Berlin wall's fall? Pick one.
Because he hates america.
Because he's an empty suit.
Because it interferred with 'Date Night'.
Because it wasn't about him.
Because it was a Conservative success.
Because he's afraid of Putin.
Because they wouldn't let him campaign.
Because he views it as a low point in world history.
Because it's a symbol of communism's failure.
Because he's an the worst president ever. |
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and you all hated him for it. Besides, the German Chancellor is going to be here.
"WASHINGTON — German Chancellor Angela Merkel was due in Washington late Monday for a visit anchored on talks with President Barack Obama and a speech to the US Congress two decades after the Berlin Wall fell.
Merkel, making her first US trip since winning a second term in September, was to speak on the future of transatlantic ties and the demise of European communism days before Berlin marks the anniversary with November 9 festivities.
The chancellor was to meet with Obama early Tuesday before heading to the US Capitol to deliver her speech.
In her weekly podcast, Merkel called the invitation a "great honor" and said she would use the occasion to thank the United States for backing German unification in 1990 -- 11 months after the Wall's fall -- with "great enthusiasm and fondness."
Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany, will be only the second German chancellor to address the US legislature, after Konrad Adenauer spoke to separate sessions of each chamber in 1957."
If you've been to Berlin, you would know that the US really had very little to do with the fall of the wall.
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Could not add to the list. |
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"He was there last summer
and you all hated him for it."
Yeah and he wasn't POTUS then either, (not that he's acting like it now.)
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didn't bring down the Berlin wall is an idiot or a propaganda disseminating liar. Any history book about America will prove this(except for the fake ones they use in high school now). |
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you'd say he should be at home. If he doesn't go, you say he is anti-this, anti-that.
Yes, he was there last summer and they adored him. You don't want him to go again. They will adore him still.
And no, Reagan's speech in 1980 had really very little to do with the wall's fall in 1989. I suggest you go to Berlin and listen to Berliners explain what happened, how other countries (particularly Hungary) made decisions that impacted on the wall and its demise.
But keep thinking that the US controls anything.
You are so envious of Obama. Very funny. |
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You left out one very important reason why OBumbles won't be present to celebrate the falling of the Berlin Wall.......
He's too busy waging war against.........Fox News.
You didn't really think I was going to say Iraq or Afghanistan, did you?
Those are OBVIOUSLY not important to him..... |
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Actually, The Anointed One demanded that he be given the right to speak at the Brandenberg Tor. But Merkel politely told Axelrod that Obama had to earn the right to speak there. Finally, after a few days of negociating, Merkel allowed him to speak at the Siegersaule (Victory Monument -you know that monument to Prussian Imperialism). Obama readily accepted.
Obama's desire to give several speeches in Germany this past winter and spring caused Merkel to politely remind Obama that there was a ression going on, and would he please attend to it? Merkel is no fan of the Anointed One.
BTW, I lived in Germany for many years and was there when the Wall went down. And most of the Ost Deustche credit Ronald Reagan for bringing it about. Merkel's family is from Pommerania, and she knows full well the damage the Soviets did to her ancient homeland. Being SPD doesn't mean she is in lockstep with Obama. As a matter of fact, it is quite the opposite. |
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"he was there last summer and they adored him."
The one, inserted himself as the opening act of a U2 concert. He could have got on stage and farted and 100,000 drunk Germans still would have cheered.
Come to think of it, a fart would be more articulate than anything odumbo says off telepromter. |
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Obama shares the view that the collapse of Soviet Union, and its slave empire, was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.
That's what you get for electing a never-grew-up college sophomore as "president", who conducts foreign policy based on a wallfull of posters of "Chairman" Mao, "Che", and the infamous cow-in-the-field "thinking" 'No Nukes' |
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We disliked his proclaimation that he was a Citizen of the World (Hence, my nickname COWboy President). And I dislike every single time he apolgizes for who we are.
Yep. Way to show your support for the now free Germanscitizens of the world, and FYI- we had a little roll in that...and he doesn't give a rat's as*.
Any questions? |
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and so jealous.
I was in Berlin this past spring. Everyone (EVERYONE) I met, from the reception desk clerk at the hotel, to any restaurant, to the museums, etc, who found out that I was an American, to a person hugged me and thanked the voters for electing President Obama. The hatred they had for Bush was compelling. |
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credits Gorbechov (sp?) for the end of the wall.
And in 1989, people criticized Bush I for not going to the wall when it was finally down.
Nothing changes. Those out of power like to criticize. |
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". . . They will adore him still."
You don't read many European newspapers do you?
I've not seen a positive article on him in any European newspaper in weeks. (Even the far-left Guardian has a piece that was at best 'so-so."
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typical American nonsense to think otherwise. What has he apologized for, exactly? Specifically? We've supported the Germans for many years. The leaders who are there celebrating are Gorbechov, Bush I and Kohl.
(role, dopey, not roll).
And guess what? Germany is socialist, you know that! |
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Remember them words..."Those out of power like to criticize."
wink wink
P.S. The "It's a Small World" ride at Disney Land does NOT count as "Being in Berlin." |
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As usual Sewage mouth aka Kaboom gives us a laugh. Do you remember when she was posting under the name kaboom and claimed that she was hugged all over Europe when people saw her Obama button. Now we all know the first thing we pack is our campaign buttons. It did give most here a chuckle though. She does not have a clue how Obama's support has started to dwindle in Europe. Most are no longer enamored by him as they once were and many find his spending habits dangerous. But remember she starts the day with a nice big gallon of kool-aid. |
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you don't know any foreign languages, do you? |
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"you don't know any foreign languages, do you?"
And you don't know how to field strip an AR-15 or lay down suppressing fire.
Which one is going to come in more handy when YOUR bubble bursts?
(Actually I can speak a little Spanish, and from my 2 years living in Japan, I can understand a little Japanese, but I find reading Katakana quite difficult. I am however fluent in Canadian...eh!) |
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as Moderate Guy points out. Sackcloth and ashes, self-flagellation with the metal whip, "O why, Lord Lenin, didst thou abandon us? We are not worthy!" |
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Sorry but, you are naive. I have lived there, traveled there for nearly 25 years. I have never met anyone that hated Bush, but they sure did love the womanizer BillyJeff.
My German secretary hated Bush because of the propagandized news she watched. When I told her what Bush had accomplished in Iraq, she was dumbstruck, "Saddam lived like a king while he impoverished and killed his own people?" She hadn't know that because all the news there said things akin to Bush was an evil basturd.
I think it is you who lives in the bubble. Google Obama Apology tour and you will see all you need to know.
Germany is indeed socialist, and free. The former East Germans are now free from Communism and are living free in a socialist country. And I can read and speak four languages.
Take off the RCG's, er, nah, don't. You refuse to see what it right in front of you. |
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"you are in a bubble
you don't know any foreign languages, do you?"
Actually, I can speak Spanish fairy well and read it damn well. I can also blunder my way through newspapers in French and Italian.
But, were you a "world traveler' as you claim -- or even used the internet for anything except to be a Mark One - Mod Zero nutcase, you'd know that virtually every foreign newspaper in the world has an English edition.
There are countries that publish an English edition locally and these are FUN! They often throw a few words of their own language right into a sentence written in English. This can be found in Sri Lanka, Philippines and African countries.
It is also sometime possible to get the gist of an article with nothing more than an English-Whatever dictionary if one is really hard up for news -- as sailors and other travelers used to be before satellite communications. (Sailors used to do this quite a bit when a message was received in a foreign language, usually in French, with no French speaking person onboard.
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I love it when you speak military...heh. Field strip. If only *they* could get a taste of that... |
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"Do you remember when she was posting under the name kaboom and claimed that she was hugged all over Europe when people saw her Obama button."
I sorta remember. It is difficult to keep up with who is who on the liberal side 'cause they change their names like they change their socks. Well, no, most liberals don't often change their socks. The peace creep types had dirty ankles and smelled like a keg of ape butts back in the days they were trying their best to screw up the entire country. |
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"You don't read many European newspapers do you?"
Are you saying that newspapers are now an accurate representation of what people think? Are you saying that Americans should concern themselves with what Europeans think? Hmmm, those would be fairly large reversals of what the right has been telling us since 9/11/01.
Scept had it exactly right: when Obama spoke in Germany, the right attacked him. When Obama doesn't speak in Germany, the right attacks him. Very soon, Obama will issue the presidential proclamation making 11/26/09 Thanksgiving Day. BandesHenglerJessupLiebau will attack him for that, too. |
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The Wall: ain’t nothing to celebrate, folks, move along
posted at http://kissmybackend.com/2009/11/11/the-wall-aint-nothing- to-celebrate-folks-move-along/ and
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/11/berlin-wall-fell-ob ama-stays-away
The vast majority of my liberal friends discovered their inner hawk only after the peace dividend started to ooze out of the corpse of the Cold War. In 1989 the enemy was still us and the backpacks with Canadian flags were still de rigueur for the wanderlusting college students getting away from their square parents on their parents’ dime. And the Wall was a way of protecting the tender greenhouse of Deutsche Sozialismus from the vile corrupting touch of the West.
Obama, then a hip 28-year old, does not strike me as someone who spent the day the Wall died in raucous celebration. I am sure that he saw the choice between plutocrats in Bonn and the torturecrats in Stasi as a false one, whereas the golden mean lay somewhere in the Green Party.
I write as someone who celebrated the news of Brezhnev’s death in 1982 by executing a hundred yard dash that culminated in a nice vertical-leap high five with a reactionary buddy. Which may well be the kind of reaction seen on the streets of Berlin that day or in Baghdad when the statues were getting pulled down and before the head cases started to explode in crowded marketplaces.
So, I can’t claim to be surprised by Obama’s benign neglect of a minor anniversary in the backwater of the world when the real action is pandering to the Arab Street. I just wish all the people who didn’t want the Wall to come down in 1989 would own up to it and stop trying to sneak into the victory parade.
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