Melanie Phillips tears Obama a new ass

Melanie Phillips gives Obama a new one. She writes about Iran and how one of the most ignorant presidents in our history is abandoning freedom for consultations with the mullahs.

This is the regime before which Obama has been grovelling. We have learned from the Washington Times (whose reporter is apparently being thrown out of Iran) that before the disputed Iranian election, Obama sent a letter to supreme Leader Khamanei, holding out the prospect of ‘cooperation in regional and bilateral relations’ and a resolution of the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program. Surprise surprise – the outcome of this craven display of weakness was mockery of the US by Khamanei.

Now the Obama administration has got really tough! It has cancelled its invitations to Iranian diplomats to attend Independence Day celebration parties -- the very parties that only the day before, in his pathetically feeble press conference, Obama said that the ‘Iranians will have to decide whether they want to attend’. The Iranians must indeed be quaking now. It would be laughable were it not so serious that such a clown is in the White House, and at such a time.

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