I’ll be taking this opportunity to again link this post about how Obama’s pastor of 20 years, Jeremiah Wright, and Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi were good friends. And how Wright predicted that Obama’s Jewish support would dry up once it came to light that his longtime pastor, who printed the Hamas manifesto in his church bulletin, liked Gaddafi.

Why am I linking that again? Because I think Obama’s cowardice here is inspired by his longtime pastor’s love for the dictator? Nope! Rather, I’m bringing it up again because if you replaced “Barack Obama’s pastor” with “John Boehner’s pastor” we’d never hear the end of it from the media. Instead there’s relative silence.

Anyway, back to the topic:

White House press secretary Jay Carney says it is up to the Libyan people to decide if Gaddafi should go.

“I would repeat what i just said, and because it is a matter for the people of Libya to decide it is also clear that the people of Libya have continued use of deadly violence, his clear violations of human rights are totally unacceptable,” Carney said.

Um. Okay.

Libya is quite literally bombing and gunning down its own people in the streets. Blood runs through the streets of Tripoli. There are reports of injured protesters being shot by Gaddafi’s goons, many of them hired out-of-country mercenaries, in the hospital. And Gaddafi, who we’re talking about removing, is a longtime terrorist responsible for many American deaths.

But the president of the United States, the leader of the free world, himself a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, feels it’s not his place to call for the resignation or removal of a brutal, terroristic dictator who slaughters his own people when not killing foreigners — including Americans.

The country’s in the best of hands.