Sophandros Wrote:Who would have thought that WMD's attempt to attack Barack Obama (BTW, it would have been cool if he would have actually read what he quoted...) would lead to a thread where those of us from the Left and Right agree on something?
I read it....
"We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational, even though we know American policy will not change that much," Larijani said at a press conference during a visit to Bahrain."
And as Billy Mays says... "But wait there's more"
Obama has been endorsed by groups and countries that could trouble moderates and independents who are afraid the candidate has had too many ties to radicals in his past.
"Certainly, if asked, a candidate would want to establish distance between himself and a group that has endorsed him if he disagrees with that organization or individual's positions," Hull said, "You don't really want to mention in a speech if you're Barack Obama that you've been endorsed by Hamas."
The Obama campaign declined to comment for this story. The McCain campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Hamas has had an on-again, off-again preference for Obama, first endorsing the candidate in April when Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said the Mideast terrorist group supports Obama's foreign policy positions.
"We don't mind -- actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will [win] the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance," Yousef told conservative radio host John Batchelor and WorldNetDaily reporter Aaron Klein.
Obama adviser David Axelrod told the American Spectator the comparison to Kennedy was flattering, but that admiration of the former president was where the similarities between Obama and Hamas end.
Hamas yanked its support in June when Obama made a pro-Israel speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Reuters reported. But last week Yousef told Batchelor and Klein that Hamas would send Obama a congratulatory letter "the moment that he will win the election."
Obama has also gotten a nod of approval from
Iran.
The country's parliament speaker said on Oct. 22 that Iran would prefer an Obama presidency. "We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational, even though we know American policy will not change that much," Ali Larijani told Agence France-Presse.
Chosun Shinbo,
a newspaper based in Japan that is a mouthpiece for the North Korean government, wrote in an editorial in June: "We will see a better relationship between the U.S. and the Korean Peninsula with Obama, who sternly criticizes Bush and who would meet the leader of Chosun without pre-conditions, than with the 'Bush clone' and scarecrow of the neocons McCain."
In February, Investors Business Daily reported that while not endorsing Obama,
Colombian guerilla terrorist organization FARC's chieftain Raul Reyes has said he wants to see him in the White House. He told supporters that he met "two gringos" who said "the new president of their country will be Obama and that they are interested in your compatriots. Obama will not support "Plan Colombia" nor will he sign the TLC (Free Trade Agreement)." Plan Colombia is the U.S. program funding the war on drugs and giving military support to the Colombian government.
Obama has even garnered the praises of
Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. "You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign.
When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking," Farrakhan said.
Fidel Castro has also jumped on the Obama bandwagon,
saying Obama "without doubt is, from the social and human point, the most advanced candidate" running for the U.S. presidency, Reuters reported in May.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/28/...rate-vote/
Add this bunch of vermin to the list of Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, Father Flagher.. The Council of American-Islamic Relations....
They endorse or prefer Obama, it says it all to me.
Why didn't Obama immediately repudiate their endorsement???