Yes, He Did: Ahmadinejad Appropriates Obama Slogan

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 28, 2009 2:37 PM CDT

(Newser) – Seeing Barack Obama’s success in the 2008 election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has borrowed the US president’s most famous phrase for his own reelection campaign, the Guardian reports. In a campaign video, the Iranian president stands in front of a blackboard with the Farsi words... Read full story »

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