I think Obama is hitting the right notes. I like his personal reference to the pragmatic world view he offered in the Cairo speech, and his big picture reference to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s view of justice.

The only appropriate way Obama/the US can immediately respond is through rhetoric, and so he/we should use it sparingly and carefully. Iranians are themselves expressing the value of rhetoric though their protest marches, and Mussavi wouldn't be making martyr statements if he didn't know how powerful that rhetorical stance is.

Obama's been fairly mellow overall... must be the fluoridated water (may not be good for teeth, but it makes people docile).

that New President uttered, and no doubt solemnly and with a degree of gravitas lending itself to charisma: We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost.

Because I haven’t seen any public expressions or reports of this mourning, I’m wondering what form it is taking, whether it would be anything like the mourning for detainees who have died from their treatment or the mourning for Afghan and Pakistani civilians who have been killed by America’s drone strikes.

Just wondering.

I understand that he's a professional gasbag and stirring speeches are all he's really good at, but at some point he really should just shut up and let the game play out. There is no upside to him getting involved and the downside could go for decades.

He can't help our country, so why meddle with theirs?

Oh, the gasbag bit wasn't immediately obvious to me when I voted for him, and there weren't any other choice, but I really am disappointed.

President Obama has made the right decision or has followed good council not to overplay or overstate America’s position in Iran. If he had, the extremist in Iran would have used that as evidence of America’s Medaling to change the focus and perhaps the protesters would have doubted their cause. To me Obama is getting a A+ on this serious international issue (so far) and I am impressed that he has not even tried to make political points out of it. (Kudos to HIM)

Do I sound surprised? If you read my other posts, you would be. According to some “far” left posters (please not the word “far”) have me as a Wing Nut, Liar and a Troll who loves to Torture People. I think I’m a Independent thinker who happens to have many Traditional Conservative views and likes “civil” debate based on facts and opinions back up with facts. The mere fact that current Iranian Government has tried and failed to blame the US (even Aljiza isn’t buying it) supports my strong belief that President Obama has got this one right…

Obama's taking a strong moral stand that embraces the concept of natural rights. Governments do not create or grant people's rights, governments must recognize people's rights that inherently exist, and organize their laws and conduct around those rights. Now if only we'd say this to China without wilting whenever they claim to be offended by it.

President Obama has made the right decision or has followed good council not to overplay or overstate America’s position in Iran (So Far). If he had, the extremist in Iran would have used that as evidence of America’s Medaling to change the focus and perhaps the protesters would have doubted their cause. The mere fact that current Iranian Government has tried and failed to blame the US supports my strong belief that President Obama has got this one right (even Aljiza isn’t buying it) He needs to tread lightly because I believe regardless what happens in Iran, there will not some dramatic open arms change towards America. As time passes he can use stronger language and hopefully behind the scene is somehow supporting these people. We both know we can do nothing militarily, nor should we, so at least we can do for a change is win the propaganda war. While I agreed with a lot of things Bush did, he SUCKED at articulating it and the propaganda behind it. In the Middle East; propaganda is everything, truth is relative.

The global Kike Konspiracy.

Doesn't entirely give a fuck what you think.

This definitely needs a light touch - the Iranian regime would love nothing more than to have an outside agent interfering right now. If Obama had called for regime change two days ago, the conservatives would have ordered everyone mowed down in the streets, and still retained their legitimacy in the eyes of a significant proportion of the population. By couching this purely in the terms of human rights, and only then after a massacre, Obama is showing the support Iranians need without giving the regime the excuse it wants.

Gentlemen,

Just reviewed your posts...

Here we have an uprising in Iran, people dying in the streets and you take the moment to engage in irrelevant knee-jerk criticism of Obama for the sake of criticizing Obama --and some paranoid aside about flouridation -- with all the thought of a badly trained mentally handicapped rhesus monkey. You can't even pretend to be decent human being affected by events.

I must ask a constructive question in that regard:

How's bat-shit crazy working for ya?

You aren't paying attention, apparently.

waited for the right moment.

You are nuts, terry, you think Obama got it just right, fawfamily--you think your so open minded to debate and an independent thinker yet your support for obama is based on your feeling that he waited until the right time. Any earlier "medaling" (sic) would have played his hand. You guys are never wrong. (Your like that idiot Krugman who thinks the stimulus isn't working because Obama didn't run us into deeper debt.)

The fact is obama has no moral ground to stand on after running around the world apologizing for America and being so willing to meet with tyranical leaders. Your decontructive marxist beliefs have "come home to roost" and are manifest in your idol's inability to make a proper moral judgement.