You can’t make this stuff up. Drudge reports that Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to use Barack Obama’s “Yes We Can” slogan in his next presidential campaign.
Who knew Ahmadinejad was such a big fan of American political campaigns?
IHateTheMedia.com has discovered that Ahmadinejad’s campaign staff also looked into adapting slogans from several other American presidential campaigns before going with “Yes We Can.”
They considered using George Bush’s “Compassionate Conservatism” but thought the compassionate part might be a tough sell.
They thought about adapting Bill Clinton’s slogan but finally decided that “Building a bridge to the 13th century” wasn’t quite as catchy as “Building a bridge to the 21st century.”
Ronald Reagan said, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Ahmadinejad discovered that “Are you better off now than you were four hundred years ago?” didn’t test well in focus groups.
In 1960 Barry Goldwater’s slogan was “In Your Heart You Know He’s Right.” Ahmadinejad decided that “In Your Heart You Know He’s Nuts” was just too damn honest.
In the end, Ahmadinejad decided he wanted to be just like Obama so they went with the popular “Yes We Can.”
In other news, the Iranian leader announced that if Iran ever developed an auto industry, he would immediately nationalize it.
Source: DrudgeReport.com
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So the Iranian chants will be: "Yes we can behead you if you are an infidel" "Yes we can prohibit a woman from tanning and if she is tanned Yes we can stone her" "Yes we can hang homosexuals in public squares" "Yes we can blow up Israel the moment we have a working bomb"
Very positive...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should stick to singing Iran country and western and lecturing. He should leave politics to the professionals - that is, if there are any professionals left in politics!
Catchy. I can hear it now - "Yes We Can (kill Israel)!" "Yes We Can (destroy the US, unless Obama does it first)!"