A powerful lawmaker called on President Obama to "personally add your voice" to the effort to get a Christian pastor who is an American citizen freed from an Iranian prison where he's been sentenced to eight years for practicing his faith.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.), made the appeal in a letter to the president, calling on Obama to take up the cause of Saeed Abedini, a 32-year-old married father of two. Abedini left his home in Boise, Idaho, last summer to go back to his homeland to help build an orphanage, according to his supporters. He was arrested and imprisoned on charges of compromising national security, charges that appear to date back to his 2000 conversion from Islam to Christianity and subsequent evangelizing before moving to the U.S.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
Obama never handles these kinds of situations. He's waiting on someone else to tell him what to do. Now, if it were a SEIU picket line, he'd be in his element.