From Obama Draws Criticism for Sitting Out Berlin Wall Anniversary:

Why then, critics asked, would the U.S. president not revisit that site to mark the culmination of that dream? After all, he has established himself as an intrepid traveler in office, setting off on a slew of overseas trips during his first 10 months on the job.

On several of the stops he has expressed regret for past American behavior, but the Berlin Wall anniversary was seen as an opportunity for the president to honor an American and Western victory for which the U.S. need feel no regret.

“It is a true shame that the president of the United States — this man who cloaks himself in the rhetoric of hope — won’t be pausing to remember,” Gingrich wrote in a column last week in The Washington Examiner.

The National Review’s Rich Lowry wrote that the decision speaks to Obama’s “dismissive view of the Cold War as a relic distorting our thinking.”

“John F. Kennedy famously told Berliners, ‘Ich bin ein Berliner.’ On the 20th anniversary of the last century’s most stirring triumph of freedom, Obama is telling them, ‘Ich bin beschaftigt’ — i.e., I’m busy,” he wrote. “Obama’s failure to go to Berlin is the most telling nonevent of his presidency. It’s hard to imagine any other American president eschewing the occasion.”

So much speculation on why Obama won’t attend the festivities in Berlin. “I’m busy”, doesn’t cut it. Just last month, the president found the time to jet to Copenhagen to lobby for a 2016 Chicago Olympics.

One reason we’ve not seen on Obama’s mystifying reason for refusing to attend the Berlin Wall ceremonies: his narcissistic self is assuaging a fit of pique from the Germans denying his campaign appearance last summer at the Brandenburg Gate. [Obama-Gate (The Brandenburg Gate, That Is)]

With Obama’s refusal to attend the German festivities, he gets to cross another one off his life-long list of personal affronts suffered and avenged.

This is just a hypothesis.

Still…

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Washington Times: “Democrats tried to thwart Reagan’s Cold War vision”.
Many times, we might add.