It’s downright embarrassing. As we watch the people of Iran risk life and limb to decry the obvious stolen election and take to the streets in total defiance of the totalitarian regime, the Obama Administration is pussifooting around trying not to offend their mullahs, ayatollahs, and thugs.
For those who look to “world opinion,” “the opinion of mankind,” or to the United Nations for moral guidance or for coming to the aid of victims of oppression, the past few days and presumably the next few days in Iran, provide yet another example of their uselessness.
Obviously an example of that “smart” diplomacy we’ve heard so much about….
The blog on the White House’s official Web site does not allow comments.
But the online masses can comment on the White House’s Facebook fan page. And some people are using that outlet to urge President Obama to address a news story that has dominated Web discussion: Friday’s elections in Iran and the protests that have erupted since the government announced a winner.
Meanwhile, the White House’s official blog, which at this writing has posted not a word about the Iranian elections, was focusing on the debut of first lady Michelle Obama’s music series focusing on jazz.
Too bad the same administration didn’t take a wait-and-see attitude after taking over American businesses and installing close to a couple dozen czars to keep us in line.
How’s a blog even a blog if you can comment? More like a monologue if you’d ask me. We’ll tell you what we are willing to be transparent about, and that’s where it ends stupid. It’s kind of how liberals want conservatives to sit down, shut up and agree with them; for after all, THEY WON!!!!
if i were gonna guess.
and i’m not going to guess, i’d say hussein has got his people monitoring this election closely.
2012 is coming you know.
hussein is no doubt envious of the little stopngo clerk.
you can tell people by the company they keep.
hussein is friends with hugo.
now he wants to engage ahmadinejad.
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Let me play contrarian for a moment.
I’m not so sure Obama needs to encourage a bunch of frenzied Iranians to risk life and limb for little more than the illusion they got something better. The Mullahs still hand-picked all the candidates.
Let me go further.
My gut tells me Bush would have done the very same thing under identical circumstances, and he would be pilloried for it from the Left for spitting in the face of Democracy.
Or, consequently, if Bush had vocalized support for the protests, he’d be pilloried by the Left for dragging us into another expensive conflict.
On this issue, I plead lack of knowledge. I will line up to scream at our president when he is blatantly wrong (as I did the last one,) but I can’t in good conscience pile on with this particular issue. Too much second and third guessing, and the partisan lines don’t apply. (Now, if the UAW had plants to protect in Tehran, I think we could draw a clearer money trail for allegiance…)
The clear trail here is way deeper than money, Ike.