I couldn't agree more. Viewed in isolation, this snub has little interpretive value. Taken in the context of his first year in office, it probably says more about his world view than almost anything he has done.

And let's not remember that he didn't show himself at the WWII commemorations as well - and Putin was there.
However, I think that there is a bit more in these than Obama's "community activist" take on things - it a child like resent and antipathy for anything that is positive in the larger WestCiv, America y compris - the ceremonies in cause marking extraordinary redemptive acts, with planetary consequence .

We need to remember what many people said about Obama, including African fellows - he is not an MLK type who fought for equity WITHIN the confines of this nation - Obama is essentially a foreigner, impersonating an American, a figure moored in the 50-60-s anticolonial & Marxist African mess, and his secretely revered figures are Patrick Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral or the like, who were virulent anti-European and anti-American.
And this is the secret sofware that quietly animates all his acts and views - and I can't see how this helps the legitimate interests of this nation.

How can he celebrate the symbol of the fall of Socialism without embarrassing his own Socialist legislation?

Two issues here.

The first issue is that this is soooo typical of the American Left. While most on the Left will acknowledge communism was a failure, they just...can't...quite...bring themselves to utterly dismiss marxism. You see, the kinda sorta believe in it; all the blather about "equality" and the utopian promises of heaven on earth (no more racism, no war, no "greeeeeed", etc.). There are still too many Leftists that think marxism isn't totally wrong; that if you tweak a knob here and adjust a bolt there, the thing can be made to work. Thus the Left's hesitancy to support America during the Cold War and their current inability to admit the war was just and America was morally in the right.

Second issue is Obama's horrible judgement here which is caused by his inexperience. You would think that a president who is under regular attack (unjustly IMO) for having marxist sympathies would ensure he's not taking actions that reinforce that perception. You would think he'd be the first to appear at the Berlin celebration to prove he's not a marxist loving revisionist. Once again Obama has played into the hands of his enemies by making a politically stupid decision.

President Carter told the American people that he thought much of the dissent agasint Obama was based in "racism". As did presidential spokesman Gibbs. As did Pelosi. Keith Olberman Chris Matthews also chimed in with the same pap. All availabale on YouTube for your enjoyment. There... I have given you names of the people who made this outrageous racist claim against people who disagreed with the president Obama. Now can somebody give me a similar list of Bush administration names that called dissenters of Bush policies "un-American"? Just one will do. A YouTube reference would be ideal. Can't do it? Limbaugh might have, but he is an opinionated entertainer as is Olberman and Matthews. THEY are allowed to make such claims if that is what their opinion is. But Bush nor his operatives never to my knowledge said it.

Obama disses Germany, Israel, the Dalai Lama, England, France, and Czechoslovakia, every one of which a trusted ally, yet wishes "dialogue" with Iran, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Palestine, North Korea,
and Russia, every one of which would to some degree or another would like nothing more than disaster for the United States. Obama is their best hope at the moment.

OBAMA and his Administration/Campaign Managers are--like flies in amber--frozen in time as perpetual "protesters".....AGAINST the "man" and the "establishment" and the "status quo".....they are ADOLESCENTS that don't understand they are NOW IN CHARGE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT.

If Obama and the Chicago organizers had a record of SUCCESS in cleaning up the crime and poverty in the streets of Chicago, decreasing school drop-outs and creating jobs THERE..... and had THEN ascended to power in the White House, we might have a little more faith in his/their effective leadership.

Looks to me like they TOOK what they could, and LEFT their own--their own--to fend for themselves.

Think it'll be any different on a NATIONAL level? Dream on.

Truman Stone Wrote:
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> Rich Lowry,
>
> I think you should ask the Germans who they'd
> rather have at the helm: Barack HUSSEIN Obama or
> George W?
>
> Funny, I follow the German media and I haven't
> heard a thing.
>
> But then I'd being asking the impossible: that you
> would take a moment to ponder what your allies are
> thinking?
>
> Your loyal allies would rather take a snub once in
> a while (and I don't think most Germans took it as
> one) that go back to the insanity of the previous
> eight years. Check the Pew Institute polls if you
> don't believe me.
>
> A Canadian friend


Depends on who you mix with, doesn' it.

Uncle Sam Wrote:
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> Ich bin ein beginner...
>
> :-)


Lol!!!! You made my day, Sam! :-) Short but sweet!

Uncle Sam, I gotta agree with Lola...

You have a unique & superb way of getting to the heart of a matter in just a few short words. If you could bottle that talent, market it... I would buy it by the Sam's Club case load!

Ich bin ein admirer...
HB

Lola del mar Wrote:
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> Uncle Sam Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Ich bin ein beginner...
> >
> > :-)
>
>
> Lol!!!! You made my day, Sam! :-) Short but
> sweet!

Zifnab Wrote:
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>Now can somebody give me a similar list of Bush
> administration names that called dissenters of
> Bush policies "un-American"? Just one will do.

"Un-American", no. But there were many from Cheney on down who would refer to "real Americans" - those that agreed with the president - as if those that opposed the Administration's policy (mostly Iraq, etc) were not "real Americans".

It was the impetus for the rebirth of the phrase, "To dissent is patriotic".

Mr. Lowry,

President Obama is too busy building his own walls here in the U.S.

EJM Wrote:
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> There's no time to go to Berlin.
> President Obama is spending every waking moment
> carefully weighing every nuance in his decision
> about
> Afganistan, remember?


I guess he has proven that he cannot multi-task after all! :-)

"The line was typical Obama verbal soufflé, soaring but vulnerable to collapse upon the slightest jostling from logic or historical fact."

Now that's a line worth remembering.

marino Wrote:
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> "The line was typical Obama verbal soufflé,
> soaring but vulnerable to collapse upon the
> slightest jostling from logic or historical
> fact."
>
> Now that's a line worth remembering.


I couldn't agree more......Mr. Lowry really outdid himself with that one!!! I thought this was an excellent piece....

" . . . verbal soufflé. . . ." How perfect. Light, full of hot air, collapsing with a pinprick.

He was and is an empty suit, yet still dangerous. Thank you, Rich Lowry.

I think that's the day Sean Penn is invited to the White House to inform the Great One about his interview with Castro, or maybe Oprah is coming!!

Rich apparently is better at writing than 'rithmatic. The cold war started around 1948, ended in '89, that's 41 years, not 50. But I forgot! NeoCons are still fighting the cold war. BTW, next April is the 35th anniversary of the last U.S. helicopter leaving Saigon. Should Obama go to Hanoi to celebrate that, too?

We should not overlook that BO believes the fall of the Soviet Union was a tragedy, not a triumph of freedom to be celebrated.

Why should he go? As far as he's concerned, the bad guys won.

Thanks HB. Some accuse the president of revisionist history with regard to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Apparently he blames it on Humpty Dumpty.

:-)

Maybe he is actually busy. You guys in the far Right need to make up your minds. You claim Obama is dithering on Healthcare and making a decision on Afganistan but when he says he's too busy to go to an event celebrating the anniversary of a 30 year old event all of a sudden he's committing some presidential sin.

Seriously guys. This is really weak. Just another example of the rights' "screw'em any way we can" strategy. If Obama went to the event this author would have written an article about how Obama was "putting the lives of American soldiers at risk by further wasting time making his Afganistan decision".

Find some actual news to write stories about instead of just turning a schedualing issue into a referrendum on Obama's innermost thoughts. Good day.

I posted this earlier elsewhere but is appropriate here:
Re. Obama.....Tom Sowell, last year, after reading what Obama planned for the Nation, ended his observations with "...and on the 7th day Barack rested".

Prof Walter Williams similarly observed....and I am paraphrasing only slightley...."For the 1st black American President we need a 'Jackie Robinson'.........Barack Obama is no Jackie Robinson".


How much better off would the Nation and the world be if we had but heeded these two brilliant Economists/intellectuals?

PS:
"Socialism destroys everything and everyone; it is the essence of destruction—in towns, a darkness; in the country, a blight, a sterility; shouting monotonously its empty formula—a classless, socialist society—it attacks with methodical barbarity, not only men and classes and institutions, but the soul of a society. It tears a society up by the roots and leaves it dead.”
-----------------Malcolm Muggeridge 1931

I am hard pressed to see much if any difference were one to change the word 'socialism' to "Obamunism". There is nary a program nor pronouncement from this pack of Alinskyites which would dissuade the honest, objective observer from coming to the same conclusion.
(But I did say 'honest and objective' so that eliminates a few of the RCP regulars, especially the purported Professorial types.)

U.S.,

You reffering to any of the Czars and WH staff that might have tagged along?

CR,
Far be it from me to make such insinuations.
Now, of course, if they should self-identify...

:-o

I am glad POTUS is not going to Berlin.

Thanks for not embarrassing us any further, Mr. Soetoro. You would certainly find SOMETHING to apologize on behalf of the USA about...

Now please go back to Indonesia (and use whatever passport you used last time...)

Or - since all the Canadians, Britians, Germans, et al, love you so much - go be the EU president...

One last comment and then I am gone.

Why should President Obama go to the celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall? I have one very simple but obvious reason.

The President represents the United States of America, but not only that he represents the Presidency of the US.

Great men went before Mr. Obama, men who stood up for Freedom around the world. Men like Truman, Eisenhauer, Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, and Reagan. Now these great men are gone, and therefore they cannot attend. One man could stand in their place, and that man is the President.

Sheesh -- he's not even voting present on this one.

Lowry writes:
"In Berlin, JFK called out the Communists on their "offense against humanity." Obama would utter such a phrase only with the greatest trepidation, lest it undermine a future opportunity for dialogue."

I beg to differ slightly -- Obama would most definitely utter that phrase or something like it. To Israel, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Honduras, Iraq, and any other sap of a country naive enough to think we're an ally. You can probably add South Korea and Taiwan to that growing list at some point.

Hey, Barack: 'Mene, mene tekel upharsin.' Check that out. Hint: it's not in the Koran, or Alinsky's "Rules"

happy warrior Wrote:
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> AdSin15 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Maybe he is actually busy. You guys in the far
> > Right need to make up your minds. You claim
> Obama
> > is dithering on Healthcare and making a
> decision
> > on Afganistan but when he says he's too busy to
> go
> > to an event celebrating the anniversary of a 30
> > year old event all of a sudden he's committing
> > some presidential sin.
> >
> > Seriously guys. This is really weak. Just
> > another example of the rights' "screw'em any
> way
> > we can" strategy. If Obama went to the event
> this
> > author would have written an article about how
> > Obama was "putting the lives of American
> soldiers
> > at risk by further wasting time making his
> > Afganistan decision".
> >
> > Find some actual news to write stories about
> > instead of just turning a schedualing issue into
> a
> > referrendum on Obama's innermost thoughts.
> Good
> > day.
>
> Gee, as I recall, we "far Right" guys were
> criticized for picking on Obama for traveling to
> Copenhagen for the Olympics for the reasons you
> stated. Perhaps the reason we're complaining here
> is that the fall of the Berlin Wall is a little
> more important than the Olympics, but somehow our
> President found the time to do the latter at the
> expense of the former. Good day.


The fall of the Berlin Wall definately was more important than the Olympics. The 30th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall falling is NOT as important as getting the 2016 Olympics would have been had Obama been successful. That was a bad move on his part but only because he failed.

You are funny because you seem to actually believe Republican Politicians when they criticize Obama for "dithering". They know full well that Obama is doing the right thing and taking his time, not making rash decisions that could take the whole healthcare/afaganistan war/economy. Republicans would want just as much time, as much as possible in fact, if they were in charge and needed to make such monumental decisions. They are just playing the political game that both sides play. It's called putting pressure on the other side. Firing up the masses to put more pressure on them. They are trying to force Obama to make a mistake. To act rashly, to act impatiently so they can pounce on him for it. So they can get a real nice one liner for their political attack ads. Both sides do it. Any time either party needs to make a decision the other side will pressure them to make it as quickly as possible. It's a common tactic and has nothing to do with "protecting the troops" or "getting it right".

Obama just pissed because he missed Octoberfest...

Maybe we can send Biden. It would be entertaining to see him try to belt out some German phrases.

This one really annoys me.

I was a young soldier in then West Germany during that very exciting time in 1989, (Stutgartt 87-90). It is hard to put into words the excitement that we felt serving in the Army and assisting the East Germans along the autobahn when their cars would break down as they fled into the West. No one was sure what was going to happen next! Then those great moments in Berlin when the people went began scaling the wall and then smashing it with sledge hammers! Great days!

Please don't forget all those that perished attempting to cross that wall as they attempted to flee an oppressive style of government.

How can they treat this as just another day on the calendar?

Probably as well as Ronald Reagan...

:-o

William G Wrote:
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> As a child in the 50's and 60's, we had in school
> drills for a nuclear attack. I can remember some
> families building bomb shelters. I remember
> following the Cuban Missile crises and seeing
> photos of people who had been shot trying to cross
> into West Berlin.
>
> Even though life went on, for me, there was a
> weight lifted when the Berlin wall came down.
> Imagine how the people of Eastern Europe felt.
>
> Does BHO have to go to this event? Considering how
> much time he spends away from the White House,
> probably not. However, he shows a complete lack of
> understanding when it comes to history. When
> talking about historical figures, events, and
> context, BHO consitently is incorrect so why would
> he appreciate what this event meant to millions?

Time to meet with the head of SEIU @ 22X...Sure!
Soros? Bring him in!
Trips to mosques to bow to foreign potentates and apologize for America and for being American? Absolutely!

Trip to commemorate the fall of The Wall?...THAT wall?? The one that the 'East Germans' said was built to keep The West OUT?

That one?

Nope.....'my dance card' is full says BHO!......maybe next time?

It's not for no reason that BHO is coming to be called, more and more frequently, the first Post-American President.
His upbringing and background and life experience bear very little resemblance to what formed 'the average American'.

Who has been saying for many months that these Obamunists want to RULE...not to 'Govern'?
Oh yeah....I did!

I again respectfully ask any of the Obamunists out there to refute that assertion.

I can find nothing to dissuade me from my stated observation---in fact, in the world inhabited by Rahmbo and Jarrett and Rocco Landesman and Anita Dunn and Ayers and Wright and Pelosi and Reid and Schumer and Rangel and Boxer and Dean and Franken and Murtha and Corzine and Dodd and Leahy and Biden and Cap & Trade and Obamacare and the FOX enemies list and on and on and on, I see nothing but a daily confirmation which reinforces my assertion.

Disappointing that some do not seem to recognize the significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

:-o

Look for the union label.

:-)

Truman Stone Wrote:
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> Rich Lowry,
>
> I think you should ask the Germans who they'd
> rather have at the helm: Barack HUSSEIN Obama or
> George W?
>
> Funny, I follow the German media and I haven't
> heard a thing.
>
> But then I'd being asking the impossible: that you
> would take a moment to ponder what your allies are
> thinking?
>
> Your loyal allies would rather take a snub once in
> a while (and I don't think most Germans took it as
> one) that go back to the insanity of the previous
> eight years. Check the Pew Institute polls if you
> don't believe me.
>
> A Canadian friend


Well, Truman, I don't think the people of East Germany, Poland, the former Czechslovakia and other countries that were liberated by the winning of the Cold War spent much time whining about the "insanity of the last eight years." That's because they are grownups who understand a little something about truly oppressive governments. Western Europeans, having lived securely under the American defense umbrella for over half a century, feel they can afford to complain about American presidents who employ insufficiently fashionable socialist rhetoric and who see oppressors as oppressors, not partners in dialog. Those Europeans, rebuilt by the Marshall plan and protected from annihilation by American power, are like 24-year-olds living over their parents' garage and complaining about what an uncool guy Dad is. You know, like Canadians.

unaffiliated Wrote:
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> The problem with going to the Berlin Wall is there
> would be nothing for Obama to apologize about.


Great point!!! and AMEN

AdSin15 Wrote:
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> Maybe he is actually busy. You guys in the far
> Right need to make up your minds. You claim Obama
> is dithering on Healthcare and making a decision
> on Afganistan but when he says he's too busy to go
> to an event celebrating the anniversary of a 30
> year old event all of a sudden he's committing
> some presidential sin.
>
> Seriously guys. This is really weak. Just
> another example of the rights' "screw'em any way
> we can" strategy. If Obama went to the event this
> author would have written an article about how
> Obama was "putting the lives of American soldiers
> at risk by further wasting time making his
> Afganistan decision".
>
> Find some actual news to write stories about
> instead of just turning a schedualing issue into a
> referrendum on Obama's innermost thoughts. Good
> day.


Yeah, right. He's dissed the Brits, the Germans, Churchill's memory, and of course, the American people. THAT is his HUGE mistake...let the BACKLASH continue.............

So here's a situation pretty indicative of Obama's attitude. He can travel endless miles for self-promotion as we saw during the campaign in Europe and more recently to push Chicago for the Olympics-allegedly on the recommendation and charisma of the First Family. But when it comes to traveling a bit off his agenda and schedule-such as visiting the cemetery at Normandy or the Berlin Wall on a key anniversary of its fall, he simply can't be bothered. I have to think that both the ideas-that some wars are worth fighting and that communism is wrong are anathema to him so he avoids even the merest trappings of their symbolism.

Obama didn't attend because he's a lifelong hardline marxist-leninist and judging from his Sundial piece from 1983 at one point took his marching orders from Soviet agents.

Why is it still so hard for Americans to understand/accept who Obama really is?!

AWLinNC Wrote:
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> Rich apparently is better at writing than
> 'rithmatic. The cold war started around 1948,
> ended in '89, that's 41 years, not 50. But I
> forgot! NeoCons are still fighting the cold war.
> BTW, next April is the 35th anniversary of the
> last U.S. helicopter leaving Saigon. Should Obama
> go to Hanoi to celebrate that, too?


He probably will go and celebrate as we lost that war.

AdSin15 Wrote:
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> happy warrior Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > AdSin15 Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Maybe he is actually busy. You guys in the
> far
> > > Right need to make up your minds. You claim
> > Obama
> > > is dithering on Healthcare and making a
> > decision
> > > on Afganistan but when he says he's too busy
> to
> > go
> > > to an event celebrating the anniversary of a
> 30
> > > year old event all of a sudden he's
> committing
> > > some presidential sin.
> > >
> > > Seriously guys. This is really weak. Just
> > > another example of the rights' "screw'em any
> > way
> > > we can" strategy. If Obama went to the event
> > this
> > > author would have written an article about
> how
> > > Obama was "putting the lives of American
> > soldiers
> > > at risk by further wasting time making his
> > > Afganistan decision".
> > >
> > > Find some actual news to write stories about
> > > instead of just turning a schedualing issue
> into
> > a
> > > referrendum on Obama's innermost thoughts.
> > Good
> > > day.
> >
> > Gee, as I recall, we "far Right" guys were
> > criticized for picking on Obama for traveling
> to
> > Copenhagen for the Olympics for the reasons you
> > stated. Perhaps the reason we're complaining
> here
> > is that the fall of the Berlin Wall is a little
> > more important than the Olympics, but somehow
> our
> > President found the time to do the latter at
> the
> > expense of the former. Good day.
>
>
> The fall of the Berlin Wall definately was more
> important than the Olympics. The 30th Anniversary
> of the Berlin Wall falling is NOT as important as
> getting the 2016 Olympics would have been had
> Obama been successful. That was a bad move on his
> part but only because he failed.
>
> You are funny because you seem to actually believe
> Republican Politicians when they criticize Obama
> for "dithering". They know full well that Obama
> is doing the right thing and taking his time, not
> making rash decisions that could take the whole
> healthcare/afaganistan war/economy. Republicans
> would want just as much time, as much as possible
> in fact, if they were in charge and needed to make
> such monumental decisions. They are just playing
> the political game that both sides play. It's
> called putting pressure on the other side. Firing
> up the masses to put more pressure on them. They
> are trying to force Obama to make a mistake. To
> act rashly, to act impatiently so they can pounce
> on him for it. So they can get a real nice one
> liner for their political attack ads. Both sides
> do it. Any time either party needs to make a
> decision the other side will pressure them to make
> it as quickly as possible. It's a common tactic
> and has nothing to do with "protecting the troops"
> or "getting it right".


Do you seriously believe that the POTUS and Commander in Chief was so taken off guard by the request for more troops that he has to take weeks or months to mull over the correct reponse. He must above all make sure that his political critics don't force him into making a mistake. You really can't believe this?
When President Obama was elected he had months to "get up to speed" on this war. He gathered his advisors, listened to his commanders in the field and formulated his war strategy. Now, suddenly he is stumped and has to "ponder" the next course as if he and John Kerry could ever get this right.
Yeah, I know Bush spent a fortune on this war but money is just money, President Obama is wasting human capital, a far more precious commodity. The very lives of our troops are hanging in the balance.
When President Obama campaigned, he assured us, he was up to the task of not only governing but the task of commanding the greatest military on the face of the earth. He is miserably failing on both fronts.
I think his only delay is that he can't figure out a way to make a decision and still blame Bush for it.

Had time to try to secure the Olympics for Chicago.......for his friends and benefactors...............
No time to go to Fort Hood until Thurs. Time for a photo op during the night for the returning dead from Afghanistan.

The Bushes paid their respects privately right after the shooting at Fort Hood.

Who is/was truly a Commander-in Chief??????????????.......and loves this country????????????

AdSin15 Wrote:
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> happy warrior Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > AdSin15 Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Maybe he is actually busy. You guys in the
> far
> > > Right need to make up your minds. You claim
> > Obama
> > > is dithering on Healthcare and making a
> > decision
> > > on Afganistan but when he says he's too busy
> to
> > go
> > > to an event celebrating the anniversary of a
> 30
> > > year old event all of a sudden he's
> committing
> > > some presidential sin.
> > >
> > > Seriously guys. This is really weak. Just
> > > another example of the rights' "screw'em any
> > way
> > > we can" strategy. If Obama went to the event
> > this
> > > author would have written an article about
> how
> > > Obama was "putting the lives of American
> > soldiers
> > > at risk by further wasting time making his
> > > Afganistan decision".
> > >
> > > Find some actual news to write stories about
> > > instead of just turning a schedualing issue
> into
> > a
> > > referrendum on Obama's innermost thoughts.
> > Good
> > > day.
> >
> > Gee, as I recall, we "far Right" guys were
> > criticized for picking on Obama for traveling
> to
> > Copenhagen for the Olympics for the reasons you
> > stated. Perhaps the reason we're complaining
> here
> > is that the fall of the Berlin Wall is a little
> > more important than the Olympics, but somehow
> our
> > President found the time to do the latter at
> the
> > expense of the former. Good day.
>
>
> The fall of the Berlin Wall definately was more
> important than the Olympics. The 30th Anniversary
> of the Berlin Wall falling is NOT as important as
> getting the 2016 Olympics would have been had
> Obama been successful. That was a bad move on his
> part but only because he failed.
>
> You are funny because you seem to actually believe
> Republican Politicians when they criticize Obama
> for "dithering". They know full well that Obama
> is doing the right thing and taking his time, not
> making rash decisions that could take the whole
> healthcare/afaganistan war/economy. Republicans
> would want just as much time, as much as possible
> in fact, if they were in charge and needed to make
> such monumental decisions. They are just playing
> the political game that both sides play. It's
> called putting pressure on the other side. Firing
> up the masses to put more pressure on them. They
> are trying to force Obama to make a mistake. To
> act rashly, to act impatiently so they can pounce
> on him for it. So they can get a real nice one
> liner for their political attack ads. Both sides
> do it. Any time either party needs to make a
> decision the other side will pressure them to make
> it as quickly as possible. It's a common tactic
> and has nothing to do with "protecting the troops"
> or "getting it right".

Yes it is about getting ir right and protecting the troops especially since the "left" does not seem to "care" about the troops or anything worth a @#$%& but what the "left" ... "Feel" (definitely not thinking with logic) on issues. And the "left" didn't seem the mind putting pressure all over Bush. In fact it's been a year now and this current admin. still likes to point fingers at people and say "THEY DID IT IT WAS THEM" And yes the "right" media will state things like DITHERING and then turn around and say NO to the nasty Health System that's trying to be pushed upon us. And yes both sides do it. So what's your anger about? That you don't like hearing the other side now talk crap JUST like the "left" media did to bush. GROW UP DUDE seriously. Please. And chill out. Think about things and try not to think to much from a Left Leaning Slant. Thank You. I also like how you seem to know how this Author thinks or what they would do. I bet you run around stating crap like that all the time saying "I KNOW PEOPLE'" and such as "YOU KNOW HOW PEOPLE ARE" Eyah Im sure you are such an expert. What I find weak is how some people really do not see the significance in things as the Berlin Wall. And if they do... I couldn't tell by the ATTITUDE they lead.

Dear Mr Lowry,

an interesting position. All leaders of the former allies were there, but the American president. That's ignoring history! But don't you see a certain ignorance in terming Angela Merkel a president, too? Isn't she much more a chancellor?

I am really concerned about all the socialistic fears here. First, read about socialism (and not the GOP version of it) and second, read about the real wishes of the so called peaceful revolutioners in East Europe. They wanted another socialism and not necessarily capitalism. In this case, isn't it better, that Obama did not visit this ceremony? Perhaps, he is the last beacon of the free world?

Regards from a free world. Faithfully,

Hamilton No. 10.