Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech angers Norma Lerner

[Algorem]

Source: Plain Dealer

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech angers Norma Lerner -- Mike McIntyre's Tipoff
Monday, October 01, 2007
Michael K. McIntyre
Plain Dealer Columnist

The Lerner family was disappointed and embarrassed that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak last week on the campus of Columbia University in a building named after the family patriarch, Alfred Lerner.

Norma Lerner, widow of the late MBNA chairman and Browns owner, fired off a letter signed "Norma Lerner and Family" to Columbia President Lee Bollinger expressing the family's displeasure on the day Ahmadinejad, a man who has denied the Holocaust, was to speak. "I have the sense that you'll read my letter less because of our personal familiarity and more so because of the giving that my husband and I have extended to Columbia over the years," she wrote.

In other words: Money is talking. You might want to listen.

She said the decision to allow Ahmadinejad to speak at Alfred Lerner Hall was "hurtful," despite Bollinger's contention that opening the public forum to "ideas we deplore" is essential to the American idea of free speech...



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Sen. Joe Biden Calls Iranian Leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 'Madman'

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256944,00.html?sPage=fnc.politics/youdecide2008

ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Monday called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "madman" and raised the possibility that he could be assassinated by foes within his country.

"Ahmadinejad, the madman, is in competition with mullahs and ayatollahs who think he's overstepped his bounds," Biden told members of a local Kiwanis Club in this early voting state.

Ahmadinejad may be "assassinated, not by the good guys, but by the bad guys," said the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

At a campaign stop Sunday, Biden called Ahmadinejad "that wacko guy, the crazy...

[Megahurtz]

1. Why Is Biden

sounding like a NeoCon? :wtf:
How many more of our Democrats are going to ease over to the other side?

[Name removed]

2. Deleted message

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[ohio2007]

3. People here veiw links from debka with suspicion

You may get flamed but I'm sure you are thick skinnned.

[Li-an]

4. Yeah I know,

I view debka with deep suspicion too.

[Megahurtz]

11. I'm Not Familiar

with Debka, but it looks suspicious to me. Who's to know what's absolutely true or not anymore
in any News? I know I'm confused. I think that they purposely want to confuse the Public.

[ohio2007]

13. Another reason for puling out the Russian techs could be

the mullahs still are not paying for the building of the nuke plant. They have been accused in the past of "stiffing" the Russians with non payment.......
SO.....If they are not going to get paid, why stick around?

[Trajan]

14. I consider myself VERY Liberal .....

And I am no friend of Likudniks or Neocon war mongers: But opposing the Iranian leaded for his EXTREME RIGHT WING positions doesn't make me OR Biden a Neocon ....

The enemy of my enemy is probably my enemy too .... This is no simple black and white issue ....

I would NEVER support a conservative extremist as the Iranian leader is ... Ever .....

Doesn't mean I support BOMBING Iran either ..... One can BOTH reject Right Wing Holocaust Denying Theocrats AND NOT bomb them too .... This is no either-or proposition ...

[Harper_is_Bush]

5. Stupid, narrow-minded reaction. It's too bad. n/t

[Li-an]

6. I am disappointed though

that what I posted was not what raised comment.

[Harper_is_Bush]

7. Maybe you could expand on that?

I thought I was posting on exactly that.

Please set me straight.

[Name removed]

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[Harper_is_Bush]

9. Being new is not an excuse for not following your own topic

You said to me that you were dissapointed "that what I posted was not what raised comment"

What you posted had nothing to do with the Russians pulling out of Bushehr.

Here's my advice to you as a "junior": be considerate and explain yourself clearly

[Li-an]

12. All I posted was about Russians

pulling out of Bushehr. Were you maybe responding to someone else?

[daleo]

10. Bollinger gave Ahmadinejad a number of severe put-downs

That should satisfy people opposed to the Iranian regime.