Tag Archives: Iran

No Exceptions

June 23, 2009 – 10:55 pm

President Obama today issued some of his strongest words about the situation unfolding in Iran. Opening his 378th press conference, the president said:
The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, the beatings, and imprisonments of the last few days. I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join [...]

By Ed Walsh (WHWG) | Posted in Presidency | Also tagged | Comments

Taking Exception

June 23, 2009 – 8:41 am

I want to offer a counterpoint to Clark’s latest post, in which he argued that the president’s response to the dramatic events unfolding in Iran have “sharpened the growing impression that he is not a man of strength.”
Scott Wilson, in this morning’s Washington Post, has a front page story describing the apparent partisan divide in [...]

By Vinca LaFleur (WWW) | Posted in General | Also tagged | Comments

A Show of Weakness

June 22, 2009 – 11:04 am

In this blog and in columns before Election Day 2008, I have warned that Mr. Obama was in danger of being seen as congenitally weak.  For some time now, he has needed to take actions — even actions that might cut against his grain — to establish that he will be resolute in the face [...]

By Clark S. Judge (WHWG) | Posted in General | Also tagged , , | Comments

Missing: Obama Eloquence on Iran

June 20, 2009 – 3:55 pm

President Obama has been reserved in his comments about the situation unfolding in Iran, and politicians and commentators across the political spectrum are urging him to say more.
The president’s low-volume strategy is undergirded by two assumptions: first, that public support from the US president will feed the Iranian regime’s efforts to pin the protests on [...]

By Ed Walsh (WHWG) | Posted in Presidency | Also tagged , , | Comments