Posted on 01/13/2009 1:29:40 PM PST by GVnana
January 13, 2009
Iranian protesters burn Barack Obama pictures
Iranian demonstrators burned photographs of Barack Obama today as they protested against America’s inaction over Gaza.
Dozens of people gathered in Tehran waving Palestinian flags and defacing and setting fire to images of the President-elect.
Iranian demonstrators have often burned effigies or pictures of US presidents in the past but this appeared to be the first time Mr Obama’s picture had been defaced, a week before his inauguration as president.
The Iranian government has condemned the West, and the United States in particular, for not doing more to stop Israel’s attacks on Gaza. The 17-day-old offensive, which Israel says is to stop rockets being fired at it, “Where are the freedom seekers?” read one poster held up by a demonstrator today protest. It had the word “Gaza” emblazoned on it and an image of a weeping Palestinian.
The demonstrators, waving Palestinian flags, some chanting “Death to Obama”, had gathered outside the Swiss embassy which handles US interests because Tehran and Washington have not had diplomatic ties for nearly three decades.
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First time I agree with the Iranians on anything.
More proof of global warming...
....but but but as soon as the Obamessiah is elected......the whole world that hates us will suddenly love us again.......right?
Someone needs to post the picture of Nelson from the Simpson’s laughing....
So why not fight back.... oh that's right half of America fell for HIS crap
Can’t wait til The Messiah tries ‘negotiating’ with these monsters.
WHAT..No hope and change signs. They don’t like the messiah, oh oh, watch out Iranians CNN and MSNBC are coming after you
'These are not the Islamic Jihadists I've know over the last 20 years.'
They’re not attacking Obama. Obama hasn’t done anything yet. There’s nothing that Obama has done that would get them angry (other than their normal state of continuous anger).
They’re attacking the United States.
A little more of anti-Messiah stuff, and the Democrats will be leading the charge to bomb Iran’s nukes.
can’t wait to see how msgnbc, and cnnnn blame this on Cheney.
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Are you serious? Don't you realize it's Sarah Palin's lack of foreign relations experience that led to these Obama picture burnings?
How ignorant can you be?
=)
Go talk to them Bambi.
damn how could I have forgotten, or in the words of Caroline Kennedy-”I can see New Jersey from my house”
Soon to emulated here in America in a few years.
The Iranians are Shia Mulsims and Persians while Obama may be a Sunni Muslim and is Arab-African. Are Kenyans Shia or Sunni?
Iranians are NOT Arabs - they are Persians.
I remember many photos of derogatory signs and banners against Clinton, too. They hated Bill Clinton, George Bush, and now Obama. The idiots in this country (apparently about $53% of the population) have wrongly concluded that this hatred of America and our Presidents started in 2001. Now we will all pay dearly through wuss in the White House.
No no no.
Caroline Kennedy would say “You know...I can see, you know, NJ from my, you know, house... you know.”
‘First time I agree with the Iranians on anything.’
LOL! Gotta love ‘em....
So do the Texans I know.
Feel da love Barry, feel da love of da woild!
How sweet of the Iranians to give us our answer for global cooling.
Praise Allah!
‘I remember a time before Mullahs and crackpots when the Iranian people loved America. Then Jimmy Carter was elected and Khomeini and his buddies took over. Its been hell ever since.’
I have a friend who is from Iran. Both he and his American wife (who went to live in Tehran for a few years in the early 90’s) say that the Iranian people still love America. It’s those nasty Mullah’s and their idiot President who are continuing the rift between them and us.
Must have run out of Bush pictures to burn.
ping
Remember people around the globe laughing and dancing in the streets after the attack on 9-11? Many of those people didn't know, yet, who George W. Bush was.
It has always been the US that they hate---and try to get here if they can. Unfortuneately, I think many who come here still have the hatred for our country.
Of course, there are those who were born here who hate our country...most become actors.
Yep. And university profs.
But, then again... the Democrats have been doing this to us for about the same amount of time.
Thanks for the reminder—I forgot about those profs!
Ah, such a good feeling.
They’re attacking the United States.
Of course, but this isn't the point...the point is all the zero worshippers promised to "restore" good order and U.S. leadership and "our standing" in the world.
Of course the zeros will never see this reality because the drive-bys won't utter a peep about it, much less show anything on news tonight, or ever.
These dangerous mentally diseased idiots and their cult of idiocy pilgrims are going to get alot of innocent U.S. citizens killed.
Its the US they hate, not Obama. If McCain had won, they’d be burning his picture. I didn’t vote for Obama and I don’t like his policies at all, but I won’t cheer for a bunch of muzzie a-holes burning him in effigy. Come Jan. 20th he’ll be our president like it or not.
Exactly...it’s hard to believe that these shameless idiots like Shrillary and John Heinz-f’n Kerry say things like the zero will “restore our standing in the world”, knowing FULL WELL George W. Bush did precisely that...al-qaeda’s been severly disabled, the terrorist regime of Saddam and sons is gone and the WHOLE WORLD is better off for it.
Utter slime, beneath contempt.
We do that here, we’d be arrested.
So much for the First Amendment.
Or politicians
But —of course.
Same here, but WOW bet ya Obama isn’t happy!
‘Sad. Bush has been trying to foment revolution for years over there. Nothing seems to work. Incredible that a minority can control a big, historical and important place like Iran for 30 years.’
I once asked my Iranian friend how many people were in Iran. He answered, and I don’t remember the total, but it was in the multiple-millions. Then, I asked him how many people there supported the regime. He said about 500,000. So, I asked him how so few people could impose their will on so many. He said ‘because the half-million people have automatic weapons’. That seemed to sum up the situation there quite nicely.
That's easy, they won't even bother mentioning it.
This is all a misunderstanding. Obama will straighten it all out when he sits down to talk with Ahmadinejad.
Its going to be quite popular to burn effigies of Obama the apostate in the Me or anywhere on the planet Muslims gather.
Keith Olbermann: “Top story tonight, new pictures reveal that Cheney and Rove handed out exploding Obama pictures to innocent Iranian women and children”
Satire?
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