A Western Heart (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
by Jeff Jacoby PRESIDENT OBAMA was too busy to attend the celebrations in Germany this week marking the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. But he did appear by video, delivering a few brief and bloodless remarks about how the wall was "a painful barrier between family and friends" that symbolized "a system that denied people the freedoms that should be the right of every human being."...
Dissecting Leftism (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Obama and 'The Great I Am' by Jeff Jacoby PRESIDENT OBAMA was too busy to attend the celebrations in Germany this week marking the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. But he did appear by video, delivering a few brief and bloodless remarks about how the wall was "a painful barrier between family and friends" that symbolized "a system that denied people the freedoms that should be the...
The Elephant Bar (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Obama’s swelling ego By Jeff Jacoby Boston Globe Globe Columnist / November 14, 2009 PRESIDENT OBAMA was too busy to attend the celebrations in Germany this week marking the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. But he did appear by video, delivering a few brief and bloodless remarks about how the wall was “a painful barrier between family and friends’’ that symbolized “a...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Visitors place roses in cracks in a remaining section of the Berlin Wall during the 20th anniversary observance of the wall's fall. The fall of the Berlin Wall was the moon landing of my generation. A rare, seminal event crystallizing the notion that anything is possible. This is why it was so important for the world to revel last week in the 20th anniversary celebrations marking the wall's welcome...
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Models wearing clothes inspired by murals on a portion of the remaining Berlin Wall known as the East Side Gallery pose next to the 'Brotherkiss' mural at the East Side Gallery on its official re-opening day on November 6, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The East Side Gallery, an approximately one-mile still-exisitng portion of the Berlin Wall, has undegone a year-long restoration effort ahead of the 20th...
The Freedom Fighter's Journal (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, it is a sad reflection on our own country that a new wall is being proposed to control our own citizens by force. Ridiculous, you say? I disagree. It is our own wall of shame. In 1961, the infamous "Berliner Mauer" was put up to separate East and West Berlin. The officials of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik called it the "Antifaschistischer...
Eclecticity (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Recognizing the wonderful U.S. visitors to this blog hailing from: Oakland , California San Jose , California Fresno , California Arvada , Colorado Irvine , California Concord , California San Francisco , California Cortland , New York Washington , District of Columbia Germantown , Maryland Auburn , Maine Newark ,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Monday's celebration in Berlin was a brilliant closure. The opening of a European foreign policy looks more shaky Well, they did it beautifully. Despite the rain, I found the official celebration of the fall of the wall in Berlin night a genuinely, even an unexpectedly moving affair. The organisers, presumably guided by Angela Merkel, got almost every accent right. Freedom, Europe and the wider world...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Figures… Obama Skips Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall, Sends a Video & Talks About Himself Click on the title above to read the whole thing at Gateway Pundit. Here's the most astounding part: One international leader was conspicuously absent at the 20 Year Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall today. Even the Russian President made it there. Obama sent a video instead. U.S. President...
Silly Little Country (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
And again a total lack of grace; unable to mention Reagan, and somehow worms himself into a story he likely opposed at the time. "Few would have foreseen ... that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent. But human destiny is what human beings make of it." Unbelievable. What the hell has he to do with this...
The Freedom Fighter's Journal (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I haven't had time to go through all that is being written about this anniversary, and I'm still working on gathering my own thoughts on it, which I will share with you tomorrow. But I really liked the spirit of the comments in the Washington Post by Anne Applebaum, who experienced these events as a young reporter posted to Eastern...
Knowledge is Power (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
RUSH: Okay, gotta hear this. One more Obama in his echoified address at the Brandenburg Gate today. He mentions John Kennedy. He mentions himself. He does not mention Ronaldus Magnus, the man who made this happen. OBAMA (godlike reverb): Even as we celebrate these values, even as we mark this day, we know the work of freedom is never finished. In a Berlin under siege, President Kennedy said, “Freedom...
My World Earth (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Fallen dominos along the former border in front of the Brandenburg Gate are seen after they were made to fall in a symbolic act in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, during the commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov.9, 1989. Giant dominos placed along the former border in front of the Brandenburg Gate fall in a symbolic act in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov....
Moonbattery (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Hat Tip: AoSHQ Here's what The One thought was the most important thing to remember about the fall of the Berlin Wall. "Few would have foreseen ... that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
BEFORE A gleaming Brandenburg Gate, Berlin partied last night like it was 1989. Germany and the world recalled the Berlin Wall, the hated physical reminder of Europe’s ideological division, and the glorious night 20 years ago when Churchill’s Iron Curtain was ripped down.
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