Obama skips the Berlin Wall ceremonies, then surprise! “appears” there via video. Of course, in the couple of minute speech, he just couldn’t help but add some self-reference.
No One Could Have Forseen on That Day That German Ally America Would Be Led By Man of African Descent
Guess who he didn’t name in that speech? It’s as if Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II just dithered through history.
(h/t Ace)
Comment by JD on 11/9 @ 10:14 pm #
The dirty little socialist lurvs hearing him read about himself.
Comment by Roland THTG on 11/9 @ 10:17 pm #
He’s pretty much just a dickhead.
Comment by Baracky on 11/9 @ 10:20 pm #
But enough about you…
Comment by ghost707 on 11/9 @ 10:23 pm #
Sociopath. 110%
Comment by OCBill on 11/9 @ 10:25 pm #
To be fair, he didn’t just not mention Reagan, Thatcher, or Pope John Paul II. He also didn’t mention Russia, the Soviet Union, or Communism.
Comment by ghost707 on 11/9 @ 10:29 pm #
I think it’s funny that the liar-in-chief will discuss his daughter’s grades but won’t ever discuss his.
He really does give clowns a bad name.
Comment by JC on 11/9 @ 10:38 pm #
No One Could Have Forseen on That Day That German Ally America Would Be Led By Man of African Descent~~~~~And no one still does.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/9 @ 10:40 pm #
No shock that he didn’t mention Reagan; it’s along the lines of penis envy…
And the world batter wake up; Barry O! isn’t going anywhere it’s not all about him or he’s not being feted.
putz…
Comment by OCBill on 11/9 @ 10:44 pm #
Also, if you look closely at Obama’s Berlin video, you’ll notice that his tie is crooked. It’s times like this that it must really suck to be a narcissist.
Comment by SBP on 11/9 @ 10:46 pm #
He made this about HIM?
Fucker.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/9 @ 10:47 pm #
You lie. America is led by a man of Hungarian descent.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/9 @ 11:04 pm #
Dirty docialist Hungarian muppets by chance? With skeezy hoochie-like wimmenz?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/9 @ 11:12 pm #
Yup. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Comment by ghost707 on 11/9 @ 11:13 pm #
Unfortunately, Soros has four sons, so when he finally shuffles off to hell, he will have at least a couple of world-rapers to carry on his destruction.
Comment by sdferr on 11/9 @ 11:15 pm #
The contrast of Obama pretending to care about freedom here and the way he has treated the people of Iran who stand under actual duress couldn’t be more sick making. He’s a pig.
Comment by greginsewa on 11/9 @ 11:54 pm #
A narcissist who admits to being “…filled with rage.”
We are SO screwed…
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/10 @ 12:17 am #
I thought that was a joke, but he really did say that. I also like the bit about being concerned about human rights, but left off “unless they’re in China” Iran works too, as already mentioned.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 11/10 @ 12:23 am #
No One Could Have Forseen on That Day That German Ally America Would Be Led By [a Communist Front] Man of African Descent
So don’t y’all Trolls ever be tellin’ me again I don’t give AA points to the brown people!
Comment by dicentra on 11/10 @ 12:26 am #
My main memory of the fall of the Soviet Bloc was a concert that was given some time after the wall’s fall, in which musicians from both the free world and the newly freed countries performed Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, only during the “Ode to Joy,” they changed Freude (joy) to Freiheit (freedom). I bawled all the way through it.
Having been born after the wall went up, I believed that it would last forever, like the Pyramids and Mt. Rushmore. When we first heard about Glasnost and Perestroika, we were all skeptical, because the Soviets had up until then been reliably duplicitous; all was a calculated illusion to prove their ideological superiority, illusions that no sane person could possibly believe unless you had a gun to your head. It came to the point where lying and dissembling was an ingrained habit for them, a survival mechanism to avoid the terrible poverty and violence that filled their desperate lives.
Only a handful of fools were not clear as to why the wall’s demise was an unadulterated good. A movie like The Hunt for Red October (which a local channel is playing ad infinitum lately) provided a special thrill at the thought of a Russian admiral turning over his super-secret submarine to prevent the USSR from having an unfair advantage over us, thereby leading to a war that we’d all lose.
And now, only 20 years later, the idea that freedom is overrated and even undesirable (INSECURITY! CHAOS! TEA-BAGGERS!) is beginning to creep into the public consciousness, both from the Islamic fanatics and the statists. Without the USSR as Exhibit A in Why We Don’t Want Anything Resembling Socialism, the new generation figures it might be pretty sweet to have a caretaker government that heals all the boo-boos and makes life’s injustices go away. All for free!
I weep for the death of the spirit and the soul. Ennui! Ennui!
(Name that quotation!)
Comment by dicentra on 11/10 @ 12:29 am #
America is led by a man of Hungarian descent.
I heard a caller on Bill Bennett’s show who talked to Polish officials recently. Said the Poles are plenty hacked off about the “new deal” for their security. They asked the caller who on earth is really in charge of our foreign policy and the caller said he figured it was Soros. The Poles readily agreed. They’ve seen this movie before, and they don’t much like how it ends.
Comment by dicentra on 11/10 @ 12:46 am #
OMG Iowahawk!
Comment by geoffb on 11/10 @ 1:15 am #
Let’s have a few more notes, a duet even, Barack and BFF Georgie S.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 11/10 @ 1:44 am #
“OMG Iowahawk!”
Right on, dudette. Thanks!
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/10 @ 4:27 am #
At that time, no one could have foreseen that the ruler of Russia would own a lawn jockey bearing the head of the President of the United States.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/10 @ 5:25 am #
“Barack Obama lawn jockeys” …… “Feed the tuna fish mayonnaise”
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/10 @ 5:39 am #
“Feed the tuna fish mayonnaise
Not sure how to take that, alpuccino, other than it might be a stupid idea, as per Keaton’s character, to call Obbie a lawn jockey, and maybe you are right and I should be denounced. OK, I denounce myself. Then again, Condi Rice didn’t get where she got by constantly reminding everyone she was black and how lucky they were to have her black advanciness in their lives because it reaffirmed their wonderfulness and goodness.
I’m past understanding all this shit. Maybe it was the McNeil Liar program last night that sent me round the bend — bug-eyed homojournalist Jeffrey Brown doing a special on the Wall coming down and never once mentioning Ronald Reagan, etc, etc. Obama — Ft. Hood — healthcare — they’re all blending into a giant cluster of Progressive stupidity force-fed into the American gullet to fatten it up for the collectivist good.
Need more coffee.
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/10 @ 5:41 am #
Oh yeah, and the idiot journalist I heard last night saying the Fort Hood massacre was a clear call for more and better health care in the army. Those idiots don’t need tuna, they need a swordfish.
Need more coffee.
Comment by alppuccino on 11/10 @ 6:16 am #
Oops SL, not a judger here. No intention to make you feel denounceable. I’m past political correctness. After all, it’s a big Hungarian stallion what gets tethered to an Obama lawn jockey.
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/10 @ 6:48 am #
No intention to make you feel denounceable. I’m past political correctness.
Yeah, I know, and no problem. But maybe lawn jockey moves us a little too close to Ted Rall. (But wouldn’t you like to see a photo of Obama riding the hounds? I denounce myself again.)
Comment by SDN on 11/10 @ 6:49 am #
#19: “I would like to have seen Montana…”
That line brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it. Only someone who has actually lived under a real dictatorship really appreciates what we have here. Unfortunately, The Gods Of The Copybook Headings are making sure we all have that experience anew.
Comment by Rusty on 11/10 @ 6:50 am #
He’s just the guy in the White House. Wake me up when he starts to act like a president.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 7:03 am #
The Lawn Jockey gets a bad rap. But I still wouldn’t portray Obama as one, what with it being a symbol of freedom. It just doesn’t fit him.
Comment by Joe on 11/10 @ 7:08 am #
No One Could Have Forseen on That Day That
German Ally America Would Be Led By Man of African DescentNarcissus Would Stop Looking At His Reflection Long Enough To Bother To Make A Video For Germany.Comment by sashal on 11/10 @ 7:08 am #
sometimes the truth contradicts the common knowledge established in incurious minds:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120251027&ft=1&f=1001
Comment by Matt on 11/10 @ 7:14 am #
the word “led” in that context is being used in the loosest sense of the word…
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/10 @ 7:19 am #
Heh, Pablo. Big kerfuffle here a few years ago when a BLACK policeman’s wife put one of those on her yard during black heritage month. They tore the poor woman apart.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 7:24 am #
NPR? Oh, goody!
That would be quite a revalation. If that was actually what he said. It isn’t.
Comment by sashal on 11/10 @ 7:33 am #
national security archives, pablo.
I am as surprised as you are.
Did you listen to the podcast, too ?
It is only 5 min long
Comment by JD on 11/10 @ 7:47 am #
Sashal is yearning for a little Bolshevism. Sad.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 8:01 am #
“nonprofit National Security Archives“, which is not the National Archives. All of which is irrelevant. Blanton is not an “Official” ion the governmental sense of the word, and he doesn’t say what NPR says he said, which is that “neither Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa nor the George H.W. Bush administration wanted [the wall] to come down”. He just doesn’t.
So you’re not at all surprised? I had a different impression.
Is there a problem with the transcript?
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 8:04 am #
You remember the National Archives, right?
Comment by JHo on 11/10 @ 8:07 am #
Speaking of which, the neocapitalists at NPR are shilling a non-stocking thirty dollar internet radio — made by SweatShop!™, no doubt — for only two hundred bucks.
Among it’s many features is a one-button NPR station finder. It’s an extra one hundred seventy bucks or so for some technologist to pre-code a software function for use by independent, self-reliant NPR proggdronerevisionists like sashal.
Not unlike an intravenous drip, that. Pay it off with your govt check, hive-dweller.
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/10 @ 8:09 am #
I bet sashal’s invested in a lot of those vintage Elvis Prestlee albums, too.
Comment by SBP on 11/10 @ 8:18 am #
Among it’s many features is a one-button NPR station finder.
I’m surprised they didn’t go full-bore North Korean and simply make it impossible to tune the radio to any other station.
sashal: North Korea is still there and has exactly the sort of government you like. Catch a plane, dude.
Comment by sashal on 11/10 @ 8:20 am #
I realize the only legit news organization is FOX.
My bad.
And some are surprised why normal decent humans do not take the North Koreanish stubborn ideologues of the tea bagging movement seriously…
Comment by SBP on 11/10 @ 8:21 am #
normal decent humans
You and yours are none of these, monster.
Comment by Snowclone on 11/10 @ 8:25 am #
Sashal is more of a teabagee. That much is certain.
Comment by sashal on 11/10 @ 8:26 am #
About the National Security Archive
An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States. The Archive won the 1999 George Polk Award, one of U.S. journalism’s most prestigious prizes, for–in the words of the citation–”piercing the self-serving veils of government secrecy, guiding journalists in the search for the truth and informing us all.”
The Archive obtains its materials through a variety of methods, including the Freedom of Information act, Mandatory Declassification Review, presidential paper collections, congressional records, and court testimony. Archive staff members systematically track U.S. government agencies and federal records repositories for documents that either have never been released before, or that help to shed light on the decision-making process of the U.S. government and provide the historical context underlying those decisions.
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As a part of its mission to broaden access to the historical record, the Archive is also a leading advocate and user of the Freedom of Information Act. Precedent-setting Archive lawsuits have brought into the public domain new materials on the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran-Contra Affair, and other issues that have changed the way scholars interpret those events. The Archive spearheaded the groundbreaking legal effort to preserve millions of pages of White House e-mail records that were created during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations.
The Archive’s mission of guaranteeing the public’s right to know extends to other countries outside the United States. The organization is currently involved in efforts to sponsor freedom of information legislation in the nations of Central Europe, Central and South America and elsewhere, and is committed to finding ways to provide technical and other services that will allow archives and libraries overseas to introduce appropriate records management systems into their respective institutions.
The Archive’s $2.5 million yearly budget comes from publication revenues, contributions from individuals and grants from foundations such as the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. As a matter of policy, the Archive seeks no U.S. government funding.
For further information contact Thomas S. Blanton, Executive Director of the National Security Archive.
To use the Archive’s collections, search http://www.nsarchive.org, visit our reading room at George Washington University’s Gelman Library, or ask your university or public library to subscribe to the Digital National Security Archive published by ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey.
Comment by JD on 11/10 @ 8:34 am #
And if you give them your credit card number, and $100, they will send you a shitty coffee mug.
All of that copy and paste to obfuscate for your lie, sashal. Sad.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/10 @ 8:36 am #
Comment by happyfeet on 11/9 @ 10:47 pm #
hf, I am literally sitting here laughing out loud.
No acronyms fou YOU, my friend.
Comment by SBP on 11/10 @ 8:41 am #
Sashal just got the Hammer again.
Comment by Abe Froman on 11/10 @ 8:41 am #
and the Open Society Institute. As a matter of policy, the Archive seeks no U.S. government funding.
The Hungarian and his muppets are everywhere.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 8:42 am #
What news organization are you talking about? I thought you were talking about
…which still doesn’t matter. The guy DID NOT SAY what NPR clearly says he said.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 8:44 am #
Just as a point of clarification for the profoundly stupid, the fall of the Berlin Wall =/= German Reunification.
Is NPR stupid or mendacious? You make that call.
Comment by sashal on 11/10 @ 8:45 am #
yes, Abe, Soros owns NSA, you frigging North Korean retard
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/10 @ 8:45 am #
Comment by sashal on 11/10 @ 8:26 am #
Financed by George Soros?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 11/10 @ 8:46 am #
He owns the National Security Agency, too?
We are so fucked.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 8:50 am #
And here I thought I was paranoid. Thanks for the point of comparison, sashal.
What part of “It doesn’t matter who Tom Blanton is or who he works for because he DID NOT SAY what NPR says he said.” do you not understand?
Comment by sashal on 11/10 @ 8:51 am #
Pablo, the podcast was all what the GUY WAS SAYING, no commentary from NPR.
And he said there about Thatcher reluctance and Gorbachev willingness to take down the wall etc….
he is clearly saying this, you do not have to read any NPR comments
Main point of all this is the Gorbi was the major player in that decision , while the Western powers were rather to keep the status quo
Comment by Abe Froman on 11/10 @ 8:52 am #
yes, Abe, Soros owns NSA, you frigging North Korean retard
I’d go easy on calling people retards if I were you. Your entre into this thread makes you look like a moron. Not only did Blanton not say what you think he did, but it takes an uncommon fool to post a link to something you just “learned” yourself under the guise of a dig at our supposed ignorance and lack of curiosity.
Comment by Abe Froman on 11/10 @ 8:55 am #
And I didn’t say Soros owns the NSA, so we can add that to the tally. Idiot.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 8:55 am #
Ah, so you had to listen to the podcast because you can’t fucking read.
And when you launched the podcast, you didn’t comprehend what the language in the player meant where it says
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 8:57 am #
Particularly when he only just learned it because I just schooled him.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 8:58 am #
I’m just so incurious.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 9:00 am #
BTW, Tom Blanton does an awesome Melissa Block impersonation.
Comment by JD on 11/10 @ 9:00 am #
Hungarians everywhere.
Comment by Joe on 11/10 @ 9:04 am #
So it is okay to hit a woman in the face if she is white and you are black? Race trumps gender.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 9:04 am #
Oh, I overlooked this.
Quote him.
Comment by sashal on 11/10 @ 9:05 am #
Abe, show me what I think the director said.
Can you link me to it?
Typical fascistozoid bending reality ultra RW retard
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 9:06 am #
See #68, and then back it up.
Comment by Abe Froman on 11/10 @ 9:08 am #
Typical fascistozoid bending reality ultra RW retard
My aren’t we literate!
Comment by Matt on 11/10 @ 9:08 am #
I’ve tried to be less incurious. is there a cure for incurious? I’m curious.
Comment by JD on 11/10 @ 9:09 am #
Pablo is not playing well with others this morning. Just think how ornery you will be after Peyton shreds the Pats Sunday night.
Comment by JD on 11/10 @ 9:10 am #
BOLSHEVIKS OF THE WORLD, UNITE !!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by sashal on 11/10 @ 9:10 am #
Pablo, looks like this place is still in rabid reality bending sub-human idiocy of rigid ideology….
My attempt to have a normal conversation with you(regardless of your perception of my wrong or correct interpretation of the interview) was met with the authoritarian statist attack of the proto-fascist kind.
I talk to you later, neighbor, hopefully next time will be more amicable…
Comment by Abe Froman on 11/10 @ 9:11 am #
Have a nice day Sashal!
Comment by JD on 11/10 @ 9:15 am #
I AM GOING TO CALL YOU NAMES AND WHINE AND POUT BECAUSE YOU POINTED OUT THAT I WAS LYING !!!!!!!
Comment by sdferr on 11/10 @ 9:17 am #
“…to have a normal conversation…”
So normal conversation begins with accusing your interlocutors of having “incurious minds”? And moves immediately to associating those same interlocutors with the North Koreans? And ends with “this place is still in rabid reality bending sub-human idiocy of rigid ideology” and “authoritarian statist attack of the proto-fascist kind.”
What a “normal” conversation always looks like where you are involved I suppose, sashal. So tell us, what’s the common denominator in that proposition, hmmm?
Comment by JD on 11/10 @ 9:19 am #
sdferr – Common denominator? That has to be racist. Numeratorists! Actually, the common denominator is sashal’s longing for his Bolshevik masters. He lurvs the hammer of the nanny-state.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 9:20 am #
So in other words, sashal, I’m exactly right, you’re utterly wrong and you’re conceding the argument with all the class as you have to muster, which is none whatsoever.
Brilliant.
Comment by JD on 11/10 @ 9:25 am #
On a completely unrelated topic, the Steelerettes looked good in the 2nd half last night.
Comment by Joe on 11/10 @ 9:27 am #
Time for another White House beer summit This one on when it is okay to punch a white woman in the face. Plus, it appears these folks like to drink. This one is perfect for Scraps Biden.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 9:34 am #
Oh, it’s on, JD.
Comment by Joe on 11/10 @ 9:36 am #
This is not a black white thing, or a male female thing, it just shows that architecture professors cannot hold their liquor like theater professors can.
Comment by SarahW on 11/10 @ 9:59 am #
It’s just so embarrassing.
Comment by JD on 11/10 @ 10:01 am #
Like Donkey Kong, my friend.
Comment by B Moe on 11/10 @ 10:07 am #
Would be a good name for a prog rock concept album.
Comment by Cowboy on 11/10 @ 10:19 am #
Pablo–I thought you were joking with #40.
Could enterprising minds produce an antidote? Perhaps an “All Rush Radio”?
Comment by Eben on 11/10 @ 10:19 am #
After listening to the podcast and reading the transcript only two things can be said, the NPR summation is completely false and sashal is an illiterate tool.
There was no fear of the wall coming down, there was instead a general anxiety in the West that unification was happening too quickly and may work towards the benefit of the U.S.S.R and a general happiness in the East because they thought unification would work towards their advantage. This all according to the interviewee.
Comment by LTC John on 11/10 @ 10:23 am #
I’m getting a bit of an impression that sashal has anger issues….?
Comment by JD on 11/10 @ 10:26 am #
I think its rectal-cranial inversion issues are more profound than its anger issues, LtC John.
Comment by Salt Lick on 11/10 @ 11:05 am #
I kinda understand sashal’s difficulty. One time, when I first started reading swahili, I ordered a roasted ear for breakfast.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 11/10 @ 11:12 am #
I’m getting a bit of an impression that sashal has anger issues….?
Along with his English comprehension issues, logic issues, and inflexible ideologue issues, Colonel. The man has so many issues, he could use a paper towel.
Comment by Pablo on 11/10 @ 11:56 am #
Public Enemy #1, Cowboy.
Comment by geoffb on 11/10 @ 12:04 pm #
There is a narrative out there that NPR and sashal seem to be working from.
It is the story line that all the events of the collapse of the USSR and the past 20 years of Russian and Western history are the work of a plan by the KGB to take over the West by means other than war.
The rise of Putin and Obama’s election play into this story. It is a history-in-waiting. If Obama’s initiatives and the machinations of Russia under Putin do collapse the West (America and the EU) into socialist States then this narrative will become to “true” history. If this doesn’t happen then the narrative will be pushed into the dustbin along with the worship of the Obama messiah.
Comment by sdferr on 11/10 @ 12:27 pm #
“If this doesn’t happen then the narrative will be pushed into the dustbin…”
Ha, you’re awfully optimistic there geoffb, given the disappearance and reappearance of the narrative over the last 20 yrs. Far more likely than simply thrown away, the narrative will be carefully filed and preserved for use at an opportune political moment at the as yet indeterminately appropriate moment in the future. Old ideologies don’t receive the ignominious treatment of trashing, they just sit tucked in their folders lying in wait for the right naifs to come along to take them up again.
Comment by geoffb on 11/10 @ 1:19 pm #
You are likely correct sdferr. Put to the back of a regular file rather than the circular one. Names and dates subject to change for future use. Files and records in the Bureaucratic State are the holiest of the holy.
Comment by WRonten on 11/10 @ 2:36 pm #
That a woman and a racial minority (at least 1/2 of him) could be elected to top office in a free society is great achievement, but that is a small cherry on top of a huge sundae. First you must even be able to VOTE in a meaningful way, and vote for more than one party, and speak freely, and posses property, and travel freely, and be free to seek employment wherever you choose, and free to engage in lawful commerce, and free to emigrate, and have the rights under the law such as habeous corpus…..
He really has no clue at all.