The story:
- Obama made some comments regarding Iran’s nuclear policy.
- Iran called him out and said that his message of “change” had to be actual change and not just change of the appearance of the same old things that Bush has done.
- Obama says: “But I have to reiterate once again that we only have one president at a time. And I want to be very careful that we are sending the right signals to the world as a whole that I am not the president and I won’t be until January 20th.” Translated: “Hey, I don’t want to have to take responsibility for my words until January 20th! Until then, I could make threats to nuke every country in the middle east, or take over their government in a coup, and you have absolutely NO right to take me seriously!”
Seriously. You want to “send the right signals to the world as a whole”? Start talking like you are the President and saying what you will say in office. It’s a joke until you do that, and you won’t succeed at wooing those who actually think about what you’re saying.
Obama has a long hard road ahead of him because although he can talk well and happened upon a very good speech writer very early in his campaign, he isn’t too adept at navigating the channels of politisleaze. Be very careful, Mr. President-Elect. Your job begins before it even starts, as the outside, waiting world is watching what you say and will unfailingly remember that once you actually and formally are entered into office. You cannot say something now and then just say, “Oh, JK, JK” when you get into office. To hold this mindset shows immaturity in your understanding of how to relate to other world leaders. What will you do when you totally botch something while in office? Tell them they shouldn’t take you seriously then for some other arcane reason?
[Source: "Iran Blasts Obama's Nuclear Criticism", CNN.com]
Author: The Demos Critic
