Tumult in Tehran
I’m puzzled that anyone would be surprised by the recent events in Tehran following the bogus mullahcratic election results. Did anyone honestly believe that Ahmadinejad stood a snowball’s chance in hell of losing that election? Actually, many people did believe that - including the Man-Child President himself.
You will recall that last Friday the Obamacle took the occasion of the Iranian election to puff out his chest and announce that his Cairo speech - the one where he essentially groveled before Islam - would bring about the kind of change Iran so desperately needs. I haven’t a doubt that Obama try believed in his heart that his sonorious pronouncement would turn back the tide of Islamic radicalism and hearld a new era of peace and brotherhood in Iran. Unfortunately, he could no more affect the history of Iran than Canute could order the ocean’s tide to retreat.
No sooner had the results of the election - which was rigged, make no mistake about that - been announced than students began rioting.
According to Reuters,
Iran’s English-language Press TV said seven people were killed and several wounded at the end of Monday’s rally — a mainly peaceful gathering attended by many tens of thousands — when “thugs” tried to attack a military post in central Tehran.
The Man-Child never expected THIS. Not surprising, since he isn’t terribly bright and, in matters of foreign policy, is both ignorant and dangerously naive. He believed that his words alone would transform a nation. He was wrong. His words went largely unheeded and he made a fool of himself on Friday.
Today he compounded the foolishness with a feckless, pusillanimous statement on the situation in Iran:
Obama repeated Tuesday at a news conference his “deep concerns” about the disputed balloting. He said he believes the ayatollah’s decision to order an investigation “indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns.”
But at the same time, Obama said it would not be helpful if the United States was seen by the world as “meddling” in the issue.
The president did say, however, that he worries “when I see violence directed at peaceful protesters, when I see peaceful protest being suppressed.”
What a weak-kneed pantywaist. Moments in history like this one make me wince and cringe whenever anyone tries to compare Obama with the great Ronald Reagan, who never shied away from calling out brutal dicatatorships for what they were.
In 1983 President Reagan delivered his famous “Evil Empire” speech in which he declared
Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness — pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world.
In Commentary Magazine, Peter Wehner observed that Regan’s willingness to call out the Soviets for the evil empire they truly were had an extraordinarily powerful effect on those who were battling the oppression from within - especially those imprisoned in the gulags - and relates the words of Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky:
It was the great brilliant moment when we learned that Ronald Reagan had proclaimed the Soviet Union an Evil Empire before the entire world. This was the moment. It was the brightest, most glorious day. Finally a spade had been called a spade. Finally, Orwell’s Newspeak was dead. President Reagan had from that moment made it impossible for anyone in the West to continue closing their eyes to the real nature of the Soviet Union. It was one of the most important, freedom-affirming declarations, and we all instantly knew it. For us, that was the moment that really marked the end for them, and the beginning for us. The lie had been exposed and could never, ever be untold now. This was the end of Lenin’s “Great October Bolshevik Revolution” and the beginning of a new revolution, a freedom revolution — Reagan’s Revolution.
And Obama’s Revolution? It sure as hell won’t be in the cause of expanding freedom - certainly not here in the United States.
Wait until he is the object of the peaceful protesters…
I could see Obama making a Reagan-esque speech if he actually believed in freedom and liberty for all - but he does not. He is a socialist/marxist/whatever-ist through and through and cannot make a speech or even a press announcement without his ideals being revealed. He cannot be who he is not any more than Reagan.
PBO is an extremist, a usurper, a rabble rouser, a charlatan, a ne’er do well, a scallywag, an agent provacateur, a recalcitrant man-child, who has no loyalty to the U.S. of A. A pox on his house! I WANT him to fail miserably!
Hope and change, baby.
Tiller murder = statement from WH within hours
Holocaust attack = phone call to the family the next day
Pvt. Long murder = statement from WH 3 days later, timed for release as the obamanation is winging his way to the House of Saud
Iran election = pablum statement from WH 3 days later
No shame. Hogs and cattle.
*eats*
“Obama repeated Tuesday at a news conference his “deep concerns” about the disputed balloting.”
I haven’t noticed many ” deep concerns ” about HIS election and the tactics of ACORN, his bud’s and thug’s of Chicago now gone national….
This tumult would be a WHOLE LOT different if the Iranians were allowed guns - concealed and otherwise.
Can you just imagine a confrontation with the Revolutionary Guard by a protester with a concealed weapon?
Yea.
I can, too.
*POP*
It’s his wimpiness on stuff like this that makes me wonder why he is so dangerous on domestic issues such as the economy, healthcare, card check, FOCA, (un)Fairness Doctrine.
He’s such a bully. Notice how he whines like a baby that Fox News won’t kiss his a*s. He’s so insecure. So, he builds himself up by bullying Walpin and running roughshod and BREAKING THE SAME LAW HE CO-AUTHORED!!!
Come on, it’s time for impeachment already or a march on DC.