Jim Hoft here tells us that His O'liness can't be bothered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union.

President Obama has reportedly informed the German government that he will not travel to Berlin on November 9 to participate in the 20th-anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is an unfortunate decision on multiple counts.

First, it is another slight to another European ally -- one that is going all-out to celebrate the event. The invitation to Obama was extended personally by Chancellor Angela Merkel last June.

Second, it is a failure to correct the historical misstatement of his citizen-of-the-world address last year in Berlin, when he credited the fall of the wall to the "world standing as one" and failed even to mention the names of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.

Third, it is an embarrassment for the United States not to be represented at the highest level for the commemoration of an event of this magnitude. As Matt Welch writes in the November issue of Reason magazine, November 1989 was "the most liberating month of arguably the most liberating year in human history" -- the end of the Soviet Union and communism in Europe and a 50-year Cold War that was a worldwide ideological battle. It was battle led by America.

Fourth, it is an opportunity for Obama to give a speech in which he does not apologize for his country but celebrates the triumph of freedom that has been the driving force of American history from its beginning through his own election

However, he will go to pick up his Nobel. Let's see. Reagan. Who without firing a shot organized the fall of a hideously oppressive regime and performed the biggest diplomatic coup in history.

But President Obama has Anita Dunn who admires Mao. And Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright. All the other far-left people. Well perhaps it would be hypocritical of Obama to attend a celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Charles Krauthammer thinks that this administration is amateurish:

Henry Kissinger once said that the main job of Anatoly Dobrynin, the perennial Soviet ambassador to Washington, was to tell the Kremlin leadership that whenever they received a proposal from the United States that appeared disadvantageous to the United States, not to assume it was a trick.

No need for a Dobrynin today. The Russian leadership, hardly believing its luck, needs no interpreter to understand that when the Obama team clownishly rushes in bearing gifts and "reset" buttons, there is nothing ulterior, diabolical, clever or even serious behind it. It is amateurishness, wrapped in naivete, inside credulity. In short, the very stuff of Nobels.

No doubt he's right. But he's also generous. I also see preening fools who have never done anything, taken a risk, or had anything tested. The sort of people who are willing to plan anything for anyone, secure in their supposed superiority, because they simply aren't wise enough to understand the dangers. And they're so full of their own self-regard that they cannot believe that they can be wrong. I really don't think that Obama believes that the world would not do what he says and that he is a big enough fool, never having been tested, that he can delude himself into thinking that he cannot be wrong. In short, he believes his own bullshit.

Along with the legacy media, which is one more reason not to watch or read them.

Jimmy Carter! Come back! Even you!