Saturday, November 7, 2009

Monday is 20th anniv of fall of Berlin Wall-Obama won't be there.

Michael Reagan on the Berlin Wall and Ronald Reagan's reaction to it:
"..."That wall began to go up at 1 a.m. the morning of the 13th, and by the time you would have woken up on the morning of the 13th, the barbed wire, the guns and the dogs would have been there.
"The communists had hired every single mason in Germany to come to Berlin — they didn’t even know why — to begin building that Berlin Wall. Yes, my dad wanted that to come down, wanted to put communism on the ash heap of history.
"And he was the only one — aside from Peter Robinson, who wrote the speech with my dad — the only one in … the government that thought that line, 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,' should even be in that speech."
Martella asked Reagan if he thinks it is odd that Obama, as president of the United States, is declining to attend the anniversary ceremonies.

"I don't find it odd. I find it completely consistent with Barack Obama, how he uplifts the enemies of freedom and pushes those who yearn to be free away as if there's something terribly wrong with us," Reagan said.

Former President George H.W. Bush, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Mikhail Gorbachev and other prominent world figures are expected to be in Berlin to mark the anniversary, "but it is sad that the president of the United States doesn't deem it that important for him to be there," Reagan declared.
"But it does not surprise me that he doesn't really uplift the United States of America. He only goes overseas to point fingers across the ocean and blame George Bush for everything."

Asked about the significance of the Berlin Wall's demise, Reagan said: "That people have forgotten. The significance is that it happened two decades ago, and here's the problem: Young people in that part of the world are now being led to believe that America put up the Berlin Wall to keep the communists out of the American sector.
"This is what happens with education when there is no education. You have a group of people in the Eastern Bloc who don't know how they became free, and you have young people in America who don't know how to stay free...

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