Sorry, that's the best title I could come up with.

I've used the word "narcissist" so many times to describe Obama that it's almost lost its meaning. Almost.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, "the climax of the Cold War and the West’s triumph" in Ed's words, but Obama can't be bothered to recognize such an event. Lord knows he's got plenty more dither-worthy issues to dither about here.

Ed's got it right, the reason is that simple. The fall of the Berlin Wall isn't about him and more importantly, it's about something that we can safely say he doesn't find all that wonderful. As Obama plants the seeds of Socialism here at home, an occasion commemorating the 50-year battle to forever destroy those very seeds isn't exactly the connection he's looking for.

I'm sure he'll say something and I'm sure it will be stupid. Somehow, someway, in that quintessential "miss the point and spin it toward my goals" manner of Obama with which we've all now become intimately familiar, he'll make the event seem like a fleeting memory of a world in conflict that could have been avoided had he only been born 40 years earlier. Kumbayah would have sufficed just as nicely as Reagan's arms race, don't ya know.

It’s not that Obama doesn’t think that the fall of the wall is a good thing, but that it has nothing to do with him, and is therefore irrelevant.

Says Ed.

The second clause in his sentence is absolutely right, but with each passing day I'm finding it harder and harder to say unequivocally that Obama, like his communications director Anita Dunn, in fact doesn't think the Soviet Union or Red China had the right idea and simply not the most effective method of implementation.

For such a contemplation to be even arguably correct is surreal beyond imagination.

Russ