20th Anniversary Of The Wall’s Fall: Thanks For Playing Communism

Let’s see if I can slip one past the censors here like Adrian Cronauer in Good Morning Vietnam.  The Berlin Wall–the very symbol of the Cold War between capitalism and communism–came down twenty years ago today.  You won’t hear too much about this monstrously historic day from media types hell-bent on leading America towards some of the same failed ideas symbolized by that wall.  You also won’t hear about it from President Obama who is skipping the international celebration of the event!  What?

Well, forgive me if I’d like to celebrate the failure of the Soviet Union and the victory, yes victory, of America and the free world in the Cold War led by President Reagan.  Such statements may shock your American sensibilities, so let’s check in on Europe where they are prominently celebrating this historic anniversary, the commemoration of the day freedom won out, when our open system conquered the veiled evil, yes evil, of the Soviet’s communist empire. 

The Berlin celebration will balance glitz with sobriety.  World leaders such as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Sarkozy, Russian President Medvedev, and more will be there to speak.  Yet Obama won’t.  As the German news publication Der Spiegel put it, “Barrack is too busy.” 

Obama has already made more international trips in his first year than Bush and Clinton combined, yet he doesn’t have time to go to Berlin.  Now, thanks to a little something called high school, I know a thing or two about getting blown off.  I’ve heard plenty of excuses in the “I have to wash my hair all weekend” mode.  So I feel qualified to say that Obama is full of it.  Sorry Berlin.  Like Molly Ringwald in Pretty In Pink, you can keep putting on all the makeup you want, but sometimes he just isn’t going to show no matter what he says.

This just in from the Not Speaking Of Makeup department: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is attending in Obama’s place.  Oh goodie.