McCain presser coming soon: Top Iranian Diplomat favours Obama

[sabra]

Or is this "reverse psychology" too? So the Iranians really want McCain?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/23/us-elections-iran-obama

Obama gets heavyweight backing — from Iran
Top official hands McCain campaign ammunition by saying Democrat hopeful is 'more flexible and rational'


A top Iranian official has said Barack Obama is the favoured candidate of Tehran, calling him more "rational" than John McCain in remarks that could be used against the Democratic US presidential hopeful.

Ali Larijani, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, told reporters yesterday his government was "leaning more in favour of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational, even though we know American policy {towards Iran} will not change that much".

Larijani, an ally of Ayatollah Ali Khameini, the supreme Iranian leader, served until last year as his country's chief negotiator in talks to dismantle Tehran's nuclear programme. With the Iranian election looming next year, he is considered a potential opponent of the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

[scheming daemons]

1. So McCain wants to HIGHLIGHT the fact that the rest of the world thinks Obama is more rational?

hahahahaha

[TornadoTN]

14. Alright, this is the breaking point for me

I can now laugh at McCain for being the miserable little fool he is. Seriously, he thinks that highlighting a candidates rationality on the world stage as a negative is going to help him???

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SunsetDreams]

2. Obama is for peace, McCain is for continued conflict.

[LynnTheDem]

3. Yep, being "more flexible and rational" is a very bad thing to be

in America.

Almost as bad as being "intelligent".

[Dr. Death]

4. But using their logic, that means Iran really supports McCain

If Al Queda supports McCain = Al Queda really supports Obama

Then

Iran supports Obama = Iran really supports McCain

You can't have it both ways.

They want to have their cake and eat it too, but all their pie are belong to us!

[zulchzulu]

5. Step into the quicksand, McBlinky!

Larijani is an OPPONENT (possibly) of nutjob Ahmadinejad, who is actually on the ropes in Iran. One would think that the US would want to have Ahmadinejad REPLACED, no?

Oh wait... in McBlinky's world, we want to go to war with Iran anyway... so what if it would mean an absolute collapse of the World economy and have China wanting to declare war on us.

[HughMoran]

6. Yawn

This stuff is retaaaaded as we say here.

[bunnies]

16. OT - but Ive got to ask.

Where in NH do you live that people talk like that?? I ask because I dont know a single person who talks the way people always say "we" talk. I've lived here all my life and I tell ya, I just cant figure it out.

Are there pockets of people in NH that talk like they live in MA?! It perplexes me.

[HughMoran]

17. I grew up in the inner city of Boston - Roxbury

So, I am "inclusive" when I saw "we" - but I realize the NHerites don't speak like that :D

[bunnies]

18. ah ha!

That explains it. :hi: Boston = accent, Portsmouth = no accent. An hour away. Always thought that was weird.

Hey neighbor!! :pals:

[Schulzz]

7. So diplomats favor Obama, terrorists favor McCain? How is this helping McCain?

:crazy:

[Renew Deal]

8. lol, is today opposite day too, or was that just yesterday.

I have to wonder. I'm very confident that McCain will mess this up too.

[ej510]

9. More erratic behavior from McMidget.

[Democat]

10. Al-Qaida Endorsed McCain!

Too bad most of Obama's people are too wimpy to punch McCain with the fact that he has now been endorsed by Al-Qaida!

[Essene]

11. If the Mccain campaign highlights this... it backfires on their entire argument

Their argument is we cannot talk with Iran because they are incapable of reasoning and being reasonable.

Their argument is that we must simply demand the end of the nuclear program, demand an end of the anti-israeli politics and demand everything up front from them before having any discussion.

This "endorsement" from Iran is an indicator that OUR ENEMY... a potential nuclear power... trusts Obama.

Perhaps Mccain forgot he joked about "bomb bomb bomb iran."

[JBoy]

12. Imagine! A country not preferring the guy who sings about bombing them!

[TornadoTN]

15. That's all Obama has to say, highlight it and explain why diplomacy is a better, more noble solution

McCain is making this too easy with his daily erratic behavior.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. I think this whole "endorsements" business is overhyped and non-productive

Unless candidates are actively seeking ("courting") the endorsements of foreign leaders or terrorist organizations then I frankly don't care who endorses who and neither should the rest of us. Additionally, the candidates themselves have NO control over some nutty foreign leader or terrorist organization "endorsing" them so why should anybody be talking about it as though it's something that they need to be held accountable for? Other foreign leaders and "groups" have their own interests and agendas and our candidates should not allow themselves to get caught up in them since they are supposed to be serving OUR interests and agendas and not anybody else's.