I think it is clear, after yesterday, that he is not very smart and not very articulate, and an abysmal debater. He has been living in a challenge-free, criticism-free bubble, and yesterday it burst. I agree with you that Iran, under its current masters, has the potential to do great harm. But I would remind everyone that Ahmadinejad himself is little more than a sock puppet, and not a very presentable one, for the Imams who actually run Iran, who have the evil intentions, and who control Iran’s nukes. Ahmadinejad’s intentions are evil, too, but I seriously doubt, on his own, he could be effectively evil, given this demonstration. If this is the best Iran has to offer, it should be ashamed. I think the Imams made a huge miscalculation in allowing him to leave the country and go public. As an advocate for his regime’s positions and goals, he was a complete failure. The Emperor not only has no clothes, he has no decent talking points.
“I think it is clear, after yesterday, that he is not very smart and not very articulate, and an abysmal debater. He has been living in a challenge-free, criticism-free bubble, and yesterday it burst.”
This is EXACTLY why, unlike 99% of the country, I wanted him to speak at Columbia. Of course he’d come off like a complete effin’ moron. Of course that bubble would burst. If anything, we should welcome idiots like him to speak here just so we can rip him a new one and show him what a real open society is like. You know, where we can challenge politicians without getting our families disappeared or our balls cut off.