The American Spectator

Liberal Reader| 6.23.09 @ 6:22PM

Fortunately, Obama is not seeking the opinions of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and the Poet / Rodeo Clowns here at Am Spec. as he develops his Iran strategy.

The growing unrest in Iran is promising and immensely heartening. The WORST thing the president could do would be to say or do anything that would allow the Mullahs to portray the protests as planned in Langley's basement.

Obama's cool-headed approach is exactly on target.

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity get to howl and moan all day long on the radio. There are no consequences to their foolishness because they have no responsibility, and no one -- in the end -- really cares what they think or say. They're audience just wants to be entertained.

Obama, on the other hand, has tremendous responsibility. His restraint and caution are a sign of his strength and his understanding of the Middle East -- all qualities that were woefully lacking in the last administration.

Liberal Reader| 6.23.09 @ 6:25PM

quick correction, please --

THEIR audience just wants to be entertained ....
not "they're audience...."

Now -- you may commence calling me an appeaser and a terrorist and a communist and a socialist and a fascist and a terrorist sympathizer and a whacko and whatever the label of the week is. Knock yourselves out.

ds80| 6.23.09 @ 7:07PM

Obama has no "approach". He backs into every policy move by sampling the prevailing wind.. Which is to be expected, given his vast inexeperience.

Yep. Community organizing, exposed.

Liberal Reader: "label of the week" fits. You choose. You can even rail against your self-important self, if you'd like. Go ahead. Entertain us.

Mary| 6.23.09 @ 8:19PM

None of what is going on in Iran is about Moussavi and Ahmadinejad. It's really about the Iranians. And, no one can make pronouncements on their state of mind. I'm not sure how we help them. Should or can we support a gas embargo?

I know this is just one incident, but if you listen, I think you might hear a compatriot of conservative America. The America that existed long before BO sought to dress her down. As if he, by dint of who he is, had such a right. Had he praised her nobler times with words that were something other than perfunctory and forgettable, he might have been been able to make history instead of history making and unmaking him.

As I wrote yesterdaay, Iranians, as far as I can tell, are not decadent. And because of that it's likely that the kind of socialist leanings they probably have might not be easily transferred to an attachment to American liberalism/socialism/corporatism.

I'm thinking good economic health married again to the virtues -both male and female- might not be dead at all. I'd love to see the Iranians pull off a maturing of Liberty. I really would.

I'm hoping they're not anti-Semites. And given their history pre 1979, I'm not sure they would be. Maybe Iran could take back her real name of Persia.

Who knows, maybe we'll look back on this period and note it as the beginning of BO's lame duck season.

In case link is dead: http://tinyurl.com/lal5cy

P.S. Calling all Angels (that would be you, Angel!) I think he's baaaaaccck. Easy enough to figure out, I know, but the whining about being called names is too much to escape comment. It's projection-cum-deflection after he's done the name calling: Nazi, Fascist, Racist, to the point of reducing their meaning and effect to nothing.

Old Texican| 6.23.09 @ 8:51PM

Heh...quote:
""Now -- you may commence calling me an appeaser and a terrorist and a communist and a socialist and a fascist and a terrorist sympathizer and a whacko and whatever the label of the week is. Knock yourselves out. ""

Liberal reador
Thank you, you looser mama's basement baby, who never had a job in your life, and wastrel of a misspent wad of protoplasm by your unknown father, (sperm donor).

Get a job and reply.
Heh!

Mary| 6.23.09 @ 9:57PM

If I ever go off on Senator McCain again, someone remind me that it's the old war horse I voted for. Protector of women and children. He has an excellent pro-life record. May his health hold for many years to come!

**"Between Ahmadinejad and the reformers, do you think there's any doubt what side President Obama is on?" McCain (R-Ariz.) was asked by the Huffington Post. "What would be the advantage...?"

"I know what side I'm on," McCain cut in. "I'm on the side of the people. I'm not on Ahmadinejad's side or Mousavi. I'm on the side of the Iranian people and I'm on the right side of history. And I'm not going to walk on the other side of the street while people are being killed and beaten in the streets of Iran."

McCain said Obama's reaction wasn't equal to the situation. "We can't sit by and watch a film clip on television of a young woman bleeding to death and say that we're worried about the Iranian reaction or our ability to negotiate with them. We have to stand up for those people," he said.**

In case link doesn't work: http://tinyurl.com/kt28nk

Mary| 6.23.09 @ 9:59PM

From Sándor Márai's Embers:

"The male virtues: silence, solitude, the inviolability of one's word and women."

Mary| 6.23.09 @ 10:13PM

Iran's former Crown Prince, Reza Pahlavi.

http://tinyurl.com/kjsws7