Comments on: New Conservative Line: Iran’s President Doesn’t Matter! http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/11/new-conservative-line-irans-president-doesnt-matter/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Chris Diaz http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/11/new-conservative-line-irans-president-doesnt-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-153872 Chris Diaz Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:32:40 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/?p=14243#comment-153872 Just a tad hypocritical. Pipes sounds like a hardcore Zionist. Just a tad hypocritical. Pipes sounds like a hardcore Zionist.

]]> By: Mugsy http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/06/11/new-conservative-line-irans-president-doesnt-matter/comment-page-1/#comment-153856 Mugsy Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:56:34 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/?p=14243#comment-153856 In fact, I used to refute all the Right-wing hyperbole over the imagined threat of "Ahmadinejad" and "his pursuit of nuclear weapons" to "wipe Israel off the face of the map" (which would kill millions of Palestinians) by pointing out that "the President of Iran" is akin to the "U.S. Secretary of State", a policy adviser with no real power to make unilateral decisions. But it never seemed to matter. Righties had it in their heads that "President" in Iran meant the same thing as "President" in the United States. Now suddenly, on the verge of a possibly historic foreign policy victory for President Obama, suddenly, Ahmadinejad isn't all that important. <strong>"I didn't want that chocolate cake anyway! Cake is icky!"</strong> Somehow, I'm not buying it. In fact, I used to refute all the Right-wing hyperbole over the imagined threat of “Ahmadinejad” and “his pursuit of nuclear weapons” to “wipe Israel off the face of the map” (which would kill millions of Palestinians) by pointing out that “the President of Iran” is akin to the “U.S. Secretary of State”, a policy adviser with no real power to make unilateral decisions.

But it never seemed to matter. Righties had it in their heads that “President” in Iran meant the same thing as “President” in the United States.

Now suddenly, on the verge of a possibly historic foreign policy victory for President Obama, suddenly, Ahmadinejad isn’t all that important.

“I didn’t want that chocolate cake anyway! Cake is icky!”

Somehow, I’m not buying it.

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