Obama Draws Criticism for Sitting Out Berlin Wall Anniversary – FOXNews.com
on November 8th, 2009 at 8:48 pmObama Draws Criticism for Sitting Out Berlin Wall Anniversary
President Obama squeezed in a trip to Copenhagen last month to lobby, unsuccessfully, for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. He plans to travel to Oslo next month to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, an award that even Obama has said he does not deserve. And this coming week, he sets out on a weeklong tour of Asia.
But the president does not plan to travel to Germany to attend the 20th anniversary celebration Monday of the fall of the Berlin Wall, drawing heated criticism from those who say he’s ignoring a shining triumph of American-inspired democracy.
It’s easy to see why, though. He thinks that we’d all be better off under the control of a communist government. There’s no way that he’d celebrate the fall of one.