Andy McCarthy at NRO’s Corner describes hope and outreach of a more sinister nature –

Negotiating with Terrorists: The Obama administration ignores a longstanding — and life-saving — policy

“...Even as the mullahs are terrorizing the Iranian people, the Obama administration is negotiating with an Iranian-backed terrorist organization and abandoning the American proscription against exchanging terrorist prisoners for hostages kidnapped by terrorists. Worse still, Obama has already released a terrorist responsible for the brutal murders of five American soldiers in exchange for the remains of two deceased British hostages…”

It 's not to late, be like Reagen, at least in this Mr. president.......

Oh, so people in the Obama Administration should make an illegal arms deal and then the president can can claim ignorance of the scheme...is that how he should be like Reagan...

Almost as silly as trying to convince them that they're being silly when their minds are already made up, Phil

Heh. Rich, no?

What I do not get, though, is exactly what some of his critics on the right are clamoring for apart from a strongly worded condemnation that would make us feel good

The critics on the right are clamoring for a chance to hurt Obama. They don't really give a damn how they do it.

Most of the righties who are now suddenly so concerned with the welfare of the Iranian people were calling for us to carpet bomb Iran just a short while ago.

Michael, the presence of ANY foreign-language protest signs can only be seen as an attempt to communicate with people outside Iran. You, and others, are arguing that the English protest signs aren't aimed at the outside world. This position is one that can only be maintained by an abject partisan.

"Police" and "Ambulance" signs are in English for the same reason the protestors are holding up "Where is my vote?" sign in English: more foreigners who see that will recognize it than any other language. That might even include Arab speakers (as opposed to Farsi).

First off Farsi like a lot of other languages has picked up a lot of English words (some words don't quite mean the same thing though). Currently Iran is very bilingual and as a result you see a LOT of English mixed in with Farsi. It's a very large stretch to say they are targeting America specifically. I have no doubt some are hoping to be picked up by the international media but generally this is an Iranian problem in their minds. The source of my information comes via the Iranian side of my GF's family (her dad is actually an immigrant). Naturally it's pretty difficult to communicate currently though :(

As for Obama I believe he's almost stepping too far and needs to continue to tread lightly. We have messed in the lives of Iranians for the last +40ish years off and on. Everything from before the Shah mess to the Iran Iraq war (the chemical weapons we sold to Saddam is still very clearly remembered) there's a history of us dicking in their affairs. On the flip side the GOV't has been demonizing the USA since the revolution ended (full on propaganda TV shows and such displaying our evil vileness). These two parts results in a populace that doesn't appreciate us much. My GF's dad came here for college shortly before the revolution. He actually originally intended to head back to Tehran upon completing his education. Fortunately/unfortunately he was unable to return to Iran with his "American" education without risking death so he stayed here. Even to this day he hasn't returned due to the persistent stigma of being "American". Hopefully a regime change will alleviate that problem.

What I do not get, though, is exactly what some of his [Obama's] critics on the right are clamoring for apart from a strongly worded condemnation that would make us feel good.

Some of his critics on the right are simply professionally outraged, since outrage is their profession. No matter what Obama does it will be too little, too much or just wrong in their eyes (assuming they are even genuinely outraged, and not just using it to score political points).

Why anyone takes the cheerleaders for the Outrage du Jour seriously is beyond me.

If that's enough to get that senile buffoon McCain to go away and stop busily undercutting US policy in the midst of a crisis, maybe it's a necessary trade-off.

Let's be clear, anybody can say whatever the hell they want about the President and his administration, it doesn't undercut US policy and it doesn't increase the threat or any current crisis. That's as true now as it was when Bush was being criticized.