservative echo chamber.
This is typical. According to Gates, because of a trip to Asia on Wednesday, he can't be in Berlin today. Doesn't make much sense to me. If Germany had votes towards Obamacare, you can bet he'd be there.
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