In August 1989, Hungary removed its border restrictions with Austria. East German leader Erich Honecker resigned in October 1989. East Germans began their “Peaceful Revolution” in September 1989. In November 1989, refugees were permitted to exit directly through crossing points between East Germany and West Germany, including West Berlin. The Berlin Wall started to come down in early November 1989, with heavy equipment moving large sections before Christmas 1989. German reunification was reached formally on October 3, 1990.

Obviously, then, Bush 41 won the Cold War after 9 months in office, and officially reunified Germany in just 21 months. That’s part of the reason he won re-election…um…well…wait a minute… Given the above, how could the L.A. Times see it any other way than that Plain got it wrong and that Reagan didn’t win the Cold War?!?! Do the writers at the L.A. Times actually get paid for what they do? Maybe they are running a junior-high, writing internship program for 11 year-olds and I’m just expecting too much.

He worked hard to trip her, but she did well. I like how she turned one part around to ask what he meant by something. It obviously flustered him.

I bit my tongue to keep from being rude.

Sarah Palin — Still Confusing The MSM After, Let’s See, Two Whole Weeks? This is how she starts:

Those hoping that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin would burst into tears or start speaking in tongues during her interview with Charles Gibson were no doubt disappointed by the first part of her much heralded “first interview” on “ABC World News” Thursday and then in a slightly expanded form on “Nightline.” She did consistently mispronounce the word “nuclear;” but then so did Jimmy Carter, and so does George Bush, and they both became president.

It was a fascinating and unsettling interview nonetheless, first and foremost because it’s been nearly two weeks since Republican presidential nominee John McCain announced the Alaskan governor as his chosen running mate and these are the first non-scripted words the American people have heard from her.

This is how she wraps it up:

Since when it is OK that the American people have to wait in breathless anticipation for its nominated candidates to speak to them en masse? Since when do we have to rely on a single interview, from a single source, to introduce us to a woman who claims she would be privileged to lead us?

In a world that is measured by milliseconds, a broken-up hour is too short to offer, a week is simply too long to wait. Such manipulation of a public moment is simple exploitation.

Someone needs to give that woman a paper bag before she hyperventilates into a coma!

I’d cancel our subscription but the wife likes to read a paper in the AM and the cat box would get lonely, and damp.

Yes, indeed, the Lord works in mysterious ways.

Yeah, I guess we have to credit Bush 41 with winning the Cold War. That’s obviously what the LATimes must believe.

EXCELLENT! DID YOU THINK OF THAT?