He Had To Wash His Hair
November 8th, 2009 at 12:02 pm by BrianGermany celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall last night. Children today may remember that event as the joyful mutual end of years smart diplomacy whereby US hegemony was imposed at the barrel of a gun on native East German peoples who prospered during the Soviet Golden Age.
In actuality, it stemmed from peace through strength and not compromising basic American principles coupled with a President willing to call Evil by it’s name to it’s face. In honor of the collapse of the Soviets who cordoned off half of Europe and consigned millions to death, prison and poverty, Barack Obama stood them up so he could work in a few rounds of golf:
Angela Merkel, Germany’s first chancellor from the former communist East, recalled the euphoria in an address last week to the U.S. Congress.
“Where there was once only a dark wall, a door suddenly opened and we all walked through it: onto the streets, into the churches, across the borders,” Merkel said. “Everyone was given the chance to build something new, to make a difference, to venture a new beginning.”
That’s what you call real “hope and change”.
When reached for comment, President Icarus responded:
“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.”
So many “painful years”. Like living with arthritis. The only good thing about German reunification is it began to pave the path for One World Government. That was what that wall falling was all about.
Trading one dictatorial regime of paranoid murderers to surrender your hard fought sovereignty to a bunch of foreign bureaucrats.
That wall represented The Cold War. Hundreds of billions spent on a strong military so that tens of millions wouldn’t have to die in a Hot War. Decades of working and fighting through proxies so that an expansive Soviet regime couldn’t get a foothold in Southeast Asia as well as Central America.
It’s understandable that Barack Hussein Obama would not want to take part in the celebration of the defeat and rejection of his Communist ideals and heroes while his job of building the next wall is in progress.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
I can’t believe you are criticizing the President on this one. Yesterday you morons were critical of him not visiting the Ft. Hood wounded…now you are critical of him not attending the celebration comemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall.
What, you expect him to be at two places at once?
Let me say this slowly and clearly for you to understand…The…man…CANNOT…be…two…places…at…once.
He simply cannot.
OK, actually he probably could seing how he IS Barack Obama and since he has found a way to walk on water, he likely has found a way to break through the time/space continuum. But let’s keep our eyes on the ball here…walking on water and fundamentally transforming the US takes a LOT of energy and the man simply needs to recharge his batteries.
Besides, we’ve sent Hillary Clinton over there where she will regale the attendees with her story of the time she visited the Berlin Wall and had to run quickly into a bunker to avoid the ICBM that Nikita Khrushchev launched at her.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
That’s where you fail to appreciate the genius of the Trinity.
The Barack can get in some crossbow practice with his wookie life partner while;
The Hussein can comfort the family of the Ft. Hood gunman and stand up for the real victims – The Muslim community;
Finally, the Obama could make the trip to Moscow to tsk, tsk those ungrateful Germans celebrating their egregious act of vandalism and property damage.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Mimicry is supposed to be flattery, isn’t it, Felonius Junk?
You know it’s funny how Fox “News” dresses up an opinion piece and calls it a news story.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/08/obama-draws-criticism-sitting-berlin-wall-anniversary
Don’t they pay Newt Gingrich to opine on their network? How is quoting Newt in a “critics say” story considered to be news? This is exactly why Fox can’t be taken seriously as a source for journalism. Fine, if they want to run editorials all day, but there’s no boundary between their op-ed material and the supposed “news” part.
This supposed news article references unnamed critics six times in these ambiguous quotes:
“…drawing heated criticism from those who say…”
“…drawing heated criticism from those who say…”
“Some question whether the decision…”
“But some saw Obama’s decision…”
“Why then, critics asked…”
Who exactly are these “some” people who are “saying”? It reads like they’ve sources all kinds of people who are in a state of uproar over this, but they give names to two actual critics. Newt Gingrich and Rich Lowry, both in quotes from editorial pieces. Oh, and there was a reference to an unnamed writer in ‘Der Spiegel,’ too, to be fair.
The article does reference the White House’s cited reason for not going on this trip, but also ventures nine instances of pure opnion or conjecture as to Obama’s reasnoning on the trip, hidden-agenda politics, or on other supposed values related to presidential travel priorities.
Free speech and opinion are fine, but what’s the need to dress up op-ed as journalism? Surely Fox doesn’t think that their audience would be blind to this and can be so easily manipulated. Surely not. That would be cynical.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
Hrmm…did I quote Fox News somewhere or are you just interjecting unrelated shit from anywhere?
Free speech and opinion are fine. I hope one day that every major news network and newspaper will learn to keep them separate.
Until then, I’ll alert Media Matters that we have an eager beaver wanting to give an oral presentation to David Brock’s gloryhole.
November 9th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
See it every day on CNN and in AP too. The “some say…” stuff.
Yes, it’s a way of passing off an opinion. Fox does it rightward, CNN/AP go leftward. But somehow CNN/AP are considered a “real” news organizations these days and FOX is not. I see it too, but it’s the double standard that is the issue with me.
Is there unbiased journalism out there? If so, where?
November 9th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Ronald Reagan: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
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Barack Obama: “Mr Geithner, tear down Wal-Mart!”
November 9th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Thelonius, you cannot be serious. Your entire outrage is that Fox News sometimes uses the ever-present straw man?
Yeah, they’re the ONLY ones.
Why don’t you defend this:
1. Fort Hood tragedy…as sitting Commander-in-Chief he doesn’t bother to visit “his” troops. He waits an entire day before giving a statement about the shootings, but only after giving two minutes of “shout outs”.
2. Despite being invited to participate as representative of the country MOST instrumental in the fall of the Berlin Wall (yes, even MORE instrumental than formerly-divided Germany itself), Obama decides he cannot attend because it is more important to give a pep talk to the Dems against “Tea Baggers”. Yes, he resorted to a crude sexual reference to describe the opposition to the “historic” 2,000 page health care legislation which nobody in congress has actually read, in which contains jail sentences against those who don’t comply, and has no chance of passing the Senate. Couldn’t Nancy take care of her own House?
(Which begs the question…if the legislation was so needed, then why did it only get 215 votes?)
The Germans understandably feel slighted. Barack has spent the majority of his Presidency pissing off our friends and trying to make friends of our enemies.
So give me your treatise on how Presidential Barry really is…and try to do it without resorting to references to Bush. It’s time Barry’s Presidency stands on its own…
November 10th, 2009 at 11:24 am
(oops…just checked my math…the health care bill received 220 votes. My bad)