“But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn't steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. Those are not just American ideas, they are human rights, and that is why we will support them everywhere.”Barack Obama, June 4, 2009; Cairo University
Barack Obama, for once, got it right. This is about as clear a statement of American principles and values as the President has made since becoming President and during the entire Presidential campaign last year. He should go back and re-read them. As has become his habit, he talks a good game, but the ideals get lost in the actions. As I have said over and over again, don’t look at what he says. Look at what he does.
Anyone watching the tragedy in Iran this past week saw people dying in the street for what Obama says we, as humans, yearn for. The pictures didn’t come from news organizations, but rather You Tube, Facebook, and Twitter. Unfiltered, the face of revolution is terrifying as people risk everything to achieve freedom. I am not sure I would have the courage to do what these folks were doing. God bless them.
And where was our President? Parsing words! It was outrageous. In a clear effort to hedge his bets, Obama said that he didn’t want to appear to be meddling in Iranian internal affairs. He was afraid of raising the specter of 1953 when the CIA reinstalled the Shah as ruler of Iran. After all, he made sitting down with the Iranian government thugs a centerpiece of his campaign. Perhaps he will learn a lesson.
When Obama spoke those stirring words back on June 4 in his message to Islam, he offered an olive branch to our enemies in the Arab world. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , the Iranian president, returned the olive branch by shoving it right up Obama’s posterior. Did Obama really think that Ahmadinejad would “bend to his will” along with the rest of the world as stated in Newsweek Magazine several weeks ago? Here’s a rule of politics: never believe your own press.
I never understood modern day liberals’ obsession with dictators: Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Ahmadinejad, and radical Islam generally with its oppression of women and gays along with torture and beheadings. Barack Obama’s tepid response to the Iranian uprising is in sync with this type of ideology that believes it is possible to reach some sort of accord and satisfaction with this people. It doesn’t work.
Mr. President! Stand up for freedom. Shout your words of June 4 back to Iran. Let those in the street fighting oppression know we support them. Let our ideals be known around the world. We are still that shining city on the hill the world looks towards to show the way of human dignity and liberty. Climb to the the mountaintop and stand with Martin Luther King for human rights, for human progress, for equality of the races and the sexes. We are America. There is no compromise with evil. We may be imperfect, but we continually strive for the ideals you so eloquently stated in Cairo.
That is the message the world yearns to hear. I say again, STAND UP FOR FREEDOM!!
Barack Obama, for once, got it right. This is about as clear a statement of American principles and values as the President has made since becoming President and during the entire Presidential campaign last year. He should go back and re-read them. As has become his habit, he talks a good game, but the ideals get lost in the actions. As I have said over and over again, don’t look at what he says. Look at what he does.
Anyone watching the tragedy in Iran this past week saw people dying in the street for what Obama says we, as humans, yearn for. The pictures didn’t come from news organizations, but rather You Tube, Facebook, and Twitter. Unfiltered, the face of revolution is terrifying as people risk everything to achieve freedom. I am not sure I would have the courage to do what these folks were doing. God bless them.
And where was our President? Parsing words! It was outrageous. In a clear effort to hedge his bets, Obama said that he didn’t want to appear to be meddling in Iranian internal affairs. He was afraid of raising the specter of 1953 when the CIA reinstalled the Shah as ruler of Iran. After all, he made sitting down with the Iranian government thugs a centerpiece of his campaign. Perhaps he will learn a lesson.
When Obama spoke those stirring words back on June 4 in his message to Islam, he offered an olive branch to our enemies in the Arab world. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , the Iranian president, returned the olive branch by shoving it right up Obama’s posterior. Did Obama really think that Ahmadinejad would “bend to his will” along with the rest of the world as stated in Newsweek Magazine several weeks ago? Here’s a rule of politics: never believe your own press.
I never understood modern day liberals’ obsession with dictators: Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Ahmadinejad, and radical Islam generally with its oppression of women and gays along with torture and beheadings. Barack Obama’s tepid response to the Iranian uprising is in sync with this type of ideology that believes it is possible to reach some sort of accord and satisfaction with this people. It doesn’t work.
Mr. President! Stand up for freedom. Shout your words of June 4 back to Iran. Let those in the street fighting oppression know we support them. Let our ideals be known around the world. We are still that shining city on the hill the world looks towards to show the way of human dignity and liberty. Climb to the the mountaintop and stand with Martin Luther King for human rights, for human progress, for equality of the races and the sexes. We are America. There is no compromise with evil. We may be imperfect, but we continually strive for the ideals you so eloquently stated in Cairo.
That is the message the world yearns to hear. I say again, STAND UP FOR FREEDOM!!
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