Quote of the Day: Arthur Chrenkoff on Obama and Berlin ... Plus a Rant!

Chrenkoff's always worth a read. Blurb from his latest:

That John F. Kennedy could go to Germany and be “a Berliner” told you all you needed to know about that Democratic administration. That Barack Obama won’t do so now sadly tells you all you need to know about the current one.

Not good. Then again, I've been criticizing Obama's laughable "foreign policy" for a long time. To the Kennedy visit, you can add the Reagan visit with that awesome "tear down this wall!" speech. Like at Jericho, the walls did come tumbling down in 1989 in a massive victory for freedom. I watched the walls fall on TV, and I was just a schoolgirl, but I was so happy I actually cried ... and I'm a heartless warmongering right-wing racist nutjob who hates people and has no soul, remember?

It's absolutely disgraceful that now the president of the United States won't bother to go to the 20th anniversary celebrations -- especially since he did bother to go cheerlead (uselessly, by the way) for Chicago for those stupid Olympics. The end of the Cold War was one of the finest moments for the West in the 20th century, and it came after a long slog indeed. We're going to mark it on MM Blog even if our increasingly ludicrous leader can't seem to grant the event its due respect and honor. Yes, I said "ludicrous" -- in no small part because, ever since the campaign trail, he's shown an appalling ignorance of history, much less any true appreciation for it as anything other than one more shiny flourish in his rhetorical bag of tricks. Remember this?

I'm ranting now, so I might as well say it: Heck, Berlin was good enough for Obama to spout pretty speeches in last year when he was just a candidate trying to prove how glossy and lovable he was on the international stage, when Berlin could do something for him ... but now there's no personal benefit or aggrandizement, so I guess Berlin's off the list? What? Pfffffffffft. Doesn't anybody else find this juxtaposition a little ... odd? Narcissism as foreign policy? Anyway, is he sending Hillary to Berlin instead? Joe Biden? Geez, I hope it's not that walking malapropism Biden! HOPECHANGE!