I don't know if anyone will read this, but if you do, I am selling t-shirts to raise money for amnesty. They can be found at www.everthustodeadbeats.etsy.com
They picture ahmadinejad with a caption of 'demockracy'. I will donate 50% of any profit to amnesty international, or perhaps a more specific charity if someone can point me in that direction. I would donate more but I have to miss work to make the shirts and like most on here I'm pretty close to hand to mouth living. Anyways, peace.
It's fairly common knowledge that the position of President in Iran holds very little actual power. Back when moderate reformer Mohammad Khatami held the presidency, we were regularly reminded that he was pretty much of a figurehead with no real power. Now that the confrontational and controversial Ahmadinejad holds the office, we don't hear so much about how the president is not really the top dog. Obviously he makes a convenient boogie man for the right. Why spoil the scariness value. So it's no mystery why the neocon McCain would play this political game. But surely he's not so clueless as to be unaware that the real power in Iran is held by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the cabal of clerics known as the Council of Guardians. After all, McCain is the security expert! Hillary Clinton has assured us that he has passed the Commander in Chief "threshhold"! Could McCain really be that clueless about the leadership of the country he claims is the biggest threat we face? You decide:
Rick Perlstein has a great piece on a time when America had character, when our leaders didn't dissolve into puddles of weakness but embraced openness as a trait of strength. He writes of the visit of Nikita Khrushchev to the US. Khruschev hadn't threatened to wipe Israel off the map, but had threatened to wipe the US off the map, and had the weapons to do it.
