Should the Obama Administration issue a statement in support of the Iranian election uprising?

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Ron Paul

The Obama Administration should not issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

It seems our criticism is selective and applied when there are political points to be made.
7/2/2009 6:10:08 PM

Peggy Noonan

The Obama Administration should not issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

To insist the president insert the American government into the drama was shortsighted and mischievous.
7/2/2009 1:08:44 PM

Oliver North

The Obama Administration should issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

It's a good thing for people in this part of the world that Ronald Reagan never thought of U.S. efforts to help people escape tyranny as "meddling."
7/2/2009 1:08:00 PM

David Limbaugh

The Obama Administration should issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

Even the Democrats didn't have the guts to go on record endorsing Obama's positions of moral equivalence and opportunistic passivity.
7/2/2009 1:05:57 PM

Joe Scarborough

The Obama Administration should not issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

"All we would do is undermine those people in the street"
7/2/2009 1:05:35 PM

George Will

The Obama Administration should not issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

It seems to me foolish criticism.
7/1/2009 12:17:37 PM

Richard Cohen

The Obama Administration should not issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

Worst thing the US could do is provide [Iranian leaders] with words to paint the opposition as American stooges
7/1/2009 12:17:27 PM

Evan Bayh

The Obama Administration should not issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

I think president has been the right combination of both tough and smart on this issue
7/1/2009 12:17:15 PM

Gary Kamiya (journalist)

The Obama Administration should not issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

"Obama's caution is wise"
7/1/2009 12:16:54 PM

William Kristol

The Obama Administration should issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

a moment when one would like a president of the United States to rise to the occasion. Obama hasn't.
7/1/2009 12:16:06 PM

Christopher Hitchens

The Obama Administration should issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

Also try to bear in mind that one day you will have to face the young Iranian democrats who risked their all in the battle and explain to them just what you were doing when they were being beaten and gassed
7/1/2009 12:15:21 PM

Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI)

The Obama Administration should issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

"the United States and the world must do everything in our power to further the Iranian demonstrators’ sacred claim to freedom"
7/1/2009 12:15:11 PM

Hugh Hewitt

The Obama Administration should issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

"The president should announce that violent repression of the protests will lead to the end of his outreach to the mullahs and to a guarantee of even greater isolation from the rest of the world."
7/1/2009 12:13:58 PM

Charles Krauthammer

The Obama Administration should issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

And our fundamental values demand that America stand with demonstrators opposing a regime that is the antithesis of all we believe
6/29/2009 12:49:49 PM

David Brooks

The Obama Administration should issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

I admire, I'm inspired by what's going on
6/29/2009 12:48:20 PM

Tucker Carlson

The Obama Administration should issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

Nonsense. Did US support of Solidarity sink Lech Walesa in Soviet-backed Poland? Of course not. It strengthened him.
6/29/2009 12:46:30 PM

E.J. Dionne, Jr.

The Obama Administration should not issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

In fact, Obama was right to exercise caution,
6/29/2009 12:45:10 PM

Andrew Sullivan

The Obama Administration should not issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

The administration should, in my view, resist the grandstanding of the neocons
6/29/2009 12:44:47 PM

Fareed Zakaria

The Obama Administration should not issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

The fact that Obama has been cautious in his reaction makes it all the harder for Khamenei and Ahmadinejad to wrap themselves in a nationalist flag
6/29/2009 12:44:36 PM

Michael Goodwin

The Obama Administration should issue a statement of support to the Iranian election uprising.

He is guilty of looking weak and indecisive while a democracy revolution unfolds in a dangerous Muslim nation.
6/29/2009 12:42:36 PM