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John Aloysius Farrell

Criticizing Obama's Subdued Stance on Iran Is Self-Indulgent and Silly

June 22, 2009 11:50 AM ET | John Aloysius Farrell | Permanent Link | Print

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OBAMA & HIS MARXIST ASSICIATES

HAVE YOU ASK OBAMA WHY HE HAS FILLED HIS GOVERNMENT WITH MARXISTS, SELF AVOWED COMMUNISTS, AND FAR LEFT RADICALS? REMEMBER, IT IS WAS OBAMA HISSELF THAT SAID IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MY POLICES - LOOK AT WHO I SURROUND AND ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH!

Republicans criticizing Obama

HAHA. Are Republicans mad because Obama happens to be smart and articulate? He doesn’t take cheap shots, he just tells his opponents that they contradict themselves. It’s ok if young unintelligent people want to resort to name calling, than let them, because Obama is hundreds of times smarter than anyone that has to resort to name calling especially Republicans that won't even attempt to articulate their words.

The Washington Cheerleader

Cheerleading is the only thing this president does well - in fact, it's all he ever did, but he did it so successfully that he has risen from a well-deserved obscurity to become the most powerful single individual in the world, on the basis of his ability to shriek "change" every time he uncorks his beak, and his slippery propensity for calling a political life of abstention a record of accomplishment. If he knew anything at all about the people he claimed he wants to approach diplomatically, it should be that they hold him and the United States in the deepest contempt. His condemnation, strident or otherwise, will have the same effect, and attract about as much attention, as flatulence in a hurricane. If silence were worth $50 a second, the man simply couldn't make money.

Well said

Chris Petty of Georgia says it very well. Summing up those facts are frightening but true. It's scary, let's really look foward to July 4 and Sept 12. The way it's going the response will be far more overwhelming than the tax day tea parties and they went over extremly well. People are finally listening/seeing/experiencing what was being said. Great comment Chris.

MR Obama IS speaking loud and clear...

I truely hope Americans are listening...

the rest of the world is.

Obama is Very loud in his disdain for American Values and the support of freedom....

WAY too busy consolodating Executive Power with 18 plus un-elected AND un-confirmed "Czars" that report directly to him.

WAY too busy taking over Banking, Automobile Companies, Healthcare, States Rights, Education, The Census, Wallstreet.

WAY too busy blaming everything on the previous Administration while Covering up how much WORSE things have gotten.

WAY too busy declaring Patriotic Protestors, Veterans and anyone else that disagrees with him as "potential" terrorists.

WAY too busy making nice to despot, intolerant governments that HATE OUR GUTS no matter what we say or do.

Is HE naive or are we?

July 4th- SEPT 12th...Help to DEMAND better.

TeaParties

dictionary and common sense

Elizabeth is the one who needs to look up socialism. It doesn't take listening to one particular station to know what's going on. The politicians use the word as well, heck, call it what it is. Anyone with their wits about them can easily see what is going on in our Freedom Country. We are also going to make sure he does not take that from us. He can run Indonesia like that if he wants but Americans are seeing by the day the turmoil that is approaching and more and more people are against it. Even the foreign countries are commenting about what he's doing. His ideas are being squashed! Amen to that.

Terry and Tom, You're just kidding, right?

I've been to Mothers of Triplets gatherings and that doesn't make me a mother of triplets. Going to Iran amounts to NADA...understanding Iran and US history is KEY.

Previous US govts. usurped the democratic election of 1953-4 in Iran and propped up the "Shah" instead. Any candidate the US supports will instantly be disavowed by most Iranian citizens.

How about a history education and a great deal of political history knowledge before you spout off.

BTW, how about both of you look up the real definition of socialist before you rant. I spent years working with brain-damaged dopers. Why take the word of a documented pain-killer abuser for your political views?

Where were you guys when all the spend, spend, and give unfettered money to all the rich contractors during the W administration. Led by guys who avoided real military service, our troops went without or were electrocuted trying to shower in Iraq. We have no money because we allowed them to give it all in tax cuts and benefits to the rich.

DId someone mention McCane?

That old doddering man who wanted to bomb bomb bomb Iran and stay in Iraq for 100 years?

We stuck our fat American noses into Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. All are failures.

We can't afford another failure at nation building. Let us stay out of this. Let volunteers go to Iran, but don't you dare spend my taxes on it.

Spendthrift American-Conservative would-be conquerers bankrupted our nation via the Military-Industrial complex. Stop listening to these arrogant narcissitss!

aloysius? lol!

how naive. how many times have you been to iran. i've been dozen of times and i can tell you that the u.s. does count. the iranians demonstrators need to hear from the u.s. the fact that the bho is sitting on his hands, tepid, and fearful speaks volumes. joey b was right - this president is being tested early in his administration. sadly, he is failing that test. now, don't we wish he had some experience?!

speechless

How could he possibly say anything on the subject, he's too busy running the US into the ground with his socialistic health-care spending spree! Nothing else matters--SPEND SPEND SPEND and DESTROY. He is on a mission before 2012 so everything else must simply take a back seat!

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John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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