Barack Hussein Obama couldn’t bring himself to visit Germany and the location of the Berlin Wall. I visited that site and walked through Checkpoint Charlie as a US Soldier. I visit parts of East Germany and it seemed like a look into George Orwell’s book 1984, or worse.

Obama was glad to speak near the Brandenburg Gates and pretend he is a great leader but he is a “leader” who doesn’t lead, takes no personal responsibility, blames others for problems and is proving fast that he couldn’t lead a whore to bed or the US States to prosperity.

Barack Hussein Obama wants all the attention brought towards him and in a taped speech commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall he did just that, included himself in the speech. No Reagan, no Thatcher, no dissidents but himself, the self-important, narcissistic Obama.

Agence France-Presse reports:

“Few would have foreseen . . . that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent. But human destiny is what human beings make of it,” Obama said.

The woman from Brandenburg is German Chancellor Merkel and of course the man of African descent is Barack Hussein Obama, “The One.”

John Fund writes at Political Diary:

A few blocks from where the Wall stood is the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, which commemorates the more than 1,000 people who died trying to cross the deadly East German border. A group of important Berliners gathered over the weekend to inaugurate a new exhibit on the Gipper and his famous efforts to end the division of Berlin.

The collection tells a fascinating story of just how focused Ronald Reagan was on tearing down the Wall. He first visited Berlin in November 1978, and spent many minutes surveying the wall’s “death strip” from the penthouse offices of the conservative Axel Springer publishing house that stood right on the border between the two cities. “You could tell from the set of his jaw and his look,” recalls former aide Peter Hannaford, “that he was very, very determined that this was something that had to go.”

Reagan, then a private citizen, asked if he could visit East Berlin. Told that he needed only a one-day visa and to exchange a certain amount of Western currency for almost worthless Ost Marks, he said: “Let’s go.” One of the places they visited was East Berlin’s central department store, “a K Mart but with almost no inventory.” Upon leaving, they were confronted with a scene of two East German “Vopo” policemen roughing up a young man. “We’ve got to find a way to knock this thing down,” Reagan said.

Fast forward nine years later, when now-President Reagan was preparing a visit in honor of Berlin’s 750th anniversary. His plan to call on the city’s Soviet overlords to “tear down this wall” became a topic of bitter dispute inside the administration. The National Security Council and State Department tried to have the passage removed from his proposed speech as too “provocative” and theatrical. White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker and others believed the language could embarrass Mikhail Gorbachev. A June 2, 1987 memo from Peter Rodman of the National Security Council called the speech “mediocre” and a “lost opportunity.” Attached was an edited draft that had the entire “tear down this wall” section crossed out.

When Reagan insisted on restoring the sock-it-to-’em lines, the speech proved a hit with the thousands who heard it. They cheered for a full 20 seconds. But many Reagan aides remained unconvinced. “I thought to myself: ‘It’s a great speech, but it will never happen,’” National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci remembers thinking.

Reagan, however, was convinced he had laid down an important marker, and many who gathered to open the Reagan Room at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum this week are now convinced he hasn’t gotten his full due. “There are Ronald Reagan streets in Budapest, Warsaw and Cracow,” museum director Alexandra Hilldebrandt told me. “But in Berlin the socialist city government not only won’t name a street after Reagan. They removed the more than 1,000 crosses I put up outside the museum to commemorate those who died trying to cross the Wall.”

But Lothar de Maziere, the conservative who served as East Germany’s last president before the country was dissolved, remains hopeful. “The decision to name streets is done at the district level, so maybe something can be done with the local officials,” he told me. De Maziere, who as a lawyer defended people who had failed to escape East Germany, says he has no doubt that average people give Reagan a lot more credit for the Wall’s fall than do elites. “The name of Reagan is in the heart of ordinary Berliners,” he says. “While many people jostle to take credit for what Reagan set in motion, in the end his legacy is secure.”

The name of Obama might suit the socialists of Berlin but the people may have the final say as in America where the people are used to having their say, their vote and their freedom.

Obama would like to indirectly take credit for the Berlin Wall falling but would be more pleased if he could build one in America between its citizens and a free society. Indeed!