During the trip, "we are ready to sit with his excellency Obama, face to face, free and before media, to put the world's issues on the table to find out whose solution is better," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to visiting Iranian expatriates aired live on state TV.
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly proposed televised debates with American presidents over the past years, an offer dismissed by Washington.Perhaps this will be the "meeting without preconditions" that Obama talked about on the campaign trail. I mean the opportunity to debate an enemy leader face to face would put Obama in the same league as Nixon and Kruschev and the Kitchen Table Debate of the 50s. If Obama lives up to the oratory skills that the press tells us he had in 2008 he should run rings around Ahmadinajoke. It sure would make for interesting historic theater in any case.
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