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| IranÂ’s Ahmadinejad ridicules expense of US vote |
| 2012-11-09 |
| BALI: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ridiculed the expense of the US election, mocking it as a ”battleground for capitalists” while speaking at a democracy forum. Ahmadinejad’s own government has been criticized for human rights abuses and sanctioned for pursuing a nuclear program many suspect is aimed at obtaining weapons. A day after Americans re-elected President Barack Obama, the Iranian president told the forum in Indonesia that democracy has become a system where the minority rules over the majority. ”Just take a look at the situation in Europe and the US,” Ahmadinejad said as the forum opened Thursday on the resort island of Bali. An ”election, which is one of the manifestations of the people’s will, has become a battleground for the capitalists and an excuse for hasty spending.” Spending on the 2012 US presidential campaign was the highest ever, soaring beyond $2 billion as independent fundraising groups financed advertising to promote their favored candidates. Ahmadinejad’s criticism contrasted with other gathered leaders’ calls for more democracy and freedoms for citizens around the world. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 "say it ain't so" The Romney Campaign was a Consultant Con Job |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-11-09 21:40 |
| #6 Doesn't take an idiot to work that out and takes an EVEN BIGGER IDIOT to announce it on a news channel as if it were first to conceive the notion. So GG there, I think your dictator is a big idiot. |
| Posted by: Cretinous Humongous 2012-11-09 14:36 |
| #5 GG, you purile little troll, I do agree with NutJob on this, and a rare few other points. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2012-11-09 10:28 |
| #4 ..actually it was auctioned off during the year of the four emperors, but the empire would still ascend with Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, Constantine I. We're pretty much in Gracchi brothers period undermining the old constitution, awaiting our Marius, Sulla, Pompey and Caesars. They played factions (the tribes of Rome) against each other, we have our players using class and race (our tribes) to the same ends. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-11-09 10:02 |
| #3 I can't believe it! Am I going crazy? AM I about to convert to Islam? Geez, I agree with the little nutjob. He's absolutely right, the Presidency is now being sold to the highest bidder...just like Rome during the decline. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2012-11-09 09:14 |
| #2 Can't fight sound bites GG. But you know that. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2012-11-09 04:25 |
| #1 Who is going to be first to defend the US system, and congratulate the president on being the people's choice once more? Or do we agree with Ahmadinejad? |
| Posted by: Glomoting Ghibelline9643 2012-11-09 03:13 |