Did anyone watch The Daily Show last night? Jason Jones did a segment about how much Iranian's know about American politics and how little American's know about, well, politics. (And Leno showed, some years ago, that something like 8 out of 10 American's couldn't point to Ohio, let alone Iraq, but I digress.)

Drudge has his panties in a twist because he doesn't seem to understand the political leadership hierarchy in Iran. Most conservatives don't seem to either. Of course they are going to be upset. Obama is STILL president. Oh, and he's still breathing. They hate that.

Correction, sorry:

...something like 8 out of 10 American's couldn't point to Ohio on a map, let alone Iraq...

You ever get the impression that the media has been reduced to an advertising agency trying to figure out a way to market cow chips?

http://worldfocus.org

there's a video to watch about missiles and bombs that are still exploding in Vietnam -- rusty, yet, still explosive.

In the video you will see the kids affected by Agent Orange - crippled...

And this is what the GOP advocates?

Whatever Obama does is wrong. If he makes overtures to Iran, then he is wrong. If he doesn't tell Iran how to run their country, he is wrong. At this point, I think that if Obama went crazy and decided to bomb Iran, the Republicans would still say he's wrong, even though that seems to be what they want. They are the party stuck in temper tantrum mode.

I've often thought that the right's excitable, whimsical, and totally unreasonable attitude towards Iran comes from that sick at the pit of the stomach feeling one gets, when one realises how badly one has screwed up.

After 9/11, Iran extended an offer of help to us (in well understood self-interest, but, still...). We responded by telling them to take a flying leap. Which, of course, they did -- straight into intensified uranium enhancement. To which, naturally, our only option was to respond with even harsher propaganda -- McCain's "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" comes to mind as a sort of "bumper sticker policy" we adopted.

It reminded me of an old Jules Verne novel, where one city built an ever bigger cannon and another an ever thicker wall; there seemed to be no other solution. Obama is trying to break that vicious circle of act/react and, for all the right knows, might be successful. It has to be a hateful proposition to the right. So, they flail, to cove up for that "we know we screwed up, but won't admit it" feeling...

I suspect the right will continue to be excited about this; I'm just not sure why.

Oh, c'mon now. You know why.

I find it amazing that it is now totally cool to undermine the President in foreign relations, and to subtly imply he is little more than a stooge for the Republican/Neocon Enemy of the Day (before it was bowing to the Saudi king, etc.).

From 2001 to January 2009, even daring to question how Bush was carrying out his foreign policy in public caused the entire media and Republican establishment to simultaneously reach for the smelling salts. Remember when Pelosi took a trip overseas? She was a rogue Congressperson TRYING TO STEAL THE PRESIDENT'S JOB. How DARE SHE IMPEDE ON THE PRESIDENT'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!

Amazing. Fucking amazing.

I suspect the right will continue to be excited about this; I'm just not sure why.

How about......For the same reason the dog licks his balls, because he can.

Here's my last 2 cents on this issue.

"History will be repeated," if the GOP has their way.

Lil Kim have nukes pointed towards the U.S. right now - 2 journalist in custody.

GOP is quite mum on this

The GOP is focused on Iran, not N. Korea?

Isn't this what happened with 9/11? We went into Afghanistan, then Iraq, now back to Afghanistan.

The GOP should be made to answer why they are committing the same blunders.

Faux News, CNN should be ashamed of themselves for helping spread this rhetoric!

"...I suspect the right will continue to be excited about this; I'm just not sure why."

Sure you are. We all know why. This group want Obama to fail and will demean him in every way possible. They walk around throwing fits every day because they are not in power.

How much did they ever say about the worst, most corrupt Administration ever.

Oh please. It's simple behavioral conditioning.

Step 1: call attention to Obama doing something or not doing something. The exact nature of the action / inaction is almost vanishingly unimportant, as is any but the most tenuous connection to fact.

Step 2: shriek wildly about how said action / inaction is wrong and Other (e.g., un-American, socialist, Fascist, Islamic, voodoo), and therefore by extension so is Obama and everyone who supports him. More and louder shrieking is better; there are no countervailing influences.

Repeat every day, using the previous day's issue or a new one (it doesn't matter).

Result: over a period of time, a certain portion of the population is fully conditioned to think of Obama as wrong and Other.

Simple. Like their audience.

It's really rather simple. As a previous poster noted, whatever Obama does will be wrong. No matter what, on any issue.

The republicans are on a precipice; if Obama'sagenda is successful, they are toast and they know it. Therefore, they are gambling everything they have on total opposition. We see this in Iran.

The truth is that republicans are doing everything they can to thwart Obama's initiatives, which enjoy strong support by the majority of Americans.

Isn't it great that we have an opposition party that would rather see our country fail than succeed, based solely on their ideology?

I know I'm speaking to the choir here, but it feels good to say it!

I suspect the right will continue to be excited about this; I'm just not sure why.

As happens so frequently, I think Fred Clark at Slacktivist has figured it out.

I suspect the right will continue to be excited about this; I'm just not sure why.

It is what the "ready, fire, aim" right does. It is built into their DNA.

You're absolutely right, ex libra. The republicans won't acknowlege the cooperation and offers of assistance they received from Iran after 9/11. GWB decided to piss all over them and add them to his axis of evil. Dumb, dumb, dumb. As one who taught high school social studies for over 30 years, I can say that most Americans don't know as much as they should about U.S. and world history, and they pass along to their kids the idea that history is not an important subject. This attitudes is especially pervasive here in the South.

I meant attitude.