JFK's legacy to the Democrats

In the context of JFK's foreign policy, Obama's response to the uprising in Iran was embarrassing. Here was an enemy government to the US whose people, not an enemy to the US, clearly wanted support. Obama should have climbed up and down the Iranian government’s back and used the kind of language he used against Mubarak, a former ally. Figures that Obama would chastise an "ally" and insist on his stepping down but practically kissed our enemy’s ring for not wanting to offend or upset him.
One has to be on a different planet to not perceive what happened and to not understand the obvious differences in how Obama handled the situations. Although initially clumsy, Obama eventually did the right thing in Egypt and I’m sure his words gave the Egyptian’s heart. It should have been the same with the Iranian people but O was new to the job and his ego told him he could talk with Ahmadinajad and make him change his ruthless ways. Big mistake. Had the Iranian people succeeded perhaps we and the world would not feel so threatened by the probability of a terrorist state with a bomb.
And one cannot argue that it’s not Obama’s responsibility...because it is his responsibility as the most powerful man in the world to speak up on behalf of the oppressed. It’s what America stands for and what JFK so famously emphasized in his inaugural speech, one that Democrats and President Obama apparently have forgotten. President Kennedy intoned:

“We will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty....”

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