Obama's Chicken Kiev [Michael Rubin]
Obama's silence — and his lack of moral clarity — are quickly making his reaction akin to George H. W. Bush's infamous "Chicken Kiev" speech, when the elder Bush effectively sided with Moscow against the freedom of the Ukraine. Indeed, had Obama not broken with formula and recognized the ayatollahs as the legitimate representatives of the Iranian people during his Nowruz greeting, he might not have found his reaction so constrained. Regardless, Obama's silence is a failure of leadership and a betrayal of freedom on a Carter-esque scale.
'Deeply Troubled' [Rich Lowry]
Obama has to be judicious here, but his statement just now was pretty weak: 1) he seemed to take the election-review process seriously, when it's going to be a rubber stamp; 2) there was a sense in which he seemed to be patting the demonstrators on the head and saying, "Nice work — but better luck next time"; 3) he went way, way out of his way to say he'll basically negotiate with Ahmadinejad no matter what.
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