That great liberal electronic short bus that is the Daily Kos offered the blogosphere another gem yesterday morning. DKos diarist laxmatt posted a poll on Sunday giving readers two choices for U.S. president, the current occupant George W. Bush or Iran's Mahmoud "Holocaust? What Holocaust?" Ahmadinejad.
The question reads, "I would rather have as President of the United States..." and lists the aforementioned presidents. I suppose this is on the same wavelength as the HuffPo blogger who said that at least Hitler, unlike President Bush, "meant well."
Roughly 24 hours after laxmatt posted his poll, Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs found that Bush was leading but A-jad still had a respectable plurality in his favor: 45 percent.
At the time of this posting, Bush's lead is up, but roughly 4 in 10 poll respondents still would prefer the music-hating, Sharia law-loving A-jad.
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Update: James Joyner at Outside the Beltway has a somewhat related blog entry today about another Kossack with a crush on A-jad:
Kohn’s willingness to overlook a man’s evil because he Speaks Truth to Power is silly, bizarre, wacky, and all manner of other adjectives, clean and otherwise, that come to mind. I’m not sure, though, that it means much other than that Kohn is a rather immature thinker. Is this, as Don Surber suggests, an example of Bush Derangement Syndrome at its finest? Or, as Bruce McQuain argues, moral equivalence at its worst? No doubt.
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Watching Ahmadinejad spew
September 24, 2007 - 14:43 ET by ckc1227Watching Ahmadinejad spew his nonsense at Columbia, and the crowd applause is nauseating. This is why you don't let guys like this speak in this country.
How disrespectful is it to our troops that this guy is given a platform in this country?
He just said something about letting the Palestinians decide for themselves how their lives should be. I could be wrong, but haven't they already made that decision?
"The ultimate Democrat constituent would be a public schoolteacher on welfare who needed an abortion and was suing her doctor."
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I am astonished that it's
September 24, 2007 - 14:59 ET by TruthMongerI am astonished that it's only 45% for AJ...
I thought the DKOS crowd "left the building" a long time ago...
Unbelievable...what is this strange sensation I have now for the moonbats - is it - a ray of hope?!?!?
ckc -
September 24, 2007 - 15:23 ET by drillanwrWatching Ahmadinejad spew his nonsense at Columbia, and the crowd applause is nauseating.
Ya mean like this?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x31zrp_sick-on-air_news
You can't fix stupid!
September 24, 2007 - 14:54 ET by Gary P JacksonYou can't fix stupid!
A moment of clarity.
September 24, 2007 - 14:56 ET by NBFSuch a poll might actually be a wake-up call for Kos readers; showing what DNC talking points and senseless hate have done to their brains.
You're entirely way too
September 24, 2007 - 14:57 ET by Ken ShepherdYou're entirely way too optimistic, NBF.
Kos-kook poll.
September 24, 2007 - 14:59 ET by Dave RIf forty-percent of the Kos kooks would prefer to live inder Akhmedinadinnerjacket, then I think we should help arrange that for them. Shouldn't be all that difiicult, really.
Who knows? Perhaps we will get lucky and the newly transplanted America-haters will take up residence in and around Iran's nuclear production facilities.
With any luck they will be in place in time for the ariel attack on those same facilities that we all know is coming.
But we have to hurry. :-)
When I'm president, privatization is off the table because it's not the answer to anything.-Hillary Rodham, September 3, 2007 AARP Legislative Conference.
Iranian Law
September 24, 2007 - 15:43 ET by Ralph Hansen Ph. D.If they prefer A-jad, then by all means let's allow the Kos readers to live under Iranian oppression (but not for long). The government of Iran continues to restrict freedom of speech, gender equality and ignores human rights whenever it suits the government's needs.
As for criminal behavior, punishments for people committing offenses such as adultery, alcohol consumption, burglary, petty theft or homosexual intercourse include death by stoning or decapitation, amputation or flagellation in public.
No, the libs wouldn't last long in Tehran. As Yakov might say, "What a country!"
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
President of Columbia attacks Jad
September 24, 2007 - 15:59 ET by judahisThe president of Columbia days before the meeting
stated how he was going to confront the little dictator and what
he was going to throw at him
and
I applaud the Columbain for attacking Jad as well he should.
Maybe this little Iranain needs to be a hanging Jad.
But get ready
for the NY Times firestorm. As a former Columbia student, I am
proud (at least today) for what Columbia has done today in confronting
the lying Jad.
Not a Democrap or a lip-brawl, mostly a
conserve-a-tiff. Famous words of elderly from movie "Moonstruck:
"Somebody tell a joke" .
I was astonished at the
September 24, 2007 - 16:12 ET by Gat New YorkI was astonished at the frank, direct, and tough speech/questions by Lee Bollinger. I was surprised Amadinnerjacket just sat there and did not walk out.
I was also surprised that there were some tough follow up questions to try and get him to answer the original question.
What was disappointing was the fact that there was ANY appalause. I hope the FBI has photos of these kids who should be made to live one term in Iran and experience hell for themselves.Then they might have a different perspective.
Let them go.
September 24, 2007 - 16:15 ET by mattmI'm sure A-mad-insane-jihad would love to have those 4 of 10 respondents go back to Iran with him.
I wish they'd go. They probably represent the sentiments of at least 10% of Dem voters. If they were gone, it would wipe out Hitlery's chances in '08.
only in america ...
September 24, 2007 - 16:31 ET by pmohbuckwill you find such an oxymoronic thought of liberals believing that life under hitler and the little iranian rodent would be better than life w/ bush as pres. unfortunately, the stereotypical liberal (pacifist, outspoken, unpatriotic, anti-religion, anti-military, pro-homosexual, etc.) doesn't quite make the "deserving to live" list preferred by hitler and ahmadinejad. yellow stars of david were not the only color and shape present on the blue and white striped clothing worn in the camps 60+ years ago.
then again, only in america can one unearth families comprised of obese, disgusting, filthy, toothless men and women (with offspring) sporting swastikas and SS "runes" tattoos ... again, not passing the "those who deserve to exist" test created by the same people they idolize.
i guess we are now seeing what television is doing to americans ... is "hogan's heroes" now being presented as a documentary or something? this sudden love-fest with all things hitler is perplexing.
I'm confused. Some say
September 24, 2007 - 16:45 ET by tracheostomyI'm confused. Some say Ahmadinejad shouldn't have been hosted, but some are okay with that (the President seemed to be). I don't see the divide on party lines here either.
What were the reasons against hosting him? What are the possible consequenses of giving him a public forum on our soil?
-PJ
"Trake: Your lofty convictions are another blemish on the rump of congregational sectarianism." -Tumbler 5/15/07
The problem of providing
September 24, 2007 - 16:49 ET by Gat New YorkThe problem of providing him a forum in the U.S. has nothing to do with people in the U.S. He will be taking the video of his Columbia appearance and through masterful editing will use it to his benefit inside his country and in the region - and at the expense of the U.S.
This was not an issue of free speech. It was a foreign policy issue and Columbia should have exercised more responsibility and restraint in rushing to invite this "petty dictator" and give him the forum he wanted.
But wouldn't "Radio Free
September 24, 2007 - 16:59 ET by tracheostomyBut wouldn't "Radio Free Iran" or the like state otherwise? His own propaganda is at the expense of the U.S. anyway (TV, internet, and print media).
Do free speech rights really extend to guests you host in your own forums?
If it was a foreign policy issue, why didn't the government intervene? Either there is a law against it or not.
I'm looking for specifics here. If there is no law against hosting a foreign dictator openly hostile to the U.S. and our allies, why hasn't one been floated in Congress?
-PJ
"Trake: Your lofty convictions are another blemish on the rump of congregational sectarianism." -Tumbler 5/15/07
"But wouldn't "Radio Free
September 24, 2007 - 20:07 ET by Gat New York"But wouldn't "Radio Free Iran" or the like state otherwise? His own propaganda is at the expense of the U.S. anyway (TV, internet, and print media)." . . . but now he has a video of a U.S. audience they can play around with in their editing room.
"Do free speech rights really extend to guests you host in your own forums?" . . . . Free speech and all amendments only extend to U.S. citizens. If you host a foreign leader in a public forum you cross over into State Department issues.
"If it was a foreign policy issue, why didn't the government intervene? Either there is a law against it or not." . . . . Bush and Rice could have intervened under the Constitution, but doing that would have been used by Ahmadinejad to show that we do not have free speech. I am sure they thought about it. As it turned out no one expected Bollinger to lambast this neo-Hitler which he did.
Columbia should never have invited him on campus in the first place. I think Bollinger and this professor who heads this World Forum at Columbia will still have a lot to answer for from alumni who are major donors.
This is not even a premise
September 24, 2007 - 16:45 ET by PeskyDaneThis is not even a premise for grown-ups.
I'd like to say are you
September 24, 2007 - 16:53 ET by bigtimerI'd like to say are you serious here...with sincere wonderment.
Unfortunately...this country and some critters in it are very very sick puppies.
This whole poll thing is absolutely despicable.
The evil so-called little man pajamhead is OUR ENEMY!
He should be in GITMO as far as I am concerned.
If Bush were a real conservative...
September 24, 2007 - 16:55 ET by Blogger Guy00001They hate Bush so much that it clouds their thinking. What would they do if Bush were a real conservative, and not a liberal who opposes abortion?
BG00001
September 24, 2007 - 17:31 ET by Dave RIf Bush were a real conservative, that Iranian tyrant, who may yet manage to touch off a World War (III or IV-depending on how you count them) would not have made it to this country alive.
Because he was allowed to come here, I believe Western Society has just taken another lurch toward realizing the ultimate fate of the Roman Empire.
When I'm president, privatization is off the table because it's not the answer to anything.-Hillary Rodham, September 3, 2007 AARP Legislative Conference.
Well, Hitler DID create the
September 24, 2007 - 17:36 ET by Roger the ShrubberWell, Hitler DID create the Autobahn, He wasn't all THAT bad, right? He was just misunderstood...
Ya rog, and we probly
September 24, 2007 - 17:45 ET by MightyMouthYa rog, and we probly wouldn't have Skin heads if it weren't for Hitler! Or for that matter... half the laughs in "The Blues Brothers" $-)
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
I hate Illinois
September 24, 2007 - 17:59 ET by Roger the ShrubberI hate Illinois Nazis...
Put them on the bus
September 24, 2007 - 18:31 ET by SlicksterThey won't think it's so funny when they find out that the only opinion they have is the one the Ianian government gives them.
And
September 24, 2007 - 19:15 ET by well99How would this be different from now?Just change that to left wing opinion..same thing....Ask Mrs Edwards.
So 45% of the respondents
September 24, 2007 - 19:15 ET by jcrapes4So 45% of the respondents would rather live under Ahmadinejad than under President Bush. Does this mean that 45% of the respondents are going to revoke their US citizenship then apply to be citizens of Iran???? Na I thought not. BDS at flank speed for the Daily Kos.
jgrapes.... We couldn't
September 24, 2007 - 19:24 ET by bigtimerjgrapes....
We couldn't be that lucky to have the 45% who voted with the enemy to exit here permanately.
Snivel, whine and complain.
C'mon, guys. The
September 24, 2007 - 20:16 ET by MikeBC'mon, guys. The DailyKosmonuts are the mainstream. If you don't believe me, just ask them, they'll tell you. So, 45% of mainstream America would rather have Ahmadinnerjacket than Bush for President. Yeah, uh huh, and soon the mothership will arrive and take all good liberals off to planet nutso.
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