Okay, this is going to be easy to understand. Mahmoud Adinijad (spelled wrong? who cares. We'll call him "president Tom" as labeled by others), the leader of Iran is coming to America on September 24th.He would like to go to Ground Zero and announced that he plans to do so, even though the NYPD refused him a tour.
Jimmy Carter is in the news today saying that Iran presents no present threat to Israel.
Columbia University has invited President Tom to speak when he comes.
NOW FOR THE COMMON SENSE:
President Tom is a nazi. He hates Israel and wants to wipe it out. He hates America and wants us dead too for we are "zionist infidels."
He should not go to Ground Zero. IN fact, we shouldn't allow him in the country unless we detain him in Guantanamo when he gets out. He is Hitler all over again. Should Hitler be running around spreading his hate for Jews?
Jimmy Carter, like when he was president, has no idea which way the wind blows. Ignore him.
Columbia University, like most Ivy League schools these days, is more marxist than American and can't understand why inviting President Tom to be their guest is an insult even to themselves. Ignore them too.
Thus endeth the lesson.
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President Tom looks like a Howdy Doodie type puppet to me. But where are the strings? I just wanna pick the lil' guy up, put him on my knee and have a talk about his behavior. Why does anyone give Carter any credibility at all? I mean, he does the whole habitat for humanity thing...maybe that adds character?
that's disgusting.
i'm pretty sure you left out some syllables in his name. but whatever. :-D
Andy, how about because he is a former President of the United States and a Nobel Prize Winner.
As for Pres Tom, I say let him go where he wants, talk were anyone will have him. Listening to him doesn't mean you agree with him.
Let his ideas be spoken and challenged in the full light of day. It's good for Democracy.
FYI, President Carten may not have had a successful presidency, but it was mostly because he was a man of tremendous character. Sadly, that doesn't work well in Politics, American or otherwise.
Oh, and please explain what is Marxist about letting the Iranian President speak?
Oh, and on an unrelatied note, these blog colors hurt my aging eyes.
BTW, that dog is adorable. Is that yours?
hi nick! how's the fantasy league going this year? I'm missing the competition, but since I'm 2-0 in a local league that cost me almost nothing, maybe the change has been good for my fortunes!
Forgive my unproven assertion regarding the Marxist state of ivy league institutions. It is just an axiomatic assumption of mine, not something cuased by inviting Prez Tom (except perhaps that birds of a feather flock together).
I am not questioning your point about the school having Marxist views (I don't know enough about Columbia to challenge you on that), I just wondered what letting a particular person speak makes you a Marxist.
The fantsay league is boring this year. We need the "Fats" back. No one talks smack.
yes! That's our doggy max. isn't he cute? :-)
wait! you don't even like dogs! :-P
-Mandy G
no. not my dog. I can't get them to pose.
well, I'll have to come back next year, if the schedules fall into place. this year I'm the "Amish Avengers." Nice to have a new moniker to play with.
Not that dog, Mandy. the little beagle in the picture who is winking.
ohhhh. ;)
This doesn't sound Marxist.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185071558/bctid1203019909
Now here is a lack of common sense. US Lawmakers threatening Columbia for allowing President Tom to speak. This is the real problem.
“[Columbia President Lee] Bollinger made a big mistake, and there should be consequences for him for making that decision,” the chairman of the New York City Council’s Finance Committee, David Weprin, said in an interview. “We should look at everything involving Columbia, whether it be capital projects, city and state, or other related things that we do in the city for them,” he said. […]
“It’s not going to go away just because this episode ends. Columbia University has to know … that they will be penalized,” an assemblyman of Brooklyn, Dov Hikind, who also attended the rally, said.
my thoughts on the speech.
without question, this was a foolish thing to do. The only one who could gain? President Tom himself as he uses this to spin things back home.
Secondly, I think the president of Columbia is not only foolish, but he is rude. Either president Tom is your guest or he is not. If you invite someone to your facility and then, before he speaks, insult him, you are saying more about yourself than about your opponent. He played right into President Tom's hands. President Tom looked polite, and the Columbia president looked rude.
President Tom refused to answer questions directly and ran rings around his questioner.
The crowd often cheered president Tom's. What a disgrace.
The post-modern academic mind is so porous it has no moral compass and no ability to discern good from evil. Columbia was used as a tool, nothing more.
I heard one bright young student waxing happily about how her university president really told him (as if those comments will be remembered or make the cut in Iran where it matters). Then she pointed out how great it was that there was such dialogue for by doing this we can work things out with people like President Tom with diplomacy. Oh my. she will no doubt be a political activist who is certain she is fighting for the right. Pres Tom is a snake in a room full of mice, of which she was one. He knows what he wants and will not move.
He hates Israel and Jews and America. He has pledged to bring in the 12th Imam by bringing chaos, and he knows that speaking at Columbia is to his benefit, not his enemies.
The president of Columbia did denounce him, but he should have done so from a distance. He only did this to save face.
This is the same guy who wouldn't allow conservative voices like the minute man rep on his campus to speak because he couldn't control the liberal students who riot when he shows up. This is the guy who will not allow the ROTC on campus because he doesn't like the don't ask don't tell policy. And yet, he brings a guy on who kills gays and denies they exist.
Columbia, and Ivy league school, at the end of the day, only served to add credibility to president Tom, and make themselves looks really foolish.
as for legislators and the Columbia president, these guys never seem to be as worried about getting things done as they do about scoring points. They're all falling all over themselves to get on the "right side" of this issue in a public way. Is everything a campaign issue? For goodness sake, the public will make up their minds about what they think about Columbia and their actions. We don't need another law, do we?
Here's something interesting. See how the Arab news is covering the visit to Columbia U, as well as the American visit on the whole.
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0709252616013529.htm
To any who are reading this, remember that blogging gives you insight into views of Iran that are more "eye-witness" and on the ground. I keep a link at the bottom of this page to Iranian blogs.
Well, we seem headed toward a disagreement again.
I will just remind you that while Pres Tom is a snake, he is also the President of Iran. Allowing him to speak is, among other things, a show of respect to the Iranian people.
I don't like President Bush at all, but I recongnize he still represents this country when he is abroad, or speaks at the UN.
The bottom line for me is this. The open exchange of ideas, however uncomfortable those ideas are, is a good thing.
Columbia, in my opinion, made a great choice for its faculty, students and community. The long term effects, if any, will be positive.
Columbia did not need to add to the conversation. In fact, president tom said the same things at the press club briefing that happened just before --as I watched on c-span. And, he said nothing new, and answered no questions he didn't want to. On top of that, he lied throughout.
but no new information was gleaned.
Columbia is a private university and may do as it pleases. But they did nothing to further the communication nor the progress of our dealings with Iran.
So, in a shocking development, we don't agree.
We still need the "Fat's" back.
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