Re: "Giving Freedom a Miss" from the November 10th edition of the Augusta Chronicle editorial page.
Michael Ryan repeated the debunked lie that Obama resisted wearing a pin of the American flag on his suit. This is a lie originating with Fox News, and during the presidential campaign conservatives made a big deal about whether or not Obama was wearing a flag pin, even though most of them never wear a flag pin. I bet Mr. Ryan's never worn one. Gee, how un-American. Maybe Billy Morris should fire him for being so unpatriotic.
Nevertheless, the above picture proves that Obama doesn't resist wearing a flag pin.
Obama has also never made a speech in a foreign land, or in America, bashing America as Mr. Ryan falsely claims.
It's quite obvious that Mr. Ryan is an unabashed liar.
Mr. Ryan criticizes President Obama for not traveling to Europe and making a speech at the ceremonies commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. He did send a videotaped message which, I think is good enough.
Yesterday, on NPR, a historian was reading from President H.W. Bush's diary. The diary entry from 1989 shows that Bush was trying to find a way to slow down events leading to the end of the Cold War. Republicans were against ending the Cold War because they knew it would decrease defense profits. Mostly, Bush didn't like the fall of the Berlin Wall because Gorbachev was making him look bad. Gorbachev did more to end the Cold War than any American.
As usual, Mr. Ryan is simply full of shit.
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