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???In a way,??? says Newsweek editor Evan Thomas, ???Obama is standing above the country. Above ??? above the world ???

???He???s sort of God.???


Evan Thomas is a flaming idiot. My wife will not renew her subscription.

M B Krause

Oprah needs more than Suzane Somers. By the way is Suzanne Summers a practicing doctor since she is suppose to know more than the doctors do? Where does she get all of her information from. Plastic surgery does wonders for looks. Oprah does not practice what she tells everyone. How much does she weigh even with a hired chef to keep her skinny??? No comment needed. Practice what you preach.

ditto for me too, talk about a confusing mess for registratio just to post a comment on the Oprah article

I have no comment on this I was tryin to post a comment on Winfrey

ACORN must have chosen these schools.

EVAN THOMAS SHOWS THE WORLD THAT DEMOCRAPS ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH. HE COMPARES OBAMA TO GOD THE MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND OBAMA HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING WITH HIS LIFE, DONE NOTHING IN BUSINESS, AND ONLY READS SPEECHES OFF TELEPROMPTERS. HE IS A DISGRACE AS AN AMERICAN, AND IN FACT IS NOT BORN IN AMERICA. HE IS A LATE TERM BABY KILLER, AND HE HYPOCRITICALLY KEEPS HIS KIDS. OBAMA DID NOT ABORT HIS GIRLS. HE ALLOWS PEOPLE TO MURDER WHITE BABIES ALL OVER AMERICA. EVAN THOMAS....YOU ARE THE DEVIL.

Evan Thomas would have been drug to death by an old truck years ago for comparing Obama to Almighty God. I would love to drive the truck that drags him.

All print media has shown a decline recently, it's a moot point. You have to ask yourself, why did the author single out christian media?

I could really care less about what gay people are doing. Let's address something else like the economy and how to fix it or how about having the president pay for each of us to have a fancy dinner. Heck I'd like to send my kidd to camp, must be nice to spend, spen, spend.

As a thirty plus year professional graphic designer and subscriber of the magazine, I feel I must comment
strongly on your "new" format. I HATE it! What would possess you to go with
an extremely hard to read small pt. size, square serifed type face for body and a
no serif, dated type face for headlines is beyond understanding.
It is not only unattractive, it fights with the advertising on every page. Someone sold you a bill of goods
on "improving" your look. Either change it back or redesign it AGAIN!

i would like to be able to get out of debt I don't need much i do work but i still struggle and i would like to be able to pay off some bills would you consider helping me out?

Anybody disagreeing with Obama ia branded a racist. You have to be very careful in your critque, as it will be taken out of context. Now, it is either you are with or against Obama.

Yonkers, New York
01 June 2009

Fareed Zakaria here refuses to join the doomsayers.

He is still ble to maintain his sense of balance and perespective.

Mariano Patalinjug

When you subscribe to something called NEWSWEEK you expect to get in-depth news. Where is it?

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I am a lontime subscriber to your magazine. I think you have made a big mistake with the new format. Its very confusing and hard to follow. I will not be renewing when my subscription comes up for renewal.

Mr. Zakaria, you wrote: "Now, of course, they could all be lying. But it seems odd for a regime that derives its legitimacy from its fidelity to Islam to declare constantly that these weapons are un-Islamic if it intends to develop them."
Mr. Zakaria, you are a big liar like the very image of the Iranian leaders. You voluntarily omit to precise that the Iranian regim is a theocratic regim founded on the islamic and Koranic principles. In the Koran lies are permitted in order to reach one's goal ("taghieyh" is the arabic word). It is absolutely all right to lie to your enemy, in order to confuse them: this is IRI's policy.

You wrote: "Iran isn't a dictatorship. It is certainly not a democracy. The regime jails opponents, closes down magazines and tolerates few challenges to its authority. But neither is it a monolithic dictatorship.It might be best described as an oligarchy, with considerable debate and dissent within the elites. Even the so-called Supreme Leader has a constituency, the Assembly of Experts, who selected him and whom he has to keep happy."
You and your other colleagues such as Hooman Majd, who is also writing in this magazine, are acting as IRI's lobbyists. You are not Iranian people's representatives, this regim is not only a dictatorship, but also an oligarchy (since they are not mutually exclusive), totalitarian and fascist. The supreme leader (why "so-called") is the IRI's boss and the Assembly of Experts is not an assembly of elites but of some mafioso mullahs. There is no election in Iran but a selection and all the Iranian lobbyists try to show a not so dictator face and elective government and leaders in Iran, which is totally wrong.

These lobbyists also pretend that apart from negotiation the other alternative to IRI's problem is the war. They do not talk about the only and less costy alternative which is to support Iranian people who want the death of this tyrannic regim. Just support Iranian opposition living abroad and support Iranian workers, students and women who are demonstrating on a daily basis against this unpopular regim and you will get rid of the nuclear threat and the IRI threat in general soon.

I read this article in an Iranian daily first : http://www.entekhabnews.com/portal/index.php?news=5032
Interestingly, Zakaria's writings are always a favourite with the regime's dailies.

Zakaria is either a complete idiot or in the pay pocket of the Islamic Republic. He brings up quotes from Ayatollah Khomeini saying if they are lying why would they constantly declare it when their fidelity lies with Islam? what???

There is so much falsehoos in just the above sentence, I don't even know where to begin with!

Here is some examples of previous statements by regime officials,
'Women will not have to wear the Hijab and will be free to choose their dress' - Ayatollah Khomeini in Paris.

For more recent examples, see Ahmadinejad's claims on letting the youth dress how they want before he became president:
http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2008/03/life-in-islamic-republic-again.html
followed by a film footage of the reality.

More on how these officials with fidellity to Islam lie:
http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2008/09/now-kordan-sees-gods-light.html

This regime is built and is run on lies. Iranian now relaise it:
http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2009/05/khark-islanders-at-ahmadinejad-you-are.html

Zakaria sadly still doesn't. Zakaria being an Indian born Muslim himself should know what Taghiyeh is.
Just another point in his crap article:
'Even the so-called Supreme Leader has a constituency, the Assembly of Experts,'

But who screens the candidates to the Assembly of Experts? when was the Supreme Leader ever asked to produce a report of its performance to Assembly of Experts? when has the assembley ever challenged any of the Leader's decisions? What kind of constituency is this that should make us comfortable about a non-accountable regime with its hands on nuclear power?

Zakaria starts by saying 'Everything we know about Iran is wrong', perhaps he should have written 'Everything Fareed Zakaria knows about Iran is wrong' or as I said perhaps he knows but as an Indian Muslim, is applying taghiyeh for his greater agenda.

As far as I remember every US adminstration has tried to approach Islamic Republic, but they always look silly at the end. One major reason may be the likes of Zakaria who are pumping the administrations with such bullshit.