Turns out, knowing whether the CIA committed heinous acts of torture and then lied about it- not that important any more. Obviously they don’t want another news cycle of Cheney vs. Pelosi, given how that turned out last time…….

What I thought was interesting in his speech was that he wanted us all to know how *he* feels about it. How “deeply disturbed” he is (as if we didn’t already know he is deeply disturbed). It really doesn’t matter how he feels about it. We don’t care how he feels about it. Why does he think anyone gives a flyin’ fart how he feels about it. We want to know what he is going to *DO* about it.

Reminds me Carter who in a White House interview with Sam Donaldson after the Russians invaded Afghanistan (after we ran away from Iran) who told us all how “deeply disappointed” he was in Russia. I remember nearly coming out of my chair saying I didn’t give a rat’s pair of hips what how “deeply disappointed” is. I didn’t tune in to learn his emotional state. I wanted to know what he intended to *do* about. All we got was blather.

Same from Obama… blather. Do you really care how he *feels* about it?

crosspatch on June 16, 2009 at 1:13 AM

Carter proved COWARDLINESS is no substitute for LEADSHIP.

Today we have our 21st century Carter in Obama. I pray to Our Lord we get our 21st Reagan next like 1980.

Reminds me Carter who in a White House interview with Sam Donaldson after the Russians invaded Afghanistan (after we ran away from Iran) who told us all how “deeply disappointed” he was in Russia. I remember nearly coming out of my chair saying I didn’t give a rat’s pair of hips what how “deeply disappointed” is. I didn’t tune in to learn his emotional state. I wanted to know what he intended to *do* about. All we got was blather.

Same from Obama… blather. Do you really care how he *feels* about it?

I remember just before the 2004 election reading a post by Michael Totten (I think it was Totten) arguing that the virtue of a Kerry victory is that it would make the war on terror a fully bipartisan affair. I think we’re seeing that effect now, five years later, but what a shame that it took a Democratic president to make popular revolt against tyranny wildly popular again

I can’t tell you how sick this makes me. Sunshine patriots and scum, that’s anyone who would follow Bush’s policies just because Obama follows them.

[T]he left, I think a little to their own surprise, became deeply invested in the Mousavi campaign. Perhaps you could see it most clearly on Andrew Sullivan’s blog…

Huh? You mean, Andrew Sullivan the, ahem, conservative?

Too tough 5%
Not tough enough 66%
About right 17%
Don’t know 12%

To put this in context: Do you remember way back (last year) when the press kept saying 100 times a day “Only 48% Of Americans Agree With Bush’s Foreign Policy.” They always left off the 25% or so who thought Bush was too tough on Iran, North Korea, etc.

If they used the same criteria for reporting now, Barak Obama’s foriegn policy approval rating would be at SEVENTEEN PERCENT. How many times do you think we’ll hear that per day?

Ok get barney franks over their to umm,
Errr..
crap how to delicatly say this..

To do to the iranians what the Liberals did to fanny and freddy..

Besides, foreign policy expert Joe was supposed to handle all this complicated furener stuff anyway.

Dr. ZhivBlago on June 15, 2009 at 8:07 PM

Oh yeah, how’s that working out?

The Joe Biden inspiring confidence thing I mean?

Actually, they were just worried about the jobs they had and thought The One could somehow fix everything.

Foreign policy stuff was waaaaay on the back burner. Besides, foreign policy expert Joe was supposed to handle all this complicated furener stuff anyway.

Now this party just wants to do the easy work and look the other way. Used to be a time when freedom fighters looked to America for support, now this admin just turns their back or gives lip service. What dogs.

0bama finds this whole situation difficult and troubling.

After all, Ahmadinejad is one of his personal heroes, and they have many of the the same goals (destruction of Israel, destruction of American supremacy, bringing about the 12th imam, etc.)

How can anyone expect 0bama to do or say anything that wouldn’t harm his own agenda when he really wants to be able to do exactly the same things that Ahmadinejad (Chavez, Putin, etc. too) does.

Unfortunately for 0bama, he can’t yet be quite so blatant about his actions as the other guys do.