No Monday thread for Iranian president's visit?

I agree.
If he's such the idiot, why extend the invitation to begin with?

 

For reasons that escape me, getting criticized in a foreign country always does wonders for a politician's standing back home. Any politician. President Hardtospell doesn't care what we think about him. He's playing to a domestic audience.
Shows how weird the world is. Imagine a big country like Iran choosing a belligerent, ignorant loudmouth like that guy to represent them. Glad that could never happen here.

 

Today's NYP front had the two football teams, but no Dinner Jacket.
I'm sorry, but if Rupert doesn't think the guy's front-page worthy, I don't either.

 

I have no defense, other than it was on because I left the TV on while I was getting ready and their show started. But it's not really a good defense, because I had been watching "Ellen."

 

Very few folks in the U.S. are going to give Ahmadinejad credit for anything positive.

I'm concerned about how the footage will be used in Iran. To me that's outweighed by the exposure he has gotten in this country. Which is inevitably negative, given his stances on the Holocaust, homosexuals, etc.

I hope the networks will continue to be aggressive about exposing the holes in his presentation, and the facts about his regime. Try asking someone at a bar a few questions about the Iranian regime sometime. The embassy takeover is just about forgotten, for example, much less Ahmadinejad's probable role in it.

 

Anybody think Bush has the stones to speak in front of a group of students at Tehran University?

 

Yawn, why would you expect Monday to start a thread about the Iranian president?[/ancientsjhistory]

 

Anyone glad that Achmadoody could speak at one of our great universities and come away unscathed physically?

To answer your question, yes I think he has the stones. I would look forward to a day when a U.S. President could actually, safely speak at Tehran University.

Stones may just be GWB's biggest problem. As opposed to lack of them.

 

Hell, he doesn't the stones to speak in front of a group of Americans who aren't hand-selected.

 

Hmmmm do I sense sarcasm without the blue font there?

 

Ummmm. Stones? Middle East? Not a good mix!

 

Do you think those crazies would even bother to invite him? Hell, while their man was getting dissed here, they were creating another Death to Bush and Death to America march....the millionth of its kind I believe.