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The Iranian Crisis: Barack Obama has failed the 3 a.m. test »
Posted By pc25 6 months, 1 week ago in NewsThe most powerful man in the world is acting as though he were the leader of a small neutral nation, rather than the head of a global superpower. Barack Obama has a clear choice between siding with millions of Iranians who are clamouring for greater freedom, or aligning himself through passive acquiescence with a brutal Islamist tyranny. Just as the United States openly sided with
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pc256 months, 1 week ago
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as you can not submit a link from the Telegraph on Propeller the link to the ful Telegraph article is here........
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/nile_gardiner/blog/20...-
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gamahuche6 months, 1 week ago
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De Nile Ain't Just a River in Egypt
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In a review of Niall Ferguson's Colossus in The New Statesman (a book which provides a handy solution for America's manpower shortage in keeping down the natives: "If one adds together the illegal immigrants, the jobless and the convicts, there is surely ample raw material for a larger American army . . ."), Michael Lind pleaded with his British readers to stop sending America any more suave-sounding Oxbridge-educated neocolonialists, since we already have our own heavy stockpile of homegrown imperialist nuts, i.e., neocons.
Hear, hear. I would certainly support any immigration reform that would spare us the snivelling counsel of a think tank guppy like Nile Gardiner, or Dr. Nile Gardiner, as he's called on the Heritage Foundation website. A former policy researcher for Margaret Thatcher, Gardiner notched a Ph.D in (what else?) British imperial history at Yale. Like Niall the Colossus, Gardiner deploys an English accent to coach the US to do what the Brits are no longer capable of: ruling the unruly across the dusky globe. The tenor of Gardiner's erudite work can be gleaned from the titles of some of his most recent articles, such as "Kofi Must Go" and "British, US, Partners in Fighting Terror."
This baby-faced power-groupie pops up whenever cable news needs a posh voice to promote the neocon party line and suck up to the Defense Department. He came through with drooping colors today on MSNBC, debating the awarding of the Medals of Freedom to Paul Bremer, Tommy Franks, and George Tenet, who had the balls to show up and actually accept these ridiculous honors. -
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UnusualSuspect6 months, 1 week ago
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If anyone saw the History Channel's show last night...The Crumbling of America, you know we have very serious problems with our infrastructure in this country...
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About time we start taking care of business at home, don't you agree?
What good is trying to fix the world if our systems here at home are failing?
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pc256 months, 1 week ago
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an oldie but a goody from before the election
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Sarkozy: Obama's Stance on Iran "Utterly Immature"....
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/so...-
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mesodude6 months, 1 week ago
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Poor pc. Repeating a sad con lie that was smacked down (which is what most silly cons deserve) long ago. Keep lying cause I love slapping silly cons around. ;-P
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"Fox News hosts, NY Post repeated report of Sarkozy comments about Obama, without noting French Embassy dismissed report as "groundless"
Special Report host Brit Hume, Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson, and New York Post writer Geoff Earle uncritically repeated a report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz that French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Sen. Barack Obama's position on Iran "utterly immature" and "formulations empty of all content" without noting that the French Embassy issued a statement calling the Haaretz report about Sarkozy's comments "groundless."
http://mediamatters.org/research/200810290011
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pc256 months, 1 week ago
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http://thepeoplescube.com/images/Obama_3AM_Phone.j...
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pc256 months, 1 week ago
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt2DstnreoA&fea...
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BB646 months, 1 week ago
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Does this surprise anyone other than the brain dead liberals who post here regularly from their mommy's basement? I didn't like McCain, I was a Thompson fan. I really wanted to vote for someone else. When I tried searching out what he did prior to being president, I found his resume very thin. Community organizer, do nothing state senator and then as a Senator, he didn't do anything there. He went from state house to Hollywood tour for President. During the campaign, even his VP suggested he wasn't qualified only to chain his gin soaked tune when he was added to the ticket. He isn't qualified and this continues to risk our nation. The leaders in Europe are insulted and the leadership in the Middle East laughs. Well, not Israel. They view him as an enemy or danger. It was interesting. I was there on business in January and it was a party for Obama. Was there over the weekend. They fear his actions and comments. They fear his permitting Iran the bomb and expect an attack with no help coming from Obama.
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tadair9196 months, 1 week ago
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the hell with foreign affairs. why don't we take care of our own problems first? it was meddling with Iran's elections decades ago that caused the region to hate us in the first place. there are terrible things happenign all over the globe. we need to stop allowing the media to control the dialogue so that we can refocus on the problems at home.
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vor6 months, 1 week ago
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"Does this surprise anyone other than the brain dead liberals who post here regularly from their mommy's basement? "
Your a worthless POS for those words. And you so frikkin' dumb that you don't understand the concept of MAD world. You don't attack with nuclear weapons. Don't you understand the Iranians use rhetoric as a defensive mechanism?
Let's contrast President Bush's foreign policy experience prior to the White House, or even better Sarah Palin! I suppose by now she would be threatening to nuke Tehran! If McCain had won he would have been in a constant power struggle with her supporters. But as we have found with Republicans you would find ways to deal with the Iranians even if it involved dealing with the disreputable. Do you think we have forgotten Iran-Contra? That is the type of activity that passes for policy on your side. Reagan's presidency would have been dead in the water without such indiscretion. Contrary to your ignorant opinion it is clear that Obama has played this just right. As a pundit on Sunday observed if you are ticking off the extremes on the Left and Right you are probably getting it about right.
And why come on here and lie like the lying sack of sh-t you are? From your description you cannot refer to what you did as research. Research generally requires an open mind not the slammed shut bear trap you possess. I suppose you never watched any of the plethora of interviews on foreign policy Obama did during the campaign? In particular I would refer to a half hour interview conducted by Fareed Zakaria that covered foreign policy in detail. There is no way in h-ll Sarah Palin would or could sit through such a trial. Zakaria would confuse her to tears. I don't think you can even convince your feeble mind to believe that she could survive such an ordeal. And you cannot seriously refer to Sarkozy as the opinion of Europe. Do you actually speak to people in Europe as I do. Do you know the opinion they held of the previous administration?
To add I am thankful the Israeli's are not assured of our support. It is about time we had an American foreign policy not one that must be routed through Tel Aviv. We should not rubber stamp their actions and vice versa. We are two separate nations, not one. Jews in America wield far too much power based on their percentage of the population. Any preference given to Israel is based purely on biblical reasons which have no place in foreign policy. How surprising that a people writing their own history would deem themselves Chosen! How about viewing Israeli's as ordinary citizens of this Earth. No better or worse than any other.
Andyou are so completely ignorant you never bother to mention your precious neocons resolved none of these issues over an 8 year period.
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Will13136 months, 1 week ago
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tadair9196 months, 1 week ago
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Give me a break. ahmadinejad and mousavi are both totalitarians. just because obama isn't running around like a little bush dictator telling other countries how to run their business, then we're expected to believe that he's losing street cred?
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I mean, what if Iran denounced our elections? Ohhh, scary.
The authoritarian new world global empire view that this author propegates reaks of the same stench that got us into this mess in the first place.-
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pc256 months, 1 week ago
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Give me a break. ahmadinejad and mousavi are both totalitarians. just because obama isn't running around like a little bush dictator telling other countries how to run their business
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Apparently you missed this
The Nation, hardly a bastion of conservative thought, scolds Obama for his “disappointing” and “tepid” response to the Iranian crisis:
Obama's Iran Response Should be Bolder
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090706/nichols
President Obama's tepid response to the evidence the Iranian election was stolen from the people of that country by current president President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his thuggish allies is disappointin
The United States has no military role to play with regard to Iran. In fact, too many threats in the past have made it hard for the United States to speak effectively--and have raised fears that a strong statement from Washington would simply give Ahmadinejad an foreign "enemy" to rally against. But Obama must recognize that he is not George Bush. He has credibility that his predecessor lost, and the world wants to hear him speaking as the leader of a great country that stands on the side of democracy
apparently all liberals are not as clueless as you..........
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smithichie6 months, 1 week ago
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Hmm, I wonder if folks who think Obama has failed the Iran test would support him if he came out with a tougher stance and the Iranian Government used that as an excuse for even more of a crack down due to 'outside influences'.
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Simply a case of armchair quarterbacking.
Even McCain whose been vocal in his criticism of Obama over Iran admited he wouldn't do anything different in Obama's place.-
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pc256 months, 1 week ago
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this is what his tepid responses have wrought
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Iranian Protests Continue-- Regime Vows to Crush Opposition
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pc256 months, 1 week ago
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Hmm, I wonder if folks who think Obama has failed the Iran test would support him if he came out with a tougher stance and the Iranian Government used that as an excuse for even more of a crack down due to 'outside influences'.
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hmmm I wonder if you can you can get more tougher than bullets
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/06/iranian-...
Iranian Regime Police Crush Demonstration With Tear Gas & Bullets
Riot police attacked hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas and fired live bullets in the air to disperse a rally in central Tehran Monday, carrying out a threat by the country's most powerful security force to crush any further opposition protests over the disputed presidential election.
have no fear jimmy obama is here
Obama's Carter Moment....
Tehran is Burning.
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pc256 months, 1 week ago
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Gransater6 months, 1 week ago
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Figures someone would drag Hillary into this, as if she has the ability to alter the administrations stance, over and above the president. common kisser, drag someone else in. I know you are just dying to do so. It's OK, we'll overlook the fact of what it makes you look like.....................
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toph19736 months, 1 week ago
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With the cons it's selective outrage. Outrage only when the other party does something they don't like. But when their party does something that is criminal, there is a deafening silence on their part.
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It must be in the republican rulebook that you cannot disagree with the leaders. Bush though dissent was unpatriotic, so there is some evidence for this.
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canadianrancher576 months, 1 week ago
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When I was a kid and pretending to be camping I started a fire in a soup can and when it just smoldered away for a few minutes I decided that maybe I should blow into the can to get the fire going, the results of this action cost me my eyebrows and I enjoyed being the joke at school for a few days. The point of my story is right now we have a situation in Iran that is smoldering but to blow on it might get the fire going, which I don't feel is a good thing and it may cause us to lose our eyebrows and become a joke to the world again.
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Those in Iran who are in power have in the last week seen the displeasure of the people, and in this part of the world are well aware what the outcome of an unhappy population can be. Maybe the election was a fraud, as I suspect it was, but for some reason I believe we will see some change in Iran.
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nostalgia6 months, 1 week ago
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Perhaps those young Iranians took Obama's speech in Egypt seriously
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The fourth issue that I will address is democracy.
I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in Iraq. So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other.
That does not lessen my commitment, however, to governments that reflect the will of the people. Each nation gives life to this principle in its own way, grounded in the traditions of its own people. America does not presume to know what is best for everyone, just as we would not presume to pick the outcome of a peaceful election. But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn't steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. Those are not just American ideas, they are human rights, and that is why we will support them everywhere.
There is no straight line to realize this promise. But this much is clear: governments that protect these rights are ultimately more stable, successful and secure. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them. And we will welcome all elected, peaceful governments - provided they govern with respect for all their people.
This last point is important because there are some who advocate for democracy only when they are out of power; once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others. No matter where it takes hold, government of the people and by the people sets a single standard for all who hold power: you must maintain your power through consent, not coercion; you must respect the rights of minorities, and participate with a spirit of tolerance and compromise; you must place the interests of your people and the legitimate workings of the political process above your party. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy.
Those young people are learning that Obama's speeches are just words with no real meaning for him.
Something many of his ardent followers here still refuse to see
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earthlingerer6 months, 1 week ago
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The N.Korea recent episode came in as a "just after 9 pm" phone call.
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Compared with that, the Iranian election fiasco orchestrated by the CIA and Israel comes in as a "thanks, not now, I'm having tea time" phone call.
The Iran election wouldn't have mattered. Everyone already knows who's in charge there, and they weren't on the ballot. The Iranian election was their version of an american TV talent show.
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djn3nunez36 months, 1 week ago
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You pseudo-cons will never get over the fact the the last feckless Republican leader sat in front of a classroom of children with a "deer caught in the headlights" look for 6 or 7 minute after having been informed that the country was under attack. That is failing the 3:00 AM test. Obama's public statement of non-intervention is a welcome change from the "Cowboy", or "Bring it On" nature of the Bush years.
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Natureboy6 months, 1 week ago
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Pure stupidity. And I don't mean Obama's I mean yours, PC.
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The first and best thing Obama could do to sweep Mousavi into the dustbin of history would be to give him a ringing US endorsement. Same goes for his supporters.
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Icantwait6 months, 1 week ago
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My Fellow Americans: Everyone with half a brain knows that Obama and Ahmadinejad are in cahoots with one another. They are buds, remember the secret conferences? You know what that was about, Deal Making, Deal Making and More Deal Making. Against his own people who just want to be free and against American who he just wants to make unfree.
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However, here comes the Little Liberal Dead End Kids, children that will believe everything their daddy, the President, tells them. He tells these little developing brains what sounds good and they eat it up like candy. Forgive them oh Lord for they know not what he tells them is all lies.
When you have a coward in charge you will have bullies pushing him around and eventually kicking his behind. The Good Old Boy President with a Yellow Streak up His Back, Fears to do Anything for His Adopted Country. African American, I don't think so, just call him High Yellow.
By the way his popularity is going down and now as you saw with his get together with, the Paid For Coffee Shop Press, they are even starting to ask him questions he dances around, can't answer, or won't answer.
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drhigh686 months, 1 week ago
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There are some crazy responses on here... Libs/cons/neocons/ etc. Always bring up Bush, etc. Bush is gone into the pages of history, this is here and now, the topic is BO's response nothing else. Keep on topic and debate the topic, not name calling. Discuss facts if your facts are in question then post facts to dispute the others "Facts"
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mybirl6 months, 1 week ago
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Of course he failed, Look at the U.S. He cant get anything right here muchless rule the world. All those people who voted for him are probably sitting at the welfare office. They always said this country would fall and look at it now in a downward spin. Thanks to all who voted for this :';';'.
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