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Blood, Fire & Ice Cream

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What a big contrast of photos this weekend…. heroes and cowards

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While the Iranian people are yearning for freedom from a dictator and putting their lives on the line — President Obama chooses not to golf this weekend, but rather to go get some ice cream.

I am confident that Presidents Reagan, Bush (both) and Clinton would be forcefully encouraging pro-democracy efforts in Iran — as their policies have dictated throughout those years.  While we are on the verge of a huge victory for freedom in the Post 9/11 world, our President fiddles.

The best President Obama can do is send chilly signals to the Iranian people while the ice cream slides down his throat.  Pathetic and disappointing.

[RELATED:  Obama Dithers While Iran Burns – The Weekly Standard]

Obama supporters defended his silence. Anything he said to endorse the protests, they argued, would taint the protesters’ message and damage their cause.

The protesters, many of whom held signs written in English, seemed to disagree. “On several occasions, I’ve had supporters of Mousavi say we need President Obama,” reported CNN’s Reza Sayah, from Tehran. When Wolf Blitzer asked Sayah directly whether the protesters want Obama to speak out in support of their cause, Sayah responded: “I think they do, but they’re realistic.”

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  1. It’s like he’s signaling to Iran and the world, I’ve had my say, now leave me alone, weekends are for fun and relaxation.
    Except he is the leader of the free world, one who doesn’t respect or see the value of freedom.

    Jimmy Carter went out of his way to facilitate this mess in Iran 30 years ago, now Obama is doing everything in his power to make sure real change does not come to the middle east.

  3. Quite frankly deep inside I’m not so sure Obama does not have a problem with the lack of freedom the Iranian people are oppressed under. He is , at heart, a marxist and socialist and by the fast track he has exhibited in trying to diminsh the freedoms of the American people why would he care about the Iranians lack of same. The power the mullahs wield may secretly appeal to him, wouldn’t he like that same power…He is a narcissist who is more concerned with his own self promotion and being “cool”… swatting flies and giving stand up comedy routines at White House Correspondence dinners and the like. The man is an empty suit and all this was blaringly clear during the election, but it seems half the American people have become empty suits as well and only wanted the best American Idol candidate. What folly.There is a universal law at work…you reap what you sow. We will reap much ruin under this man’s “rule’ . But it seems some folks could care less as long as they have their SUV’s, cds, dvds, McDonalds dinners…only when these indivduals start to suffer and loose what “stuff” they have left or have to do without will they then turn on Obama. And it is coming. He is going to make such a mess of this country he will be the most hated President in history. The lefts hate for Bush will look like puppy love. It is sad teh gay community on the whole has trusted and put their hope in thsi man as well. He could care less about them except for their money and votes. He is a typical politician and the gay community ( as well as others) bought into it. And he throws them a bone by letting them get long term care in federal jobs and use sick leave to care for partners…but no medical coverage and other benefits that are vital for partners is allowed. What a joke. When the polls turn he’ll throw another meatless bone.

  4. It’s plain that the Iranian regime is wicked and I’d be thrilled to see Ahmadinejad and Khamenei hanging from lamp posts. But I don’t know what Obama (or anyone else) can realistically do to make this happen. What more can he say?

    Obama is not responsible for what’s going on in Iran. Iranians are responsible for what’s going on in Iran. Ahmadinejad would be little more than a babbling loon if he wasn’t backed up by many, many people.

    This butchery has been going on for years and the regime really doesn’t give a hoot what the rest of the world thinks and says because they know there’s nothing we can actually do about it. Remember – we “encouraged democracy” in Iraq after Gulf War I and then failed to lift a finger to back it up.

  5. “But I don’t know what Obama (or anyone else) can realistically do to make this happen. What more can he say?”

    For starters, he could restore the funding of pro-democracy efforts in Iran. (But given that he chose to totally cut off such funds suggests that he cares far more about appeasing thugs than advancing freedom.)

    And regarding what he could say, please remember that his first statements about the crisis were pathologically “even-handed” and he only spoke out more strongly in favor of freedom of speech and assembly after much public ridicule.

  6. Sarkoszy in France said:

    “We don’t want to give the impression that foreigners are getting involved in the elections in Iran but when you have to condemn, you condemn,” he said, adding:.”Europe has to stick to its values and convictions”.
    “We support the Iranian people, and today the Iranian people are on the street,”

    Would that have been so hard for Obama? Every American President from Reagan on has said something to this effect when people around the world have turned out to fight for their freedom.

    I’m not asking Obama do send troops, or even money at this time. but as someone who has no problem telling the Israelis what they HAVE to do, and that is not meddling. He could have issued a statement like our congress did.

    Too late now, better go get more ice cream.

  7. The Los Angeles Times (Sunday, June 21, 2009) is also defending President Obama on the front page:

    President Obama, who has been treading carefully lest opposition figures be painted as American dupes, issued a statement calling on Iran to respect the rights of its citizens.

    (Emphasis mine.)

    The Los Angeles Times needs to keep the editorial comments on the Editorial page. I’m holding my breath… holding… holding… holding…

  9. more from your “goddess”:
    “To insist the American president, in the first days of the rebellion, insert the American government into the drama was shortsighted and mischievous,” she wrote, adding that “the ayatollahs were only too eager to demonize the demonstrators as mindless lackeys of the Great Satan Cowboy Uncle Sam, or whatever they call us this week”

  10. This just means that Peggy Noonan like you, gillie misses the point. They’re doing it anyway.

    But hey, lets look at the administration’s foreign policy.

    Threatens democratic allies? Check
    Coddles fellow fascist dictators? Check
    Refuses to support democracies? Check

    But hey, if you’re friends with Bill Ayers, then it’s not much of a step to cuddle up to Iranian Mullahs eh? Terrorists are terrorists.

  11. Exactly. The United States is already being blamed, so what’s to lose by actually sticking up for the good guys?

    Answer: It would make obvious the fact that Obama is an idiot, given that he actually endorses and supports the murderous theocratic regime. Before he could just claim that they were “misunderstood” and blame Bush. Now their actions are making it obvious just what Obama supports.

  12. yawn. It’s going to be a LONG, LONG decade for your repugnant republicans.

    Obama’s handled this perfectly. We have no business forcing a hand there. Don’t forget it was a republican, Eisenhower, that created an American mess there first.

    To suggest we should be meddling, as the mullahs are already blaming the US, is ludicrous and dangerous. The world knows what’s happening; if we’re involved, we’ll lose even more credibility. And, as you know, we’re trying to rebuild our cred after GWB destroyed it worldwide.

    Wake up.

  14. Buckeye – You blame Eisenhower, skip Jimmah Carter’s fiasco toward/with Iran, and blame GWB who was successful in moving Libya from a terror state — and was trying with Iran.

    Freer elections in Iraq than Iran and Buckeye defends the dictatorship.

    Unreal.

  15. Forwarded from a friend: Help cover the Iranian protest bloggers: change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHRAN and your time zone is GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches. If we all become ‘Iranians’ it becomes much harder to find them.

  16. “And, as you know, we’re trying to rebuild our cred after GWB destroyed it worldwide.”

    yawn.

    Did it ever occur to you that a free Iraq courtesy of GWB is a huge part of the cred that is driving the Iranian people? Did it ever occur to you that Persians might have had it up to here putting up with something that even their “civilizationally challenged” (to Persian eyes) Arab neighbors no longer need to put up with?

    Wake up.

  17. GP, this post isn’t fair. I mean, isn’t Jimmy Carter “playing nice” what brought down the Soviet Union, and stopped Iran’s radical clerics from coming to power in the first place? Uh… oh, yeah… oops.

  18. i assume, based on your outrage that obama would dare to spend time with his family on father’s day weekend, that you spent your entire weekend in somber silence to demonstrate your solidarity the iranians. if that’s the case, then you have moral highground. if not, your criticism is pretty vacuous.

  22. To be fair, do you know how hard it is to give a speech when your cowering under your desk all week?

    Didn’t I see one of those Narcissist traits being “morally bankrupt”?

  23. buckeyenutlover

    yawn. It’s going to be a LONG, LONG decade for your repugnant republicans.

    Yaaaawn. Apparently you don’t read the polls. Obama is possibly still popular, though I have serious doubt about that. His policies are absolutely not, as people oppose every single policy he has implemented. Americans trust Republicans more on the economy and national security. Only 38% of Americans (your fellow “nutlovers” most likely) think the country is going in the right direction, Republicans are tied on the generic ballot (in 1994, Democrats were slightly ahead on the generic ballot)

    And naturally, being a liberal, you know absolutely nothing about policy or history. But everything your party is doing is making things worse. Unemployment is skyrocketing, jobs are being outsourced at record levels, inflation is climbing, and about to skyrocket, as are interest rates

    Yet you keep regurgitating the same BORING line about, “its gonna be a long decade.” Just as other liberals of your despondently low intellect thought Democrats were going to be in control for ages when they took control of congress when Bill Clinton came to power. They didnt. They were out on their asses as fast as Americans could get to the polls.

    What you dont seem to get, nor does anyone in your intellectually and morally bankrupt party, is that Ronald Reagan changed things and your weak imitation isn’t going to change them back. You see, Reagans ideas endure to this day, NOT because of the strength of his personality, but because they are CORRECT ideas.

    And therein is why Obama, and every liberal will fail, your ideas are not correct, they are totalitarian, divisive and flat ignorant. And it doesnt matter how likeable your candidates are, its your IDEAS that dont work.

    Far from being in power for a decade, Democrats should start packing their bags now and save themselves the time.

  24. See the contrast: Gitmo detainees should have rights and not be tortured

    Iranian peaceful protesters get shot and beaten and nothing but crickets chirping. 8 days of prodding to even take a stand to condemn the tactics.

  26. And, as you know, we’re trying to rebuild our cred after GWB destroyed it worldwide.

    And how, exactly, does one do that by running around telling everybody he talks to how bad America sucks ass?

    In other news, the Obama Times keeps mum about their own reporter held hostage by the Taliban for 7 months. National security information is splashed on the front page immediately. Will liberals never cease?

  27. Almost form his foirst day in office the Democrats attempted to hold President Bush to an impossible standard: almost everything he did was open to analysis and criticism and he got no credit or breaks whatsoever.

    This, of course, had a lot less to do with President Bush’s actual performance than it did with the Democrats’ lust for reattaining power, but the fact remains that they spent eight years conditioning the public and the media to an impossible standard of behavior and an almost nonexistant standard of fairness when the President was concerned.

    So now the Empty Savior is being held to the standard many of his administration had a hand in creating… the fact that he really DOES look like a total loser compared to either G.W.Bush or Ronald Reagan is sort of icing on the cake.

  28. Obama is trying to vote “present” on Iran and the demonstrators know it.

    On another note, the Obamacade left 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, crossed the Potomac, wended its way by Reagan International and went to the 2300 block of Mount Vernon Avenue in Alexandria to The Dairy Godmother for a lick of custard.

    Obambi was having a father moment with his little girls by riding limos flanked by sirens and numerous police cars and Suburbans full of Secret Service on a Saturday after noon. They stayed at The Dairy Godmother licking their waffle cones while real people were cordoned off and traffic was diverted.

    What the heck kind of lesson is being taught? In the limousine world of a man of high profile and great power, every little movement in public has creates waves that have meanings of their own.

    Why didn’t they haul their platoon of cooks out to the picnic tables in the White House play area and make custard or ice cream and show the new little rich kids that you can have father-daughter time without riding limos and tying up traffic. Heck, they could have taken a helicopter ride up to Camp David and burned hot dogs over a camp fire.

    The Messiah likes to be a parade.

  29. I wonder if the tyrants in Iran are showing video over and over of Obama going out for ice cream with his daughters. While freedom fighters and young activists are in the streets dying….how depressing if the images of America being shown are our out of touch, out of his depth Obamateleprompter giving tacit approval of the murders. Obama is a coward. Maybe an incompetent like Carter but also a coward. Man up Mr President.

  30. While typically I agree with our noble hosts, on this matter I think that the American government…distinct from the American people…needs to carefully avoid providing the “proof” that the Iranian freedom-seekers are “American dupes” or pawns. There is a huge chasm between the popular on-the-street opinion of our government by the Iranian people, and our people and culture. And we must squarely-admit that our various government instrumentalities have a toxic history in Iran.

    For a revolution, or even an evolutionary political-reformation, to be authentic and long-lasting it must be seen as legitimate and home-grown. That’s half our problem in Iraq….and Afghanistan. There’s a fine line between being morally-supportive…and being perceived as manipulative.

  31. What I want to know is what that guy is doing in the first picture – kneeling over the injured pro-democracy protestor like that. Is he keeping people away? Praying? Asking for silence?

    Of course, if it were The Snob in the picture, he’d be trying to raise the dead. (And the MSM would praise him even when he couldn’t perform that miracle.)

    A messiah complex will do that sort of thing to you.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  32. Is BO eating ice cream much different from GWB continuing to read to the kiddies after the plane hit the WTC tower?

    Can you imagine Michael Moore making a movie exposing BO anytime soon?

    What would spineless BO do if there were a movie made about him similar to “W” or “Farenheit 911?” At a minimum, he would whine about it the same way he singled out reference to big bad Fox News recently. At a maximum, he would send his Chicago thugs after the filmmaker the minute he heard there was a film in the works. Maybe send the IRS after the filmmaker too, just like Nixon. Of course, nobody in the MSM would think to even report about this.

    I wonder if history would repeat itself if there were still more reporters around who lived through Nixon pre-Watergate and post-Watergate.

  33. Considering the man has already ordered pirates to be shot to save an American life in the same weekend he and his and family welcomed a puppy into the White House, I’d say multitasking is pretty well done. Your arguments are pretty weak considering that a good number of liberal and conservative politicians/pundits/etc are saying that he’s responding to the situation properly right now.