Message #162879

[Harconen]

Not surprisingly—despite Obama’s efforts to avoid the issue of the Iranian protests and his stated intentions not to interfere—Iran’s leaders blame the United States anyway. Sayyid Mojtaba al-Hosseini, Ayatollah Khamenei’s representative to Syria, states, “The countries that have opposed Iran, whether openly or not, like the Western countries, led by the U.S., are the ones who are now inciting and talking about the Iranian elections.” [3468]

 

AtlasShrugs.com becomes the source for up to date reports of the activities in Iran. Pamela Geller’s site consistently reports the stories and the details the mainstream media neglects (or refuses) to broadcast.

 

On the June 21 edition of ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopolous comments, “I’ve always been struck by how—and it’s not too strong a word, how obsessed the president and White House are, with Fox News.” Columnist George Will responds, “Well, it’s the discordant note in an otherwise harmonious chorus, that’s why. Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn’t matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he’s fine. If it doesn’t work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won’t matter.” [3474]

 

On CBS’s June 21 Sunday Morning program, Harry Smith conducts an incredibly smarmy interview of Obama and asks, “In this fatherless world, where did you learn to love?” [3551]

 

Obama writes a column, “We Need Fathers to Step Up,” for a Father’s Day article on Parade magazine’s web site. He states, “That is why we need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.” The statement is valid but at odds with Obama’s lifelong pro-abortion stance, which argues that human life does not begin until birth. Fox News’ Glenn Beck asks, “Hmmm. Mr. President, if the baby is not a baby at conception, how can a father be a father at conception? It’s a brainteaser, I know. I know, oh, I know. It’s probably a little above your pay grade but let me know if you get a raise and can figure that one out.” [3517, 3518]

 

Billionaire investor and early Obama supporter George Soros says, “Decidedly the worst (of the financial crisis) is already behind us. This is not like previous crises but marks the end of an era. The system to date had been based on the false assumption that markets can independently regain their equilibrium and that the system is self-correcting.” (Soros—and Obama—clearly do not understand that the system (free enterprise capitalism) is in fact “self-correcting” when business “cycles” are experienced. The cycles themselves are usually caused by government interference in the economy. The markets function despite, not because of, the government.) Soros, a supporter of global socialism, predictably asks for more government involvement in the world’s economies. “We need international regulations to retain international markets. This won’t be easy… If we won’t be able to do this… than globalization, as we now know it, will fall apart. The state must step in, give guarantees to financial institutions and increase government spending.” (By manipulating interest rates and inflating the money supply, government caused the housing bubble that eventually had to burst. Soros and Obama now want an even larger government role in the economy.) [3475]

 

With the British media increasingly becoming the source of objective reporting and opinion with regard to the actions of Obama administration, the Telegraph writes, “Ten days on from the fraudulent Iranian election, President Obama still looks like a deer in the headlights without a coherent strategy. His response has been weak-kneed and utterly lacking in conviction. When faced with his first real test as a world leader Barack Obama decided to press the snooze button rather than take decisive action.” The op-ed continues, “It is hard to imagine Ronald Reagan sitting on the fence while a revolution took place before the eyes of the world against one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet,” but “As far as the Obama team is concerned, the demonstrations are an annoying inconvenience getting in the way of the new policy of ‘engagement’ with rogue regimes, also known more commonly as ‘appeasement.’ Every impression is given that the Obama White House is largely indifferent to the plight of the Iranian people and their suffering.” The Telegraph then makes the statement the American media is afraid to acknowledge: “As a world leader Obama is already looking like the Jimmy Carter of the 21st Century, passive in the face of an array of adversaries, and actively weakening America’s defences by cutting defence spending while adopting an apologetic tone for his country’s past. In his first six months President Obama cannot point to a single foreign policy success. He should though acknowledge that the Obama doctrine of reaching out to America’s enemies, including Iran and North Korea, has been a spectacular failure.” (Obama’s ability to vote “present” in the Illinois state legislature clearly left him ill prepared for the White House, where one is expected to make difficult decisions.) [3477]

 

Al-Qaeda states it would use nuclear weapons it might capture in Pakistan against the United States. Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, al-Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan, states in an Al Jazeera television interview, “God willing, the nuclear weapons will not fall into the hands of the Americans and the mujahadeen would take them and use them against the Americans,” and “The strategy of the (al-Qaeda ) organization in the coming period is the same as in the previous period: to hit the head of the snake, the head of tyranny: the United States.” [3484]

 

Senator John Thune (R-SD) proposes an “exit strategy” for the federal government’s ownership of private enterprises (such as General Motors and various financial institutions). Thune’s Government Ownership Exit Plan calls for a July 2010 deadline for ending public ownership of private businesses. Thune believes that the Obama administration views the ownership as “…being a long-term endeavor,” and states, “You substitute political judgment, political decision making for what should be good business decisions. You’re going to have every politician saying, ‘Don’t close the plant in my district, or don’t close this dealership or that dealership.’” Most Democrats are unwilling to support Thune’s legislation. [3485]