Why Isn't Hussein Attending the Berlin Wall Anniversary?
Eddie Haskell
Oh, that's right. What was I thinking? It isn't about him. It doesn't give
him the opportunity to criticize the country overseas. It's only one of our
most notable achievements, so what good is it to him?
Unimportant.
What a farce of a US president. What a piece of shit.
Goddamn America..
Obama Draws Criticism for Sitting Out Berlin Wall Anniversary
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.
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.
"A tragedy," is how former House Speaker Newt Gingrich described Obama's
absence.
Some question whether the decision not to go was a nod to Russia, with which
the Obama administration is trying to mend relations, or just another
attempt to play down the perception of the United States as an exceptional
superpower.
For its part, the administration is citing a scheduling conflict. The White
House says the president simply does not have the time to go, with the trip
to Asia starting Wednesday.
"Obviously we have a lot to work on here and we have commitments for an
upcoming Asia trip," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday,
noting that a "very senior delegation" of U.S. officials would attend.
That delegation is led by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who traveled
to Berlin Sunday ahead of the festivities -- the first stop for the
secretary on a trip through Europe and Asia.
Obama acknowledged the anniversary of the fall of the wall last week during
his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"We are now moving towards the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming
down and Germany being reunified after so many painful years," Obama said.
"And this is a special moment for Chancellor Merkel, as somebody who grew up
in East Germany, who understands what it's like to be under the shadow of a
dictatorial regime, and to see how freedom has bloomed in Germany, how it
has become the centerpiece for a extraordinarily strong European Union."
He said the U.S.-Germany alliance is an "extraordinary pillar of the
transatlantic relationship."
But some saw Obama's decision not to travel personally to Berlin as a snub
to Merkel, Germany and the history behind the anniversary.
"Barack Is Too Busy," Germany's Der Spiegel magazine declared in a headline
last month, writing that Obama had declined Merkel's invitation.
While Obama has traveled to Germany since taking office, he has not as
president traveled to Berlin -- the site of his major speech in July 2008
during his overseas campaign tour. During that speech, he acknowledged
Berlin's struggle, saying, "This city, of all cities, knows the dream of
freedom."
Why then, critics asked, would the U.S. president not revisit that site to
mark the culmination of that dream? After all, he has established himself as
an intrepid traveler in office, setting off on a slew of overseas trips
during his first 10 months on the job.
On several of the stops he has expressed regret for past American behavior,
but the Berlin Wall anniversary was seen as an opportunity for the president
to honor an American and Western victory for which the U.S. need feel no
regret.
"It is a true shame that the president of the United States -- this man who
cloaks himself in the rhetoric of hope -- won't be pausing to remember,"
Gingrich wrote in a column last week in The Washington Examiner.
The National Review's Rich Lowry wrote that the decision speaks to Obama's
"dismissive view of the Cold War as a relic distorting our thinking."
"John F. Kennedy famously told Berliners, 'Ich bin ein Berliner.' On the
20th anniversary of the last century's most stirring triumph of freedom,
Obama is telling them, 'Ich bin beschaftigt' -- i.e., I'm busy," he wrote.
"Obama's failure to go to Berlin is the most telling nonevent of his
presidency. It's hard to imagine any other American president eschewing the
occasion."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/08/obama-draws-criticism-sitting-berlin-wall-anniversary/
-Eddie Haskell
ArmyOfDorkness
"Eddie Haskell" <fg...@eeaeae.com> wrote in message
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Why should he? What does it have to do with us?
>
> Unimportant.
Yep. You guys just found something else to whine about.
Eddie Haskell
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> "Eddie Haskell" <fg...@eeaeae.com> wrote in message
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> Why should he? What does it have to do with us?
Fuck off.
-Eddie Haskell
vict0r
> "Eddie Haskell" <fg...@eeaeae.com> wrote in message
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> Why should he? What does it have to do with us?
maybe ask John Kennedy
babeejm
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> -Eddie Haskell
>He could at least send his wife..instead of Hillary!!
Eddie Haskell
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> ArmyOfDorkness wrote:
>> "Eddie Haskell" <fg...@eeaeae.com> wrote in message
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>> Why should he? What does it have to do with us?
>
> maybe ask John Kennedy
He's not going to give his country credit for anything associated with
republicans.
Party over country every fucking time.
And they PRETEND to give a shit about our reputation in the world.
What a fucking LIE.
-Eddie Haskell
Eddie Haskell
"babeejm" <jmts...@cox.net> wrote in message
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My contempt for this man has turned into hatred. He is no president. He's
not even an American.
Fuck him and everybody that voted for the un-American piece of shit and
world embarrassment.
-Eddie Haskell
Chom Noamsky
> Oh, that's right. What was I thinking? It isn't about him. It doesn't give
> him the opportunity to criticize the country overseas. It's only one of our
> most notable achievements, so what good is it to him?
>
> Unimportant.
>
> What a farce of a US president. What a piece of shit.
>
> Goddamn America..
I know, it's terrible. Obama never came to my wedding or my kids
graduation. One of my neighbours claims Obama didn't even show up for
his son's Bar Mitsvah.
BTW, Gorbachev was the instrumental person in the fall of the Berlin
Wall. The version popular among Americans is historical revisionism.
Eddie Haskell
"Chom Noamsky" <d...@bark.grrrr> wrote in message
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> Eddie Haskell wrote:
>> Oh, that's right. What was I thinking? It isn't about him. It doesn't
>> give him the opportunity to criticize the country overseas. It's only one
>> of our most notable achievements, so what good is it to him?
>>
>> Unimportant.
>>
>> What a farce of a US president. What a piece of shit.
>>
>> Goddamn America..
>
> I know, it's terrible. Obama never came to my wedding or my kids
> graduation. One of my neighbours claims Obama didn't even show up for his
> son's Bar Mitsvah.
Eat shit and die.
> BTW, Gorbachev was the instrumental person in the fall of the Berlin Wall.
> The version popular among Americans is historical revisionism.
You're a typical fucking democrat liar that wouldn't give your country
credit for one fucking achievement on this earth if it happened because of a
republican.
You are both immoral and a democrat first and an American whenever it's
convenient.
Fuck you and everybody that looks like you.
Oh, and FDR and Truman no more won WWII than the man in the fucking moon.
Stalin did it.
Now, go fuck your pathetic, useless self.
-Eddie Haskell
Chom Noamsky
I'm Canadian so preferring the more accurate, less revisionist versions
of history isn't considered unpatriotic.
And yes, the Soviets decided WWII before the US even got involved. You
won't read that in American history books, though, Americans have a
'special', much more flattering version they prefer to believe.
BTW, go fuck yourself, too.
Harold Burton
Chom Noamsky <d...@bark.grrrr> wrote:
> Obama never came to my wedding or my kids
> graduation. One of my neighbours claims Obama didn't even show up for
> his son's Bar Mitsvah.
Care for some cheese with that whine?
snicker.
Harold Burton
Chom Noamsky <d...@bark.grrrr> wrote:
So you agree, DemocRAT Franklin Roosevelt got us into a war we didn't
need to get involved in and got 420,000 'Merkins killed who didn't need
to die.
Snicker.
Roy
> x-no-archive: yes
>
> On Nov 10, 3:27 am, E. Barry Bruyea <termlim...@democracy.com> wrote:
> > it isn't true. By the time the Germans declared war on the U.S., the
> > Soviets were desperate and without Allied help would have paid an even
> > higher price for their victory. A price, by the way, that was poetic
> > justice, given their deal with the devil, enabling Germany to prepare
> > and launch WWII.
>
> Stop being disingenuous and repeating this crap like Joseph Goebbels.
> Stalin was merely trying to buy time since France and England wouldn't
> sign a mutual defense pact with a communist state..- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Wrongo as usual COBG. Barry is quite correct...your history books must
have come from the Soviet Bloc.
==
Tom Sr.
> him the opportunity to criticize the country overseas. It's only one of our
> most notable achievements, so what good is it to him?
If our President showed up today at the Ford Hood Memorial Service
suffering from lack-of-sleep and jet-lag because he attended the
Berlin celebration, you would have been bitching about that and
started ranting and raving that Obama was more concerned with the rest
of the world -- and not our own nation.
Bitch, moan, bitch, moan, moan; that is all you far-right-wing k00ks
can do with President Obama. Mere sounds of fury signifying nothing.
-Tom Sr.
Hope for the Heartless
Chom Noamsky <d...@bark.grrrr> wrote:
> I'm Canadian so preferring the more accurate, less revisionist versions
> of history isn't considered unpatriotic.
>
> And yes, the Soviets decided WWII before the US even got involved. You
> won't read that in American history books, though, Americans have a
> 'special', much more flattering version they prefer to believe.
I disagree with that statement. FDRs support of both Britain and the
Soviet Union during the war helped defeat the Germans. Without US
support, it would have been considerably harder for them to make headway.
it's true thought that the ultimate outcome of the war was probably
decided before Americans joined the war in earnest, and certainly US
direct involvement accelerated the end of the war greatly.
Iarnrod
> My contempt for this man has turned into hatred. He is no president. He's
> not even an American.
>
> Fuck him and everybody that voted for the un-American piece of shit and
> world embarrassment.
Enjoying that shit sandwich you'll be eating for eight years, Edwina
Numbskull?
No one cares what you think.
Johnny Lobster
> "babeejm" <jmtsm...@cox.net> wrote in message
> > He could at least send his wife..instead of Hillary!!
If he did you would criticize her and the choice to send her.
> My contempt for this man has turned into hatred.
Perhaps you can have him killed.
JL
Iarnrod
<stupid question>
He was busy attending the memorial service at Fort Hood for the 13
soldiers killed by the Army major that the Bush Administration failed
to act on when it was reported to them in 2008 that Hasan had been in
touch with the radical imam recruiter for al Qaeda whose mosque was
attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers. Another "triumph" for the
administration that falsely brags it kept us safe (even though 9/11
happened on their watch).
Harold Burton
<f0ececaa-6582-432b...@b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
"Tom Sr." <tomswif...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 10, 8:32�pm, Harold Burton <hal.i.bur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > �"Tom Sr." <tomswiftsen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > If our President showed up today at the Ford Hood Memorial Service
> > > suffering from lack-of-sleep and jet-lag because he attended the
> > > Berlin celebration, you would have been bitching about that and
> > > started ranting and raving that Obama was more concerned with the rest
> > > of the world -- and not our own nation.
> > > Bitch, moan, bitch, moan, moan...
> > --
> > You're starting to sound like leftards.
>
> Would you like some cheese with that whine, Burton?
Snicker.
Harold Burton
E. Barry Bruyea <terml...@democracy.com> wrote:
> Was that an embarrassed laugh? It should be, considering the Germans
> declared war on the U.S., not the other way around.
Doesn't mean you have to fight them immediately. Finish with Japan
while Germany and Russia beat each other to a bloody pulp. As Noam
Chomsky said, "the Soviets decided WWII before the US even got
involved." No need for us to let our service men get killed when Stalin
is willing to let Russians die instead.
Dänk 1010011010
> In article
> <f0ececaa-6582-432b-bb22-fe13b0b44...@b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
> "Tom Sr." <tomswiftsen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 10, 8:32 pm, Harold Burton <hal.i.bur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > "Tom Sr." <tomswiftsen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > If our President showed up today at the Ford Hood Memorial Service
> > > > suffering from lack-of-sleep and jet-lag because he attended the
> > > > Berlin celebration, you would have been bitching about that and
> > > > started ranting and raving that Obama was more concerned with the rest
> > > > of the world -- and not our own nation.
> > > > Bitch, moan, bitch, moan, moan...
> > > --
> > > You're starting to sound like leftards.
>
> > Would you like some cheese with that whine, Burton?
>
> Snicker.
Obama didn't attend the Berlin Wall anniversary celebration because it
would be hypocritical for a leader of a country building a wall along
its own border to celebrate the fall of another border wall.
Harold Burton
<022f0c77-e717-4ff4...@t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
And because, like you, he's incapable of differentiating between a wall
built to keep people in and a wall built to keep people out?
snicker.
5279 Dead, 412 since 1/20/09
> In article
> <022f0c77-e717-4ff4...@t11g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
Why don't you tell us exactly what the difference is, Harry?
Harold Burton
What part of "keep people in" and "keep people out" didn't you
understand?
snicker.
Dave Heil
Haven't you figured it out, Mr. 5XXX? I'll give you a hint:
No one was trying to shoot anyone for trying to get into East Berlin.
Dänk 1010011010
> What part of "keep people in" and "keep people out" didn't you
> understand?
>
> snicker.
The official reason for the Berlin Wall according to the East German
government was that it was necessary to keep West German 'fascists'
out of the workers' paradise.
But if the U.S. border wall really is to keep Mexicans OUT, I
challenge you to try climbing over the wall INTO Mexico and see if
U.S. border guards don't shoot you in the back.
Harold Burton
<60885aae-bcb0-4815...@r24g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
D�nk 1010011010 <dan...@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 16, 6:20�pm, Harold Burton <hal.i.bur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > What part of "keep people in" and "keep people out" didn't you
> > understand?
> >
> > snicker.
>
> The official reason for the Berlin Wall according to the East German
> government was that it was necessary to keep West German 'fascists'
> out of the workers' paradise.
Love it. Bet there are leftards who actually believe it.
Snicker.
Viejo Vizcacha
wastes too much time and money abroad, and he does not want to see you
crying.
VV