McCain Accuses Obama of Being Too Timid on Iranian Situation; McCain Wants Hot Rhetoric!

[SuperTrouper]

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says the world is inspired by the outpouring of Iranian political dissent, but Sen. John McCain said Obama isn't speaking out strongly enough.

Obama said Monday an inquiry into the disputed presidential election should go ahead without violence and said he didn't know who rightfully won the Iranian balloting, but that Iranians have a right to feel their votes mattered. McCain, who lost to Obama in last year's U.S. presidential election, called on the president to turn up his rhetoric.

"He should speak out that this is a corrupt, flawed sham of an election and that the Iranian people have been deprived of their rights," the Arizona Republican said Tuesday on a network news show.

But the leading Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee thinks the Obama administration's arms-length stance is just right.

"I think for the moment our position is to allow the Iranians to work out their situation," said Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana. "When popular revolutions occur, they come right from the people." He said he did not think it would be wise for the United States "to become heavily involved in the election at this point."



http://www.startribune.com/politics/48147807.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Mind your own business, gramps.

You had your chance and you blew it.

[PVnRT]

2. That would be a disaster

Obama is playing it just about right so far - if the people in the streets can be painted as American stooges, this will be over and done in a heartbeat.

[tanyev]

3. And then Mr. McCain broke into a rousing chorus of "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran".

[SuperTrouper]

6. LOL!!! I remember that: Bomb bomb bomb Iran!

:rofl:

McCain does not have the temperament to be President!

[Kahuna]

15. DUzy!

:applause:

[kiranon]

21. McCain is so out of touch I doubt he will be reelected in AZ.

[jaxx]

4. Classic McCain

jump in the middle of a pile and then clean the shit off of your shoes later. We are so fortunate that this rabble rouser isn't the president today.

[billyoc]

5. He's to the left of some of the Bomber Libs I've seen here in the last few days.

[Clio the Leo]

7. "Ride into the danga zone!! Take a ride into the danga zooone!!!"

The other day I was thinking about how mind-blowing it was that his campaign used that at his rallies .... I get the whole fighter pilot thing, but did no one LISTEN to the words of the song?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. LOL

[Serial Mom]

11. Plus he was a lousy pilot....

he was only good at chasing rich women younger than him!

[FSogol]

8. Maybe McCain should suspend his campaign?

That will show those Iranians!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

9. Ugh. Thank God he's not president. He'd have us in a war with Iran, Russia and N. Korea.

[liberalmuse]

12. Everytime this man opens his mouth...

I say a little prayer of thanks to the flying spaghetti monster that the Republicans weren't able to steal the election this time round.

[jberryhill]

13. In a related statement...

McCain added, "Get off my lawn."

[C_U_L8R]

14. Grouchy old man thinks yelling is the answer

McCain... you are entirely unhelpful.
Besides, if you had really useful advice, shouldn't you have given it
to the President and not to a press conference (you self-serving fuck).

[HamdenRice]

16. Btw, if you want to know what a "good republican" could look like Sen. Lugar continues to shine

I'm not saying that I agree with all or even most of what Lugar believes, but for those of us who have forgotten or are too young to have witnessed it, once upon a time, there were many good Republicans and Lugar was one of them. Now he's the last of a dying breed.

I'll never forget the way he defied Ronald Reagan and pushed sanctions against South Africa through the Senate. A bunch of youngish, lefty-sih foreign policy program officers and consultants were gathered in a conference room of a New York foundation listening to him live on CSPAN or CNN (I forget which) and cheering at him fight on the floor of the Senate.

He continues to be a foreign policy pro.

[rasputin1952]

17. This, from a guy who supported two stolen elections right here...

i-r-o-n-y...:eyes:

I don't think anyone sees McCain as "the voice of reason"...;)

[Odin2005]

18. What an idiot. Butting in would only help Ahmadinejad.

The hard-liners would be able to say that the protests were a US plot or similar BS.

[SuperTrouper]

19. Precisely, McCain does not think before he talks. He would have been the ideal President

for Al Qaeda and the terrorists. Thank God he is not our President!

[tekisui]

20. McWho?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. Why doesn't he say:

"We are all Iranians now!" I can just about imagine how the freepers would respond to THAT! :rof:

[zulchzulu]

23. Is McCain withholding information on the vote in Iran?

The White House is waiting for more information before they step up the rhetoric. Besides, it's up to the Iranian people to get the democracy they want.

McCain needs to retire.

[incapsulated]

24. Reality to McCain: You Lost

And don't get to decide what the President does.

:cry: