President Obama was quoted today in a written statement from the White House as telling German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Gaddafi has to go in Libya. That's it, nothing more. No appearance by the president announcing support by the US for the protesters who are being slaughtered. No call by the President for concerted international effort to support Gaddafi's ouster. Nothing at all like the reaction that Obama had to Hosni Mubarak in Egypt even though Gaddafi is killing thousands of his own people, something Mubarak never did.
It is strange that the Libyan ambassador to the UN has forcefully called for Gaddafi's ouster. The representative of Gaddafi's government who was appointed by Gaddafi is taking a much stronger stand against Gaddafi than the president of the United States.
I guess the proper question to ask is what the hell is Obama's problem on Libya? Okay, for a while, the press covered up Obama's weak response by pointing out that there were Americans in Libya and Obama did not want to endanger them. That excuse went out the window yesterday; the embassy staff and nearly all of the remaining Americans were evacuated from Libya. Not even the leftist press would have the nerve to argue that Obama could not speak out because there were a few Americans left in Libya. It just seems as if Obama does not have it in him to do the right thing. I wonder if he even realizes that it is the right thing to do.
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