America's Recessional: President Obama's Legacy

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American Thinker:

December 3, 2014

America's Recessional: President Obama's Legacy

By Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison

Candidate Barack Obama went to Berlin in 2008. He addressed an adoring crowd of tens of thousands there and told these Europeans he was “a citizen of the world.” It was an almost unprecedented event.

 

Dwight Eisenhower was the first presidential candidate to make a foreign trip a key part of his campaign for the White House. As former military chief of NATO, Ike pledged in his 1952 campaign against the hapless Adlai Stevenson: “I will go to Korea.” Once Eisenhower,

But neither the supremely confident and commanding Eisenhower nor the flummoxed Romney did what Barack Obama did: No one had ever made his appeal to foreigners a key theme in his campaign for president. Barack Obama did this.

 

Why Germany, of all places? For half a century, Germany was the fulcrum of the Cold War. But before that, Germany was for a hundred years seen as the proving ground for Marxism. Both Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin viewed Germany as the key to the success of socialism in the world.

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FTA:

 

America’s Recessional is being achieved on President Obama’s watch and by his chosen course of action. Now, all he has to do is find a suitable aircraft carrier to land on and raise his banner: “Mission Accomplished.”

 

Gotcher Obamavessel right here...