On this day I have to follow Obama's lead

What President Obama said today at the presser was appropriate, I thought.  I don't know what people expect him to do or say.  I don't think the government of Iran particularly cares what he says or does anyway.   The election results are going to stand, from what I heard on the news.  All we can do is support the protesters in their efforts to effect change in their country.  Their government may be crazy, sadistic and hate America, but I think that the Iranian people know that Americans want them to have the same rights and privileges that we have.

He followed in the footsteps of John McCain and echoed his words. As the guy from Fox asked in the presser, "what took you so long?"

The Leader of the Free World should LEAD, dammit!

do not want to fight another war at another front in the Middle East. We have sacrificed many lives and spent tons of money there. What have we gained?

They say we killed the terrorists there rather than on our own soil, that we took the fight to them. There is probably more than a little truth to that argument. However, it did not come cheap. Despite what some think, as a nation we have suffered both financially and emotionally. Too many parents buried their military sons and daughters and way too many service men and women came home with sever emotional and physical disabilities. We are in a recession that can directly be tied to the expense of war.

If Khamenei gets his way, the rest of the world should not recognize his or his government's existence. (If the UN can't muster up the courage than the building should be sold and the money given to NY. They either pony up or they move.) Maps should be made with Iran draped in black in honor of the protesters. Oil companies should be picketted until they no longer buy Iranian oil. (Hello, Brazil!)

I do not know Obama's take on the subject. He afterall told the Middle East that we cannot deny another country nuclear capabilities. Hello? Give this government nuclear capabilities, and you can kiss your fanny goodbye.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/23/iran.women/index.html

 "When they want to hit me, I say hit. I have been hit so many times and this time it doesn't matter. I just want to help my brothers and sisters," says the 19-year-old woman whose identity is being withheld by CNN for her safety.

Amid the clashes and chaos, there has been a recurring scene on the streets of Tehran: Women, in their scarves and traditional clothing, at the heart of the struggle. Some are seen collecting rocks for ammunition against security forces, while video showed one woman trying to protect a fallen pro-government militiaman wounded in the government crackdown. At Shiraz University, riot police clubbed women dressed in black robes. "Don't beat them, you bastards," one man yells.

When security forces come to attack, the 19-year-old woman protester says she looks them in the eye and asks: "Why do you kill your brother? Why do you hit your mother, your sisters?"

Today this Jewish male feels like the women of Iran are my sisters.

But I think I agree with all of you.  And that's recognizing that all of you are clearly thinking and feeling very different, very complicated, sometimes even conflicting things about this crisis.  I am too.

got my brown paper bag ready, the one for hyperventilating not barfing, although both may be needed, and voted that I agreed with Obama. This one time.

I really had no choice. Because I believed this was right it would be a lack of integrity not to say so. And then I would have no more integrity that Obama. And I just couldn't live with that.