IM-POTUS on Iran
23-Jun-09
Luke 3.0
Today President Barack Obama came out with his strongest condemnation of the Iranian regime’s recent crackdown on protesters. Unfortunately the words, as written were not bad at all, but the delivery was weak, unemotional, and professorial… and then it got worse.
In the very next breath, with the same tone and passion as he spoke on the situation in Iran, President Obama began to speak about Energy reform and Healthcare reform. I cannot believe that this President that moved millions of people, many of which felt disenfranchised, and never involved nor interested in politics before couldn’t move the world in support of basic human rights and dignity for those in Iran.
I didn’t vote for the man but it’s well-known that he is a gifted speaker with the cadence of a preacher, the ability to motivate millions nationally for own his political ambitions but refuses to lead international support of the basic human right of freedom of peaceful assembly. Undoubtedly he fine-tuned his skill as a community organizer in support of welfare, housing, and employment issues at the drop of a hat but refuses, not unable, but made a decision to refuse to organize the international community to rally around these demonstrators yearning for freedom.
The sad reality is that this administration, as confirmed by inside sources, is hedging their bets just in case they have to make deals with the current oligarchy regarding Iran’s nuclear program ambitions. This reminds me of the words of Pres Ronald Reagan in his 1964 Republican Party Convention speaking of those that want “accommodation”, later to be known as detente, with the Communists when he stated:
We cannot buy our security… by committing an immorality so great, as to say to a billion human beings enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up you dreams of freedom, because to save our own skins, we are willing to make a deal with your slavemasters.”
This president had the right words but the wrong delivery and really missed the mark to equivocate the Iranian Crisis with the manufactured “Healthcare Crisis” and “Energy Crisis”. His handlers should have made it an address to Americans directly from the Oval office and made the speech of the domestic issues later in the day or the following day. It would have shown leadership, strength and a legitimacy for the Iranians protesting in the streets. And that’s what the Administration is afraid of doing. Just in case they have to make deals with the Oligarchy.
As displayed for the world in last year’s Georgia crisis, Obama’s responses, even though they have evolved since last week are shockingly impotent. We have a leader that went from POTUS to ImPOTUS in just 30 minutes. Shocking for such a gifted man.

