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Everything political in the US is done for show. The core issues rarely matter anymore.
The government and the media have done an awesome job of smearing Ahmadinejad over the past couple years. There is a fairly good sized segment of the US population that now believes he is literally the next Hitler. That he is going to invade Israel if given the chance and kill all the Jews. They also live in fear of him nuking the US. Get real!
He was blocked from visiting ground zero because of the construction. They'd have to shut it down for the whole day and that wasn't going to happen. He can still visit ground zero in the tourist areas.
Attempting to stop the college speech is what has pissed me off. They say he has no right to be here, but what about the rights of Americans who for whatever reason want to hear him speak? If you know a Republican who is upset over this, ask them what they'd think about a group of Americans attempting to block the Pope from speaking. See, freedom works both ways.
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