A very good editorial from the Times making the point that Obama had no business being in Germany yesterday anyway:

Some have criticized President Obama for not visiting Berlin to commemorate this historic moment, but he made the right choice. When Sen. Barack Obama wanted to speak at the venue during the 2008 presidential campaign, German Chancellor Angela Merkel thought the request "a bit odd." It still is. Mr. Obama was on the other side of the policy divide during the Reagan years, and if his party had remained in power, we have no doubt the Soviet Union would have lasted longer as a going concern. Mr. Obama should not attempt to associate himself with that historic moment, when a man with vision had the ability to see the future and the courage to realize it.

That's absolutely right. The paragraph before it explains the hypocrisy and deceit of the Left on trying to claim a piece of the victory that belonged solely to Ronnie, Maggie and Western Democracy:

Yet Mr. Reagan's vision of a world without the Soviet empire was soon realized. When the wall came down 10 months after Mr. Reagan left office, his critics were quick to deny that he had had anything to do with it. Credit was given to Mr. Gorbachev or the invention of fax machines or other fanciful notions. The latest theory is that the wall came down because of a muffed press conference by East German Politburo spokesman Gunter Schabowski. It became a liberal conceit to share in the credit, to claim "we were all cold warriors," even though when the liberals used that term to describe Mr. Reagan, it was a code word for "kook."

For those who don't believe that that is the Left's version of what actually happened, read David Horowitz' article about how The Nation celebrated the fall of Communism by celebrating Communism.

Obama is on the "other side" of every ideological tenet on which this Country was founded. I said yesterday that a pretty good shorthand for knowing what is good for America is to do and say the exact opposite of what Obama does and says. We forget sometimes that this isn't a new phenomenon for Obama. He was in college and law school in the 80's railing about nuclear power and honing his Socialist street cred while the West, led by the United States and Ronald Reagan, put the screws to the Evil Empire and proved unequivocally that Communism is not only inferior to Capitalism, but truly evil in the purest sense of the word.

Obama doesn't get that. Yesterday's anniversary was no place for an Alinsky disciple who very well could believe that the United States didn't, in fact, win the Cold War for all of the reasons he presently seeks to destroy.

It would have been an even greater embarrassment to America and the World had he been there.

Russ