Posted on 06/20/2009 11:50:03 AM PDT by The Klingon
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 20, 2009
Statement from the President on Iran
The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.
As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.
Martin Luther King once said - "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples’ belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness.
See if you can remember that bit about “govern through consent, not coercion” in your own adopted country here, would you? ...excuse me, ...would You?
“I’m not sure what alternatives we really do have right now.”
The alternative from day ONE, would have been for Obama to dispense with calling the Ayatollah ‘Dear Supreme Leader’ and to show some moral clarity for christs sake!
He is a day late and a dollar short. How can Obama have any effect whatsoever when he has waited for days to say anything remotely of substance? He has blown it!
I cannot help but reflect on the reality that the last generation of Iranians were shouting death to the U.S. only thirty years ago. Not all of them were, but a significant enough number of them were.
Now here we are, and they are angry at their current leadership, the one they ushered in by overthrowing the Shah.
When the Iranian people do get their nation back, and I pray they will, I hope they do a better job of selecting who will lead from here on out.
If they pick another group that pushes the nuclear option and stands up against the West instead of embracing it, this will all have been for naught.
I agree with your comments on W. and the U.S. BTW.
No one is saying we should enter Iran and fix things.
What we should be doing is voicing support towards the Iranian people that want freedom and liberty. Moral support is a powerful weapon when coming from the leader of the free world. Worked for Reagan in Poland.
Obama couldn't bring himself to say anything. That is the problem. He wouldn't even go to his much-vaunted UN. He didn't even have a high level meeting about the Iran elections.
He's shown weakness. His silence has shown the Iranian people that he supports the Mullahs.
He's got no moral authority any more. He's lost it. Any statement from now on is for political posturing.
It's all about him.
So, this is about the 3rd or 4th time he has used this quote. I guess the stand-bys seem to work for non-speak.
That’s Res__ent to you sir. ;-)
Making Jimmy Carter seem like Margaret Thatcher.
I wish our government did that. :(
It appears he has more concern for the integrity of foreign elections than for the integrity of our own.
Do us a favor, can you say “Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.” instead of “Martin Luther King?” It’s just a thing. He worked so hard to get that title, so we’d appreciate it. Thank you.
I guess zero doesn’t want his fellow muzzies to catch him quoting a Christian.
LOL!
He caved. Finally. I started reading this and thought oh this is a statement from I’manutjob.
Lame.
He should have done this last week. I knew Ronald Reagan. And you are no Ronald Reagan.
President Pantywaist latest: Iran unclenches its fist - to slap Barack Obama’s face
“To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.” That piece of classic Obamaguff, unloaded during his presidential inauguration, has come home to haunt President Pantywaist, as a consequence of the Iranian election.
Good, common sense there, D O. I agree with you.
“I’m not sure what alternatives we really do have right now.”
He could give stronger language like Sarkozy and the Brits and Germans are, and unify with out “allies” on message.
Read through his lines, everything he says communicates a dissatisfaction that events are not unfolding within the context of his imagined “debate” with the “Muslim World.” “As I said in Cairo...” He is that egotistical, surely fueled by his acolyte toadys.
That statement, “As I said in Cairo” communicates to you Obama’s mentality. What does Cairo have to do with Tehran?
How about this—not equating Mousavi with A-jad. He did that, and that was an insult. No two ways about it, he’s a prima donna.
That's a big "if". I suspect the Iranian government doesn't give a flip about what the world thinks of them, any more than the North Korean leaders care. The world's two most despised countries in the world and neither cares a wit. For me - I back the brave Iranian people. And the poor beaten down North Korean people. Eff their leaders.
The damned cowardly idiot. “As i said in cairo” found a way to make it about him. The low-life.
A man convinced against his will,
is of the same opinion still.
President Obama can't even make a strong strongly worded letter....
Where did he get his training, the Rodney King school of diplomacy?
Uh, take a look on the threads. One should qualify by adding "seriously", in your statement.
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