Iranian TV goes ga-ga over
Obama.
Heaps praise on Democrats while blasting 'absentminded'
McCain, 'inexperienced' Palin
Posted: September 04, 2008
2:14 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Mohammad-Ali Fardanesh
JERUSALEM – GOP Sen. John McCain is "absentminded" and
"terrible" and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin,
doesn't have any appropriate experience.
Sen. Barack Obama, by contrast, is "highly educated" and
"eloquent" and would serve the world much better and
improve America's overall situation.
And Sen. Joe Biden is a "very respectable" man with a
"good reputation."
All this according to an interview broadcast this week
on Iranian state-run media.
"[McCain] doesn't know anything, poor thing. He is
terrible. Let me tell you, he's awful," stated
Mohammad-Ali Fardanesh, a political science professor at
Shahid Behshti University, which is an Iranian
state-funded school.
Fardanesh was speaking Tuesday on the Islamic Republic
of Iran Broadcasting television network in an interview
translated today by the Middle East Media Research
Institute, or MEMRI.
Continued Fardanesh about McCain: "He doesn't know the
difference between Shiites and Sunnis, yet he wants to
resolve the problems in Iraq? He doesn't know whether
Iran is Shiite or Sunni, or the difference between the
two. ... He is a respectable, humane, honest, and
patriotic man, but when it comes to foreign policy and
domestic affairs, he has nothing to offer."
"McCain not only has no experience, but doesn't even
know where 'abroad' is. The poor guy is very
absentminded," said Fardanesh.
The political science professor, billed by Iranian
television as a U.S. expert, then turned his sights on
Palin, calling her inexperienced.
"I don't think her husband knows about her experience
either. She doesn't have any experience," he said.
When an interviewer pointed out Palin is the governor of
Alaska, Fardanesh responded, "Sixteen months. She was
the mayor of a town of 10,000 residents. The previous
governor of Alaska was a very corrupt man, and anybody
running against him would have won. That's how she won."
Fardanesh then lavished praise on Obama, stating his
election would "improve the situation in America in
general."
"The flaw they see in Mr. Obama – which they don't admit
– is that he is highly educated and very eloquent. What
does he speak so eloquently for?! Mr. McCain, who
considers himself such an expert in international
politics, still says 'Czechoslovakia.'"
"Mr. Obama's perspective is more clear. Only yesterday,
they transferred control of the Al-Anbar province to the
Iraqi government, on the first day of Ramadan. This is
something Mr. Obama has been saying. Mr. Obama has said
several times: 'Al-Qaida operates in 80 countries, but
we got ourselves entangled in Iraq. Our presence in Iraq
is what led al-Qaida to begin operating there.'"
Asked about Biden, Fardanesh called him "a very
respectable man. He has a good reputation, and he is
respectable and healthy. He has been in the Senate for
36 years, since he was 29. They are more knowledgeable
in foreign affairs."
Turning back to McCain, Fardanesh concluded, "My problem
is that McCain is a war hero, a veteran pilot, whose
plane crashed in Vietnam and who spent eight and a half
years at war."
