President Obama: Does He Really Believe in the "Universal Right" of Free Speehc, Except as a SOUND GOOD Sound Bite?

If there is a "universal right" to free speech, as President Obama said there is (without meaning a word of it), do we--as the lone remaining superpower--not have an OBLIGATION to promote free speech around the world: an OBLIGATION to denounce countries and leaders who violate free speech? Of course we do, unless "we" are Obama--who said something different before his statement yesterday on Iran, and will say something different tomorrow, or the next day. have we condemend Saudi Arabia (Obama was THERE) for its violations of free speech? Hugo Chavez? Again, Obama was THERE, and listened to criticisms of this country without hardly a mumur--accepting an anti-American book from Chavez without talking about Chavez' violations of free speech. Syria? Egypt? In fact, you can go through AFRICA and find hardly a country that truly allows free speech. Oh, I guess there must be a few who allow relatively "free" speech, but only a few. Russia? Not as bad as it once was, but hardly a mecca of free speech. China? Don't be silly! This


This "universal right" of free speech seems to be routinely ignored everywhere but in the Western democracies, and those allied with us (Israe, the former occupied countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union, etc.).


What has Obama done, before this totally over-the-top statement on Iran (over-the-top in terms of the difference between what he said and what he really means)? Easy answer. Obama has done NOTHING to promote free speech in those areas of the world where it is a "universal right" that is routinely violated.


Our President, Oama, is a piece of work. I mean that in the WORST possible way.