Obama, the Terrorist, and the Berlin Wall

Obama’s swing to the left becomes more pronounced by the day. It has reached the point where the question can now be asked: Whose president is he? Somebody should tell him he is President of the United States. He is supposed to represent all of us. Two incidents this past week now clearly demonstrate that he is only concerned about his ideological agenda…the rest of the country be damned.

Last Thursday afternoon, the nation was shocked when an Islamic nutcase psychiatrist shot and killed 13 American service people waiting to be deployed at Fort Hood, Texas. The President was scheduled to give remarks to a Native American gathering, and advised the press he would make a statement about the Ft. Hood incident. The cameras cut to his event, and instead of beginning with even the most basic of statements about the sympathy for the families of the fallen soldiers…he does a several minute long fluff introduction giving “shout outs” to various people in the audience. It was almost bizarre. I thought I was the only one who believed this was odd. The press was so stunned it took two days before it sunk in and commentary began to appear. Why would he do that?

The second incident involved our “world” president refusing to attend the ceremony commemorating 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This event, and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, represented the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom against the evils of totalitarianism. The Berlin Wall was conjoined to the institution of the American Presidency as borne out by Democratic President John Kennedy’s famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, and Republican President Ronald Reagan’s equally famous “Mr. Gorbachev…tear down this wall!” speech. Obama can go to Copenhagen to promote the Olympics, but ignore one of the most significant events of our time?

What the above two incidents show is that Obama is either ignorant, or doesn’t care. I would hope for the former, because that is fixable. But I suspect the latter; because everything else he is doing bolsters is ideological view of the world, which is so far to the left the American psyche has yet to comprehend it.

Barack Obama is a committed leftist. If he believes that America is the source of all that is wrong with the world, rather than the source of all that is good, he will simply be flippant with any event that contradicts that view. The historic nature of the collapse of the Soviet Union marked the end of the grand socialist experiment, and is not to be celebrated but mourned. An Islamic terrorist, whether acting alone or in concert with someone else, is only a symptom of America’s sins to the world, and must be viewed “in context.”

No one should be surprised at his insensitivity. Barack Obama believes in one thing: redistribution of wealth. It is his goal to achieve it through a health care takeover and climate change legislation, both so draconian in scope and breadth it will “change America”. Everything else is subordinate and irrelevent to those two goals, including his re-election, and the re-election of his party. Unfortunately, he will be long gone before America finally wakes up and understands that not all change is good, and then it will be too late to undo the damage he is doing.