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It doesn't make a lot of sense that an incumbent President in a terrible economy would win a landslide against a popular reformer with a large voter turnout.
Obama's message has been pretty good on these policy issues and will put more pressure on Arab and Persian governments to respond to their people.
Note that Lebanon did recently go towards a pro-US government which was a very positive sign.
Iran has a pretty large and well educated segment of the population that doesn't back the extremist members in the government. It's only a matter of time before Iran sees another revolution to bring the nation back into the mainstream.
Bush royally f'ed up the Iranian situation with the "Axis of Evil" rhetoric and Iraq policy. Obama isn't going to be able to magically fix it, but so far I think he's projecting the right message to the Middle East.
The proof will ultimately be in the putting.
-spence
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