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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (55071)	5/31/2009 12:05:23 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

And Gorbachev was challenged to dismantle the Soviet empire: youtube.com Obama recognized the power of that speech at the Brandenburg Gate and sought to absorb some of it by speaking there himself during his campaign. spiegel.de “What [Obama] is trying to do obviously is look big, look important, the way Reagan looked big,” Cuomo said. “Having 80,000 people in an auditorium is probably a way to do that, it’s huge,” he added, referencing the arena scheduled for Obama’s convention speech. “And now the Brandenburg Gate.” “Those men both went with something profound to say,” Robinson said of Reagan and Kennedy’s famous German speeches. “And so far Barack Obama is a politician who speaks nicely. If what you are seeking is a photo shoot where giants stood, he could look small.” dyn.politico.com

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (55071)	6/2/2009 3:33:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Being part of the intelligentia, Gorbachev started the perestroika movement. He didn't do so because of Reagan's insistence (pure American propaganda). More like pure straw man. The point is not that Reagan somehow dominated Gorbachev and directly made him do anything. The point is the Gorbachev wanted to keep the communist part in power in response to internal and external challenges (the external mainly being from the US, and the internal being exacerbated by the costs of paying for continuing the rivalry against the US). Gorbachev started "Perestroika" to try to maintain the ability of the communist party to deal with these challenges and remain in power. In reality the opening up allowed the internal forces against the party and the Soviet Empire to grow, so in trying to reform the party he sped up its end, but that was not Gorbachev's aim.