Remember how proud we were as a nation, when our President, Ronald Wilson Reagan,told the Russian President

Mr. Gorbachev…tear down this wall!?

The country of Poland remembers:

Polish officials unveiled a statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II on Saturday, honoring two men widely credited in this Eastern European country with helping to topple communism 23 years ago.

The statue was unveiled in Gdansk, the birthplace of Lech Walesa’s Solidarity movement, in the presence of about 120 former Solidarity activists, many of whom were imprisoned in the 1980s for their roles in organizing or taking part in strikes against the communist regime.

The bronze statue, erected in the lush seaside President Ronald Reagan Park, is a slightly larger-than-life rendering of the two late leaders. It was inspired by an Associated Press photograph taken in 1987 on John Paul’s second pontifical visit to the U.S.

The photographer who took the picture, Scott Stewart, expressed satisfaction that one of his pictures has helped immortalize “a wonderful moment in time between the two men.”

“In the news business we’re used to having a moment and then that moment being gone a day later. This is one image that should last for a good long time,” said Stewart, who now teaches graphic design and photography at Greenville Technical College in South Carolina. “I’m happy that it’s been chosen as the seminal moment to represent the relationship of these two people to Poland.”

Reagan and John Paul shared a conviction that communism was a moral evil, not just a bad economic system. And Lech Walesa, founder of the Solidarity movement that led the anti-communist struggle in Poland, has often paid homage to both men and told the AP in a recent interview that he deeply respected Reagan.

“Reagan should have a monument in every city,” Walesa said.

The political philosophy that President Reagan fought so hard against, our present president embraces.

On whitehouse.gov, the folks who are paid with your tax dollars, were hard at work posting this little gem from President Barack Hussein Obama’s (mm mmm mmmm) campaign stop Friday night in Roanoke, Virginia:

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

This late, great American Entrepreneur and humanitarian would probably disagree with you, Scooter.

Founder of Wendy’s International restaurant chain; television spokesman. Born Rex David Thomas, July 2, 1932, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Thomas never knew his birth mother, and was adopted by a couple from Kalamazoo, Michigan, at the age of six months. Thomas’s adoptive mother died when he was only five, and by the age of 10 Thomas had lost two stepmothers as well. He spent summers in Maine with his adoptive grandmother, Minnie Thomas, who was his closest relative and a big influence in his life.

When Thomas was still a pre-teen, his family (his father, Rex, had remarried again) moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he worked at such jobs as a paperboy, golf caddy, and at a soda fountain counter in a drugstore. At 15, Thomas got his first job at a restaurant, and when his family decided to leave Fort Wayne to move again, he refused to leave, dropping out of school in the 10th grade and going to work full time.

Thomas served in the Army during the Korean War as the manager of an enlisted-men’s club. Upon returning to Fort Wayne, Thomas found his former boss at the Hobby House restaurant, Phil Clauss, owned some of the first franchises of the budding Kentucky Fried Chicken chain. Clauss offered Thomas the opportunity to move to Columbus, Ohio, to turn around the restaurants, which were failing. Colonel Sanders’s signature chicken had been a big hit for the Hobby House and Thomas thought he could sell it in Ohio. By 1968, a few short years later, a 35-year-old Thomas sold the franchises back to the headquarters for $1.5 million.

After complaining that he couldn’t find a good hamburger in Columbus, Thomas decided to open his own restaurant. On November 15, 1969, he opened the first Wendy’s restaurant, named for his eight-year-old daughter, Melinda Lou, known as Wendy. She was the youngest of his five children with his wife Lorraine, whom he married in 1956. Known for its square hamburgers and choice of toppings, Wendy’s quickly caught on and within less than a decade grew into a franchise of 1,000 stores.

In 1982, Thomas gave up command of day-to-day operations at Wendy’s. Four years later, after some business mistakes had hurt sales for Wendy’s, the company’s new president urged Thomas to take a more active role in the company. Thomas began to visit franchises and espouse his hardworking, so-called “mop-bucket attitude.” In 1989, he took on an even more important role, as the television spokesman for the company in a series of fantastically successful commercials.

With his folksy style and his relaxed pitch for his restaurant’s, Thomas became a household name. A company survey during the 1990s, a decade during which Thomas starred in every Wendy’s commercial that aired, found that 90% of Americans knew who Thomas was. After more than 800 commercials, it was clear that Thomas was one of the main reasons behind Wendy’s status as the number-three burger restaurant in the country (behind McDonald’s and Burger King), with more than 6,000 franchises.

Thomas also worked throughout his life to promote the adoption of foster children. He founded the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, which promoted the creation of an employee benefits program for people who adopt, as well as a number of other groundbreaking initiatives. President George Bush named him a national spokesman on adoption issues. Thomas, who always regretted not finishing high school, hired a tutor and passed the G.E.D. high-school equivalency exam in 1993.

In December 1996, the portly Thomas had quadruple bypass surgery. Though he soon returned to his busy schedule of making commercials, he began undergoing kidney dialysis in early 2001. On January 8, 2002, Thomas died of liver cancer at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the age of 69.

And then, there are men like my late father.  He grew up in the Great Depression, dropped out in sixth grade and worked in a movie theater to help support his family. He worked as an engineer to help build the bridge over the Mississippi River at Helena Arkansas.

As I’ve chronicled, he was a Master Sergeant with an Army Engineering Company and landed at Normandy on D-Day, where he went on to clean out the Concentration Camps. He came home, married, raised children, and worked 2o years for Sears and Roebuck, where he was Salesman of the year and Sales Manager of the Year. And most importantly, he served God both in the choir and as a song leader for the majority of his life.

President Obama…you don’t understand Americans at all. We are not cowered sheep. We are a free, compassionate, and courageous people.

We don’t need your Marxist philosophy. In fact…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Put that in your arugula and stuff it.