Historic, Bloody Revolution in Iran: Clueless Barack Obama Just Doesn’t Get It, But Is Enjoying Hawaiian Vacation… Should Learn from Reagan’s Example (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 29, 2009
Pres. Barack Obama vacationing in Hawaii, December 2009
The ocean view is simply gorgeous from Barack Obama’s holiday “Winter White House” mansion in Hawaii… who can blame him for “phoning it in” on the historic, bloody revolution going on now in Iran? After all, everyone must sacrifice these days, right?
Our elitist POTUS has his priorities… Iranian freedom-fighting citizens dying in the streets while protesting a tyrannical regime just isn’t one of them.
FOX News: Charles Krauthammer Rips Obama’s “Flaccid, Meaningless” Words on Iranian Revolution
Outstanding commentary from Paul Kengor, American Thinker, A Candle for Iran?:
President Obama could learn a lesson from President Reagan on dealing with Iran.
Twice in this space last summer, I wrote about Iran — specifically, about the dramatic June protests against the theocratic-totalitarian regime of Holocaust-denying despot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. More than that, I focused on President Obama’s reaction to the Iranian cry for freedom and justice.
President Obama’s initial response was outrageous. It improved only after widespread criticism hit him from all sides. Still, even given the improvement in his rhetoric, our new president’s treatment of the protests was a telling display of his tragic lack of recognition of what presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush termed the “March of Freedom.”
I concluded those articles by emphasizing the need by Obama to employ the bully pulpit of the presidency to consistently encourage this vital groundswell of freedom in Iran. I noted that Reagan in particular had done precisely that in places like Poland in the 1980s — with grand historical results. For Obama, this means not simply reacting to occasional incidents in Iran — if and when they rarely present themselves — but to be proactive, to be creative, to regularly call out the tyrants and encourage the dissidents. Obama must do this if he wants to push the freedom tide –and yes, if he wants to change the status quo in a dungeon like Iran, which for thirty years now has been the world’s worst terrorist state.
If I may, I’d like to offer a specific example from the Reagan playbook. It happened 28 years ago — Christmastime — this week. You will not hear about in our public schools and liberal universities. That’s a loss for liberals, too. They’re missing a moving lesson that their guy — President Obama — could benefit from considerably.
The moment occurred in December 1981. That year, throughout the Evil Empire, “church-watchers” were on duty: sitting in chapels, taking notes on the “stupid people” entering to worship. The communist “war on religion” (Mikhail Gorbachev’s apt description) was in full rot, as was the ugliness of communist repression generally.
The prospects for shining light upon that darkness seemed bleak. The Soviets were on the march, having added eleven proxy states as allies since 1974. The new man in Washington, President Ronald Reagan, was sure he could reverse Moscow’s surge. He would jump-start the process in Poland, one of the most repressed Communist Bloc states — but one where hope survived.
And just then, on December 13, 1981, the lights went out again. At midnight, as a soft snow fell lightly on Warsaw, a police raid commenced upon the headquarters of Lech Walesa’s Solidarity labor union. The Polish communist government, consenting to orders from Moscow, declared martial law. Solidarity’s freedom-fighters were shot or imprisoned. The flames of liberty were being snuffed out in this pivotal Eastern European nation.
But as Poles prayed for light to pierce the shadows, some remarkable things began to transpire. A week and a half later, the Polish ambassador, along with his wife, defected to the United States. Right away, they wanted to see Ronald Reagan. Reagan welcomed them into the Oval Office. They were overwhelmed. The ambassador’s wife wept as Vice President George H. W. Bush put an arm around her shoulders to comfort her.
The ambassador then made an extraordinary request: “May I ask you a favor, Mr. President? Would you light a candle and put it in the window tonight for the people of Poland?” Ronald Reagan rose and walked to the second floor, lighted a candle, and put it in the White House window.
But Reagan wanted to do more than that. He saw a window of opportunity. So on December 23, with Christmas only two days away, speaking to all of America in a nationwide address, Ronald Reagan connected the spirit of the season with events in Poland: “For a thousand years,” he told his fellow Americans (watch video here), “Christmas has been celebrated in Poland, a land of deep religious faith, but this Christmas brings little joy to the courageous Polish people. They have been betrayed by their own government.” The president then took a remarkable liberty: He asked Americans that Christmas season to light a candle in support of freedom in Poland.
It was a significant gesture — for Poland, for America, for a free world. Poles heard about it and took it to heart. They still talk about it today.
What does this have to do with President Obama and Iran? Everything. To wit: How about doing something similar for Iranians today? Why not light a candle as a sign of hope for Iran’s freedom-fighters? If not a candle, then something — some kind of overt public display.
Would such an action offend the Iranian leadership? Of course — just as the light of day and light of truth repels a vampire.
The point, again, is for the American president to be proactive, to be creative, to be encouraging, to advance positive change in the world. He can make these simple but profound gestures even as he proceeds with his domestic agenda. Reagan did. Reagan — quite apart from Obama’s mindset — passed his massive tax-reduction program in 1981…
H/t to Jim at Gateway Pundit for the following horrific video from Iran… be forewarned, it’s unsettling and graphically violent: Evil Khamenei Regime Thugs Run Over Protesters in Trucks (Video)
Additional reading:
Mcnorman’s Blog: Krauthammer Rips Obama’s “Flacid, Meaningless” Words On Iranian Revolution
The Lonely Conservative: The Same Media that Bashed Bush for Vacations Makes Excuses for Obama
Bell County Blog: Freedom Fighters Die in Iran – Obama Vacations in Hawaii
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Obama’s on Vacation, So Iranian Civilian Deaths & Terrorist Airplane Attacks Will Just Have to Wait (video)
Andrew Marcus, Big Government: A Path to Jihad: From Gitmo, To Saudi Arabis, To IRAN, To Yemen
VotingFemale Speaks!: Obama’s Airport X-Ray Nude Scanners can not detect vagina bombs or anus bombs
GayPatriot: Merkel Leads on Freedom, While Barry Hangs Ten
Nice Deb: Is Iran’s Government Getting Ready To Collapse? and We Are Being Governed By Children and Video: Krauthammer Not Impressed With Obama’s Statement On Iran and Iranian Basij Commander Orders Guards To Beat Protesters: “Beat Them Silly, Tear Them Apart”
Gateway Pundit: Obama on Undie Bomber: “We Will Not Rest Until We Find All Who Were Involved… If You Need Me I’ll Be Snorkeling.” and Iranian Cartoonists Mock Obama’s Weak Stand Against Killer Regime and Krauthammer Rips Obama’s “Flaccid, Meaningless” Words On Iranian Freedom Protests (Video) and Iranian Protesters Are Dying For Freedom – Where Is Barack Obama??? and Angela Merkel Speaks Out In Support of Iranian Freedom Protesters… Obama Heads to the Beach and MASSIVE PROTESTS IN IRAN– Protesters Beat & Stone Regime Thugs – Torch Police Cars and Pathetic. Obama White House Finds Way to Blame Bush for Detroit Terror Attempt and Too Funny. Far Left Finally Discovers Obama Is a Weak Leader and Ahmadinejad: “Iranian Democracy is a Global Model” and Rep. Pence On Iran: Reagan Didn’t Tell Gorbachev “That Wall is None of Our Business”
Atlas Shrugs: Day 188 Iran Revolution: “Listen, beat and tear them apart, break their legs, god would like that” “There are 8 to 10 old ladies there, beat them up and clean them up” – UPDATED: Video Basij Shoot Protester Dead. GRAPHIC
The Anchoress: Obama and Doing vs Being – UPDATED
Wall Street Journal: The Tipping Point in Iran
The Daily NiteOwl: Live-Blogging Ashura Protests in Iran
No Left Turns: More Krauthammer on Obama
Diary of a Mad Conservative: The West need not battle with guilt over banning burqas and Buy some kneepads. We won’t be bowing, we’ll be kneeling thanks to Obama.
My Two Cents Worth: What’s going on in Iran?
Pronk Palisades: Iranians Take Over Iraqi Oil Well and Dismiss US Nuclear Deal–Call Obama’s Bluff–Obama’s Response–Absolutely Nothing
Talk Wisdom: Obama’s Foolish Statement: “Isolated Extremist??”
Hot Air Green Room: Could Obama have handled the Christmas Day attack any worse?; UPDATED
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Will Obama Remain Silent About Iran Protests Again?
Garnette’s View: Christians persecuted in Iran
Real Clear Politics: Who Wins in Iran’s Nuclear Game?
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God Bless Us All because we have a completely unprepared leader at the helm. thanks for the link
Very simply, Obama is a coldhearted man.
His agenda has no room for the Iranian People, fighting their oppressive government.
His agenda is to bring this Country to it’s knees, by immense government control, and draconian legislative policies that will throttle the American Spirit. NOT !!!
Unfortunately, he is running out of time.
He thought this was going to be easy.
We’ll see how easy it is with a conservative congress.
His arrogance is blinding him from the train that is bearing down on the corrupt Washington machine.
We The People are very, very powerful.
God Bless America, God Bless Our Founding Fathers.
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Obama is apparently using the secret service to find his balls.
Oh I’m sorry, that wasn’t the golf course, my mistake.
Reference the first pic in the post.
HAHA.