I have to think that Obama keeping silent on Iran's stolen election has to serve some purpose other then a "distraction" from the "bigger issue" of health care reform.
The administration hasn't quite caught up to this reality, offering weak statements about "irregularities" in the voting but no real sign that it will stand up and support the Iranian kids who are pleading for help as they're beaten in the streets. I suspect it will soon.
I think he is trying to triangulate this so that the Mullahs can't relegate the protesters to "puppets of the Decadent West" status. So they are keeping their mouths shut on who won the election and the glaring issue that the election was almost unequivocally stolen.
What the Obama people really need to do is condemn in the strongest possible terms the crackdown and violence on behalf of the Iranian government toward the protesters. Then say that any massacres of the people will be treated as genocide and brought to the World Court.
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