Obama Thinks Suppressing Ideas Isn't A Good Idea? HUH?

For the past four years congress suppressed Republican ideas on all manner of legislation. For the past two years Obama did likewise.

So pardon me if I find it laughable to hear Obama's latest comment to Mubarak as Egypt's leader: "Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away"! As if Obama is an authority on how to treat the opposition's ideas fairly? Are you kidding me?

He also lectured Mubarak in the following manner about rights. "The people of Egypt have rights that are universal. That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech, and the ability to determine their own destiny. These are human rights. And the United States will stand up for them everywhere."

They're human rights everywhere except in the USA of course. Here, when people got peacefully noisy in the opposing party he commanded(!) us to "sit down and be quiet". His administration and the leaders of both houses when Democrats took over said "we won; we get to do it our way". So much for basic human rights as actually PRACTICED by those preaching it.

If President Obama wants to have real influence elsewhere in the world he'd be well advised to practice his pronouncement at home. Until he does, other world leaders will rightly see him as hypocritical and a person whose self-righteous claim to legitimacy and credibility on such matters as phony and undeserving of respect. He has no right to assume moral high ground on basic human rights nor to lecture other world leaders about it until and unless he establishes a track record of routinely(!) practicing it at home as a matter of fundamental principle that applies to all Americans engaged in political discourse of significance.