Nobody thought to poll Ahmadinejad until now--says McCain will win.

[Aloha Spirit]

http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=12492135

Sorry if this is a duplicate thread... but it's just too funny. Here's Ahmadinejad on the Democratic contenders:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said during a trip to New Delhi on Tuesday, that he believed that neither Clinton nor Senator Barack Obama, the other Democratic presidential candidate, had a chance of winning the U.S. presidential election in November.

"Do you think a black candidate would be allowed to be president in the U.S.?" the semiofficial Mehr News Agency quoted Ahmadinejad as saying. "We don't think Mr. Obama will be allowed to become the U.S. president."

Referring to Clinton, he said: "Presidency of a woman in a country that boasts its gunmanship is unlikely."

[leftofcool]

1. Now isn't he the sexist pig?

I suppose if a male candidate had said the same thing, it would have been okay.

[Aloha Spirit]

2. Wow, I have no idea what to make of this comment. Could you elaborate?

[leftofcool]

6. Presidency of a woman in a country that boasts its gunmanship is unlikely."

His words imply that if McCain has said this or Obama had said this it would have been okay. There have been several Dems that have said if Israel is attacked by Iran we would strike back, John Edwards being one of them. Had he left out the word "woman" I would not have called him that.

[Aloha Spirit]

7. Ahhh thanks. I'm slow today, need all the help I can get ;-)

[leftofcool]

8. Don't feel bad..........me too

[DavidDvorkin]

11. No, I think he's saying that US machismo means a woman can't be elected

"Boasts its gunmanship" = "swaggers a lot and thinks of itself as a John Wayne character".

[sudopod]

20. I thought it was a penis joke. :D nt

[burythehatchet]

3. The guy hits the nail on the head.

[EFerrari]

4. LOL! International flamebait! Not you, OP, but him. Too funny.

:rofl:

[Aloha Spirit]

9. Ahmadinejad is himself a wedge issue...

a wedge of cheese.

[DerekJ]

5. unfortunately, as time goes by, it looks like he's right.

:(

[AspenRose]

10. *sigh*

:-(

[Aloha Spirit]

12. self-kick

[Aloha Spirit]

13. Why are all these crap threads flaming on, while my relevant, topical post on how international

relations are interecting with the elections gets completely ignored?
Rhetorical question, no need to answer.

[SoxFan]

14. "gunmanship"?

[Aloha Spirit]

18. I know, right? I mean, Ahmadinejad's the one obsessed with ships of all kinds.

[futureliveshere]

15. So shouldn't we be saying that "Iran foresees McCain vistory". Hence McC part of "axis of evil"?

[futureliveshere]

16. Not that I agree Iran is part of an axis of evil or that such an axis exists.

[Aloha Spirit]

17. Ha, I totally missed that angle. I'm a bad Democrat.

[futureliveshere]

22. Nope, that means you are a Bad Republican. :)

[Bucky]

19. Is it just me, or is anyone else seeing Ringo Ahmadinejad as a future Fox commentator?

I think he'd be a hell of a fit there.

[aquarius dawning]

21. The last thing he wants is for Muslim women to see what is actually possible in a Democracy.

It would undermine Islamic institutionalized sexism and, quite possibly, the entire Islamic power structure.