Will calls right-wing attacks on Obama’s Iran response ‘foolish criticism.’
Will calls right-wing attacks on Obama’s Iran response ‘foolish criticism.’
Since turmoil broke out in Iran over the country’s disputed elections last week, conservatives have been forcefully criticizing President Obama for not doing enough to intervene on the side of those protesting. Their criticism comes despite numerous expert opinions — even from Iranian human rights activists — that the U.S. should not meddle in the situation. This morning on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) continued the attacks. “He’s been timid and passive more than i would like,” he said of Obama. Later on the program though, conservative columnist George Will called such criticism “foolish”:
WILL: The president is being roundly criticized for insufficient, rhetorical support for what’s going on over there. It seems to me foolish criticism. The people on the streets know full well what the American attitude toward the regime is. And they don’t need that reinforced.
Watch it:
In her Wall Street Journal column yesterday, Peggy Noonan, another conservative columnist and former speechwriter for President Reagan, denounced the right-wing attacks, particularly those from Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). “To insist the American president, in the first days of the rebellion, insert the American government into the drama was shortsighted and mischievous,” she wrote, adding that “the ayatollahs were only too eager to demonize the demonstrators as mindless lackeys of the Great Satan Cowboy Uncle Sam, or whatever they call us this week.”
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June 21st, 2009 at 11:20 amYou have been pushing this Berlusconi thing for awhile now. Does it have a particular close to the heart thing with you?
Just wondering…
George Will finally gets something right — I mean makes a correct statement.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:21 amPresident Obama should continue to keep out of Iranian protests. And yes, conservative criticism is foolish. The President needs to stay focused on issues that plague America.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:24 amIf conservatives really cared about American issues they’d do the same. Time and again conservative GOPers have shown that they are all about BS and foolish criticism.
Will & Noonan are absolutely correct. Too bad the other Repubs stupidly prefer hate, force & violence.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:25 am“To insist the American president, in the first days of the rebellion, insert the American government into the drama was shortsighted and mischievous,” (Noonan) wrote
“Mischievous”?
Is she frackin’ serious?
Like these right-wing critics of the president are just harmless scamps, just overactive kids looking to entertain themselves?
Oh, wait… y’know, it does make a little sense now that I think about it…
June 21st, 2009 at 11:29 amGood on you, George Will! At last, someone who the right-wingers respect is speaking a truth to them. Perhaps some of the brain-dead dittoheads will actually even change their FoxSnooze-numbed minds.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:29 amWell, mccain and graham cracker want war. By god we won’t get there without sticking our noses in.
And that is why these ass clowns are on the sidelines now, whining.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:30 amWow, George Will must of either had a temporary break from insanity or decided to step away from the right wing kool aid.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:34 amThanks ccokz
June 21st, 2009 at 11:35 amLike I said I was just wondering
So is this a case of the proverbial blind squirrel, or is it a case of the right wing just going so far into knee-jerk crazy land that even George Will says, “whoa, that’s too right-wing for me”?
June 21st, 2009 at 11:35 amYeah, boy, a few nukes’ll teach them damned Iranian mullahfascists not to steal an election!!!!!!
/snark
June 21st, 2009 at 11:37 amWhat happened to George Will’s trademark bow tie?
I agree that the right-wingers crying that Obama “hasn’t done enough” are wrong. Perhaps that’s why none of them, or the people they supported in the election, are president right now. I am grateful that McCain didn’t win. I do not believe he would have handled this situation properly or intelligently. He and many of his right-wing cohorts are too quick to want to use military action against people who don’t agree with us. At least Obama understands that the military is not the solution to everything.
Politics can be a disgusting game. Trust is difficult to earn and even harder to keep. Add to that a childish political party that rarely acts in the best interests of the country (yes, Republicans, I’m talking about you), and doing what’s best for all Americans becomes even harder.
I know that Obama can’t do all that needs to be done in his first year, and so he doesn’t want to repeat the mistake Clinton made in trying to do just that. He has to win some battles before he has the political capital to tackle certain issues. It hasn’t even been six months yet. We have to give him time, but we can help by raising our own voices against the agenda of the Republican Party. They are not acting in our best interests, and this needs to be pointed out whenever possible. I see nothing wrong with making people feel ashamed to be Republicans.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:38 amI think that is a question best asked of Jimmy Big Bucks…
June 21st, 2009 at 11:38 amAs the right careens ever closer to the brink of no return a few who are not quite as crazy as the bulk of rightwingnuts try to take the wheel with responsibility, not going to happen. The election of Obama has brought the racial overtones of the GOP to the forefront and nothing he does will be acceptable no matter how much sense it makes.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:39 amCould someone please tell me why we are supposed to hate Iran. With Bush and Cheney out of the White House, I forgot.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:40 amWILL: The president is being roundly criticized for insufficient, rhetorical support for what’s going on over there. It seems to me foolish criticism. The people on the streets know full well what the American attitude toward the regime is. And they don’t need that reinforced.
Does anyone truly believe he wouldn’t make the opposite case, if corporate asked it of him? Will’s a storebought columnist.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:43 amtom Says:
Good on you, George Will! At last, someone who the right-wingers respect is speaking a truth to them. Perhaps some of the brain-dead dittoheads will actually even change their FoxSnooze-numbed minds.
I doubt that the Fox audience pays much attention to George Will or to Peggy Noonan, for that matter. That’s Old School conservatism, which at least involved the occasional thought (wrong-headed or not). Thinking is too much work for the Fox audience.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:44 amWill is an old school conservative, not a neocon and maybe he’s taking a cue from the protesters in the street and is trying to lead a revolution of his own. It’s worth keeping in mind that the protesters aren’t liberals, they voted for a conservative member of the league of experts (or something like that, the group of leading cleric who put Khamenie in power) Moshavi is a former leader of the 1979 revolution. The neocons who are trumpeting him now will be very disappointed in him if he gains his rightful seat.
I’m not speaking out against the protesters, they are right to demand that the vote be respected, but they voted for a slightly less conservative form of Islamic rule.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:45 am‘at’s ok… bob schieffer gave mcCREEP the whole show, practically,
June 21st, 2009 at 11:47 amto vent his opinion on the matter…
i didn’t listen close… he may have wised up…
anyone know if he did?
yawn, why do people have to constantly state the obvious. When McCain said those irresponsible remarks to satisfy his reich wing minutemen base he should have been immediately critisized and deonounced.
Instead you have CNN talking endlessly about just how badly is Obama dropping the ball by not doing it McCains way. Why is the media so dumb??????
June 21st, 2009 at 11:47 amIn one of the greatest comeback reponses of all time department:
While on Real Time with Bill Maher, Paul Begala and Meghan McCain were going back and fourth about President Obama. Mehgan McCain said that she thought Obama needed to stop blaming Bush for everything. Paul Begala, replied that Obama should be blaming more on Bush for the mess he left the country in.
Than Meghan McCain replied that we already know about the Bush mess, we get it, move on. Paul Belaga than replied that Ronald Reagan blamed Jimmy Carter every day he was in office. Meghan McCain came back and replied that she wasn’t even born then.
Paul Begala came back with this most excellent response “Well I wasn’t born during the French Revolution but I know what happened.” McCain, stunned quickly tried to change subjects. It was hilarious! Me thinks Meghan McCain is trying to groom herself to someday take over her daddy’s legacy as a politician.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:50 amSpeaking personally, I don’t hate them, but I do still hold a grudge from the ‘98 World Cup. A couple of opportunistic goals against the run of play, and our trip to France was essentially over. Grrr.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:52 amEven a broken, ideological Will clock is right twice a day.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:54 amIs Jeffboste annoying?
Should Jeffbostes’s dumbass polls be responded to?
I realize this is really two polls at once but I am just trying to maximize my efficiency…
June 21st, 2009 at 11:55 amAtlast, some sign of intelligence from the right. We can only hope that it stays around for a while. And that we see more of it in the comming years!
June 21st, 2009 at 11:59 amBobwurst Says:
I’m not speaking out against the protesters, they are right to demand that the vote be respected, but they voted for a slightly less conservative form of Islamic rule.
Ahmadinejad has made a hash of the economy (hmmm, that sounds familiar), and this was apparently a significant factor. Plus, well, they’re pissed off about election fraud.
Meanwhile, the authorities have arrested Rafsanjani’s daughter.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:01 pm4 years ago bush came out strongly for Aminidijedad opponent. On numerous occoasions he told the people of iran that they had two choices, they could stay with the current gov, or they could rejoin the rest of the world. They responded by relelecting Anidedjedad…
June 21st, 2009 at 12:01 pmI will say it again one more time.
The Iranian protesters know their own country’s history better than the GOPiggies.
The Iran-Contra scandal has not been forgotten and neither the support of USA for Saddam Hussein, only to go wrong with the USA turning around and attacking BOTH Iran and Iraq.
Save your crocodile tears, GOPiggies. One minute you fu(ks were demanding bombing the country without regard for loss of life, next minute you are complaining about a DEMOCRATIC PROCESS to render you GOPiggies into irrelevancy.
STFU! GOPiggies. Thank the Chimperor and the New-Clowns for your descent into irrelevancy.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:03 pmShould Jeffboste be permanently banned? ABSOLUTELY!!
June 21st, 2009 at 12:03 pmgummble-bee-itch Says:
Ahmadinejad has made a hash of the economy (hmmm, that sounds familiar), and this was apparently a significant factor. Plus, well, they’re pissed off about election fraud.
Meanwhile, the authorities have arrested Rafsanjani’s daughter.
I didn’t know about Rafsanjani’s daughter, that is an ominous development.
I’m not saying the protesters don’t have valid grievences, they do. \
June 21st, 2009 at 12:06 pmAnd if President Obama had come out of the gate criticizing the election results and condemning the government, the right would be all over him for that.
What is the opinion of the Republics? Whatever is the opposite of President Obama.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:12 pmdelafield Says:
Could someone please tell me why we are supposed to hate Iran. With Bush and Cheney out of the White House, I forgot.
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I’ll try…see, the right wingers thrive on fear and hatred. In their eyes, we must have permanent enemies because war is good, peace is bad. In their eyes, we the USA have NEVER done anything bad to other countries (RE:Meddle in their affairs), we are always on the side of God and higher morals.
The fact is Iran has never, ever invaded another country, yet they are part of Bush’s axis of evil. The fact is so much of what that dipshit Ahmadinejad says, is said to fire up his base, much like republicans or democrats say things to fire up their base. I don’t agree with or condone what Ahmadinejad says about Israel BUT one more fact lost on the American people, through the fault of the American media is that terms like “Death to America” or “Death to Israel” when translated in their language is much like “Down on Communists” in our language.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:18 pmIt seems to me that Iran’s prior leader wasn’t as bad as Ahmadinejad, but thanks to them being labeled as part of the axis of evil by Bush, the very next election the crazy hard liner, Ahmadinejad was elected…thanks George!
New GOP bumper sticker:
The republican party, we create our country’s enemies for you so that you don’t have to.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:23 pmThis is all ironic really. Not so long ago those on the right were hoping and wanting us to nuke the hell out of Iran and it’s people, now…..
June 21st, 2009 at 12:28 pmAnd yet partisan hack Bob Schieffer dedicated the entirety of Face the Nation today to John McCain. No voice of support for President Obama’s pitch-perfect tone was allowed for debate. The balance of Schieffer’s show was some drivel about why you shouldn’t discuss Dancing with the Stars with your kids on Father’s Day.
That’s a half hour of my life I’ll never get back.
PEACE
June 21st, 2009 at 12:31 pmJohn Mc… who?
Hardcore Real Raygun Cancervatives like Supremo Lardo in Chief Limpo diced McSame because he was not cancervative enough.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:36 pmWhy is the media so dumb??????
Because “dumb” sells better than “smart”. It is not logical, but it is often true.
June 21st, 2009 at 12:50 pmI too am surprised that George Will wrote something
June 21st, 2009 at 12:50 pmintelligent! The man is undoubtedly an intelligent
man. No question about that. It’s just that his
conservative genes (DNA type), have almost always
led him astray from writing objectively. His slant
has always been from the right. Don’t know why. I
guess it’s just his right brain beating the hell out
of his left brain. Maybe someone hit him with a
bat and knocked some temporary sense into him.
Repukes! You friggen lost because the People are tired of your cr@p!
You are pathetic and inconsiquential. NOW STFU!
@#@$!$#$#@^%@%&
June 21st, 2009 at 12:53 pmDid Will get a new tie for Father’s Day?
June 21st, 2009 at 12:58 pmKaty
June 21st, 2009 at 1:00 pmIf it’s Sunday it’s republican day on TV talk.
Uncle Fester
June 21st, 2009 at 1:02 pmI enjoyed that repartee between McCain and Begala — certainly Begala is correct and she is no match for him. But also, Meghan is not of the vile, meanspirited offspring like Liz Cheney, spawn of the dick.
She probably won’t last too long in politics.
Marie Says:
If it’s Sunday it’s republican day on TV talk.
That’s so true, Marie. When the Republicans had control of everything, one could understand why they had two Republicans to every Democrat on the shows. Now that the Democrats are in charge, we still see two Republicans for every Democrat on the Sunday talk shows. Why? Haven’t the networks figured out yet that a majority of Americans rejected the Republican view on things back in November? We don’t care what they have to say because most of the time, they are wrong. We don’t need “balance” in our news reporting, we need the truth. The problem is that the networks present the liars as having equal validity with the truth-tellers.
Why can’t they understand how illogical their position is on this? If all they are concerned with is having access to these Republicans, why are they bothering? All they are trying to preserve is access to people who are not going to tell the truth, or speak from a reality-based viewpoint. Why is it necessary that we hear from those people at all?
I know that there’s an old saying that “Perception is reality.” (It’s what got Letterman in trouble.) But this is only true because they let it be true. If they would put more effort into informing viewers about the facts instead of repeating what people believe (no matter how wrong it is), then maybe we wouldn’t end up with losers like Bush and Cheney in the White House. It would be nice if the old saying could evolve into “Perception is not to be trusted, get the facts.”
June 21st, 2009 at 1:20 pmAgreed. I actually fund Meghan impressive for her age and pedigree. She seemed sharp yet self-conscious, well aware of being on the defensive (perhaps too aware), fairly articulate but very much a young twenty-something. Out of her depth but not TOO far out of it.
Who knows? She may even grow out of her conservatism as she experiences life. IF she experiences life, that is. Money and power have a way of insulating people from some of the ugly realities the rest of us face.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:20 pmThere have been several times I have found myself, surprisingly, agreeing with an opinion of George Wills.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:22 pmIt is indeed, one of the reasons I will actually LOOK to see if he has an op-ed in the handful of magazines I subscribe too. He does seem Intelligent, rational and thought provoking, very conservative, but not to the point of “Taliban” like behavior we see so much from the rest of them.
I do find that very interesting and these recent comments of his just affirms for me, that there are conservatives out there that do live in this reality at least some of the time.
O/T
June 21st, 2009 at 1:24 pmHappy Fathers Day!
Most conservatives have a short memory at best.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:29 pmThe government of the US and others where just as guilty.
1968 democratic convention in Chicago.
The killing of 4 students in Kent-state for protesting the war in Vietnam.
2000 the big miscount of the votes in Florida, with the help of the gov.
2004 in Ohio. More votes castled in some areas then registered voters.
In conclusion, we as a country have NO right to interfere in other country election.
Politico is not the place where you want to go to for an engaging conversation; what you will find is ignorance and stupidity closely associated with some in the Republican Party which can no doubt be linked to the mentality of the corrupt governing of Iran. And it’s so funny watching these Republican Politicians pretend they care about the Iranian citizens in the street fighting for the right to let their votes be heard, when we all know what this is really about and that’s damage control of who they have finally been exposed to be, the world identify them as not with the people in the street fighting for freedom, the republicans are identified with the fraudulently elected President Ahmadinejad and the Conservative Regime that controls Iran.
We know this, Americans have had to deal with an Ahmadineja and a Conservative Regime for 8 years and in fact, we still have a few in congress who I previously stated are now trying to camouflage themselves as people who are for free elections and who are for fair elections; but people don’t be fooled by this, the Republican Party is more in-line with the current regime in Iran than anything happening in their streets; and it is in the Republicans Party and the Conservative Iranians best interest to keep each other in power, because without the other, they can in no way survive as we are baring witness to this right now.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:32 pmUncle Fester
June 21st, 2009 at 1:34 pmI enjoyed that repartee between McCain and Begala — certainly Begala is correct and she is no match for him. But also, Meghan is not of the vile, meanspirited offspring like Liz Cheney, spawn of the dick.
She probably won’t last too long in politics.
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I agree Meghan McCain is not of the vile mean spirited offspring
like Liz Cheney and she does seem sincere when she says we need to bridge the divide in this country but even though she may represent a different, fresher, kinder republican view, I don’t give her much props because she has lived a life born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she has never had to struggle like many of her college classmates may have had, her views to me are tainted because of where she comes, her elitist background.
Sorry Will but we don’t want some Global warming denier backing us up. We have more than enough common sense to reach the proper conclusion ourselves.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:37 pmQuick, somebody refill George’s Kool-Aid. He’s talking sense.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:40 pmJust as President Eisenhower stood and watched the revolution in Hungary not willing to take any action, President George Bush took similar action decades later. As F. Zakaria wrote, “I think a good historic analogy is President George H.W. Bush’s cautious response to the cracks in the Soviet empire in 1989. Then, many neo-conservatives were livid with Bush for not loudly supporting those trying to topple the communist regimes in Eastern Europe. But Bush’s concern was that the situation was fragile. Those regimes could easily crack down on the protestors and the Soviet Union could send in tanks. Handing the communists reasons to react forcefully would help no one, least of all the protesters. Bush’s basic approach was correct and has been vindicated by history.”
June 21st, 2009 at 1:48 pmThis is the action of of real Republicans and thoughtful leaders. Americans now once again are fortunate to have such a leader.
ymax Says:
Most conservatives have a short memory at best.
The government of the US and others where just as guilty.
1968 democratic convention in Chicago.
The killing of 4 students in Kent-state for protesting the war in Vietnam.
2000 the big miscount of the votes in Florida, with the help of the gov.
2004 in Ohio. More votes castled in some areas then registered voters.
In conclusion, we as a country have NO right to interfere in other country election.
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You could go even further.
* The massacre at Ludlow in 1914, where the Colorado militia (National Guard) murdered 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners … at the behest of mine owner John D. Rockefeller.
* The bonus march of WWI veterans who set up a tent city near the White House and protested for the bonuses they were promised by the government. About 17,000 veterans gathered at Anacostia Flats and demanded the United States Congress provide immediate payment of the bonus. In June the House of Representatives agreed to immediate payment, but the Senate defeated the legislation. Many veterans then left the capital.
About 2,000 veterans remained in Washington, D.C., however, and they rioted on July 28. President Herbert Hoover ordered federal troops under General Douglas MacArthur to end the riot. The Bonus Army was driven away by cavalry, tanks, and infantry armed with tear gas, and their camp was destroyed.
There are numerous other incidents of our own government using military force at the behest of wealthy mine owners against protesting union workers. These things aren’t taught in our schools anymore. The right started a movement in the 80’s to remove such history in public school history books.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:51 pmI used to number George Will among the conservative voices that I respected. No longer.
Over the last several years I’ve found his views entirely unredeeming and, even worse, really poorly reasoned. His repeated trumpeting of the false claim that “in the seventies, the scientific consensus said we were heading into a period of catastrophic global cooling” is a perfect example. He seems to have become more doctrinaire and less contemplative through the Bush years, and he has become, to me at least, a poor cartoon of a “conservative intellectual”.
I suspect that the development of a right-wing hothouse of punditry at the WaPo hasn’t helped the situation. With fewer and fewer left-wing colleagues there to keep him honest, he’s free to drift as far to starboard as the wind will take him.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:55 pmspencers mom Says:
That’s a half hour of my life I’ll never get back.
I guess I have to ask why you even watch these shows when you know that all you are going to get is right wing spin.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:58 pmeyeswideopen1 Says:
Sorry Will but we don’t want some Global warming denier backing us up. We have more than enough common sense to reach the proper conclusion ourselves.
Thank you.
We don’t need no stinkin repug to tell us what we already know. What this poke should be doing is aligning his teabagger nuts with the human race.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:58 pmThe Palestinians are having peaceful protests, see any GOPers making resolutions of support for them?
Of course not.
June 21st, 2009 at 2:05 pm“I used to number George Will among the conservative voices that I respected…”
Me, too, Ralph. I started watching “This Week with David Brinkley” with my dad decades ago(!), and at that time I found Will to be intelligent, thoughtful and witty. I didn’t always agree with him, but at least he seemed reasonable. These days he just seems to be literally petrified in his views.
June 21st, 2009 at 2:05 pmjohnny dol1ar Says:
I will say it again one more time.
The Iranian protesters know their own country’s history better than the GOPiggies.
The Iran-Contra scandal has not been forgotten and neither the support of USA for Saddam Hussein, only to go wrong with the USA turning around and attacking BOTH Iran and Iraq.
Save your crocodile tears, GOPiggies. One minute you fu(ks were demanding bombing the country without regard for loss of life, next minute you are complaining about a DEMOCRATIC PROCESS to render you GOPiggies into irrelevancy.
STFU! GOPiggies. Thank the Chimperor and the New-Clowns for your descent into irrelevancy.
WTF is going on here? Is this the fake johneth?
June 21st, 2009 at 2:06 pmIm done with Obama….
Buh Bye TP’ers
June 21st, 2009 at 2:11 pmUncle Fester Lurks Says:
ymax Says:
Most conservatives have a short memory at best.
The government of the US and others where just as guilty.
1968 democratic convention in Chicago.
The killing of 4 students in Kent-state for protesting the war in Vietnam.
2000 the big miscount of the votes in Florida, with the help of the gov.
2004 in Ohio. More votes castled in some areas then registered voters.
In conclusion, we as a country have NO right to interfere in other country election.
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You could go even further.
* The massacre at Ludlow in 1914, where the Colorado militia (National Guard) murdered 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners … at the behest of mine owner John D. Rockefeller.
* The bonus march of WWI veterans who set up a tent city near the White House and protested for the bonuses they were promised by the government. About 17,000 veterans gathered at Anacostia Flats and demanded the United States Congress provide immediate payment of the bonus. In June the House of Representatives agreed to immediate payment, but the Senate defeated the legislation. Many veterans then left the capital.
About 2,000 veterans remained in Washington, D.C., however, and they rioted on July 28. President Herbert Hoover ordered federal troops under General Douglas MacArthur to end the riot. The Bonus Army was driven away by cavalry, tanks, and infantry armed with tear gas, and their camp was destroyed.
There are numerous other incidents of our own government using military force at the behest of wealthy mine owners against protesting union workers. These things aren’t taught in our schools anymore. The right started a movement in the 80’s to remove such history in public school history books.
Government corruption dealing with the BPP, SLA, Move, Waco, etc.
The treatment of African-Americans throughout the history of this land.
Stay the f0uck out of their progress.
June 21st, 2009 at 2:13 pmOT
PETA should be ashamed for making a big freaking deal about a nasty fly.
June 21st, 2009 at 2:19 pmRegarding the media, truer words were never spoken
June 21st, 2009 at 2:50 pmI am of the opinion that the President did speak forcibly prior to the Iranian elections. Obama spoke for the American people in a language that reflected the best of the American spirit. The Cairo speech was definitely heard through out the Middle East and may be playing a major part in the events in Iran.
President Obama is gaining credentials in this country with in the senior members of the opposition party. The foreign policy Obama is pursuing is thoughtful and intuitive.
The Right Wing has the luxury of playing the narcissistic little child, real leadership requires insight and maturity, something the Right Wing is demonstrating they don’t have.
I give George Wills and Peggy Noonanr credit for making this distinction. This is way over due. We have only one President at a time, and that happens to be Obama.
June 21st, 2009 at 3:02 pmXisithrus says, “The Palestinians are having peaceful protests, see any GOPers making resolutions of support for them? Of course not.”
Israel could kill 5,000 Palestinian refugees in a week and the “Main Stream Media” would say that Israel has the right to defend itself.
Go figure.
June 21st, 2009 at 3:46 pmSTFU! GOPiggies. Thank the Chimperor and the New-Clowns for your descent into irrelevancy
who the fu(ck is the chimperor
June 21st, 2009 at 3:47 pmWe didn’t get the White House using ad hominen arguments; it would be nice to see them all go away.
June 21st, 2009 at 3:54 pmTaking the world view, do we really want to scream out loud about democratic rights? Don’t some cultures need diverse forms of government?
It all comes down to implementing a system of government where the specific culture can be productive and have no fear of attack.
Xisithrus Says:
Im done with Obama….
Buh Bye TP’ers
Bye X.
Where are you going to the teabaggers’ site?
June 21st, 2009 at 4:10 pmYou throw enough darts eventually you’ll a bull’s eye, we just saw it from Will and Peggy.
June 21st, 2009 at 4:14 pmFox News has 24 hour Obama bashing saying he should do more. What the heck do they want him to do? Bomb the country? Fox News is the biggest threat to the world as we know it.
June 21st, 2009 at 7:46 pmI have a hard time believing that the Republicans are concerned about Iran for any reason other than it being a prime piece of real estate in the Great Game of oil. That is why we are in two wars in the middle east. It’s not retribution for 9/11 or freedom for Iraqis—it’s OIL and pipelines for OIL.
The most direct and easiest route for a pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf is through Iran. U.S. corporations getting a piece of that may be a pipe dream, but the Plutocrats and Republicans live for such pipe dreams.
June 21st, 2009 at 9:43 pmI was heartend to see all of the forward-thinking posts in here. I DO NOT think the Republicons have our countries best interests at heart as it concerns their comments on Iran. I understand that Dems and Repubs are like cats and dogs but this has got to stop. Allowing a grudge match to take over foreign policy is nothing short of insanity. I know the last decade or so has been hotly contested between the two major parties but enough is enough.
June 21st, 2009 at 10:29 pmAre you serious wiley? How about an original thought? Just one. I dare you! lol All this copying and pasting is comical. Of course it’s ALL 100 PERCENT about the oil! And you even added something about the Caspian Sea! Brilliant stuff. ;)
June 21st, 2009 at 11:34 pmAre most liberals idiots? I thought so. The Demons are always demonizing everybody except themselves. Their language is perverted just like they are perverts. Iran is an axis of evil. Anybody that does not know that is ignorant of the facts.
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:15 amhttp://salibiyyah.blogspot.com/2009/06/same-old-news.html
FREE IRAN, FREE THE PEOPLE OF IRAN from the demonic leaders of hell.
Lift up the Demos too far and they will have a long way to fall. Their Supreme Leader, O, and the rest of the brainless monkees, will do a tumbling act.
Liberals are the devil’s angels by the way.
Don’t let the door hit ya, Xisithrus.
ccokz, how is this about Berlusconi a response to Will’s reaction to GOP criticism of Obama?
Unfortunately, I don’t think the bubbas will be driving around all day, reading Will or Peggy Noonan, whereas, they can crank Rush up as loud as they wish.
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:42 amThank you..
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Republican comments on Iran, or anything else for that matter have nothing to do with the subject under discussion, it has to do with finding a way to criticize Obama. Their track record on this proves this. They criticize Obama for stuff they praised Bush for, they even moaned about the way he picked his dog.
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:44 amOld Patriot:
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:38 amGet a life. Iran would love nothing better than to blame all their internal problems on the US. If we got involved it would be all the proof the Iranian government needed to crush supporters of Mousavi, claiming they are supported by the US. Use your head before you open your mouth.
George Will does not really fit into the category of neocon, but isn’t funny how neocons are only conerned about human rights when they want to invade? They are so disingenuous, and will do and say anything to get us involved in another war over resources.
Perfect example of this is neocon, Dan Senor saying that Democrats hated Reagan more than Communism, when he was comparing the Velvet Revolution to what’s going on in Iran today.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=1875
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:13 pm