Pretty sad and amazing when you stop to think about it. Obama has proved himself to be no friend of democracy around the globe. Now he follows it up with with a smack down of human rights because he doesn't want to offend the mad mullahs.
Did you ever get the sense that this guy lies awake at night wishing he could be one? Seriously, I'm not worried about martial law, or all of our freedoms going away in that sense. But I do think Obama is the kind of character who is convinced he has all the answers, if he could only just get his way without all the messy politics.
He can't get out of office soon enough for me. The 2010 elections couldn't be anymore important. I hope you're prepared.
The Iran Human Rights Watch Documentation Center can be excused for thinking that this year might make them more indispensable than ever. After all, the Iranian mullahcracy rigged a presidential election and brutally suppressed widespread protests and demonstrations against the ruling elite. Their Basiji irregulars murdered and maimed people in the street. The State Department’s agency for documenting such human-rights abuses in that country would have to work overtime in the next several weeks just to catch up on all of the data they need to review from the last eleven weeks.


Dan,
You probably already know, but Mark Levin mentioned your blog on his show this evening and said some very nice things about you. Good for you.
Posted by: Whippet | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 at 09:06 PM
Good question, Sturgis!! lol
Thanks, Whippet. Did you have to say that for the Beck bots to pick up on?? lol
Posted by: Dan Riehl | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 at 09:08 PM
Of course I did. I wanted to make your evening a little more interesting! You seem to be the target of many trolling creatures lately but I'm sure you can handle it...now go play, but be gentle. They wound easily.
Posted by: Whippet | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 at 10:37 PM
It is simply pathetic.
Just like failing to meet with the Dalai Lama.
Hillary Clinton wasn't being her typically dishonest self, when she foolishly admitted in China, that the Obama Administration wasn't going to care about human rights.
Remember when the Clintons lied about the genocide in Rwanda?
The myths of today's fashion about the corrupt Democratic Partisan machine is utterly insane.
Posted by: Brooklyn | Tuesday, October 06, 2009 at 11:26 PM
How about the Iraqians human rights crushed by the previous administration? And what about human rights abuses conducted here in America, including executing innocent people and wrongfully convicting and imprisoning folks. And surely having the highest murder rate in the civilized world has to violate someone’s human rights. Plus over the years we have politically thumb our noses at many human rights organizations, including the Red Cross.
Posted by: MICHAEL SPENCER | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 12:13 AM
dan i follow beck, i also follow levin. I think they are both smart with different hustles to make money, even read their book, and I think your site rocks and if you write a book, i might even read it, i visit here everyday and try to tweet you traffic. some of us can chew gum and walk at the same time and I dont really give a shit when egos bump into each other - in fact, i kind of like it, it keeps everyone honest. so am i a "beckbot" who knows and to be honest who really gives a shit. now if you call me a liberal, well then I would probably tell you to fuck off;-)
Posted by: x11b1p | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 12:19 AM
If we can last but another year or three, Obama will prove to be a GOP gift horse.
Posted by: Tom Pennington | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 01:21 AM
"...Obama has proved himself to be no friend of democracy around the globe."
Lest we forget: another shameful example is Honduras.
But the real danger is that Obama's 'negotiations' with Iran, coupled with his recent negotiation with Russia -- backing out of the antimissile defenses in Eastern Europe without any quid-pro-quo from them on their missile defense promise to Iran -- will likely force Israel's hand with a preemptive strike. World War III could be just a few months away.
Posted by: Philip McDaniel | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 02:39 AM
" But I do think Obama is the kind of character who is convinced he has all the answers, if he could only just get his way without all the messy politics."
Look at his path to power. The clear pattern that emerges is that from the very start, he always felt that he needed more power before he clearly understood the position that he was currently in. That was his reaction to being a community organizer, and it was his reaction to being a Senator. Clearly, he should have spent more time there so that he could understand exactly how things work. He’s never had to do the work. Will it also be his reaction to being president? Well, it would in fact follow a logical pattern that he's set up. To me, that sets off alarms. Before you can be an engineer, you have to be a technician. Before you can be a producer, you have to be an engineer, before you can be a master you have to be an apprentice, on some level or another. Where was Obama’s apprenticeship? Where did he learn his chops? What makes him think that he knows so much? How is he in any way qualified to be president?
Posted by: xerocky | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 06:56 AM
As usual, the left makes things up. Which of these top ten countries are not civilized? Why isn't the USA in this list?
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/countries-with-highest-murder-rates.html
Posted by: Lala | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 09:17 AM
Conservatives need to throw this into the faces of every liberal friend and have them explain it. Make them go through the process of it if nothing else.
One of my sister-in-laws and her husband were huge Obama fans they are also very new age spiritual people right after Obama won they couldn't stop talking about him. I have done nothing but point out his lies and failures. They are no longer defending him at all. Now at first I thought that maybe they were just tired of talking to me, but then I noticed all the Obama stuff was down all over their house (seriously they had decorated their house that way).
Posted by: southdakotaboy | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 03:29 PM