Obama has a message for the Pro-Democratic forces in Iran and the rest of the world: screw you.

Even the Washington Post noticed today in strong editorial regarding Obama’s dissing of pro-Democratic dissidents in Cuba:

…It’s not that the president is too busy to concern himself with Latin American politics. The White House arranged for a Spanish journalist to ask a question at Tuesday’s news conference; reporter Macarena Vidal pressed Mr. Obama on whether U.S. allies such as Chile and Colombia were doing enough to help with “less democratic countries.” The president replied by heaping praise on visiting Chilean President Michele Bachelet, a socialist who has been promoting Cuba’s readmission into the Organization of American States and who has gone out of her way to avoid offending Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chvez. “Chile is leading by example,” Mr. Obama said, adding that its good relationship with Washington despite political differences “points the way for other countries … where the democratic tradition is not as deeply embedded as we’d like it to be.”

Message to Mr. Chvez and the Castro brothers: We can work with you. Message to Cuba’s democratic opposition: We don’t have time for you. “What I’d like is to have an opportunity to express to the president the situation of the island,” Ms. Atnez told us. “For the Cuban people it’s enormously significant that Obama can become president” — particularly, she said, because of his race and relative youth. “The Cuban people are hoping that he won’t disappoint them.”

Mr. Obama’s hastily drafted statement — issued after The Post inquired about his silence — said he wished “to acknowledge and commend” the five dissidents “and all the brave men and women who are standing up for the right of the Cuban people to freely determine their country’s future.” He called for the release of the three now in prison. Will that satisfy Ms. Atnez and the other opposition leaders? We suspect not. They, like the beleaguered pro-democracy movements of Venezuela and Nicaragua, are hoping that the American president will focus his policy on supporting them. Yet for now, Mr. Obama’s diplomacy is clearly centered on their oppressors. …

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