Posted on 06/25/2009 11:02:31 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rahm Emanuel: Obama's Historic Cairo Speech is Already Inspiring Muslim Moderates in Iran
Last week on Meet the Press, Chuck Todd reported that administration officials were "frustrated that they're not getting credit for what's going on in Iran.…they think that Cairo speech did help supporters of Mousavi sort of see light at the end of the tunnel in their country."
As Jonah Goldberg noted, that idea spread to the pages of the Washington Post by Tuesday, in this report:
But privately Obama advisers are crediting his Cairo speech for inspiring the protesters, especially the young ones, who are now posing the most direct challenge to the republic's Islamic authority in its 30-year history.
Today, speaking to a group of Washington reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel reinforced that argument by declaring that Obama's speech in Cairo "will go down as one of the most significant foreign policy speeches."
"It was equal to what Kennedy's speech was, what Reagan's speech was," he said. "I think he did 20 years worth of work...for advancing America's interests...We are no longer the issue in that region of the world."
He went on to cite several recent Middle Eastern political events as evidence that Obama's approach was bearing fruit. He mentioned elections in Lebanon, which gave the Western-backed March 14 coalition a majority of seats in the parliament there. He cited a February vote in Iraq (Obama was apparently able to affect that with the mere mulling of a speech to the "Muslim world."), which rewarded Maliki's crackdowns on militias and rejected Iran-aligned religious candidates. He cited Kuwaiti elections, which gave seats to women while taking seats from Islamists.Then, onto Iran:
"Or, you look at Iran: the moderate voices of reform that are willing to accept some kind of engagement in modernity are winning, and the extremists are back on their heels," Emanuel said. "It's not just one speech, but it's a series of policies."
That Obama. He's something else.
Posted by Mary Katharine Ham on June 25, 2009 01:40 PM | Permalink
The ultimate spin.
GAAAGGGGG!
Bollocks.
Wow, I panted some seeds the other day and now they are sprouting. Gotta give Obama credit for that one too I suppose.
You can’t have it both ways Rahm. If he DID ‘inspire’ it and left them hanging, he’s responsible for their deaths.
The ultimate Ideocrat.
Too bad they won't live long to continue being inspired...
Obama and his minions have their blood on their hands...inspired them to protest, then...turned their backs like the yellow-striped cowards they really are
A freaking hypocrite...tells everyone they need to get involved to make change happen, then, when they apparently do what he suggested, and turn to him for help, his response is that we can't get involved?
I hope he doesn't sleep at night until 2012, when he gets fired.....
Very clever.
OH GOD........I THINK I’M GOING TO BARF UP MY LUNCH!!!!!
HOW DARE Obama take credit for the democracy movement in Iran! He has NO BUSINESS doing so! The Iranians figured out a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago that they are under tyranny! They aren’t doing this because of Obama; they’re doing this because they need freedom!
UGH!!!!! OBAMA MAKES ME SICK!!!!!!! JUST SICK!!!!!!!!!
CAN WE IMPEACH HIM NOW???????????
Sounds like what the elder Bush did for the Kurds, Rise up and we’ll support you. How many Kurds were slaughtered.
As Mark Levin says, everything Obama does is historic, including taking a dump.
Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
~Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009
“I panted some seeds the other day...”
Where on Earth did you find ‘pants’ small enough? LOL!
Ba-Dump-Dump! Thanks! I’ll be here all week. Try the veal and don’t forget to tip your waitress!
Given the recent rampant executions, murders, torture and subduing of the Iranian discontents, I'd say that Obama is now responsbile for senseless bloodshed and torture - far beyond that which would, ironically, have resulted from anything closely resembling 'waterboarding'.
The only moderates I hear about are those rioting in the street against the non-moderate dictators
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