Quote of the Week

Posted on 06/17/2009 at 8:13 am by Bob Cesca

“The second thing that I think’s important to recognize is that the easiest way for reactionary forces inside Iran to crush reformers is to say it’s the US that is encouraging those reformers. So what I’ve said is, `Look, it’s up to the Iranian people to make a decision. We are not meddling.’ And, you know, ultimately the question that the leadership in Iran has to answer is their own credibility in the eyes of the Iranian people.” —President Obama

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  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    I’m in awe. Obama is the first president in my lifetime — perhaps the first president in American history — to really understand public communication across national boundaries. He’s pitch-perfect and spot-on here, managing to call for regime accountability while “not meddling” in Iran’s domestic turmoil. It even translates well into Arabic.

  • http://zirgar.blogspot.com ZIRGAR

    Amen, Matt. Obama is handling this just right. He’s not about to give the regime any ammo or add the internal pressures in Iran right now with rhetoric that could in essense, or even in fact, crush the mild revolution going on.And fuck John McCain for suggesting otherwise. Who the hell cares what he thinks anyway since he’s the goddammed moron who actually thought Sarah Palin would be a good VP, and now we have to keep dealing with her ignorant backwoods horseshit for the next few years or even longer?

  • Kat

    How absolutely glorious to have a president who thinks before speaking. Obama understands the damage that has been inflicted upon our reputation and standing in the world, and is responding accordingly. We need to keep out of this one.And John McCain’s comments demonstrate why I am so fucking happy that he lost. The idea of a McCain presidency dealing with a situation like this is absolutely terrifying.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    That’s why I voted for the smart guy…lol He thinks, he speaks and he really knows of what he is speaking about.He is reasoned and has a lot of support for his stand on this. McCain, not so much. He has a few neo-cons who are wanting a more aggressive stand. But what do they want him to do..Bomb bomb Iran.. as McCain so famously said.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    According to MSNBC, Pres. Obama just got blamed anyway from Iran saying he is meddling in their affairs.

  • Mather Z

    The situation in Iran is such a punch in the crotch to the whole “bomb Iran” crowd. A fatal punch in the crotch, even.Repressed people throughout history have risen up against the repression, and while I don’t think anyone knows whether or not the current peaceful demonstrations will lead to real structural change to the Iranian system, there can be no doubt that that change will, clearly, come to Iran, and it will be brought about by Iranians. And that doing it by popular uprising is more effective and legitimate than by a foreign invasion like Iraq.An invasion like Iraq gets you, well, Iraq.

  • http://arkytek.blogspot.com/ SillyGit

    I love my President.He’s got this.

  • http://homepage.mac.com/wildlifeweb/bird/flamingo/honolulu/flamingo01.jpg veralynn

    Amen to what everyone has said. I love that he is responsible. I love that he understands the power of what the President of the United States has.I impressed even more with him when I think how shrub would’ve handled this.