REGARDLESS OF WHETHER HE WAS FINALLY ASHAMED OF HIMSELF OR WORRIED ABOUT THE PR EFFECT...:

Obama demands release of Burma democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi (Leo Lewis, 11/15/09, Times of London)

President Obama today demanded the release of Nobel prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi during an unprecedented encounter that put him at the same table as the prime minister of Myanmar’s pariah military government.

The United States president’s message, in which he also pushed for the release of other political prisoners held by the Myanmar regime, was delivered to prime minister Thein Sein during a meeting with the leaders of 10 Southeast Asian countries that comprise ASEAN.

...he finally did the right thing.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 15, 2009 7:31 AM