When was the last time 200,000 American-flag waving Germans, or Europeans, or citizens of any country other than the U.S., clapped, cheered, and roared enthusiastic approval for an American political leader and his democratic ideals?
I can't remember a similarly auspicious occasion since President Ronald Reagan in 1987.
Can you?
(Photo taken as Sen. Barack Obama speaks in front of the Siegessaeule at the Grosser Stern in Tiergarten on July 24, 2008 in Berlin, Germany: Carsten Koall/Getty Images)
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Comments
There’s a monumental difference between the Reagan speech at the Brandenburg Gate and the Obama speech down the street from there.
Reagan had established a policy with significant leverage to force the Soviets into remission. He demanded at the Berlin Wall that the Wall be torn down and the Soviets promptly did it.
One the other hand, Obama is a Junior Senator without legislative accomplishment. Just a few years ago Obama was a community organizer in Chicage. Now he wants to be the President of the United States.
Uh, that’s all I can come up with for Obama. Oh yes, he wants “Change”, too. That’s what scares me. Obama’s vision of bigger, bloated government is a very, very bad idea.
Let’s close by quoting Reagan, “Government isn’t the answer to our problems, it’s the source of them”.