Tuesday, July 15, 2008

You, sir, are no John Kennedy!

Obama seeks to claim the mantle of John F. Kennedy by speaking before the Brandenburg gate. Kennedy was the last President to have real tax-cuts, actual surplus budgets, stand up to the military industrial complex and print actual hard money, US Dollars (not Federal Reserve Notes). We know what happened to him. Hussein O will not be so foolish. He, like Juan McCain, knows who his masters are.

'He knew what this was about'

Andrew Cohen, National Post
Published: Thursday, June 26, 2008

John F. Kennedy looks across the Berlin Wall on June 26, 1963

BERLIN -By the time John F. Kennedy made his flying visit to West Berlin on June 26, 1963, the Berlin Wall had been in place almost two years. He had come to this city to show solidarity with those living at Ground Zero of the Cold War.

Much as the president wanted to see the wall, he couldn't see all that much. The East Germans had mischievously draped a tarpaulin over the Brandenburg Gate, denying him a clear view of it on the other side.

Still, peering into the grey, dreary east from that wooden tower, he could see how effectively the wall had divided the city with barbed wire, guard posts, brick and concrete blocks. And he knew then, with startling clarity, what this was about.

It wasn't that complicated, really. For JFK, Berlin was on the frontline of freedom and Berliners were its stout defenders. As a free people, the United States would stand by them.

Which is why, on that memorable day 45 years ago, he would utter the most famous four words of his life, in a language not his own, which resound today: Ich bin ein Berliner.

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