Via
National Review:
Lech Walesa
was once a trade-union activist. He was often arrested for speaking his
mind against Communist oppression behind the Iron Curtain in Poland and
for defying the Soviet Union. He was an electrician who, with no higher education,
led one of the most profound freedom movements of the 20th century —
Solidarity. He became president of Poland and swept in reforms, pushing
the Soviet Union out of his homeland and moving the country toward a
free-market economy and individual liberty. And President Obama doesn’t want him to set foot in the White House.
According to the Wall Street Journal,
Polish officials requested that Walesa accept the Medal of Freedom on
behalf of Jan Karski, a member of the Polish Underground during World
War II who was being honored posthumously this week. The request makes
sense. Walesa and Karski shared a burning desire to rid Poland of
tyrannical subjugation. But President Obama said no.
Administration officials told the Journal that Walesa is too
“political.” A man who was arrested by Soviet officials for dissenting
against the government for being “political” is being shunned by the
United States of America for the same reason 30 years later.
Meanwhile, one of the recipients of the Medal was Dolores Huerta,
the honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. So
socialist politics are acceptable, but not the politics of a man who
stood up and fought socialism.
Keep reading…
Obama Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom To Democratic Socialists
of America Chair Dolores Huerta, Says He Stole 2008 Slogan “Yes, We Can”
From Her…
President Barack Obama
winks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May
29, 2012, during the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony. At right is
American labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Clara Fernandez
Huerta. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Do we need any more evidence our President is not of the American Tradition.
But of course.
ReplyDeleteObama is interested in giving kudos to "his own," meaning fellow Leftists.