You Can't Stop the Signal...

...as Iran's mullah's are finding out.



I was turned on to this fresh youtube video via a tweet. Events have driven me to twitter though I've yet to really figure it out.

That said the 800 pound gorilla in the news cycle is the Iranian general uprising, and after a craven six days of mollifying mullahs, and feverish internal polling Obama has finally grown a pair and gotten caught up in the revolutionary fervor (well, sort of). He did suggest that the bloodthirsty theocrats should stop 'unjust' actions'...

"We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people," Obama said in a written statement. "The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights."

Really? Perhaps the "United States" does, but do Obama and his minions? Judging by our presidents predilection to cozying up in a nonjudgmental way with every tin horn America hating despot on the planet those words ring pretty hollow. Furthermore, since Obama has worked so assiduously at segregating himself from the the taint of Americanism when addressing foreign audiences his lack of the nominative 'I' is notable

"Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away," the president said, recalling a theme from the speech he gave in Cairo, Egypt, this month.

Perhaps he should keep that in mind when the fairness doctrine in whatever form it takes shows up on his desk for signing.

"The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government," Obama said. "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."

Yes indeed, the Iranian people will judge, but by god Obama won't.

By virtue of his belated lip service and a complicit media Obama has placed himself in a position where he will claim credit if the uprising is a success, or assume a no harm no foul or even a victimhood (à la the Iranian people) posture if it fails.

Update:

Obama proclaims 'Hail to the Victors'! via Iowahawk