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Mir, Mir on the Wall: Dissecting the Next Murky Election

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[img]1|left|||no_popup[/img]Given President Obama’s world view that all 190 countries on earth are susceptible to his sui generis style of friendship, we will be interested to see how he reacts to the  outcome of  Friday’s presidential election in Iran.

Will our Dear Leader applaud if, as some expect, the aging retread, Mir Hossein Mousavi, defeats Ahmadinejad, the smiling dwarf with the Obama-sized ego?

Schoolboys from Maine to Oregon know Ahmadinejad’s name for one reason only.

About every time CNN goes to a commercial,  the smiling dwarf hitches up his little pants and threatens to bomb Israel and Jews everywhere into the next world because, by golly, he wants to live in a peaceful neighborhood. 

Should we care how President Obama responds to the Iranian election?

Technically, yes, because in the most astounding statement I have heard from a U.S. President in the last 20 years, Mr. Obama said last month it was perfectly fine for Iran to develop its feared nuclear capacity as long as its awesome strike force is put to peaceful uses.

That is why you build bombs, isn’t it?

Smart Guy Is On Our Side, Isn’t He?

Being a smart guy who often draws on his numerous community organizing skills to reason through a morass, Mr. Obama deduced that despite its daily braying about destroying Jews and others, Iran is just kidding.

Speaking as a fearless left winger, Mr. Obama says Ahmadinejad is as toothless as Judge Sonia, that the dwarf is powerless, that all authority rests in the ayatollahs.

That reminds me, Murgatroyd.

I told the gangbanger who knocked on my door at midnight last night that it was perfectly all right for him to enter our house and roam around — but with one Obama-style caveat:

He was welcome to visit as long as he did not pull the trigger on the machine guns he cradled under each tattooed arm. “

“Sure, buddy,” grinned the bewhiskered gangbanger, flashing his 9 remaining tobacco-stained teeth.

No Need to Call Al Gore

Between us girls, there are few distinctions between the Persian referendum and, say, voting in the Soviet Union, Chicago elections or rassling matches at the late Olympic Auditorium.

Realistically, Mr. Obama’s response and the election itself probably are not worth more of your time than it takes to wash your hands.

But since Mr.Obama, through his Islamically inspired generous attitude toward his fellow Muslims in Iran, has deigned Ahmadinejad a sincere seeker of world peace, we better keep one eye on each self-anointed messiah-in-training.

The dirty but naturally not widely disseminated, secret of Iran’s election is that the presidential race does not even  come close to pitting Good  vs. Bad. Both fanatics have spent their repressive careers trolling Persian gutters, spitting and killing as they went. 

The smartest analysts  have concluded that the  West will be no better or worse off with either thug.

A Dastardly Reminder

Mousavi is long forgotten because he has been out of town the last 20 years. He was not always so benign. He was prime minister of Iran during the eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s. After the war, one of those drug-sniffing ayatollahs said he had decided to abolish either Mousavi or his job. “Take yer job and shove it,” Mousavi reportedly said, and lived to tell about it.

During a recent televised candidate debate, we are told, just as old man Mousavi was presenting himself as the sparkling clean alternative to the smiling dwarf, the smiling dwarf looked into his Mir, then dipped into his little Islamic pocketbook and pulled out a nugget.

Ahmadinejad reminded Mousavi, his most serious threat to a second four-year term, that during Mousavi’s tenure as prime minister, he, too, threatened to bomb Israel and Jews everywhere into the next world.

Darn, said Mousavi.

The next move is Mr. Obama’s.  What will  he seek when he looks into Mir?