I await the thunderous denunciations of Obama’s vastly improved statement today by all those who have defended his timidity to this point. No, actually I don’t. I await hackish turn-abouts that praise Obama for saying the kind of things the evil “neo-cons” have been urging him to say for a week. Obama’s prior stance had become so supine and embarrassing that even Nick Burns had changed his tune, telling the WSJ today: “I think it is important that Iranian government should hear that they are rapidly losing credibility. This speech [Khamenei’s yesterday] may give President Obama more of a pretext to speak out on this.” Anyway, good for Obama for beginning to step up. And bless those breathtakingly brave men and women out in the streets of Iran.