Paul Mirengoff of Power Line, in a post titled “Criminally useful idiocy,” points to President Obama’s huge gaffe in calling the Iranian elections “fair” when there was evidence aplenty that the fix was in. What’s the cost of this kind of bush-league diplomacy?:
So Obama has praised an election that appears to have been a travesty. It’s difficult to see how either Iran’s rulers or its dissidents can view him as other than a fool — usefully so in the case of the rulers; criminally so in the case of the dissidents.
