Originally Posted By Mr X Right Winger talking point of the minute... Obama is staying quiet because he doesn't want people to realize that the Bush agenda of "spreading democracy" has CAUSED what is happening in Iran right now. Yep.
Originally Posted By ecdc <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/22/scarborough-mccain-and-gr_n_219073.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...073.html</a> Joe Scarborough took McCain and Lindsey Graham to task for criticizing Obama.
Originally Posted By ecdc <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124571865270639351.html" target="_blank">http://online.wsj.com/article/...351.html</a> And then there's this. Wow. >>Upon learning of his son's death, the elder Mr. Alipour was told the family had to pay an equivalent of $3,000 as a "bullet fee"—a fee for the bullet used by security forces—before taking the body back, relatives said. Mr. Alipour told officials that his entire possessions wouldn't amount to $3,000, arguing they should waive the fee because he is a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war. According to relatives, morgue officials finally agreed, but demanded that the family do no funeral or burial in Tehran. Kaveh Alipour's body was quietly transported to the city of Rasht, where there is family.<<
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2009/06/lat_profiles_neda.php" target="_blank">http://www.laobserved.com/arch...neda.php</a> More on the woman Neda, who was killed Saturday. It's a good story by the L.A. Times. Click on all the links within it. Plus, there's a nice swipe at Sam Zell via a vis reporters, who truly is a cretin.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 George Will and Peggy Noonan are the latest right-wing pundits to criticize the GOP pols who have been trying to trash Obama for his handling of the situation. They get that, in Will's words, "The president is being roundly criticized for insufficient rhetorical support for what's going on over there. It seems to me foolish criticism. The people on the streets know full well what the American attitude toward that regime is, and they don't need that reinforced. Furthermore, there's an American memory of encouraging things like the Hungarian revolution in 1956, with rhetoric about rolling back communism. We had balloons flown in and dropped medals with the Statue of Liberty on it and leaflets. Came to crunch, there was nothing we could do about it. " But the GOP pols - with the notable exception of Richard Lugar, who is often a cooler head in these situations - can't seem to help themselves.
Originally Posted By piperlynne Well. . .I guess the right wing wants this response from our president instead. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7s5pT3Rris" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...5pT3Rris</a>
