President Obama, Tear Down Your Ego
The president can drop everything and fly to Copenhagen to shill for Chicago to host the Olympics (and get royally pwned in the process). He can go to Germany to give a speech during the campaign (styrofoam columns stuffed into the overhead bin). He can close down Greenwich Village to go on date night with Michelle.
But he can’t commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall?
US President Barack Obama has shelved his plans to attend festivities marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will reportedly take his place at the Nov. 9 celebrations.
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Berlin is going all out for the anniversary, with such luminaries as Kofi Annan, Mikhail Gorbachev and Lech Walesa expected to be in attendance. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing hard to complete ongoing coalition negotiations soon so that her government is fully formed in time for the festivities.
Strictly B-list talent: has-beens, wannabes, and no-hopers. I wouldn’t show either.
Honestly, it’s disgraceful. Obama was all hot to use the Brandenburg Gate as a backdrop, but now he can’t be bothered to pay his respects to that extraordinary moment of freedom twenty years ago. I suspect it’s because the Wall is associated with another president—it was his prize conquest—and this one doesn’t like to share the spotlight. Or am I being uncharitable?
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
October 16, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Great headline!
- Aggie
You're Probably Smarter Than Obama said,
October 16, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
This date just brings back too many bad memories for American’s Super Genius President; when he heard that something in Berlin fell, he thought it was capitalism.
Carol said,
October 16, 2009 @ 10:07 pm
He won’t go because it’s going to be a celebration and for those of Bambi’s turn of mind, the fall of the Berlin Wall was a tragedy, not a triumph. It was a defeat of collectivism, which happens to be Bambi’s favorite thing. After his own sweet self, of course.
judi said,
October 17, 2009 @ 9:08 am
I agree with Carol. Obama does not attend events which celebrate freedom.