President Obama on Iran : The Government’s Violence and Unjust Behavior Against Its Own People Must Stop

What do you think he should do, ctmom? Sing “Bomb, Bomb, Iran” like McCain? President Obama is doing the right thing. The Iranian people need to do this themselves. The Iranian regime would love nothing more than to make this into an Iran vs. United States situation and paint the demonstrators as “American stooges”.
You don’t hear the Iranian demonstrators clamoring for overt U.S. support. There’s a very good reason for that.

You don’t hear the Iranian demonstrators clamoring for overt U.S. support. There’s a very good reason for that.
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Yes, that is why their signs are in Farsi instead of English. More Obamite brilliance.

Anybody who judges Obama for putting our country in debt is IGNORANT. It takes YEARS to put a counrty into debt the way it is. Who has been serving as “president” for the past 8 years and why is HE not getting any blame? Obama has been in the presidential seat for less than a year! And it says a lot about his character to WANT to take over the reigns with the U.S. in the state it was/is in. WE ARE LUCKY to have him as president.

Obama tripled the national debt and so far has spent like $2 TRILLION dollars on what GM AIG and Bank of America (that arent broke preventing some other company or country from buying them)??? What the heck does the USA have for all that moeny spent? Wars on 2 fronts Afghanistan and Iraq. North Korea and Iran both threatening themselves and the USA? 10% Unemployment up from 4%?? The dems have run the congress for 2 years now also! Wake up man! Obama wanted the Iranian current regime to have nukes. He promised change and delivered not only more of the same but worse! Imagine now if he spends another $1 Trillion on health care? You will need 6 points of i.d. to go to the doctor like the DMV!!! Drug companies are salivating to get a piece of the $1 Trillion while doctors are staring in utter disbelief that they went to college 10 years and may only make $50k a year! A failed drug war! Rather than cut the Mexican drug cartels profits by 50% and legalize marijuana (and make cigs illegal and actually help americans actual health) he is proposing more tax more restrictions. The country is hemmoraging 600,000 jobs a WEEK and he promised to create just new 600,000 jobs this year only! Thats 22 million people out of work. Sorry Obama has failed Bush was Santa Claus by comparison!

Frank:
You should remember that the debt
was not incurred by the Obama administration. Who was in power
the last 8 years ?
Don’t like facts to get in the way,
do you ?
Next time, try using that brain and stop
listening to faux news…

What matters more who was in power the last 8 years or the idiot who is in power NOW! Obamabots blame the GOP and GWB because Obama is a treacherous liar who spends like a drunk sailor. Some of the Obamabots I am sure are unemployed and wont be able to buy their children xmas presents or pay the rent and they still blindly support Obama like the idiots who voted him in? Whats he doing? Whats he done?

FRANK….PLEASE I ALSO FOUGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY. THE GUY BEEN IN OFFICE NOT EVEN 6 MONTHS AND YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT HE’S DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY G.W.BUSH DID BETTER. HE PUT US IN THIS MESS AND I’M SURE OBAMA WILL GET US OUT OF IT. I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT HE WILL BE THERE FOR THE NEXT 7 1/2 YEARS. SO GET USE TO IT OR MOVE FRANK.

Brian youre WRONG! When Bush was President less than 4% of us were unemployed, the government didnt bail out GM. We were WINNING in Iraq. Obama even backpedaled on the surge and let the Iraqi militants chase us out. Wait until Iran rolls tanks into Iraq – Cambodia style! Misinformed idiots like you are the reason this country is headed for the toilet. Democracy does have a place in the world. Soon there may be no ‘free’ world! Obama is allowing us to lose our freedoms more and more every day. He isnt really helping unemployment because he will be happy if we are all socialists! So he can push his line-his-own-and-the-dems healthcare plan and ‘green-cars’ budgets through! Unemployed people cant buy new cars even with a $4500 rebate!

“The Government’s Violence and Unjust Behavior Against Its Own People Must Stop” er, uh, or you’ll be really sorry. By the way, can I write you a check?

Obama had to wait a few days for the polling results to come in and the public does not like his wimpy, bow down to the Muslim rulers attitude.
So based on new polling (plus the Gallup poll showing his ratings dropping) Obama releases a “tougher” statement regarding Iran.
The world is watching Obama and they see a someone who is not a leader.

I dare in fact I DOUBLE DARE you Obama lovers to not use an insult and dispense to this forum 3 facts showing how Obama has actually helped our country without spending at least $1 billion dollars!!! Dems have no proof or facts only insults! Thats why!

That’s it, Obama, give ‘em a speech!!! It worked on the morons here in the USA (you got in the White House), so it HAS to work on Ayatollah Khamanei and that other joke of a President Ahmadinejad!!!

This is all about israel. We are watching a chess game that will end up with war with Iran with american soldiers. Mark my words.

Hey Schmidt: The tax cut only worked for the rich. If they worked for the average person…we would not be in a recession. Facts are facts…distort them all you want but Bush ignored many signs that a recession was coming and he even refused to admit we were in one. That is no lie.

It’s lucky for us that the President and the administration blocks out the truly pathetic politically-motivated criticism of certain mindless right-wingers and instead rightfully places the best and most effective interests of both those protesters clamoring for justice and the United States’ strategic security above all consideration.
The Iranians have said, Ahmedinejad is like Bush and Mousavi is like Obama. It is clear that the Iranians see the President as a symbol of hope and reject the interference and self-interested proclamations of “support” of many Republicans in Congress and their lemmings, who are so blind to complexities and loyalties and the different cultural understandings of the world beyond their own world view.
Every day I count my blessings that McCain was not elected, and that the Republicans can no longer endanger the security interests of the United States by their ignorance of world cultures and damaging bravado.

Dwayne-Paulson started TARP to give bans fund to continue making credit available. Bush used 1/2 of TARP and let Obama decide on the other half. Bush gave a short term loan to GM and Chrysler to let them get by for 30 days and let Obama make the decision on the rest. Obama pushed the $780 Billion stimulus which has done little stimulus. COngress didn’t even have time to read it. It was a give away of Democrat sponsored pet projects. The only worthwhile part was the less than 9% that was for infrastructure which Obama said during the campaign he was going to rebuild. The banks very vilified by the Dems after the election for taking TARP funds after the banks were told by Paulson to take the money to increase credit availability. The Dems focused the publics attention on bank bonuses when their was never anything put in the TARP about not giving them and Dodd a Dem specifically excluded controls on bonuses. THe outrage about the bonuses was just what the Dems wanted to take any heat off of them and unjustly blame Republicans for blocking regulation when Dodd and Frank were the major receivers of bank money, where in charge for the last 2 years, and as recently as July 08 Dodd was saying Fannie and Freddie didn’t need regulation. And no who are suppossed to solve healthcare and banking regulation, Dodd and Frank, the 2 guys who had a major part in causing this recession. That’s Irony.

“Poly: Obama has spent more money in six months , than Bush did in 8 years.”
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This is a straight lie. Not interested in the truth, just in smearing the President.
And DWAYNE is correct the TARP program and its approximately 700 billions of dollars in public (government) funds being used to buy assets and equity from private financial institutions started under George W. Bush’s watch.
You can not truthfully lay that at President Obama’s door – of course the truth seems to matter little to those out to smear the current President.

He’s a weak late. Opps, I mean a week late.

“When Bush was President less than 4% of us were unemployed, the government didnt bail out GM” – If Bush was still president we would probably have a third war that would bankrupt us even more. AS far as unemployment goes, most of the jobs Bush created were low wage w/ few benefits. Regarding GM, I agree that it wasnt Bush’s fault – that one goes all the way back to Reagan and “free trade” which flooded our country with foreign cars produced by low-wage workers in other countries.

I think its better to let Iran people decide what they wanted. Why should we poke inot every thing happening around the world? We are having so much unemployment problem here and let us concentrate on those issues. Obama is trying to make the same mistake Mr. Bush did.

You like it or not, Ahmedinejat won the elections with wide margin. A president of a banana republic, where a traffic police can taser 70+ years old woman for not following his orders has no right to say even a single word to criticize the Iranian police who is trying to get the streets back from this goons! If that kind of protests are held against the regime in Washington on US soil, tanks will be rolling over the protesters!

I think he is handling it correctly. He is counting on the Iranian people to take care of their own problem, and taking the lead in holding the Iranian government accountable on a world stage for their actions hereforward. There will be no effectively blaming any result on the US as long as we stay out of it, and the legitimacy of any progress toward democracy will be enhanced by our not taking an active role in bringing it about.

talmag- if you check the facts, jobs increased under Bush right up to 2007 when the recession started. And recessions are cyclical and since we have a global economy can be started by any number of problems including China cutting back. The subprime issue was a result of the recession pushing mortgages into trouble and then banks and credit availability. Subprime then increased the severity of the recession. But the Dems were in charge of Congress the last 2 years and they played a significant part in causing the subprime issue including Dodd and Frank stopping regulation while taking money from banks. The Dems don’t want people pointing out the ethics challengs of Dodd, Frank, Murtha, Waters and Rangel with Pelois and Reid protecting them all. Bush DOJ put away quite a few Repub- I’d like to see the Dems do the same. Republicans were not the cause of all the problems as Pelosi famously screeched. Republicans never saw a budget increase they didn’t like but the Dems seem to be outdoing even their spending. I wish the protesters good luck.

I am so sick of people blaming Bush for everything. Obama won. He has been the president for over 6 months. Bush is gone. Get over it!!!

While I don’t mean to interrupt you idiots and your obsessing over GWB, but I got something to say…on topic.
During the American Revolution, France supported us (eventually). When they did, they did it quietly and behind the scenes. And when it was done, they stepped back and let us make our own country. Had France made a big to-do about condemning England, the revolution would have been viewed as nothing more than French-sponsored sabotage, and the newly formed American Government would have been seen as a nothing more than a puppet regime. Where would we be today if France had meddled in the way that Americans want to meddle in Iran?
We need to quit trying to turn every country into America, because being an American isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. We need to let people figure things out on their own. We need to give the Iranian people the same opportunities we were given 200+ years ago.

some comments here are absurd and very ignorant.

“Saying the sky is falling is the worst thing he could of done.” – So Obama should have ignored the recession, like Bush did? Let me guess: You stll have a job, right?

CW . . .
When Bush left office the public debt was at over $10 trillion dollars . .. and the economy was in virtual free-fall collapse.
Regardless of who’s fault that might be, this is what President Obama INHERITED.
It’s childish to expect miracles in 6 months and the current state of the economy is not President Obama’s fault. Get real.

We have to be involved in anything that happens in Iran, Iraq, or anywhere else over there. This is the price you pay when you don’t have any domestic energy policy…and unstable governments thus call the shots on your energy sources…and your economic foundations. Oops

I love the reading comments claiming the recession began in 2007 or as soon as the Democrats took office… that’s ridicules. I am in the midwest and I could see is as early as 2004… I work in relation to the home builders and saw a slow but steady decline…and wondered how much further the ballooning costs were going to climb before the bottom would fall out.
And I am no economist, if I could see it, President Bush and all in charge on both sides of the aisles should have noticed it as well…
The trouble is, there were those so busy making money and getting rich and playing war games that they didn’t heed warning that the country was headed in an economic downward spiral…
It is comparable to those that do not believe that the human over population is having a negative effect on our environment… that is not until the air and water get to a crisis point and people actually begin dying or becoming diseased before they realize that carbon dioxide comes from more sources than that of cows…which is freakin hilarious BTW
Even then we can sit around blaming one party or the other instead of anybody manning up and taking responsibility and then taking action.
And to anybody that thinks that we would not have had another Stimulus no matter who was elected President is just dumb…yea it would have looked a little different than Obama’s Recovery Plan in fact, it would have probably looked an awful lot like Bush’s Tarc plan…since Republicans can’t seem to come up with anything new…
And those people thinking the economy would have somehow magically just fixed itself… The private sector comes to rescue again!!!Yea…You are in complete denial…The private sector can’t even come to it’s own rescue… dingalings!

“I know many feel he should have let the auto industry fail but he was trying to save jobs…our unemployment rate would be much higher.”
That’s speculation on your part. Our current regulations are already sending thousands of jobs overseas (over 20,000 high-paying green jobs have gone to India and China since the beginning of the year).
As Obama continues to burden businesses with more regulations and higher taxes, the US worker becomes even LESS competitive in the global market…which means even more job losses to countries that don’t have those burdens (India, China, South Korea, Ireland, etc.). Many US companies have said as much, including Microsoft.
This isn’t exactly rocket science.

talk is cheap

boxwoodgreen posted “Obama’s getting tougher with Iran. Instead of “please don’t massacre demonstrators”, it’s “pretty please”.”
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Yes, isn’t it refreshing to have a President who uses his head instead of just ranting like Bush did. You did read the article, didn’t you. Obama has to walk a fine line here. He wants to show his solidarity with the protesters, but not to the point that the leaders of Iran can call the protesters puppets of America and use that as an excuse to open fire. If Bush were still in power, there would be huge mass funerals in Iran right now.

What’s he going to do…. threaten to hold his breath until he turns blue and stomp his feet… or write another strongly worded letter to somebody who cares….………hehehehehe…. He’s so tough…. I’m sure the Supreme Leader is shaking in his boots just like the North Koreans are….. BO’s a joke…..

Common sense wrote:
`Talk is cheap`
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These are the same guys that were saying Obama has to speak strongly about what is going on in Iran. I have news for you Obama is more intelligent, more thoughtful and more strategic in thinking than any republican I know. You bunch are beginning to sound confused.
Republicans like to talk tough or take actions before they think. We saw it from the previous admin. Thank goodness those days are gone.

How can Obama blame the Iran government for what is going on? The election is over there is no proof that it was rigged, some don’t like the result so they are out in the street causing havoc and the government should do nothing?
If I was to toss rocks at a police riot line should I not expect some action from the police against me? Maybe tear gas, water or something?
I cant see how some are so shocked at the police in Iran hitting back at protesters if they are stoning the armed forces, I wonder if some of us went and riot into the streets in the USA after the last election calling for a change in the winner, if Obama would of done nothing.
I have seen clips of protesters destroying buildings what is that all about, in any country in the world where that happens all right thinking people will expect the government to react and sometimes forceful to stop the violence, so why is the media so shocked at what they are seeing?

He needs to stay out of it.

moderate . . ..
You have to figure in the almost free-fall collapse of the economy taking place at the end of the Bush administration.
That brought about what could be called ‘not a business as usual’ situation and this is where the stimulus package and the chunk of spending came from . . .
We are all free to disagree with the stimulus package (a fair chunk of which was initiated by Bush under TARP), but you would find many economists who would disagree.
You will recall this situation was assessed almost universally as the biggest financial crisis since the great depression.
Any spending by President Obama must be assessed in that light.

I was pleased to see that a portion of President Obama’s statement of support for the protesters today was sent out over Twitter. Good use of the technology, White House.

“No one I have seen is recommending that the US get involved providing military or financial aid to the Iranian protesters, so I do not understand your comparison to the French helping us in our own revolution”
By supporting ANY ONE SIDE publically, America IS getting involved. It gives the current Iranian government the opportunity to say that we are spurring the “civil unrest.” And they will be right. Let’s keep in mind that most of the middle east (and a good portion of the rest of the world) doesn’t really like us, and view America as a bully. As you see: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Let’s not mince words here: we ALL know where these protests are headed. Even my 11 year old nephew sees it, and he almost never watches the news. Once it starts, we need to have NOT EVEN TOUCHED IT. Once we touch it, given our well-earned reputation, that’s all that will matter.
It’s not about us. We need to not make it about us.

Danita, I am well aware of what we did and did not do in 1953. That does not make the current administration of Iran our creation or responsibility. Get a grip.

To the American left, it is never OK for Americans to nurse a grudge against anything any other nation has ever done.
And it is always OK for any other nation to harbor an eternal grudge against the United States for anything at all.

“…what kinds of ‘support to a group of reformers’ the right is condemning Obama for not providing?”
The kind of moral and rhetorical support that Ronald Reagan gave the Solidarity movement in Poland, which was crucial to its success.
Reagan was a man of great integrity. Obama is a wuss and a fool, and the world is coming to recognize that sad fact.

News flash: “Obama just took his daughters for ice cream at a place in Alexandria. Obama seen with cup of frozen custard.”
- Mark Knoller via Twitter

Which country interferred in our country during our major civil rights protest which had Americans turning on Americans with deaths and distruction.

One thing you seem to conveniently ignore Fructosa is that the blood of tens of thousands of Iraqis (soldiers, civilians, men, women and children) and the blood of thousands of americans is on the hands of our former President George W. Bush.
If you want to talk ‘blood on the hands’ be fair and accurate.

Fructuoso:”To the American left, it is never OK for Americans to nurse a grudge against anything any other nation has ever done.”
Another glimpse into the Right’s fantasy world, where “the American left” does not still nurse a grudge over Tiananmen Square while driving around with Free Tibet bumper stickers and calling for trade sanctions against Japan for their “scientific” whaling.

“hosfac, do you KNOW any people from the Middle East OR from Iran, as a matter of fact? I know dozens. You grossly overgeneralize.”
How many of those people that you know are currently in political power in the middle east? None, I’ll wager. And I don’t grossly overgeneralize…in fact I was being polite. It would be more honest to say that Americans are looked upon as immoral, hedonistic barbarians (and by their standards, we are. It’s that thing we call “perspective”). One only needs to travel abroad to learn this. And yes, I have. Have you?
“So does your statement insisting that we must be completely hands-off mean that you disagree with the president’s statement issued today?”
There’s a saying that goes: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
While it was a well-measured and calculated response, it was little more than an excersize in political semantics. The people it was directed at don’t respect him enough to pay it any mind…and when things REALLY go south, they will use it against us, and gain sympathy with the other regimes in the area. So overall, I think it was a bad move and will only serve to harm the Iranian people’s efforts.
It matters very little how we percive it, or how the Iranian people percive it. What matters is how it’s made to look by the people in power. Obama’s words will be twisted and used out of context as it fits the agenda of the person using it.
It’s what they call “politics”.

Hosfac, yep, I’ve travelled internationally, but not to Iran or the Middle East. Have you been in the region? I also know many people from the region, fellow academics, students, and business people. In addition, I have relatives who live in other countries as well as relatives, both here and abroad, who are natives of other countries. I have a network of sources, in other words, just as you do. So when I say that the people of the middle east, and of the rest of the world, do not actually all hate us, I know whereof I speak and I stand by my overgeneralization characterization of your remarks.
No, I do not know anyone in power in the region– I did not realize your remarks were in reference solely to political leaders in the region, when you wrote, “don’t really like us and think we are bullies” I do not think your original reference was to political leaders, however, when you said “most of the middle east (and the rest of the world).
If you were indeed referencing just political leaders, then I am not too concerned, to tell you the truth, if those people claim not to like us very much. Do I care more about what Khameni and Ahmadinejad think of us or about what the people in the streets of Iran think of us? The people, and from the friends and connections I have, I am convinced those people do not hate us or think we are bullies. And I want it to remain that way.

As far as travelling to the middle east, I’ve been to Israel…and admittedly I don’t believe that really counts (lol).
But as far as public opinion goes, I wasn’t even referring to the middle east. The perception I stated is commonly accepted as fact in France, Germany, Italy, most of the states in Russian Federation, China, some parts of Japan…I could continue if you like.
This perception is not exactly new: my first experience with this was 25 years ago while travelling as a teenager on a school trip. If you’re ignorant of it, it’s because you choose to be. The aforementioned people are not exactly shy about telling you how they feel about you. Which is fine by me…I hate people who mince words.
When you set out to conquer people, you don’t really have the right to be suprised when people look at you as one.

The world now knows, of course, that B. Obama is simply unready to don the mantle of the Leader of the Free World.
People everywhere aspiring to freedom will suffer greatly for his inadequacy. A failure of catastrophic dimension is unfolding before our eyes, as he eats ice cream all the while.

Correct me if I’m wrong, I think Obama is doing pretty good.
1. Ordered the Navy to kill Somali pirates and rescue the American captain.
2. He gave a speech in Cairo And a few days later the Lebanese surprised everyone by electing a pro-western government.
3. Gave a speech in Cairo. And the Iranian dictators are being exposed to the world as frauds.
4. He got China to vote against North Korea in the UN.
5. He is driving Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly nuts.
Not bad in less than 6 months.

Our False Prophet appears to have no idea what a golden opportunity he’s passing up… overthrow this evil regime without firing a single shot… get their Armageddon-inspired nuke program off the world stage… and free 30 million people all at one time.
But the boy wonder is too stupid to see it… or somehow just doesn’t care?
And isn’t this what George W Bush told you was going to happen in the Middle East in the wake of Iraq’s liberation?
Maybe that’s why Barack Obama has so little apparent interest in finishing the job in Iran… no matter how much it benefits the US and free world.
That, and the fact that he’s already piled all his chips on legitimizing this vile regime- a democratic revolution at this point would be embarrassing.

Doug, since you invited us to correct you if you were wrong, I think I shall. Let’s look at your list.
You wrote, “1. Ordered the Navy to kill Somali pirates and rescue the American captain.” I have no problem with that one– so I’ll give you one.
“2. He gave a speech in Cairo And a few days later the Lebanese surprised everyone by electing a pro-western government.” Umm, no, the Lebanese did not ‘surprise everyone’ with their electoral behavior. At least, not the observers of the middle east I know from academic circles. Those who follow such things were rather expecting that result and were pleased (at least most of them were) when it happened. But no one I know in those academic/policy circles thinks that the Cairo speech was the catalyst. The Lebanese had been trending pro-western for a while now and Obama may have caught the wave, but he did not create it.
“3. Gave a speech in Cairo. And the Iranian dictators are being exposed to the world as frauds.” Seriously, you are going to try to link these two sentences as cause and effect? That dog definitely won’t hunt.
“4. He got China to vote against North Korea in the UN.” Good as far as it goes, although I do not see this as directly attributable to the president rather than to Rice and Clinton. But #1, the agreement that led to the successful vote in the Security Council, as reported in the Washington Post (and elsewhere), “required a series of concessions by the United States, Japan and their European allies, including the elimination of a provision that would make financial sanctions mandatory.” In other words, it was a watered down resolution from the get-go. And #2, the Chinese immediately and publicly insisted that ‘under no circumstances’ should ships attempting to carry out the inspection of suspicious NK ships under terms of the sanctions use ‘force or the threat of force,’ further removing any possible teeth. We’ll see how the Chinese react when/if the John McCain actually attempts to stop and inspect the NK ship they are trailing at the moment.
“5. He is driving Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly nuts.” I guess this is your attempt at humor. Where’s Hannity in your list? I don’t really see this as any great accomplishment– in at least a few cases here, John McCain would have been driving them nuts at this stage of his administration as well.
Your conclusion? “Not bad in less than 6 months.” Let’s see– he’s insulted and discombobulated allies from England to Israel; given a Cairo speech chock-a-block full of historical errors of fact that must have given educated Middle Easterners (and the rest of us) reason to wonder about his insistence that he is ‘a student of history;’ while generally doing a good job of being firm but restrained in his response to the Iranian turmoil, put his foot in it by saying in an interview that “the difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi” is “not as great as advertised”– that dealing with one would not be markedly different than dealing with the other. No, six months in, I am not overly impressed with his foreign policy record. Not terrified, as I am with his domestic economic work, but not overly impressed, either.

You tell em prez. I’m sure they’re impressed.

Fructuoso:”He voted “present” in record numbers as a legislator.”
129 out of almost 4000 is “record numbers” in the right wing fantasy land apparently.

Fructoso:”The kind of moral and rhetorical support that Ronald Reagan gave the Solidarity movement in Poland, which was crucial to its success.”
I notice you did not respond when I posted Reagans ACTUAL COMMENTS regarding Solidarity next to Obama’s ACTUAL COMMENTS. Obama quite likely was using Reagan’s words as a guide (just as he was using George Bush Sr’s excellent subtle – genius in retrospect- handing of the unrest in Moscow in 1989 at the onset of this upheaval).
Why doesn’t reality agree with your irrational attacks on Obama?

“A saddened nation now comes to grips with the fact of a failed presidency.”
I would say a saddened Republican Party now comes to grips with the likelihood that they’re looking at Obama for 8 years.

Iranians sure look free to me, no government will allow a mob of people to run through their city destroying in under the pretext that they want election results change.
Do you feel that can happen in America? I don’t think so, but yet some of you are acting as if these people are doing the right thing

SJ – It has happened in America. Do you remember the civil rights marches,the Vietnam and Iraq war protest?

The fact that My President is not 100% supporting these brave souls borders on despicable.
Posted by: JerseyGeorge
what proof do you have that Obama doesn’t support them?

He is the only unpublished president in the history of the Harvard Law Review..No surprise should attend his abject, cringing failure in the eight days of this crisis.
Posted by: Fructose
lets see, one man according to you “is the only unpublished president in the history of the Harvard Law Review”….
the other, G.W. Bush, was on the cheer-leading squad, and not even the captain of the cheerleaders..

Is this the Obama Doctrine?Iranian protesters risk life and limb for American values of freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, and Democracy while the Iranian regime flies in planeloads Arabic speaking Hamas thugs to beat, murder, and intimidate.This has been widely reported , on Fox, & even CNN, Arabic speaking plain clothed thugs beating protesters on the streets in Iran. Remember, Iranians speak Persian. Simultaneously, a former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter is negotiating with Hamas to open talks directly with the White House. Obama and Carter pay lip service to Democratic ideals and privately reward those who hate freedom, and act as paid mercenaries to Iran’s thuggery, with “direct talks” and respect. After all if the current Iranian regime falls then it’s terror clients may lose their funding. Only American liberalism could wish for freedom and act to strengthen those who hate it!

“Only American liberalism could wish for freedom and act to strengthen those who hate it!”
No, I think that’s exactly what you are pushing for. As Dodd said to George this morning: If Ayatollah Khamanei and President Ahmadinejad can win the argument that this is a US backed uprising then we have damaged the credibility of, and therefore weakened, the protesters’ position in the eyes of all Iranians.

To Moderate
Very thoughtful response and I agree with you.

Obama and Carter pay lip service to Democratic ideals and privately reward those who hate freedom, and act as paid mercenaries to Iran’s thuggery, with “direct talks” and respect.
Posted by: pauldia
Blah blah blah…..
here, think about this if your able….
“Isn’t it funny that conservatives who used to complain about Obama’s use of rhetorical powers as “just words” now think his relative caution in speaking out about Iran is a deep betrayal of everything American? “
David Kurtz

‘ they took FL & MI delegates away from Hillary and used terrorist techniques in the caucuses;’
Posted by: Jenny
you’re sure it was terrorist?, weren’t they using the regular communist, fascist, totalitarian techniques….
rumor has it that ‘they’ used enhanced techniques
like coffee and doughnuts to achieve their unscrupulous ends……..

Strong, steady, stable, smart. Stay the course Mr. President. Glad you are the Leader instead of the “angry people”. Anger leads to irrational behaviors, like Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran.

I’m a Republican and I can list several mistakes Bush made, though they may not be what the Communists assume they would be.
Interesting that Barry can do no wrong around here with some people. Sad actually.
But, it’s too bad that many Liberals are no longer supporting him and that his poll numbers are slipping. As more people lose their jobs and the rest are faced with a weakened country and higher taxes in one form or another, one will be hard-pressed to find much support even on the WWW.
Of course, on the ‘net we can’t even be sure who these ‘liberal’ supporters are. Many are probably foreigners who are either laughing their behinds off or are quite elated that enough Americans were dull enough to vote in this sham of an administration.

Did any of you people glibly accusing Republicans of wanting the President to send tanks into the streets of Iran actually watch any of the Sunday news programs yesterday? Or read anything on the internet? Or do any sort of research whatsoever before making such an absurd statement?
No Republican leaders have suggested military intervention or even tighter sanctions at this point. Some of them, including John McCain, have suggested that more vocal statements of support for the protesters might be in order and have suggested that the president should not make plans to negotiate with the present Iranian government because it would send a signal that we consider that government legitimate.
I notice that McCain praised the president in general terms and was generally supportive of his foreign policy. What more do you want?
I am a staunch Republican, and I have stated on this site and elsewhere my support for the president’s firm but low-key statements of support and his concern that we give the Iranian leadership no ammunition for their “America is meddling” argument.