Posted by
Cliff Brotherton on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:41:03 AM
It has been said, that a man who will not stand for something, will fall for anything.
Obama has spoken strong words to the nation about our new direction, and has criticized us for our arrogance, and he as spoken strongly against those in our society who have achieved comfort in their living. In a loud voice, he has accused the affluent of failing the pitiable. He has done all this while touring Europe and traveling to New York for a date night on the American taxpayer dollar.
Yet, he has not found the courage to speak out against an obvious dishonest election in Iran, while invoking an indecisive statement concerning the situation those brave souls in Iran face. I don’t understand a President who resides in a country founded on the principles of freedom and honest elections for all. A President who resides in a country that, in its past, fought through similar struggles to provide freedom for all its citizens to a decent and honest electoral process.
But I wonder about the concept of election freedom when it comes to our new President. This is the same President who championed ACORN, the same ACORN, under indictment in 14 states for voter fraud. He didn’t seem to pay much attention to the accusations poised against ACORN for their actions in the 2008 election. Obama, in fact, has position ACORN to handle the upcoming census, possibly for their outstanding work in perpetrating an electoral fraud without much backlash.
But I digress.
What happens in Iran, should stay in Iran in my opinion, and considering their rhetoric when it comes to Israel and America, I have very little compassion for what takes place in that country. Nevertheless, when anyone stands up for his or her freedom, no matter who they are, those who live in freedom should welcome their attempt at such, and voice their support for them at every turn.
But not our President.
Obama has no internal self-beliefs about such things, the power hungry never do. What is important to Obama is based in an earlier statement he made concerning Iran…
"…willing to meet separately,
without precondition, during the first year of your administration,
in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran…”
So why should those in Iran, or those here in America, expect our President to speak out against obvious election fraud, or to speak out against a regime hell bent on keeping its citizens away from a better future, or any future different from the one that regime has set for them.
Obama’s interest has little to do with what is right or just, only what is just right, for him.
Obama wears a black hat this story, he is the politician about whom so many movies have been made. You know the one, the man with enough power to destroy world. A smooth talking used car salesman who happen to win the lottery by simply being in the right place, at the right time. A lottery winner, whose history is not one of money, but American opportunity.
Such men have no convictions and never really take a stand on anything. They follow the polls and do everything they can to stand with the winners, no matter who the winners are. Be he black hat, or white hat, good guy or bad it doesn’t matter.
I am not naive, I understand the political process and how the good guys of the world have to deal with the bad guys of the world in order to get things done, that good men can conveniently work with bad men for the greater good. However, such acts should never be self-serving, not ever.
Obama has such a smooth way of laying out his self-gratifying claims, he could make a fool believe that, on a clear day, the wet pouring down the fools back, is really rain.
While those in Iran are risking their lives to bring about freedom, Obama is not weighing the cost of right and wrong, he is weighing the cost of doing or not doing depending on which is the most politically advantageous.
I wonder if a black American President with the family history of one bred in this country would approach this situation different. Obviously, a President born of a Muslim mentality feels different about such things as social living and freedom…
But again, I digress.