Leadership.
Mitt Romney on "This Week" Sunday (6/14)
Also - McCain: Iranian election a 'sham'
Hot Air: Reagan didn't remain silent on Poland
It’s the difference between leadership and management. Reagan led, and he inspired the Poles to continue the struggle that eventually helped free half of Europe from iron-fisted domination by the Soviet Union. Obama wants to manage the crisis to keep from having to lead. Big, big difference.
And Charles Krauthammer:
And it is not about elections anymore. It started out about elections. It's about the legitimacy of a regime, this theocratic dictatorship in Iran, which is now at stake. That's the point.
What we have here is a regime whose legitimacy is challenged, and this revolution is going to end in one of two ways — suppressed, as was the Tiananmen revolution in China, or it will be a second Iranian revolution that will liberate Iran and change the region and the world.
And the president is taking a hands-off attitude. Instead of standing, as Reagan did, in the Polish uprising of 1980, and say we stand with the people in the street who believe in democracy. It is a simple statement. He ought to make it.
And it is a disgrace that the United States is not stating it as simply and honestly as that.
3 comments:
It's easy to criticize.
"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help." Abraham Lincoln.
So, Mr. Romney, what are you going to do to help in Iran?
Alixandra?
Hello! It's the president's job to do something. Romney's chiding Obama for NOT doing his job.
If you and your friends had voted for him, President Romney could be doing the right thing right now.
So I'll point the finger back at you. I didn't see your name on my ballot last fall. What are you doing about it? Posting nonsense on some obscure blog? That's effective...
Alixandra,
It's called influencing WITHOUT authority, and some are clearly more effective at it then others...
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