Ahmadinejad Is Declared Winner – Arrests Rival Mousavi; UPDATE: Protests Still Ongoing in Iran (50-100 People Dead)
No surprise at all – Ahmadinejad (Immajihad) has been declared the winner of this year’s election in Iran. ACORN and the black panthers made their way to Iran to extend polling hours so dead people, non-citizens, Disney characters, and others could vote more than once. As much as Iran likes to tout the fact that it has a democratic election, it is more like North Korea’s election process where Kim Jong Il receives 150% of the vote.
The most alarming aspect of this win however, is today’s report that Mousavi, Ahmadinejad’s opponent, has been arrested. Obama and Ahmadinejad seems to have something in common; they both don’t like dissent.
Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was reportedly arrested Saturday following the reformist’s defeat at the polls by hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Supporters of Mousavi, the main challenger to Ahmadinejad, responded to the election with the most serious unrest in Tehran in a decade and charged that the result was the work of a dictatorship.
Mousavi’s arrest was reported by an unofficial source, according to whom the presidential hopeful was arrested en route to the home of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Nevertheless, there were a number of contradictory reports from Iran on Saturday, in large part due to the heavy restrictions imposed on the media in the Islamic Republic, in particular on foreign reporters.
This is one of the reasons Iran must be watched closely. We cannot continue to pander to volatile regimes or their dictators. Nobody knows if Mousavi would have been a better choice, and Obama cannot claim victory with his Cairo speech either. I hope that this pseudo election curtails some of the naivete of the current administration, but I fear that would just be wishful thinking.
UPDATE:
The protests are still continuing after the arrest of Mousavi and it has been estimated that somewhere between 50-100 people are dead so far.
Europe Turns In “Right” Direction… Meanwhile, U.S. Goes Left
Many people have estimated the Europe is a few years ahead of the United States, when it comes to policies, economics, spending, and overall national health. The major backlash against left leaning political parties is being felt far and wide. Universal Health care and other socialist policies that cost billions, if not trillions, in tax payer money, have almost bankrupted many of these European nations.
If only Americans didn’t become so lazy, complacent, and gullible over the last few years, and especially during last year’s election – maybe they could have seen this train wreck coming, and rather than getting caught up in the “I hate Bush” sentiment, they could have used their heads a little more. The campaign against the Right was incredibly effective last year, and the media, by only vetting and maligning one candidate, Sarah Palin, did their job at helping elect the Manchurian candidate, currently in office.
Several co-workers of mine are scratching their heads as I type this, wondering how they were duped by Obama and the media? My job is in the biodefense industry and many here thought that the funds for our programs would be safe; that’s a big LOL! Democrats are known for cutting defense budgets over entitlement programs, and Obama is no different. He is currently lobbying to get all the funds allocated for Project Bioshield (a program that would protect us from bioterrorism, i.e., Anthrax) redistributed to the Swine Flu pandemic. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that the regular Flu has had more deaths worldwide than the Swine Flu…
Politics in America, as in the rest of the world, are cyclical and it’s quite disingenuous for the Democrats to boast and be sore winners, believing that the Right is through. That’s not the case as evidenced by the sweeping and decisive victory by right-leaning/conservative parties in Europe. It is true that Europe will never be as conservative as America, but it’s still very telling of the failure socialism as wrought on their society. I will await the day that we can have a Reagan/Thatcher coalition with Britain… 
Conservatives raced toward victory in some of Europe’s largest economies Sunday as initial results and exit polls showed voters punishing left-leaning parties in European parliament elections in France, Germany and elsewhere.
Some right-leaning parties said the results vindicated their reluctance to spend more on company bailouts and fiscal stimulus amid the global economic crisis.
First projections by the European Union showed center-right parties would have the most seats—between 263 and 273—in the 736-member parliament. Center-left parties were expected to get between 155 to 165 seats.
Right-leaning governments were ahead of the opposition in Germany, France, Italy and Belgium, while conservative opposition parties were leading in Britain and Spain.
Greece was the exception, where the governing conservatives were headed for defeat in the wake of corruption scandals and economic woes.
Germany’s Social Democrats headed to their worst showing in a nationwide election since World War II. Four months before Germany holds its own national election, the outcome boosted conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hopes of ending the tense left-right “grand coalition” that has led the European Union’s most populous nation since 2005.
“We are the force that is acting level-headedly and correctly in this financial and economic crisis,” said Volker Kauder, the leader of Merkel’s party in the German parliament.
France’s Interior Ministry said partial results showed the governing conservatives in the lead, with the Socialists in a distant second and the Europe Ecologie environmentalist party a close third.
French Socialists said their defeat signaled a need to rethink left-wing policies if they are to have any hope of unseating President Nicolas Sarkozy.
I just hope that the GOP takes a hint from the current atmosphere in Europe and realizes that in order to win elections they need to get away from the elitist beltway and start catering to REAL AMERICA and the outside middle class. Their current snub of Sarah Palin indicates to me, that they have a very long way to go!
I feel some real CHANGE in the air and it’s time to flip things in 2010!
