Disgrace
I certainly hope nobody seriously imagined this was going to end any other way. Obama is a friend to dictators, and an enemy of liberty and democracy, and that’s really all there is to it. Anybody who still believes he was ever going to stand up in support of Iran’s dissidents might as well assume he’ll support the legitimate government of Honduras in its attempt to forestall a communist takeover, too. And it just ain’t gonna happen. How many times will our own home-grown despot have to come down on the side of his dictator pals before the ever-hopeful Pollyannas realize the truth about this megalomaniacal communist fraud?
He could have dodged this question a dozen ways. He could have said the election’s irrelevant from our standpoint since we have to play the cards we’re dealt; he could have noted, as Obama’s often done in the past, that true power resides in the supreme leader so it’s only his legitimacy that’s at issue; or he could have told the truth and said that all Iranian elections are shams since true reformers aren’t allowed on the ballot. Instead, so desperate are these tools to get Iran to the bargaining table and show Americans some sort of dividend from Hopenchange diplomacy that Gibbs actually acknowledges Ahmadinejad as the “elected leader” — the same lie the regime’s been telling the world and the same lie Iranians have been dying in the streets to challenge. As a de facto — and entirely gratuitous — endorsement of their corruption, it’s the lowest moment of The One’s presidency so far. And the only thing that’ll take the sting out of it is watching all the dumb liberals who painted their Twitter avatars green two months ago in solidarity with Mousavi’s supporters hemming and hawing now over how our lord and savior really had no choice but to kiss ass here.
AP has an update from one of those Iranian dissidents Obama just tossed under the bus: “It wasn’t an election. It was a one-way road to continous dictatorship. American ppl should question their president.” Oh, we are, buddy, we are, more and more of us every day. Who knows, we might be asking for some public expressions of support from you guys before it’s all over, assuming any of you are left alive by then now that Obama’s sold you out and given the green light to your tormentors.
Tyrants are the same the world over; they do not go gently into that good night, and have little or no regard for the rule of law and the will of the people. And we just might need more help than we realize now to rid ourselves of this one.
Update! Jacobsen says, “don’t forget Honduras.” And certainly, we shouldn’t. But as long as King Hussein remains in power, we shouldn’t hold out much hope, either; he’s bringing the full might, short of military force (for now), of the USSSA to bear against the forces of liberty and constitutional government he so clearly loathes.
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Sutpidity compounded by the inability to face up to one's own stated position, once the heat's on. Pathetic.