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Audacity of Truth
Either this WH wants to “meddle” or it doesn’t
Via the WaPo today we learn that the WH is trying to take credit for the uprising in Iran:
Obama’s approach to Iran, including his assertion that the unrest there represents a debate among Iranians unrelated to the United States, is an acknowledgment that a U.S. president’s words have a limited ability to alter foreign events in real time and could do more harm than good. But privately Obama advisers are crediting his Cairo speech for inspiring the protesters, especially the young ones, who are now posing the most direct challenge to the republic’s Islamic authority in its 30-year history.
One senior administration official with experience in the Middle East said, “There clearly is in the region a sense of new possibilities,” adding that “I was struck in the aftermath of the president’s speech that there was a connection. It was very sweeping in terms of its reach.”
The adviser said that “there is something particularly authentic about those who are carrying out these demonstrations,” citing the fact that some are carrying symbols of the 1979 Iranian revolution as they march for new elections, including photos of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Ok – I’ll bite on this one. What the WH is “privately” saying is what liberals have been implying and outright stating for the last week and a half about the Iran election, and the uprising that followed, and that is “President Obama’s Cairo speech gave the Iranian people renewed hope of freedoms, and dialogue with the west” (to paraphrase). But as I’ve written recently in a couple of posts, reform-minded Iranians were hungry for change way before Barack Obama took the oath of office, and in fact before he even declared his candidacy for President. Sure, some might have been inspired by Obama’s Cairo speech – but it wasn’t the “catalyst” for the uprising. For the WH to suggest that shows an arrogance from this administration that truly knows no bounds.
I’ll also take it one step further: I have no doubt in my mind that Obama’s Cairo speech was designed to influence the Iranian elections. Hell – no President worth his salt would waste the opportunity to promote democracy and freedom on Middle Eastern soil just days before an election in a country that has for decades been hostile to the United States. You can read the speech and clearly see that the admnistration wrote that speech with the Iranian elections in mind.
So with that said, their belief that his Cairo speech was the catalyst of the uprising just goes to show how lame – and untrue -the excuses they’ve given over the last week for refusing to “meddle” in the Iranian election really were. If the WH wants to take credit for spurring the Iranian people on to protest the election results, then it is admitting that it “meddled” prior to the election. Yet it didn’t want to “meddle” post-election by condemning the violence that ensued from that uprising? Riiiight.
Will the lamestream media catch on to BarryO’s double-speak on “meddling”? Don’t bet on it.
More: Michelle Malkin liveblogged Obama’s earlier presser on Iran.
Related reading: Mousavi behind the attack on Marines in Lebanon?
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Sounds more like the writer of the article is having a verbal orgasm. Probably ’cause he ain’t close ’nuff to His Hollowness to get a real one. Bet he does have that famous “tingle” down his leg, though.
The ultra left is always “right!” They inspired the Iranian uprisings but cannot interfere. They are outraged by the war in Iraq but ran ads to stop the murdering of innocent people in various other worldwide locations—just not anywhere Bush sent troops! They celebrate minorities and women’s rights unless the minority or woman happens to be conservative—then, they feel free to disparage and attack. And when has there been a Prez who demanded so much air time? This superstar Prez wants to be on camera nearly 24/7 so that his “peeps” won’t forget he was elected President. The man is an oxymoron!! He wants to be King but promotes an ideology of Marxism. He wants to control but insists he is the great peacemaker. And as for his healthcare plan–I only want it if Congress & the Prez use the exact same plan–NO exceptions or privlidges for elitists.
If the Won is responsible for the uprising against the Iranian theocrats, then is He also responsible for the recent surge of terrorist violence in Iraq? Or did the words from the Won’s latest Greatest Speech Ever leap over Iraq to land in Iran? Just wondering….
We’d all be better off if there was only some galactic office Obama could run for. Seeing how he’s never actually done those jobs he just started running for the next one.
I was gonna send a link to the bit about the marines being attacked, but I see you have it. This other link is to the vids coming from inside Iran (You Tube)
Obama does not believe in American exceptionalism. That is fine and dandy, but he took the job to represent the people of the United States of America; not Egypt, France, Kenya, etc. Who is he to criticize Eisenhower’s policies during the cold war, on foreign soil?
I’m not sure which is the scarier scenario: That he is ignorant, incapable and inept or that he is a deliberate Marxist hell-bent on destroying the country and becoming the first dictator.
A normal person: So through the magic of his Cairo speech, Obama has pulled the trigger on Neda, has he? So do his acolytes then admit he has blood on his hands?
An Obamatron: Oops… hadn’t thought of it that way… can we get back to you?
And now today we have this: Neda’s family forced out of their home by Iranian authorities.
So it looks like “not meddling” has really made the ayatollahs moderate their brutality, hasn’t it? Chalk up another success for the Dalai Bama’s Winnie The Pooh foreign policy.
Hey, here’s an idea…why not invite the Iranian government representatives around the world to July 4 parties at our embassies? Because, you know, nothing goes better with hot dogs and fireworks than a few hours of non-stop full-throated “Death to America” chants.
And then we can sit down and negotiate with them. With no preconditions, of course. Not even the precondition that they stop murdering their own people. Because that would be “meddling”. If we did that, Obama might have to plan yet another worldwide apology tour.
What? That IS the plan??
Winnie the Pooh must be an idiot.
Yeah, like you’re so smart, Mister Rat (if that is your real name…). Looks like the Big O has run rings around you. He cancelled the invite to the mullahs to drop by for dogs and a couple brewskis.
Classic carrot and stick diplomacy! You can bet that dopey old cowboy Bush wouldn’t have been so subtle! Bet the mullahs wish they could un-shoot Neda now, huh?
Steve, in the spirit of our Dear Leader claiming that his teleprompter reading in Cairo caused the uprising in Iran, I now claim that my post above is the sole reason Obama withdrew the offer to the mullahs to drop by for free Hebrew Nationals and mass quantities of alcohol.
I mean, that claim is just as believable….