Month: November 2009

Obama Will Not Travel to Germany for 20th Anniversary of Fall of Berlin Wall – Political Punch

President Obama will not travel to Germany to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9.

White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs said today that President Obama’s schedule will not allow for a visit to Germany.

“Obviously, we have a lot to work on here and we have commitments for an upcoming Asia trip,” Gibbs said.

The anniversary festivities are scheduled for November 9, and the president leaves for his ten-day tour of Asia on November 11.

Gibbs added that the White House will soon announce a U.S. delegation to attend the ceremonies in Germany instead.

In 2008, then-Democratic Presidential Candidate Obama delivered a major campaign speech in Berlin, drawing the largest crowds—about 100,000 people—of his campaign. Obama received criticism from conservatives and then-Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain for using the speech as a political tool to capitalize on his star-status.

Today, the president is again facing criticism that the city that was an important stop in his campaigning is not a priority during this significant anniversary.

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Planned Parenthood Employee Quits After Viewing Ultrasound of Abortion « The United Families International Blog

Abby Johnson, who worked and volunteered with Planned Parenthood for eight years, recently quit after watching the ultrasound of an abortion. She claimed watching the baby “crumple” as it was vacuumed from a woman’s uterus changed her heart and opinion towards abortion.

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Fort Hood’s 9/11

Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan planned this terrorist attack and executed it in cold blood. The resulting massacre was the first tragedy. The second was that he wasn’t killed on the spot.

Hasan survived. Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical bills. Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming “harassment” drove him temporarily insane. There’ll be no end of trial delays. At best, taxpayer dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come, since our politically correct Army leadership wouldn’t dare pursue or carry out the death penalty.

Maj. Hasan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their sympathizers here. While US Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly, Hasan will be praised privately. And he’ll have the last laugh.

But Hasan isn’t the sole guilty party. The US Army’s unforgivable political correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Ft. Hood.

Given the myriad warning signs, it’s appalling that no action was taken against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damn US policy. But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army Medical Center or at Ft. Hood, had the guts to take meaningful action against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.

Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would’ve been gone with the simoon. But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with misconduct among protected minorities.

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Fall Of The Wall? U.S. Sends Regrets – Investors.com

Today, American leaders travel the world expressing their regrets for our alleged past transgressions, and American exceptionalism is no longer part of our vocabulary. We’re just another one of the gang, sandwiched alphabetically between Uganda and Upper Volta, whose votes cancel ours in an international community to which we pledge our fealty.

On the 20th anniversary of this triumph of freedom, it appears than no American president will be there to celebrate, much less remember, the day that the “evil empire” was consigned to the ash heap of history.

read the rest here… Investors.com – Fall Of The Wall? U.S. Sends Regrets.