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It's on the White House Youtube channel and the Whitehouse Facebook page.
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Sorry, I'd like to watch it, but I've reached the same point with Obama that I reached with Bush in 2006: His image and voice makes me want take a hammer to whatever device they are playing on and then barf on the broken pieces.
After a few years of being subject to a high ranking politician's non-stop verbal diarrhea I just reach a bullshit saturation level where the very sound of their voice instantly gives me a migraine and makes me feel nauseated.
I made it to about 1:20 where Obama is trying to tell us it's not right that we be financially enslaved via interest on debt after he has spent the last 6 years working hard tripling the National Debt and enacting legislation and OE's to ensure just that while simultaneously stripping us of the last few rights and freedoms we had left.
I reached that point with Hillary back in 1998, so the next year and a half of double dose dog-shit is going to be really rough I can tell.
God forbid Jeb Bush is serious about running for POTUS, I don't know if I can survive a protracted triple onslaught of Bush, Clinton and Obama, I may have to change my browser user agent ID to that of some non-English speaking third World country...
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That's hilarious Barry!!!
Actually they don't need much training though. Having spent time in Iran (and elsewhere in the Levant/Mid-East 10-20 odd years ago and currently knowing some Iranian ex-pats who visit "home" on a regular basis I would note these things:
Most Iranians are Persians first and foremost and are Muslim more out of necessity than a genuine love for Islam
Only about 25-30% of them are devout Muslims, but they are very vocal and have the power of the Clerics behind them.
The other 70-75% may pretend to be devout in public but in private they range from somewhere between "Islam is OK I guess" to "I fucking hate it".
Women are less inclined to enjoy Islam than men for obvious reasons and are beginning to say so to varying degrees in large numbers
Most all women hate the Hijab (except when it's convenient), want to openly wear makeup and fashionable clothes, drive cars and not have to be escorted everywhere (except when it's convenient). A small number agree less and a very small number completely disagree.
Most of the un-married men like the Hijab, want their women to wear makeup and fashionable clothes in private but want them to wear traditional clothes in public, think women shouldn't drive (except when it would be more convenient if they did) and think women should be escorted everywhere (except when it would be more convenient not to have to escort them).
However, many of the un-married men agree with the women to varying degrees.
A smaller number of the un-married (mostly middle aged or older) men completely disagree with what the women want.
Of the married men, a majority agree with the women to varying degrees, while a lesser number disagree to varying degrees and a very small number completely disagree.
Most young single men think Islam is good. Until they get married and their wife insists they like it much less if they want her to do anything in bed except lie there motionless and stare at the ceiling.
Most old people secretly despise the Islamic Revolution. Except for those few who were fighting for it...
A) 30% of the people hate Israel, the USA and most all things Western except for military arms and equipment.
B) 20% of the people hate Israel, wish the USA was not an Israeli puppet, and much like most of the things produced by the West but are publicly PC and pretend to dislike the USA and Western products
C) 20% of the people hate Israel, like the USA, and really, really like most of the things produced by the West, but are publicly PC and pretend to dislike the USA and Western products.
D)15% of the people could give a fuck about Israel, love the USA, love all things of the West, don't much like Islam but are publicly PC and pretend to not really like Israel, the USA and Western products while Islam is OK.
E) 15% of the people could give a fuck about Israel, love the USA, love all things of the West, despise Islam and don't much pretend otherwise
Ahmadinejad is a member of group D and would love to move to California, or move California to Iran if the Clerics weren't holding his family members hostage. Like all foreign leaders he considers Obama an idiot and wishes they could trade places.
That makes two of us...
Iranians and Americans are much alike at the core: Most don't like their government to varying degrees, but enable it anyway and the remainder who are split between the few who love and completely support their government and the slightly more few who despise their government and are completely opposed to it.
See, trading presidents just might make the majority of both countries happier. LOL!
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This is an excellent bit of research tying Dick Cheney to support of the Iranian government. Well worth a watch!
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