McCain Discusses Iran in Weekly Republican Address

Senator John McCain (R-AZ) gave the weekly Republican address today and said that “Iranians who’ve protested the results of their country’s presidential election are on the ‘right side of history’ as first established by the Declaration of Independence,” The Hill reports.

"Today, we stand with the millions of Iranians who brave batons, imprisonment and gunfire to have their voices heard and their votes counted," McCain said in the holiday address. "We have a moral obligation to do so."

Here is the address:

On balance, President Obama’s weekly address “recounts America’s great history of overcoming seemingly insurmountable challenges, and pledges to lead America in continuing that tradition,” according to the official White House blog.

Focusing on creating a clean energy economy, comprehensive health reform, and revitalizing an education system in need of change, the President pledges not to leave these decades-old problems to yet another generation to solve.

Here is the President’s address:

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