White House Provides Persian/Arabic Translations of President’s Remarks on Iran

Lou . . .
Extremist religious leaders are not known for their unbiased views.

jhw539,
Please pay attention to words vs. actions. The White House has made it clear that the 4th of July invites are still extended to the Iranian Ambasadors.

“(Dear censor, this refers to the fact that Arabic and Farsi translators ARE in FACT thrown out of our government regularly for the “crime” of being gay, and Obama has done nothing to stop this practice in spite of campaign promises to be a “fierce advocate” of the gay population. Please educate yourself before hitting your delete button)”
I would like to say I am heartened by such devotion to LGBT rights but I detect an overt insincerity in this statement.

“I would like to say I am heartened by such devotion to LGBT rights but I detect an overt insincerity in this statement. ”
I’m gay, but thanks for your unwarranted cyncism and paranoia…it keeps things interesting.

“Yes how dare I doubt the sincerity (or sanity) of someone who claims there is a massive conspiracy to hide photos of Obama smoking.”
And how dare anyone doubt the judgement and honesty of anyone who says otherwise?
Are you familiar with FDR’s wheelchair, Mr. C?

“Are you familiar with FDR’s wheelchair, Mr. C?”
ROFLMAO!
You may not be aware but in the last 60 years there has been an explosion of two medium, television and the internet.
In fact, you’re using 1 of them right now.

Parallex_View . . . .
Unfortunately when Bush tried to ‘do something’ about rights abuses in Iraq, he killed tens of thousands of Iraqis including many civilians – AND – he brought about the deaths of thousands of American military personnel. Many thousands and thousands more were injured or maimed.
The deaths and maimings in Iraq continue today adding up to rates that far surpasses anything Hussein did.
Strange that previous Republican administration had been quite willing to cut arms deals with Hussein. It’s the morality of convenience.

“ROFLMAO!
You may not be aware but in the last 60 years there has been an explosion of two medium, television and the internet.
In fact, you’re using 1 of them right now. ”
Your point being what?
My point is that the media chose not to show him in his wheelchair…so it was never seen. That is about as directly analogous to Obama’s smoking as you can get. It’s not as if we’re even debating whether he smokes or not…he does.
So either Obama is just sneaky, as you said earlier, and so cunning and creepily secretive that he fiendishly hides in little dark places with his secret shame/current drug of choice as you theorize…or as I theorize, the media chooses not to show images of him smoking openly in normal places where others go to smoke because they want to boost his image.

paul . .. .
“they want to boost his image”
I very much doubt it.
Surely it’s possible President Obama’s rare cigarettes have been accomplished where the media can’t see or photograph him.
I find that far more believable than some kind of impenetrable conspiracy in which ALL media have conspired.
You really think FOX or the right wing media would agree to this?
I think President Obama smokes so rarely, and does it discreetly so that nobody captures and abuses that image.

I applaud the statement the president made today and the transmission of it in Farsi. But I admit to being a tad mystified as to why it was also translated into Arabic in particular. Why Arabic rather than, say, Pashto, Turkish, Turkmen, or Urdo, the languages of other neighbors of Iran? Maybe Hindi or French or Russian?
Iran is not an Arabic country. Its people do not speak Arabic and are not ethnically Arabic. There are long-standing rivalries between many Arabic countries and Iran dating back, literally, centuries. If the Arabic is provided as an outreach to Muslims, it should be noted that the largest Muslim countries in the world are not Arab, either. They are Asian– Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh. I don’t understand the emphasis on spreading this message to the Arab world, unless, like Bush before him, Obama has decided to champion democratic reforms in those countries and wants to suggest reformers in places like, say, Saudi Arabia or Syria follow the example of the people of Iran. But somehow I don’t think that’s what he’s doing.

paul . . ..
well you obviously have a personal political agenda to smear the President when you say things like ‘he fiendishly hides in dark places”.
The President has been quite open about his (rare) cigarettes. He is not proud of his smoking, but he openly admits it and how he wrestles with it.
He has stated he does not smoke in front of his children or his family and for good reason.
I think you’re playing the creep, for what you’re attempting to project onto the President.
Smearing is so transparent.

“ryan c ….Please cite your source for your 100,000 killed Iraqi civilians at the hands of the Bush Administration…”
100,000 is a conservative estimate of civilians killed during our invasion as the result of violent action.
Its close to what the Iraqi gov’t has claimed as well as Iraq Body Count.
It is lower than the UN estimate or the Lancet study.

“paul please tell me you sent money to Orly Taitz, correspondence school lawyer/dentist.”
No, it was even worse. I gave all my money to the local chapter of Acorn and when I went to ask for it back, there was a new sign on the door that said Community Organizers International, so I looked in the window and all I could see was some guy rolling on the floor and laughing….with a computer in front of him buried in broken pills and post-its with notes from Rules for Radicals stuck all over the sides.
It almost seemed shady.

The right wing posters on here are so shocked President Obama is actually attempting to deliver on most of his campaign promises – they have to refer back to something in his far gone days as a state senator and the much misinterpreted and misrepresented ‘present’.

SJ, I at least give you credit for commenting on the subject of this post, rather than following most of the others in bickering about unrelated nonsense. But I find your statement deeply offensive. Actually, many of the protesters did march in silence. And Neda, to take the most obvious example, was not doing anything menacing or dangerous, and was certainly not throwing rocks at police, when she was gunned down in the street. A moral leader of the free world (yes, I still think of the US President as the leader of the free world, so sue me) can not “stay out of it” in the way you suggest. I appreciate the president’s firm words of criticism for the actions of the Iranian leadership against the protesters who have every right to speak out about their grievances.

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