Iranian Election a Repudiation of Obama

Flopping Aces ^ | Sunday, June 14th, 2009 at 9:31 am | Mike's America

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Liberals who claimed Lebanon’s recent election rejecting Hezbollah as a referendum on Obama and his Cairo speech (here, here) had their fingers crossed for a second big win in Iran this weekend.

One report in the New York Times published Thursday breathlessly suggested we may be on the verge of a “Sea Change” even though the so-called “reform” candidate Moussavi had the same views of Iran’s nuclear development as Ahmadinejad.

Obama himself contributed to this mythical idea of an “Obama effect” brought about by his Cairo speech:

“We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran,” Obama told reporters today. “And obviously, after the speech that I made in Cairo, we tried to send a clear message that we think there is the possibility of change.

Sadly, the result in the Iranian election which returns Ahmadinejad to power shows the “Obama effect” has turned out to be nothing but hot air. Both The Politico and San Francisco Chronicle are trying with varying degrees of success to find a silver lining in the outcome for Obama. The New York Times, or as I like to call it, the Obama Daily News, faces reality squarely: “Reverberations as Door Slams on Hope of Change. “

It must be difficult for Obama and his minions, so wrapped within the bubble of adulation they and their “news” media allies have created, to understand that one speech in Cairo cannot undo centuries of political and cultural habits in the Middle East. The fact is that most of the world is not as focused on Obama, what he says or does, as Obama and his followers.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[GeronL]

Imagine if Obama learns the lessons.

Election Day 2012-

As ACORN and NOW prepare for their first time as the official vote counters of the elections, the internet has been shut down in order to get people off their butts and into the polling locations.

Meanwhile in the inner cities the mobile polling places are going door to door to collect the vote.

Soon the count has been confirmed.

Despite 19% unemployment and a nation in tatters and open revolts here and there the Obama Campaign has raked in 65% of the vote and every single elector.

Just another day in a democracy.

[nikos1121]

The Lebanese people voted independent of Obama... and perhaps inspite of what he said...

I look at the results there a repudiation of him.... They fear his pro-Muslim leanings...

This is rediculous. How can Clinton and company actually not see that the elections there in Iran were rigged...?

[GeronL]

Thanks.

[Dog Gone]

Obama is narcissitic enough to think his teleprompter speech in Cairo changed the world.

He’s not 1/10th the person he thinks he is. He thinks because he can end half of his canned sentences with an upward inflection, that this makes him a messianic figure.

Some of us are not that stupid to believe it, simply because he does.

This man is going to dismantle the “War on Man-made Disasters.”

People will die as a result.

[gusopol3]

my superficial review of it was that the Lebanese Christians refused to follow a Lebanese Christian general, Aoun , into the hezb Allah camp. Yet it was supposedly the “moderate” Moslems that Obama was appealing to in the Cairo speech, according to Fareed Zakaria, among others. Isn’t that at least close? These guys are drunk with their own pride.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related thread:

Reverberations as Door Slams on Hope of Change (Obama failed?)

[Jabba the Nutt]

What happened to “all politics are local”? That the President, or any President, or anyone, by making a reading a teleprompter, can affect elections in such complicated and diverse political situations as Lebanon or Iran are simply delusional.

[SDShack]

I guess 0zero quoting the “holy koran” in Cairo didn’t work. This is 0zero’s problem now. I want to see him fulfill his campaign promise of talking with “I’m A Not Job” without preconditions now!

This “election” is a result of either 2 things. Either the election was stolen, or the election was fair and the people of Iran rejected “Hope & Change”. Either way, 0zero is in a box. He either has to fulfill his campaign promise to talk to “I’m A Nut Job” and thereby legitimize his fraudulant election (and contradicting his administrations statements by the way), or he has to admit that his Cairo speech was a failure in swaying public opinion in Iran.

No wonder our State Run Media only wants to talk about 0zero Socialized Health Care, and that Wise Latina Sotomayor. Anything to get the bad 0zero news off the front pages!

[RatsDawg]

How can Obama call it a robust debate, when both the candidates have almost the same views?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Star Traveler]

Well, Iran doesn’t care what Obama says... LOL... They’re going to do what they want to do, regardless of anything that Obama does or says.

In fact, it was quite disappointing that President Bush didn’t do anything about Iran either, during his term, except that he wasn’t going to talk to them. I would have preferred bombing their nuclear facilities into oblivion, but apparently President Bush didn’t think it was needed...

[VRWCTexan]

Answer = at least 51% of the American sheeple continue to swallow zero’s made-up fairy tales .... largely with the help of the “state run” media

[Riptides]

HOLD THE PRESSES!!!
Jimmy Carter is on his way to Tehran to lead the re-count!

[Cheburashka]

HOLD THE PRESSES!!!
Jimmy Carter is on his way to Tehran to lead the re-count!

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My prayers have been answered!!! Please, please, please, God, let him be taken hostage!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!

[eclecticEel]

The irony being that the President of Iran has very little power in any event. The Ayatolloh is still in charge, and regardless of how it turned out this election wouldn’t have had any effect on that.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Obama talked like it would.

[Jeff Head]

Biden casted doubt on the Iranian election, and he used the positive results in Iraq as an example.

Well, how about this, Vice President Biden?

When the people of Iraq were denied these rights, and when their brutal dictator thumbed his nose at the agreements he had signed, Geroge Bush did more than talk. Now the people of Iraq are free to vote, and have done so as you point out, and now use as an example for good...but no thanks to you and Obama.

Without George Bush's firm ACTION, and his and our brave troops dedication to the principles of freedom and the propositions that you now TALK about, the Iraqi people to this day would be suffering under a brutal dictator.

You and Obama and your ilk would have done worse than nothing...you have demonized America out of one side of your mouth, whose son's and daughter's blood purchased the liberty you talk about out of the other side of your mouth.

Well, the Israeli settlers have just about got Obama figured out:

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING