Just as they were convinced that Iraq had WMD’s and could launch them in those mere 45 minutes. Hmm, I wonder why.

This is because there has been a conscious decision to try to brand Ahmadinejad as some sort of new Saddam. They are trying to sell us another war and truth once again doesn’t serve their goals.

Meet ‘The Decider’ of Tehran. It’s Not the Hothead You Expect.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120701614.html

I want a damned SMART president, NOT a stupid “average American.”

~A

Bush brags about being a C Student, but McCain was 894 our of a graduating class of 899. Great… an F Student is now running for President.

this thread may be splitting hairs. To deny that Ahmadinejad has significant influence in Iran is disingenuous.

Oh, if the trolls had only been so discerning in the run up to the invasion, perhaps they wouldn’t be totally discredited now. This one thinks it hasn’t forfeited the right to opine, after going along with the neos. Hilarious.

You may want to distance yourselves from the current preznut. An idiot in charge is still an idiot. The last 7 years have been hell compared to the intellect of Bill Clinton’s reign. Do you really want to align yourselves with the 28%’ers??? Because if you do, Obama will win in a landslide.

Here’s the transcript:

QUESTION: I’ve done some research, and um -
MCCAIN: I have too.
QUESTION: Also checked, also checked with the Obama campaign and he never, he’s never sai — mentioned Ahmadinejad directly by name. He did say he would negotiate with the leaders, but as you know – Ayatollah,
MCCAIN: (Laughing) Ahmadinejad is, was the leader.
QUESTION: But if -
MCCAIN: Maybe I’m mistaken.
QUESTION: Maybe you are, because -
MCCAIN: Maybe. I don’t think so though.
QUESTION: The Supreme, you know, according to most diplomatic experts, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is the guy who’s in charge of Iranian foreign policy and also in charge of the nuclear program, but you never mention him. Do you, you know, um, why do you always keep talking about Ahmadinejad since he doesn’t have power in that, in that realm?
MCCAIN: Oh I thin-Again, I respectfully disagree. When he’s the person that comes to the United Nations and declares his country’s policy is the extermination of the state of Israel, quote, in his words, wipe them off of the map, then I know that he is speaking for the Iranian government and articulating their policy and he was elected and is running for reelection as the leader of that country. Yes sir, go ahead.
NEW QUESTION: One more quest-
MCCAIN: I mean, the fact is he’s the acknowledged leader of that country and you may disagree, but that’s a uh, that’s your right to do so, but I think if you asked any average American who the leader of Iran is, I think they’d know. Go ahead. Or anyone who’s well-versed in the issue.

So when McInsane says that he thinks Ahmadinejad is the leader that quotes policy at the UN and by virtue, that makes him the policy leader, is McInsane correct? Because McInsane clearly stated that the US diplomatic experts are wrong about who’s the leader of Iran.

But then again, McInsane did differ to the American people as the “go-to” diplomacy experts on the subject… NO? Or mayby he should go see his criminal friend over at the State Department on the subject, CON-de-LIAR Rice.

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There is a President of Ford Motor Company, but he does not exert power over all the cars in this country.

The problem here is that McCain thinks everyone is as stupid and uninformed as he is, and that his level of understanding is sufficient for all of us. It has long been a Republican tactic that if you say the same thing over and over, it eventually becomes the truth. At least it monopolizes the air space and attempts to suppress the truth. This tactic establishes the party’s desire for a specific state of affairs into the public mind to further the party’s own cause (i.e. perpetual war, one-party rule, fear mongering for power, etc.).

Lies and confusion are powerful tools with those who desire to be dictatorial, and with those who choose to remain uninformed.

Thought 1: Yes, because the ‘Average American’ is soooo well informed of foreing affairs…

Thought 2: The fact that Ahmedinejad as the same title that Bush, doesn’t mean that they have the same powers, nor even close. The powers of every one of them depends of the laws of each country. Probably Ahmedinejad funcions are closer to Rice than the ones of Bush or even Cheney.

So what we have here are a lot of Americans who have been suckered in by catapulted propaganda. And McCain thinks that being suckered in by catapulted propaganda is good enough for him.

OK, but that’s not good enough for me. I’d prefer a smarter president.

yet McCain insists that, if the average American thinks he does, then that’s good enough for him.

ralph. I’m with you if you are saying that Ahmadinejad is not the official leader of Iran.

But, watch the McCain video. He’s does not say, ‘if the average American thinks he is, that’s good enough for him’. He doesn’t.

He is making the point that he sees that Ahmadinejad is the leader of Iran. And he’s saying that view is so widely precieved that even an average American also believes it.

View the video and let me know if McCain says (as you attribute to him:

yet McCain insists that, if the average American thinks he does, then that’s good enough for him

a) McClueless
b) McI-don’t-know
c) McIncompetent
d) McOut-of-touch
e) McNo-Foreign-Policy
f) McAll-of-the-above

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backup Says:
this thread may be splitting hairs. To deny that Ahmadinejad has significant influence in Iran is disingenuous.

this comment may be erecting straw men. Can you point to anything in the article that denied that “Ahmadinejad has significant influence in Iran”?

Seems to me the point of the article was that Ahmadinejad does not have significant influence over Iranian foreign policy, yet McCain insists that, if the average American thinks he does, then that’s good enough for him.

You think that is a hair to be split? Donde los yikes.