- Update - Obama finally speaks out. Krauthammer calls Obama's words"flacid, meaningless words." Click here for Krauthammer's response (video).
- Update: Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugged posts continuing coverage. Gateway Pundit posts: Angela Merkel Speaks Out In Support of Ianian Freedom Protestors. . . Obama Relaxes At Beach.
- Gateway Pundit has numerous video reports. Nile Gardener of the U.K. Telegraph asks, "Iranian protesters are dying for freedom. Where is Barack Obama?" Gardener's concluding paragraph:
This is not however a time for fence-sitting by the leader of the free world. The president should be leading international condemnation of the suppression of pro-democracy protesters, and calling on the Iranian dictatorship to free the thousands of political dissidents held in its torture chambers. Just as Ronald Reagan confronted the evils of Soviet Communism, Barack Obama should support the aspirations of the Iranian people to be free. The United States has a major role to play in inspiring and advancing freedom in Iran, and the president should make it clear that the American people are on the side of those brave Iranians who are laying down their lives for liberty in the face of tyranny.
Me: Obama the leader of the free world? That represents one of the major tragedies of our time. Let us pray that President Obama stops voting "present" and meaningfully takes up the cause of freedom around the world. It would be ironic indeed if President Obama, the man who goes around the world apologizing for the United States, goes down in history as the man who failed the vision of freedom and left millions in bondage. Future presidents would then have something genuine for which to apologize.