HUH? - AT 7:50 A.M. ET:  Gateway Pundit alerts us to an interview the president gave to Fox News, in which Mr. Obama found it impossible to say that the West, led by the United States, won the Cold War:

Major Garrett: In your speech this morning you said the Cold War reached its conclusion because of the actions of many nations that were made by many nations over many years. Mr. President are the Russian sensitivities so fragile that you can't say that the Cold War was won, the West won it and it was led by a combination of democratic and Republican presidents?

Barack Obama: There were a whole bunch of people around Eastern Europe who showed enormous courage (like the Iranians today?) and... uh, I think that it is very important in this part of the world to acknowledge the degree to which people struggled for their own freedom. We don't have to diminish other people in order to recognize our role in that history.

COMMENT:  Who's diminishing anybody?  The heroism of many in Eastern Europe has been consistently chronicled in the United States.  But Obama is one of these anti-triumphalist types who thinks declaring victory is somehow sinful.  True, Churchill cautioned that, in victory, one must show magnanimity.  But Sir Winston always made clear who won, and celebrated victory with the best of them.

Once again, Mr. Obama shows he's out of synch with the culture of his own country.  I think this is beginning to hurt.  People sense it.

July 8, 2009