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Bicoastal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 03:03 PM
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Obama's going to address the violence in Iran at 5:00 EST
Per HuffPost.

Wonder what he's going to say/do, after all that (well-reasoned) talk about not taking a side...
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 03:05 PM
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1. I'm betting he won't take a side, BUT...
he WILL condemn the beating and shooting of protestors. I trust him to pull off a perfect balance of being objective, yet harshly condemning the unacceptable response of the Ahmadinejad government to peaceful protests in his speech.
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timeforpeace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 03:20 PM
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2. I hope this is true.
Condemning the treatment of the protesters isn't taking sides. And the concern that the protesters will be tagged as puppets of the west is frivolous since that's going to be the regime's charge anyway. Ask the protesters if we should abstain from supporting them.
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virgogal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 03:25 PM
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3. I doubt that Obama's opinion matters at all to the Iranian people.
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 03:33 PM
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5. Oh! I think it does...at least for the green part of Iran...but Obama saying
too much would be bad because then they would say we were interfering with their elections..
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dem629 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 03:29 PM
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4. Probably stay as neutral as possible for now. Anything he says will be used against the other side.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 04:12 PM
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6. It's 5:11pm, is anyone showing his speech? MSNBC isn't.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 04:16 PM
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7. I'm not finding it either
CNN has President Clinton talking about Haiti.
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