President Pantywaste strikes again

What is happening in this world? The atrocious events going on in Iran has elicited shock and condemnation from the world over. I don't profess to be an expert on Iranian election protocols, but when a government bans all media coverage, and then starts beating, jailing, and even murdering it's own people in the streets, it obviously has something to hide. And how does our President respond? He says,

"The Iranian people are trying to have a debate about their future."

He calls is a debate. A fucking debate. Innocent people shot dead in the streets by the government. Very good, Mr. President. You sure don't want to upset the mullahs. After all, they might not show up for your hotdogs and fireworks this weekend.

From James Lewis over at American Thinker:

The White House is now occupied by a little president who just isn't there when he is called upon to take a clear, moral stand. For such sheer gutless flabbiness and evasion, you have to look back to the dismal Jimmy Carter years. If Tehran seems quieter today, it's because the civilian demonstrators have been identified and are being beaten and tortured and maybe killed in Evin Prison. Don't believe for a moment that the sadistic regime has changed, just because you don't see people bleeding on the streets. They are bleeding all right. It's just out of public view.

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The Europeans are being Reaganesque. Angela Merkel is morally serious. She stated officially that "Germany stands on the side of the people in Iran who want to exercise their right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly."
Nicolas Sarkozy upheld our real values. He called the pictures of women and teenagers being beated by Basij thugs on motorcycles "brutal" and "totally disproportionate." "The ruling power claims to have won the elections ... if that were true, we must ask why they find it necessary to imprison their opponents and repress them with such violence."

When a French president shows more balls than an American president, it's freaking pathetic.

It's not like anybody expects Obama to launch a bombing campaign to punish the mullhas. This isn't about any form of military intervention. What happens in Iran stays in Iran. This is an Iranian problem and needs to be handled by Iranians. But how about voicing some form of support for the innocent people who are fighting to get their voices heard in their own government? Hope and Change, right?

Ah, what should we really expect from a noob.

It is truly embarrassing to be an American right now.