Obama - slow to support real democracy, quick to support autocracy
President Obama is the most popular man in the world.
Elected on a platform of hope and change that included ‘listening’ to the rest of the world and ending America’s ‘bullying’ tactics of George W Bush he carries a special power to help oppressed people all around the world.
Thus, his tardiness in speaking up for real democracy in Iran rather than continuing to support the old men of Iran’s misogynist theocracy is deeply troubling.
More troubling, however, is how quickly he joined the worst of Latin America’s left wing autocrats in denouncing the removal from power of Manuel Zelaya in what has been termed a ‘coup’.