Wednesday, July 08, 2009

The Gulags, Genocide, and Slavery? Those Are Just "Old Political Restrictions" to Barack Obama

Scott Johnson at Power Line comments on President Obama's fawning, cowardly and historically-decrepit speech at the New Economic School in Moscow.

The twenty million victims of Stalin's Great Terror are tossed down the memory hole. Instead Obama vaguely alludes to the "old political and economic restrictions" of the Communist past.

One is tempted to laugh at the conclusion of his speech: "Russia has cut its way through time like a mighty river through a canyon, leaving an indelible mark on human history as it goes." Is this some kind of a joke? It is really a remarkable performance.