The A-jad/Obama dialogue begins
One Dear Leader sends his best regards to another. Can’t wait for the chai-sipping session (via LAT):
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today posted a congratulatory message to President-elect Barack Obama on his official website.
But his lengthy note also cautioned Obama to change America’s ways and to reverse policies based on what he described as “belligerency, occupation, bullying, demagoguery,” among other things.
It is part of Iran’s complicated response to the election of Obama, who has said he’d be willing to speak with Iran’s leadership, as detailed in a report written for today’s Los Angeles Times.
Ahmadinejad begins his note with the kind of flowery, somewhat overblown language typical in the Middle East:
I congratulate you on your success in mustering the majority of votes cast in the presidential elections. You know pretty well that the opportunities God grants to people he has created are short-lived, and they could either serve perfection of mankind and interests of nations or, God forbid, disserve nations. I hope that His Excellency will favor the genuine interests of people and justice over the never-ending demands of a selfish and fallible minority, so that you can seize on this chance in the best manner and leave behind a good legacy.
But he quickly gets down to the nitty-gritty, advising the freshman senator on what he must do to be an effective president.
Ahmadinejad writes that Obama must “overhaul” America’s domestic and foreign policies because the people of the world and U.S. expect it.
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Russian General 01: Is that Poland glowing or is the spy satellite feed over Europe being goofy again?
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If OBoingo has any intentions of leaving the regime in Iran intact, then I consider OBoingo a domestic enemy of the United States.
Oboingo doesn’t have a popular mandate. He’s going to have a tough time selling a nuclear Iran as a good thing to the American people. He’ll have his hundred days. But that is far short of the full presidential term of four years. Did he even complete a third of his senate term?
Maybe Oboingo plans to be in Washington for his first hundred days and then start running for re-election.
We can only hope.
Bear1909 out.
“….and hell followed with him.”
bear1909, please! This last freaking two years of that teleprompter reading, bilge spilling, maniacal, ego maniac was waaaaay more than enough for me and what little of brain I have left.