Kentucky fried idiots.

Watched the first 2 Rocky movies over the weekend, so forgive the title of this post. In fact, count yourselves lucky I didn’t lift any other quotes like “piss lightening and crap thunder”. Maybe tomorrow I get you that post. Maybe tomorrow.
As for today, I’ve got a little AP/Ahmadinejad story that’ll warm your hearts. In [...]

Obama speaks on Iran.

While at a press conference with Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi yesterday, Obama had the opportunity to respond to the following question:
Q Mr. President, on Iran, does the disputed election results affect — there’s been violence in the street — in any way change your willingness to meet with Mr. Ahmadinejad without preconditions? And also, do [...]

Iran . . . so far away.

A Flock of Seagulls, this is not. Craziness is brewing in Iran in the wake of Ahmadinejad’s “re-election” over the weekend. It seems as if there’s corruption afoot in the land of a thousand Mullahs….as if we didn’t already know that.
The thing of it now is that it’s all being broadcast to the world for [...]

Nuance.

From Obama’s Cairo speech:
“No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.”
First, and obviously, if no nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons, then on what grounds is he committing [...]

Maybe they’ll just burn pictures of anyone in Iran?

“Radicals” burn Obama posters in Iran (Wizbang).
The irony for me is that when pictures of any Republican (ie. Bush) were burned in various parts of the Middle East for any one of a number of assumed offenses, it became the media’s symbol that we were not liked around the world and that this was [...]