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The senator who almost always voted present is now the president, and when it comes to making statements about potentially controversial current events, what does he revert to?
Voting present.
He didn’t put out a statement on the Iranian election drama for three days, and even then only mentioned it because someone asked him about it. And of course, true to style, his statement was noticeably bland.
“Deeply troubled”? Protestors in Iran are getting beaten and murdered, and the best he could come up with was “deeply troubled”? Jeez, even Dr. Tiller got shock and outrage. Maybe we need to throw a late-term abortionist into the protests to get some emotion from Obama. It’s not like Obama needs to invade the country. No one’s expecting him to take military action. But for heaven’s sake, is it really too much to ask for Obama to at least give a strong statement that actually, I don’t know, says something?
Look, I wasn’t surprised at the results of the Iranian elections. Did anyone really expect an honest election out of Ahmedinejad and the mullahs? Of course not. No matter how the Iranian people actually voted, Ahmedinejad won. What is surprising is that the Iranians have finally had enough, and are revolting. While our youth are rioting in LA in celebration of a Lakers win, the Iranian youth are putting their lives on the line for their country. There are allegedly seven people who have been killed in these protests so far. Foreign journalists are being banned from reporting, including Al Jazeera. And as John noted, the mullahs can go the path of the Chinese and take the Tiananmen Square route, or they can follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev’s regime was evil and tyrannical, but he didn’t send in the tanks. And with the state department refusing to even verbally condemn the violence against the Iranian protestors, I somehow don’t see that the mullahs currently have much incentive to take the peaceful route. If these protests don’t die down within the next day or two, I fear that we will see some serious bloodshed.
I hope I’m wrong. But I don’t think I am.
Meanwhile, our “JFK-resurrected”, hope-n-change, oh-so-courageous president is keeping quiet, refusing to say anything, waiting to see which way the situation will go.
Voting present yet again.
Will Chamberlain says: And it’s a good thing that he does. Because otherwise Ahmadinejad and Khamenei and all the rest of them would be able to use Obama’s statement as a lightning rod to tie this insurrection to the United States’ policy in the middle east, which would quickly destroy any chance it had of succeeding.
When your adversaries are making fools of themselves, step out of the way.
I would agree with several blog assessments that I’ve read in that there is going to be serious bloodshed very, very soon. One thing that few have pointed out is that there is a large minority that support Ahmedinejad and they’re the ones who are in the Basij/Pasdaran as well as the Revolutionary Guards. I’ve heard a lot of stuff coming from Tehran, but I’m not sure how the rest of the country is taking this. The rural areas of Iran tend to be much more conservative than the cities.
Most conservatives are disappointed that Obama did not use tough talk, but is it really all that surprising? I mean, you have a president who wants to talk the hopey talkey-talk with any dictator in the world, just shrugs when North Korea test-fires missiles and does nuke tests, wants a “do-over” with Russia (and still manages to screw that up) and has decided that he’s going to flap his gums at Iran regardless of the fact that they’ve openly stated that they want to blow the only democracy in that area off the map and into the Med. I’m not shocked at all at the Messiah’s response to this. In fact, I pretty much expected it. It’s obvious that this guy is willing to put the security of our country at stake for his ideology. But the important thing is that many people think he’s so hip and cool, because that’s what really counts in the end…
Steffen says: I’m still trying to figure out why Urkel is president? OH I know he got a slight majority of the vote. Vut why did people vote for him? Why did they fall for the Hope [for spare] Change crap? It’s pretty sad that the position of the President of the United States has come down to who is more “hip” or “in”.
Here in Germany everyone looooooves Urkel. When I ask why I get responses like “he’s a great talker” “He is uniting the world” (for what?) “he’s bringing world peace”
So I bring up the videos of his town hall thing he did last year where he said uh like 20 time a min. Or the fact that we have 57 states. Well thats just edited by the Bush administration to make him look bad…? No proof .
What is he uniting the world for? Well a better place with more peace and a greener cleaner place to live. ???? WTF??? We have nuke tests in N Koera, Riots in Iran, increased violence in Afganastan and Pakistan, riots in LA over a stupid basketball game. What peace?
Then I get told by Germans that I am a racist nazi???? ummmmmm as an American I am bared form joining the NPD and my grandparents never slaughtered 6 million people just becase they didn’t fit a mold of the perfect human. Sorry guys try again.
BobV says: Sorry guys, if you were looking for help in overthrowing this asshole look somewhere else. You can have some hope and change though, we have tons of the stuff. It’s not good for much, but if you wanted to burn through a trillion dollars and end up worse off than before it’s great.
bertha says: he is not the Iranian president…he is not required to have USA lives sacrificed for Iranians, who do not believe in what the USA believs in. Be mad at the Iranian government and the people too afraid to die for change…not the USA president. That is crazy……………
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