Video: No Iraqi students pulling for Obama this year, evidently
posted at 4:10 pm on March 24, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The latest in Kyra Phillips’s inane series in which she asks five or six Iraqis from some walk of life who they’re supporting for president and almost invariably gets the same answers: They want security and are understandably suspicious of four more years of Republican oversight, so most are leaning Democrat without any apparent grasp of how the American left plans to “solve” their problem. Are we fated at last to find a McCain supporter in one of these focus groups? Click the image to find out!
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The MSM giving the vote to non americans, that americans dont do.
William Amos on March 24, 2008 at 4:15 PM
This civil conversation about peaceful political change brought to your by REPUBLICAN GEORGE W. BUSH.
RobCon on March 24, 2008 at 4:17 PM
I guess Kyra Phillips had to travel to Iraq to get away from her control freak sister-law that she told us about.
RobCon on March 24, 2008 at 4:19 PM
A Republican President ordered the overthrow of their decades-long dictator. A Republican President stood his ground and insisted on them being free. The Republican Party lost too much political capital to count in order to make sure they don’t end up dead in ethnic cleansing. The only Presidential candidate willing to stand by and make sure they become secure, stabilized, and stay free is a Republican. A significant chunk of the U.S. Armed Forces are Republican.
Their response? Let’s vote Democrat in ‘08!
amerpundit on March 24, 2008 at 4:23 PM
I’m surprised she wasn’t conducting interviews in the restrooms.
Rick on March 24, 2008 at 4:24 PM
I felt the last part of the video was the most interesting. There were girls on their cell phone like American college students.
terryannonline on March 24, 2008 at 4:25 PM
*cries as CNN video streams do not contain closed captions…*
Vatican Watcher on March 24, 2008 at 4:27 PM
And yet on the same day, when the Olympic flame was lighted, we are reminded by the same wire services that a boycott of the games would be “meddling with China’s domestic affairs.”
Niko on March 24, 2008 at 4:28 PM
I found it interesting that the one student, sitting in a college classroom in Baghdad, having an open discussion of politics with an American woman can’t see where the Bush Administration has given them anything but bloodshed and war. The forest for the trees syndrome.
insideout on March 24, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Iraqi students are hot!
SpencerFan on March 24, 2008 at 4:31 PM
That’s right! With her panties ’round her ankles.
/tinkle tinkle
Akzed on March 24, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Freedom of speech and choice…its a beautiful thing…..
SoCalInfidel on March 24, 2008 at 4:33 PM
I wonder what was edited out of the piece……..
but that’s just me.
Seven Percent Solution on March 24, 2008 at 4:36 PM
No good deed goes unpunished.
Swinehound on March 24, 2008 at 4:37 PM
I’m voting Iraqi this year! WOOHOOO!!! That means about as much as how they’d vote.
robblefarian on March 24, 2008 at 4:40 PM
At 2:37 in the clip, you can hear Ziyad Ali Hussein also mention Clinton, but all we hear from dear Kyra and those card-carrying Rats at CNN is “I witnessed the period of Bush’s father and now his son…”
Funny how the MSM seems to lose so much of this stuff in translation.
Teddy on March 24, 2008 at 4:44 PM
I saw it again and you are right he is saying something about Bush and Clinton.
terryannonline on March 24, 2008 at 4:48 PM
I think it’s interesting that the media, and so many of the Iraqis they interview, speak of “unity” as prerequisite for democracy. It’s not; we don’t have unity here on many issues, and will likely not ever have it, but only the lunatic fringe would claim that we do not live in a democratic society. The only unity that is really required in a democracy is a common respect for the process, whatever the outcome of an election may be, and a commitment to refrain from violence when one’s wishes are not realized via the electoral process. Since the last national elections in Iraq, we have had little hard evidence to go on when trying to determine whether or not democracy has taken hold there. The current Iraqi government is still largely mired in the conflicts of 2005, and we will have to wait until the next national elections to find out how people have responded to the past few years of governance.
Big S on March 24, 2008 at 4:49 PM
Uh-oh.
A couple women at this college weren’t wearing the hijab.
*Kaboom*
Rhinoboy on March 24, 2008 at 4:52 PM
I wonder why CNN has so little credability???
lol
allrsn on March 24, 2008 at 4:56 PM
Get CNN the hell away from infecting the students!
Chakra Hammer on March 24, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Yup. Plain as day.
I don’t speak the language, but it’s kinda hard to miss a mention of Bush or Clinton in the middle of all that.
CNN evidently ‘no likey’ what their translator told em’ though, so they told us what they wanted the man say to keep their DNC buds happy.
God the MSM makes me sick! Pravda had nothing on them in its
heyday!
Teddy on March 24, 2008 at 5:27 PM
About a yeah ago a local channel here was translating a spanish speaker about illegal immigration/day laborers, etc. The guy clearly said “Gringos” but somehow that didn’t make it through.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 24, 2008 at 5:31 PM
amerpundit on March 24, 2008 at 4:23 PM
It could not have been stated any better. Amen to you.
wcrego on March 24, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Hey Allah/Ed see if Mermri will translate what they said for you. Compare, contrast, uncover scandal.
- The Cat
MirCat on March 24, 2008 at 5:33 PM
Indeed. How sad that the entire free world isn’t standing up against China. What a perfect opportunity the year of the olympics provides. Yes…ping pong balls…Regards Niko,
Entelechy on March 24, 2008 at 5:43 PM
The last part was interesting to me too, but for another reason. I found it interesting that the young lady at the end says she doesn’t believe Iraq is ready for democracy, yet says that Iraqis are unified. She doesn’t understand where the divisions in her society are coming from and conveys that there is no animosity between religious sects. I think she needs to take more than political science and it’s sad if this is what Iraq will produce as political leaders. They only repeat the International Press’ take on things: everything wrong in that country is because of the U.S. not Iraqis themselves or their religious intolerances, that a Democrat is better than a Republican, the U.S. needs to get the hell out of dodge, but even if they do it’ll STILL be the U.S.’s fault if things go to hell in a hand basket; and best yet, EVERYTHING is the U.S.’s fault.
This seems to be a growing phenomonen. Don’t take responsibility for your own citizens and country, just blame the U.S. for your miserable existence and pump the U.S. funded U.N. for more dollars so you can sit on your arse doing nothing for yourselves and keep on complaining.
Sultry Beauty on March 24, 2008 at 5:51 PM
What has the American government done for them lately? How about what has YOUR government done for you lately?
Vigilante on March 24, 2008 at 5:56 PM
So let me get this straight… Even 5 years after Saddam was ousted from power and the Iraqi government is far from unified? Is that the measure for success?
We’re 230 odd years on from declaring independence from the Brits, and as far as I can tell, our government is also far from unified. That must make us a failure as well.
Of course, I’m sure the Libs would agree…
hburns on March 24, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Indeed.
Eleanor Roosevelt said, “Nobody can make you feel inadequate without your permission.”
It’s a sign of idiocy, and of yet strength, that the U.S. ignore this…
Entelechy on March 24, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Fix your own problems Iraqi’s, you idiots. I have come to the point where I could give a rats ass how you live there.
Wade on March 24, 2008 at 6:13 PM
This is as staged as an Obama fainting rally!
Come on, people!! A 20-year-old guy saying he remembers the time of Bush Sr.? A 50-year-old thug…er, student sitting in the back making sure all the ladies wear veils and all the students mouth the proper talking points?
Kyra: They all (giggle) want change (giggle)!
PattyJ on March 24, 2008 at 6:19 PM
They lost me on the “Obama has the experience” and “a woman in America should have her chance to be president” coming from a muslim man.
They like those two candidates because they view them as weak. The only people in that part of the world looking to do the U.S. any favors is Kuwait and Isreal.
Hog Wild on March 24, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Are college kids the same in everywhere? Maybe it is the water?
Johan Klaus on March 24, 2008 at 6:24 PM
I HOPE I can CHANGE.
faraway on March 24, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Do you think Kyra’s a liberal?
Travis1 on March 24, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Y’know, it’s funny how they complain about the Republicans, claiming democrats would be better in power (for them, and, I guess, by extension, the world), when democratic candidates have made it clear that Iraq doesn’t mean crap to them. Both Hillary and Obama have repeated the mantra of ‘get America out of Iraq’ and ‘move the forces to Afghanistan’. That’s going to help prevent destabilization in that messed-up country? And just how much did the democrats do for Iraq, when Sodomy Insane was in power? I think Clinton1 bombed them, once, or twice. Yeah, that really beefed-up the bulwark between Iran and Iraq. At Hot Air, we’ve seen schools built for these asinine ingrates, clinics and hospitals built, the training of their forces, etc. Obama would eliminate all that, pretty quickly, and gladly leave them to the mercy of Iran.
Virus-X on March 24, 2008 at 8:18 PM
I second this request. If it seems that they “mis-translated” one, then they may have mis-translated more.
blink on March 24, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Iraqi students are hot!
SpencerFan on March 24, 2008 at 4:31 PM
If this is not the time to say, Dude. I was totally thinking the same thing. I’m thiking head scarfs for everyone it makes you super hot and have a bad hair day!!!
Their response? Let’s vote Democrat in ‘08!
amerpundit on March 24, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Isn’t it unbelievable some people do not deserve to be free they need to be living a useless existence. Sort of like liberals:) HA!
titleist123 on March 24, 2008 at 9:30 PM
mccain needs to very clearly and audibly make a direct statement to the iraqi people telling them that he will not abandon them to chaos and showing that both hillary and obama will. he needs to do this soon and keep doing it, hammering on it until people are sick of hearing it.
he must make clear the consequences of the democrats’ intentions.
he should start with a speech and also make sure to drive the point home repeatedly, especially during the debates later this year.
homesickamerican on March 25, 2008 at 12:20 AM
Does anyone else see the problem here? I’m not sure they truly know what it takes to be free. Of course, it could be worse. The Iraqi politicians could take a month long recess right when political progress must be made.
LarryinVA on March 25, 2008 at 8:38 AM