Obama to Iran: Please Come to My July 4 Party. It Will Be Great Fun!

What better way to celebrate United States' freedom and democracy than to invite to the barbecue representatives of a country that believes in neither? What better way to honor the lives of the hundreds of thousands who have died defending the notion that man is born to be free than by honoring a country that is today slaughtering demonstrators in cold blood.

Well, that is exactly what President Obama is STILL planning to do by keeping open invitations to Iranian diplomats to join the July 4th festivities at American embassies throughout the world.

President Barack Obama's administration said earlier this month it would invite Iran to US embassy barbecues for the national holiday for the first time since the two nations severed relations following the 1979 Islamic revolution.

"There's no thought to rescinding the invitations to Iranian diplomats," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.

This attitude might have made sense before the June 12 "election" in Iran. But, in the bloody aftermath of the election, not even considering dis-inviting Iranian diplomats is borderline insane.

The White House announced yesterday -- nearly two weeks into the protests of the Iran election, during which 17 protesters have been killed by government forces (so far) -- that it will not back down on its "gesture of goodwill" towards Iran.

How difficult would it be for Obama to actually take a stand on something and tell Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that in light of the current political and civil unrest in Iran, both of our countries might be better served by putting off this goodwill gesture until a more appropriate time.

Maybe Labor Day, Mr. Supreme Leader; would work for you?