A Joe Biden Mailer Targeting Iowa Voters Uses Sinister Image Of Iran

Huffington Post ^ | 1/21/20 | Daniel Marans

[Libloather]

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is using stark imagery in an Iowa mailer that appears to pitch him as a bulwark against the Iranian government, including Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, with whom former President Barack Obama negotiated the Iran nuclear agreement.

HuffPost obtained a four-page piece of campaign literature that the Biden campaign sent to voters in Des Moines.

The mailer’s front features a dark, red-hued drawing of an Iranian tank in the foreground. A soldier standing atop the tank is saluting a row of Iranian military officials led by President Rouhani. A framed photo of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, is in the background alongside them.

“We live in the most dangerous moment in a generation,” the mailer says in bold white font at the bottom. “Who is ready to lead us?”

**SNIP**

The campaign’s inclusion of Rouhani - a political moderate in the Iranian context, especially given his role in the historic U.S.-Iran nuclear deal in 2015 - is especially puzzling. Biden is fond of touting the role he played in Obama’s negotiation of the accord with Iran and has vowed, as recently as last week’s Democratic debate in Des Moines, that he would reinstate it if elected president.

[Libloather]

It suggests that Iran - rather than, say, the so-called Islamic State, Russia, or China - represents the greatest threat to the U.S. And it frames the relationship between the two countries as fundamentally belligerent.

Hussein is no longer on speed dial?

[samtheman]

Maybe he’s angling to be picked as Trump’s VP.

[ETCM]

You know it’s bad if it doesn’t play well to the commies at huffpo. Of course, they probably want Bernie or Fauxcahontas...

[Libloather]

Gropin’ Joe would’ve blown up Soleimani? With Hussein in charge, he could’ve been his BFF.

[KC_Conspirator]

Reality would be suggesting him kissing the arses of mullahs while handing them bales of American taxpayer cash.

[workerbee]

an Iowa mailer that appears to pitch [Joe Biden] as a bulwark against the Iranian government,

Bulwark? Or bullshiiter? You be the judge.