Comments for Remarks of Merkel, Obama, and Wiesel at Buchenwald We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:48:01 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2010 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Remarks of Merkel, Obama, and Wiesel at Buchenwald Appropriate, given the post that precedes this. REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OBAMA, GERMAN CHANCELLOR MERKEL, AND ELIE WIESEL AT BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPWeimar, Germany CHANCELLOR MERKEL: (As translated.) Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen. Here in this place a concentration camp was established in 1937. Not far from here lies Weimar, a place where Germans created wonderful works of art, thereby contributing to European culture and civilization. Not far from that place where once artists, poets, and great minds met, terror, violence, and tyranny reigned over this camp. At the beginning of our joint visit to the Buchenwald memorial the American President and... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:58:14 -0600 Comment from rrpjr on 2009-06-05 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89432 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89432 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:16:04 -0600 Comment from Cricket on 2009-06-05
Funny how the three of us picked up on that...not scary but good, as if we are still watching.
Indeedy yes.

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89429 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89429 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:19:24 -0600 Comment from BillT on 2009-06-05 Apparently, Mr. Obama's greatuncle has cut his legs out saying he never spoke to Barack about his war experiences

Not surprising, since Charles W. Payne may actually have been in the *Navy* in WWII. Charles *T*. Payne served in the 89th Division.

]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89428 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89428 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:31:53 -0600 Comment from fdcol63 on 2009-06-05
If that's not enough or if you consider it ancient history, just remember Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo - a mere 10 years ago.

For all of Obama's apologies, the world would be a much darker place without the light of Lady Liberty's torch.

The United States doesn't need to apologize to anyone.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89426 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89426 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:20:47 -0600 Comment from JimC on 2009-06-05
I noticed that too. Only a communist could call the Nazis 'right-wing'.   Merkel is no communist so how she sees the Nazis as right-wing is do to the pernicious myth started by the communists to discredit the political alternatives to themselves.  Language, sadly, has been ceded to the left and it was ceded long ago.

Apparently, Mr. Obama's greatuncle has cut his legs out saying he never spoke to Barack about his war experiences and if Barack went to Buchenwald it was political decision.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89425 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89425 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:09:31 -0600 Comment from BillT on 2009-06-05
...there are no words to adequately describe what we feel when we look at the suffering inflicted so cruelly upon so many people here and in other concentration and extermination camps under National Socialist terror.

Although, in the lexicon of the Left, the National Socialist German Workers' Party is termed a *right*-wing organization.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89424 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/06/remarks_of_merk.html#comment-89424 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:44:44 -0600 Comment from Casey on 2009-06-05
The rest of her speech was pretty good, until the last graf.
We shall fight against terror, extremism, and anti-Semitism.
Yoicks. Imagine the Germans actually fighting, period. That would be a change.

And (I hate to say it) Barry, SHUT UP! No, seriously, somone needs to edit his freaking speeches. Hasn't anyone told Mister Eloquent that shorter is better?

I'd suggest studying Churchill, but that wouldn't fly at all. ;)

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