ELLIS WASHINGTON COMMENTARY: Why Obama Can't Go To Berlin

The political science professor and conservative Republican opines about why U.S. President Barack Obama turned down German Chancellor Angela Merkel's personal invitation to attend the 20th anniversary celebration of the Berlin Wall's fall: "Three American statesmen made trips to deliver historical speeches in Berlin: 1) JFK's 'Ich bin ein Berliner' [I am a Berliner] speech in 1963, 2) Ronald Reagan's 'Tear down this wall!' speech in 1987, and 3) Barack Obama's 2009 non-speech speech which in a revelatory article by National Review's Rich Lowry could be titled, 'Ich bin beschäftigt' – i.e., I'm busy. Although Barack Obama, after only one year in office, has visited more countries than any other U.S. president in history, he does not have time to accept German Chancellor Angela Merkel's invitation to speak in Berlin next week in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which Nikita Khrushchev built in 1961 to keep East German citizens separate from the West and mired in the hopeless abyss of communism."

He continues his commentary: "Why can't Obama go to Berlin? President Obama is Machiavellian to the core, and like Machiavelli, who said in his infamous book 'The Prince' (1513) the end justifies the means, likewise Obama will do nothing that won't further his political agenda to 'remake America' in his own Marxist image. Going to Berlin won't deify Obama, it will reveal him. Furthermore, he knows that whatever words he would say in Berlin would pale in comparison to the words JFK said in Berlin in June 1963 and especially Ronald Reagan's prophetic rhetoric uttered before the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987 – 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' – just two years before the fall of the evil Soviet Empire. Moreover, the dirty little secret about the Democratic Party, Barack Obama and his fascist minions in the White House is that they were on the wrong side of history. Liberals did not cheer when the Berlin Wall fell. Obama and his socialist colleagues in the academy, in the media, in Hollywood did not have a party of jubilee as the people did in East Berlin, in Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia and in numerous other former Soviet-bloc countries. Reagan's words, 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' literally freed hundreds of millions of people from the bondage of communist dictatorships all over the world."

More: "On Nov. 9, 1989, the torch of liberty was lit for more than a billion people (one-third of the world's population) when they started their path toward freedom with the fall of the Berlin Wall; a seemingly impregnable symbol of imprisonment that Khrushchev erected in 1961 to stop the exodus of East German citizens fleeing the slavery of communism for the freedom and liberty of democracy in West Germany. Twenty years later, President Obama, as the anti-Reagan, is trying to rebuild the Berlin Wall brick by brick with fascist policies designed to undermine freedom of all Americas and the liberties of those people around the world yearning for a republic founded on the rule of law. Obama wants to place those same shackles Stalin put on the Soviet-bloc countries on America with his socialist health-care bill, which, if passed, would place government in our lives from cradle to grave. Furthermore, if Obama signs the upcoming Copenhagen climate-change treaty at the United Nations conference Dec. 7-18, he will, with the stroke of a pen, concurrently destroy America's Constitution and make the U.S. a servile client state of the United Nations into perpetuity. May God forbid."