Nobel Prize Winning Anti-Communist Icon: Obama Has Failed Politically And Morally

◼ In an interview with CNN that aired Wednesday, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, says Barack Obama has failed to reclaim America’s role as a world leader. - Independent Journal Review

“When he was elected…there was great hope…we were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

[I]n terms of politics and morality, America no longer leads the world. America did not regain its leadership status. We were just lucky there were no big conflicts in the world.”

Walesa said the world has relied on a strong America to maintain the balance of power around the globe.

Former Polish President Lech Walesa Endorses Mitt Romney

◼ A Nobel Endorsement by former Polish President - 06:30 p.m. CET (11:30 a.m. EST) - Lech Walesa, the Nobel Prize winner and former Polish president, “has effectively endorsed Romney.” - ABC News

“I wish you to be successful because this success is needed to the United States, of course, but to Europe and the rest of the world, too. Gov Romney, get your success – be successful,” Walesa told Romney, according to a translator.

◼ Wait, so… why exactly was Romney’s overseas trip such a “public relations disaster”? - Erika Johnsen

Apparently, we’re to believe that Romney’s week off from domestic campaigning was a “public relations disaster,” that it “didn’t go well,” that it could “cost him” in his run for the White House, etcetera. ABC even has a handy-dandy list of the supposed flubs of Romney’s “awkward foreign tour.”

◼ White House Damaging Relations With Warsaw, Poles say “To put it plainly, on Obama’s list of priorities, Poland is obviously lower than whale sh*t” - Freebeacon

◼ Romney’s Warsaw Speech - Bill Kristol/Weekly Standard

Mitt Romney’s stop in Jerusalem will probably remain the highlight of his foreign trip, but his eloquent and powerful speech today in Warsaw deserves more notice than it will probably get. In his remarks, Romney suggests a theme for his trip as a whole and a rationale for visiting the three nations he chose to visit, and sketches the national qualities he finds worthy of praise.