Obama Deserves Some Credit For This

Following the media's lead, no less an Obama adversary than Rush Limbaugh was forced to acknowledge, as did Obama himself, the tremendous influence of the extraordinary outreach to the Muslim world and particularly Iran his new administration has undertaken.

OBAMA: And obviously after the speech that I, uh, made in Cairo we tried to send a clear message that we think there is the possibility of change, uhhh, aaaand -- ehhh, yuh-- oh -- Ultimately the election is for the Iranians to decide, uh, but, uh, just a-as has been true in Lebanon, what's, uh -- can be true in Iran as well is that you're seeing people looking at new possibilities. And, uh, whoever, uh, ends up winning, uh, the election in Iran, uh, the fact that there's been a robust debate hopefully will help, uh, advance our ability to engage them in new ways.

As we are now learning that both candidates are claiming victory, the numbers being reported by official sources don't add up - and Iran's election agencies are in "chaos" throwing the election into "turmoil," it's past time for the Right to put politics aside and recognize the profound impact of Obama's new strategy on Iran.

However, Iran’s state-run Press TV is saying that only 10 million of 24 million votes, or around 42 percent of the vote, have been counted. At the same time, they are also claiming that 69 percent of the vote has been counted. Obviously the numbers are not adding up, and the agencies themselves appear to be in chaos.

The Iranian election is currently in turmoil. Both Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi are claiming to be ahead in the vote.

Comments

[Molon Labe]

wtf? when did rush acknowledge this?

[Drider]

I did not listen to Rush yesterday but he know doubt gave Obama credit through the warped prism of the media culture that probably went something like this....."Obama's speech in Egypt has no doubt swooned the Iranian people into voting against the hard line "cheap suit" and instead the peaceful Iranian people followed Obama's lead and elected the "moderate" hard line cheap suit, bringing in a new area of peace between our two Countries".Of course regardless of the outcome the spin will go something along the lines of how the Iranian people have spoken in mass and the leaders will be forced in some degree to lighten their hard line stances.

The reality is that no matter what the "vote" was, the Mullah's are the ones who will put in office the person "they" want.
In the end the only thing Obama has really done to bring our two countries together is when he capitulated on letting the Iranians or more to the point of reality....The Mullah's who run Iran, have unimpeded nuclear weapons,eerrrr......energy.And that little fact "will" bring our countries together at some point down the line.

[Dennis D]

I am not quite sure how I see Obama deserving of any credit. I highly doubt the Iranians voted based on his speech. Either Ahmadinajead or the Father of the Iranian Nuclear Program? Thats not a choice.

[Drider]

Dennis, thats the point. Iranians vote didn't have anything to do with Obama's speech nor does their vote really have anything to do with the winner as where the Mullah's will, will be imposed in the end no matter what.
Obama and his media cohorts will of course manufacture some sort of relevance how Obama's speech actually made a positive difference in our National interest and the Iranian problem.
Also, Iran has been near a boiling point for a good many years, the Iranian people are fully aware that the Mullah's are calling the shots and who knows, maybe this election will cause a great deal of civil discourse within their Country but to link years worth of oppression within Iran, that may or may not explode into civil war(I don't see this happening) to a speech that came from the most morally bankrupt President in US history is just beyond the pale.

[Philip McDaniel]

I ahh...um...err..uh...aagree...I think and hopefully um this ahh will help...
Oh bamma...

[jana]

Was his, uh, teleprompter, um huhhhhhh broken?

Reading that paragraph was almost as painful as listening to it would have been.

[Joseph Brown]

As DRider said, no matter who the Iranian people vote for, the Mullahs will have the last say. Rush's website acknowledges this fact today.
I'm guessing they like the little beady-eyed human bedsore in office since they...I mean the people re-elected him.

[ptg]

Oh, for the good old days, back when we could have tasked the CIA with rigging the Iranian elections. It might have been wrong, but the Iranian government is our enemy, no? Now, we can't do wrong to our enemies. I wonder how Obama would micromanage a hot war?

[Dan Riehl]

I think I should have included a sarcasm alert. Just as Bush 1 contributed to a slaughter in Iraq through a reprehensible play - asking them to stand up and then standing down himself, I believe Obama has set the table for a tragedy by being as Sarkozy said, naive" on Iran.

I thought that would be obvious by my "crediting" Obama and pointing out the chaos and turmoil in Iran.

[iftheshoefits]

I think Jimmy Carter needs to go referee and "bless" the election results.

[Philip McDaniel]

"I thought that would be obvious by my "crediting" Obama and pointing out the chaos and turmoil in Iran."
It seemed so to me, Dan...and Tremblechin -- aka President Chucklehead may have to rethink his strategy, if indeed he had one to begin with.

[Dan Riehl]

"if indeed he had one"

Of course he did, Phillip. "Change!"

How and into what being above his paygrade, like most everything else beyond tax, spend and grow government.

[Dick Turpin]

Quick! Someone get Jimmy Carter over there to certify this farce!!

[DAVE CHRISTENSEN]

What do Jimmy Carter and Barack Hussein Obama have in common?
EVERYTHING

[ben mansfield]

obama will get all the credit he deserves when we or isreal suffer a horrific attack
but boy his words sure sound good dont they