McCAIN BLASTS OBAMA - AT 10:11 P.M. ET:  Senator John McCain properly goes after President Obama over the president's Carteresque approach to the pro-democracy demonstrations in Iran.  The president seems to be getting his inspiration from the peanut farmer from Plains and his operational advice from the apostles of Brent Scowcroft, Bush 41's less-than-brilliant national security adviser.  McCain dissents, as The Politico reports:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) criticized President Barack Obama Wednesday for failing to take a strong leadership role in voicing opposition to the election results in Iran.

“I do not believe that the president is taking the leadership that is incumbent upon an American president, which we have throughout modern history, and that is to advocate for human rights and freedom, and free elections are one of those fundamentals,” McCain said during an interview on CNN.

McCain said the president “obviously doesn’t agree” that Iranians have the right to protest the election results as a “fundamental principle.”

COMMENT:  We'll be discussing this tonight at The Angel's Corner.  McCain is correct, and he is right to use the phrase "incumbent upon an American president..."  We expect certain behavior of our presidents.  Part of that behavior is the upholding of American ideals.

But what happens when we have a president who, clearly, has a certain contempt for his own country and its history?  A president who seems to have no "feel" for American culture?  And those American ideals? 

Well, we see what happens.  Aren't you proud?

June 17, 2009