Garden State Patriot

4 Responses to “ From ‘Robust Debate’ To Mass Protest ”

1. # 1    Ed Mazlish Says:
   June 16th, 2009 at 9:39 am

   You are right to point out that the President is being shamefully silent about the plight of victims of Iranian aggression.

   He is the President of AMERICA. As such, he represents AMERICA. When is he going to stand up for AMERICAN values and AMERICAN interests?

   Also, President Obama repeated in Cairo the claim that the Palestinians are entitled to a return to their homeland. Why can’t he, as the AMERICAN president, state a claim for the return of property to AMERICAN oil companies, whose assets were nationalized in the 1950s (starting in Iran)? Is that too much to ask of the leader of America?
2. # 2    Garden State Patriot Says:
   June 16th, 2009 at 1:42 pm

   Ed, this bugs me more by the minute. We have an opportunity here to help topple the worst, most vile regime in the Middle East and Obama is doing NOTHING. he has a responsibility to stand up and do something to help the Iranian people even if it’s merely rhetoric.
3. # 3    Ed Mazlish Says:
   June 16th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

   Mike, what bothers me the most about this is that he is willing to reach out to the dictators but not to the freedom fighters. It’s not like he thinks his mere words can have no effect there – indeed, his entire foreign policy is predicated on the premise that when Obama talks, people listen. That makes his silence here all the more shameful – though consistent with his character as we know it.
4. # 4    Ed Mazlish Says:
   June 16th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

   I just heard Rush Limbaugh play a clip of Robert Gibbs today saying that the struggle in Iran is an “internal one” and that the United States “respects the soverignty of other nations to make their own decisions.”

   I wonder if Benjamin Netanyahu took any comfort from those words.