Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:55:43 PM
This is the most despicable, self-serving, and arrogant spin I’ve seen
yet from this White House, and that’s saying something. Obama gave a
speech, and suddenly the people of Iran discovered that they’re being
ruled by tyrants? Never mind that two weeks passed between the speech
and the uprising, and that the very obvious trigger for the unrest was
the incompetent manner in which the mullahs rigged the election for
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Never mind the fact that this President took a full week to even sound like a watered-down Nicolas Sarkozy, let alone the leader of the free world.
Update II: Jim Geraghty makes a great point:
Remember how it was important to recognize that these
protests in Iran were triggered by ordinary Iranians’ response to the
election, and it was important for the U.S. government to be quiet,
soft-spoken, and understated in its response to evolving events?
Remember when the most important thing was that the Iranians, and the
world, conclude that this uprising was generated entirely by internal
sources?
Yeah, apparently that’s no longer the case.
So now can we get a full-throated cry of support for freedom and liberty from the supposed leader of the Free World?