Obama Pundit

The former NSC staffer and critic of Bush’s policy toward Iran recently wrote that the world needed to ‘get over it’ and accept that Ahmedinejad won the election.
Now, it looks like Leverett was horribly, abominably, disastrously wrong.  He was about as off-base on the Iranian election results as he was smug in his preaching about it, which [...]

by Obama Pundit
President Obama has finally decided to make the kind of statement on Iran that he should have made all along:
The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its [...]

by Obama Pundit
We’ve heard over and over again how the advent of the Obama Presidency would go a long way toward cleaning up our image around the world.  It was a big selling point during his campaign.
Since his inauguration, Obama has undertaken steps to address those areas in which the Left had found the United [...]

by Obama Pundit
WWBSD?
This, of course, stands for “What would Brent Scowcroft do?”  It is undoubtedly emblazoned on a knit bracelet around Obama’s wrist, a reminder of the President’s cynical approach to foreign policy.
How long before Obama takes after his new-found bedfellow and is in Tehran toasting the mullahs?  I’m sure the champagne is already on ice.
From the NY [...]

by C. William Chattin
Notwithstanding the various pronouncements of Obama-toady Andrew Sullivan that the “neocons” (whatever that term used to mean, Sullivan uses it as a thinly-veiled reference to “pro-Israel, Jewish Republicans”) are “outright hoping for the coup to succeed,” in actuality it appears it is this Administration and President Obama himself — having adopted Scowcraftian, [...]

by Obama Pundit
I’m not sure why the Right is surprised at Obama’s lack of response to the Iranian election crisis.  So far, his statements and actions have been completely in line with the so-called ‘realist’ mentality of the Brent Scowcroft school of foreign policy. 
This mentality believes that, above all, stability is the key to dealing [...]

by C. William Chattin
Below are pertinent portions of the comments made yesterday by President Obama addressed the goings-on in Iran.  Does anyone else notice the odd perspective from which these comments appear to emanate?
I am deeply troubled by the violence that I’ve been seeing on television.  I think that the democratic process — free speech, the [...]

by Brian Grummell
Graf lifted from Hot Air concerning the drama and upheaval in Iran and the White House’s strange CNN-like, near-silence on the issue:
Fun fact: Whereas The One was “shocked and outraged” by the murder of George Tiller, the most he can muster here for mass beatings and cold-blooded killings across Iran is that he’s [...]