How Iran Sees the US Primaries (Oo ba ma translates as "He's with us.")

Time Magazine ^ | April 21, 2008 | Scott MacLeod in Tehran

[2ndDivisionVet]

From President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's office and the sitting rooms of high-ranking mullahs to university campuses and the Farsi-language blogosphere, Iranians are following the American presidential race more avidly than ever before. That's partly because they're eager for the exit of President Bush, who branded Iran part of an "Axis of Evil" and implicitly raised the possibility of a military strike against the country over its alleged nuclear weapons program. But the Iranians' interest is also driven by a sense among many Iranians that the candidacy of Barack Obama offers real hope for repairing the U.S.-Iranian relationship. Commenting on the Iranian preference for a Democrat in the White House, Sergei Barseghian, a columnist for the reformist Etemad Meli newspaper noted that in Farsi, the words Oo ba ma would translate as "He's with us."

Senator Obama would be the first to disagree with that, of course, but the sympathy his candidacy has aroused among many Iranians stems from a variety of factors, including his African heritage, his partly Muslim family ties, and a belief that Obama would move to end Washington's 30-year Cold War with Tehran — or at least reduce the prospect of a U.S. military attack on the Islamic Republic. "I think people want him to win," Shi'ite cleric Mehdi Karroubi, the reformist former parliament speaker defeated by Ahmadinejad in Iran's 2005 presidential contest, told TIME.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What more needs to be said?

[Maurice Tift]

Jimmy Carter can't do it alone. Obama offers hope to the despots, dictators and terrorists of the world. For too long, Jimmy Carter has shouldered the burden. It's time for change. Obama can do it! Yes he can!

Jimmy Carter

Barack Obama

[Free ThinkerNY]

Looks like Obama’s got the Islamic-Nazi vote all locked up.

[george76]

Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent

[dayglored]

> Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent

Now, tell me, Obama, can you do the same with any section of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer? or from the Latin Mass (or English for that matter)? Can you recite anything from the Torah?

How's your memory of the Nicene Creed? Can you rip out a few lines of that off the top of your head?

I didn't think so...

[kromike]

This further translates into a President (gag, I hate thinking that) Hussein who will embolden the Iranians to literally get away with murder.

And yet, he'll yak yak yak yak yak about "hope", "change" while Israel burns.

This schmuck must not be our next President.

[dayglored]

> This schmuck must not be our next President.

Okay, your choices are:

1. Hillary
2. McLame
3. NoneOfTheAbove

I'm ready to ask about Door Number Four... ugh.

[2ndDivisionVet]

PING!!

[Kakaze]

"Obama is a man of engagement, a man of negotiations," Amir Mohebbian, an analyst close to Iranian conservative politicians, argues that "the mentality of Iranian decision makers is ready for that." He adds: "I think that the coming of Obama — maybe, maybe — helps to solve this problem, but it needs bravery, from both sides."

Interesting way to phase it...The comming of Obama

[PghBaldy]

his African heritage, his partly Muslim family ties Soeone should tell Time that Obama has only a "partly" African heritage, if they're going to quantify the Muslim thing.

[llandres]

you betcha. And barf to the line in this article that Iranians see, with BHO, “real hope of repairing Iranian-American relations”. Such BS - the only thing representing “repair” to Ahmedinejad and the mullahs would be for us to roll over and look the other way while they barrel down their single-minded path to engineer the annihilation of first) any of our allies over there, and second) us over here. Their technology is cranking away at full-speed AND they have the audacity to thumb their noses at the rest of world by publicly bragging about it. There’s your “audacity”, BHO.

[llandres]

Why can’t we orchestrate a friggin’ coup or revolution to get this nut out of the picture? At least it would be for a GOOD cause, unlike the one JC engineered in ‘79 to oust our ally the Shah, starting the whole nightmare we’re faced with today.

[llandres]

This alone should be reason enough for anyone with half a brain NOT to vote for BHO. When will people (at all economic and intellectual levels) GET IT that radical, jihadist Islamists publicly stating over and over their sole intent to eliminate all others (us) cannot be reasoned with, sweet-talked or bribed to believe differently. If the left doesn’t wake up to this unchangeable fact, there will be no more politics for them to fight about, because there will be no more U.S.A., at least not as we know it.

[kromike]

Hey, I’m no fan of McCain. Regrettably, he appears so far to be the Best of the Worst.

[llandres]

And don’t forget the Apostles’ Creed (the one we say each Sunday in my church).

[llandres]

Again I say, our mission for November is to first drain the swamp (of the immediate traitorous threat), then we can fight the alligators (of all the other issues, political/legislative, judicial, etc.)

[llandres]

and “partly Muslim”, especially to these nuts?? Kinda like being “a little bit pregnant”. God help us.

[dayglored]

> And don’t forget the Apostles’ Creed (the one we say each Sunday in my church).

The Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed are very similar, and contain many of the same phrases. I'm not a Biblical scholar, so I can't tell you the comparative histories of them, but there's interesting reading on Wikipedia:

Apostles' Creed

Nicene Creed

[When do we get liberated?]

Isn’t that the one that starts with “God Damn Amerikkka...”
Yes, he knows that one by heart