We [Iranians] are a bit unfortunate. When we had our Obama [meaning President Khatami], that was the time of President Bush in the United States. Now that [the United States] has Obama, we have our Bush here [in Iran]. In order to resolve the problems between the two countries, we should have two Obamas on the two sides. It doesn't mean that everything depends on these two people, but this is one of the main factors.
Well, how do you like your Obama now..?
Dialogue with a regime that is breaking heads, shooting demonstrators, expelling journalists, arresting activists. Engagement with -- which inevitably confers legitimacy upon -- leaders elected in a process that begins as a sham (only four handpicked candidates permitted out of 476) and ends in overt rigging.
Then, after treating this popular revolution as an inconvenience to the real business of Obama-Khamenei negotiations, the president speaks favorably of "some initial reaction from the Supreme Leader that indicates he understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election."
Where to begin? "Supreme Leader"? Note the abject solicitousness with which the American president confers this honorific on a clerical dictator who, even as his minions attack demonstrators, offers to examine some returns in some electoral districts -- a farcical fix that will do nothing to alter the fraudulence of the election.
Obama is probably jealous---he wants to be addressed as Supreme Leader, too.
Barack Hussein Obama is the Boomer generation's great gift to America and the world. Boy, does that make me proud!
If anyone had told me a few yeara ago that we'd have a POTUS to surpass Bubba Clinton and Jimmuh Carter in sheer radicalism and general cluelessness, I'd have probably said "Impossible!". If I hear one more person wax eloquent about the Bama's intelligence, grace, intuitive insight, or superior family, I'm gonna hit something.
Posted by: Monnie | June 19, 2009 at 05:10 PM