For lack of being there or having a recording, imagine Frank Davis, a Moscow appointed leader in the Communist Party USA, discussing the fall of the wall with Obama. Wheather he did or not, Obama would know what his mentor would have said about it and of course being the devote follower he has shown to be, would have agreed. Going to Berlin would be akin to going to the birthday party of the man who destroyed the family business, and being expected to say nice things about him.

That he has had the invitation since July sits aside any reasoning that the current crisis has any bearing on his not attending the celebration. It clearly shows that he had no intention of doing so.

Obama has shown in many ways that he is a narcissist. There is a loud ring of truth to the observation that he wants everything to be about him, to be a cause to notice him and listen to what he has to say, even if he has already said it a thousand times. He seems to have a very short list of things he wants to say; at least that he knows will illicit the response from his followers that he needs. He probably is fully aware that the European leaders do not approve of him and share an opinion that he is weak and lacking in knowledge that he needs to be president in today’s world. A narcissist is not going to place himself in a situation where he is seen as less than he invisions of himself.

Though not an original reason for not accepting the invitation to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the current situation with his nationalized healthcare on the ropes would make a trip to Germany inconvinent. Not to say that Obama himself is working on it or any other political stuff. Healthcare is his number one priority upon which everything that he hopes to achieve for himself hinges upon. If healthcare legistlation crumbles, so does the foundation upon which he needs to build his vision of a socialist state. It has been a position of the communist and socialist since 1944 that the way to bring America to a socialist state was through a national healthcare system. That has been what Obama has been taught through is communist mentoring and associations, and what is effectively his mandate to achieve. In his mind his being elected to the presidency placed that mandate upon him by the people. Failure is not an option for a narcissist, nor is being ignored or placed lower than others.

William2006 on October 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM

To me, the recent carrying on by the Administration is the political equivalent of rogue anti-virus and anti-spyware notices, the ones that are really inducements to download more and more infections into the system.

The have control of the White House and Congress, and they want to keep creating the sense of crisis that supports their initiatives, even in the face of considerable and growing grass-roots opposition to many troubling elements of their agenda.

So they also need to stop or at least contain any counter-intuitive messaging, such as containing what is coming from Fox and from a considerable number of internet sources. They are particularly troubled by the exposure of ACORN because organizationally it is a group so closely tied to him, and is crucial to solidifying a permanent electoral base.

They are somewhat frantically asking the other nets to ignore Fox — not to follow anything they say, because they “are not a real news organization.”

That’s their flashing notice. In other words, pay no attention to any Fox news story lead, such as Fox going first with the actual on air broadcasting of the ACORN exposes. They are also pleading with the other nets to pay no attention to any evidence Fox is broadcasting that the tea-partiers are by-and-large normal, and concerned citizens.

The Obama team is attempting to solidify a full-fledged propaganda operation now, building on Anita Dunn’s boasting about controlling the media message during the campaign. The trouble is that that desire runs counter to the motivation to be first with a story, even if it means running with a few false starts.

This Administration is showing that it is clearly intolerant of the mainstreaming of any information that runs contrary to their message.

Yes, they embraced that early adorational attitude toward Obama, and are probably fearful that even any “humanizing” of him at this point will hurt the cause. But make no mistake, their agenda is the thing, not the narcissistic streak of The One.

… It’s not that Obama doesn’t think that the fall of the wall is a good thing, but that it has nothing to do with him, and is therefore irrelevant.

Ouch!!!!!

Don’t mince words, Ed.

Please tell us what you TRULY think!

Would it be safe to say that you view Barrack Hussein Obama as an egotistical self centered, narcissistic, selfish, arrogant, selfish individual with a Messiah complex, without regard for what is right and just, but only for what makes him shine, what makes him receive praise and adoration?

In other words, there are no values or principles involved in Our Lord and Savior Barrack Hussein Obama’s (Peace be Unto Him. Praise His Holy Name. Bow before him in humble submission and prostration – /sarcasm off) heart, mind, and soul, save for a leftist one, which means there are none, but he does embrace adoration and praise when it is directed upon himself.

For starters, read about the inventor of communism, Moses Hess!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Hess

MaximusConfessor on October 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM

He may have been influential, or in the direct philsophical lineage of the modern marxist, but considering that Spenser had a rather lengthy passage in the Faerie Queene devoted to denouncing communist thought in the 1590s, I doubt someone born in the early 1800s invented it.

Thou foolishe Elfe (said then the Gyant wroth)
Seest not, how badly all things present bee,
And each estate quite out of order go’th?
The sea itself doest thou not plainely see
Encroch vppon the land there vnder thee;
And th’earth it selfe how daily its increast,
By all that dying to it turned be?
Were it not good that wrong were then surceast,
And from the most, that some were giuen to the least?

Spoiler: the robot kicks the giant’s ass for being a pinko.

Does any one think that Obama is genuinely happy about the fall of the Wall ? – au contraire, he would have been shocked that it even happened and angry with Reagan for bringing about the fall of Communism.

I would go so far as to say that the 20th anniversary would have been dishonored by the presence of this commie President.

nagee76 on October 26, 2009 at 9:15 PM

Any odds that he’ll use the anniversary day to H/T, oh say Castro? Why not? He already pulled the rug from Poland on the anniversary of getting attacked.

Epic Fail.

Hmmm. Passing strange that dips**t Sean Penn is off to Cuba on a ‘reporting’ assignment. No doubt we’ll hear something asnine from Penn on that day.

I think the answer is simpler: Berlin won’t be about Obama. It will honor previous generations of stalwarts against an evil empire that Academia defended for decades. Whether Obama joined them in that effort as a student is not material; after all, there is a time and a place for foolishness, and that’s college. It’s not that Obama doesn’t think that the fall of the wall is a good thing, but that it has nothing to do with him, and is therefore irrelevant.

B. I. N. G. O!

Nothing to stop Sarah and other aspiring freedom-loving leaders from showing up to show unity with the Germans and declaring “Ich bin immer noch ein Berliner“.

And while at it, offer support to the beleaguered European allies having to countenance a belligerent Russia that wishes the Wall was back and higher.

He painted a house on September 11. He’s ignoring the Berlin Wall Commemoration. I wonder what he’ll do on December 7th for Pearl Harbor Day?

behiker on October 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM

He did take time to celebrate the muslim holiday, surely his idea of submission.

Ummmm.. Ed, its ok.. you can call him a communist minded moron.His mother was a radical. He grew up under the mentorship of Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the American Communist party.

He followed in the footsteps of a Chicago communist, Saul Alinsky for God’s fricking sake.

And by the way, he is good friends with Bill Ayers AND his wife Bernadine Dorn Ayers – both of them avowed communists who believed in violently overthrowing the US government violently.

Does any one think that Obama is genuinely happy about the fall of the Wall ? – au contraire, he would have been shocked that it even happened and angry with Reagan for bringing about the fall of Communism.

I would go so far as to say that the 20th anniversary would have been dishonored by the presence of this commie President.

Schadenfreude on October 26, 2009 at 2:48 PM

The RealClearPolitics piece that you cite has a very telling paragraph toward the end that explains the disdain our Congress has in representing the thinking of its constituents. It also notes the foolishness of the word bipartisan.

Yes, he’s into redistributing, but not in a Marxist way. Somewhere and always, he needs to be in the mix. That’s not a true Marxist, as I’ve met such people.

Yes, and again on your side, he’s a Marxist but not a true one. He wants, demands, and requires for himself. Stalin would have purged him, too.

You are right again: Obama won’t celebrate Marxist failures. But I see it as about his own overinflated ego: he can’t match Kennedy or Reagan, and that galls him

Liam on October 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM

What does that even mean?? He’s not a Marxist Marxist?
For all practical purposes and more importantly, end result realities..whats the difference?

I think the answer is simpler: Berlin won’t be about Obama. It will honor previous generations of stalwarts against an evil empire that Academia defended for decades.

Sadly, Ed, you are right.

But given one of today’s interesting headlines, maybe this could help persuade him otherwise.

Pleeeease go to Havana, Venezuela or Iran.

Texyank on October 26, 2009 at 3:19 PM

Actually, since last November, I’ve been hoping Obama would go someplace a lot lot warmer, damned hot, hellishly hot.

Berlin won’t be about Obama.

Nailed it. Besides Barry wasn’t around then. So he can’t get with Joe Biden “and just make shit up”.

He sees nothing to gain.

He knows his statist friends in academia would be upset.

He is scared to death of Russia for some reason.

He’s afraid that he’d have to be confronted by the reality that his beloved Workers’ Paradises have always been the regimes where they have to put up walls to keep people IN.