Nikahang Kosar, a leading cartoonist and blogger, published a cartoon where he shows the difference between former reformist president Mohammad Khatami's mentality with Obama's.

In a post, Iranian blogger Deserter refers to Martin Luther King Jr's civil rights movement and his assassination in 1968, and writes that King's wife made a statement during the civil rights leader's funeral asking how long it would take to achieve freedom.

The answer to King's wife was 40 years, Deserter says.

The USA has proved that it learns from it's mistakes… 40 years ago in Iran, a Marxist had no right to express his/her ideas, still it is the same story. 40 years ago the country was functioning on oil money, still it is the main vital source for Iran. 40 years ago in universities a female student wearing a veil was under pressure. Today, a female student who wants her freedom and doesn't wear a veil is under pressure… Americans waited for 40 years. how long should we wait?

Iwishpolitics writes that contrary to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's prediction, Obama did win the election.

Contrary to the Iranian president, Obama asked all Americans to reconstruct the USA. Contrary to Ahmadinejad, Obama did not call intellectuals ‘goats' and his opponents ‘manipulated agents in the hands of foreigners'.

View from Iran, an American blogger who lived for several years in Iran, and is now is based in Europe, has free advice for Obama on how to deal with Iran:

1. Bluster is bad: Do not make threats that will not or cannot be carried out… 2. Don’t say that you respect the history of the great people of Iran… and then revoke visas while people are in flight to the US, detain them without reason, or insult their intelligence…

Shahriar Zanganeh writes in Iranian.com comparing the behavior of both countries towards people with multi-ethnic backgrounds.

The great American nation in its infinite evolutionary wisdom elected a half-American half-Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama as its 44th president. As far as the Islamic Republic is concerned, the children born to Iranian mothers and Afghan fathers in Iran are not considered Iranian, denying them even the pittance of the rights granted to other Iranians. Please note the 44th U.S. President’s father was Kenyan.

Bloggers were quick to point out a mistake by both candidates when they called the Iranian Revolutionary Guards the Republican Guards and moderator failed to correct them:

samsam1111 in Iranian.com blog writes:

“The old dude candidate while bragging about his immense foreign affairs expertise calls the regime revolutionary guards as republican guards …Hello !? this is not eye-raq pal !!…. As I was waiting for the all knowing genius, the Harvard educated professor to call his opponent on his gaffe, it even got more hilarious as Imam Hussein argued with McCain on the mullahs and said “Yes the republican guards are a threat but…blah blah.” And what is pitiful is the fact that the so called well informed moderator the one and only Jim Lehrer didn't correct the dumb & dumber duo.”

You can see this mistake from the lips of candidates  here.

Roznameh Negar No (which means New Reporter) writes [fa]:

Obama - 0.
McCain - 0.

He adds:

“The debate was not a very exciting one and it seems that insulting Iran is an a la mode story.”

The blogger further adds:

“McCain, once, had a real problem in pronouncing Ahmadinejad's name.” 

Watch it here.

Haji Kensigton says [fa] that McCain did not even once call Obama by his first name while Obama called McCain several times by his first name. The blogger thinks McCain failed to make contact with voters despite his experience in politics.

And finally Arash Sigarchi, a blogger and journalist, writes [fa] that Iran was the loser in the debate because both candidates call it a real threat.

Several bloggers such as Avaye Ashna reported [Fa] that Keyhan, an ultra conservative journal in Iran that specialises in writing conspiracy stories about Iranian intellectuals and the West, reported recently that: “Obama's great grand parents were from Iran. They came from southern city Boushehr and their real family name was Ab ba ma (which translates to water with us in Farsi) before it was changed to Obama. They moved from Iran to Africa and then they immigrated to the USA. His grandfather was in the camel business but when this trade was banned in the USA, they became broke!”

Why would Keyhan report such a story? Well, according to Avayeh Ashana and several other bloggers, a few days before this surreal article appeared in the journal, Ay Tanz, a humor site published [Fa] it. But Keyhan confused the joke with reality and ran it as a serious story!

In other matters, Obama should do his homework when it comes to Iran, says ZaneIrani, who thinks that the candidate does not know Iran well enough. The blogger adds:

“Barack Obama needs a reality check! In his latest statement he has talked about tiny Iran. Tiny Iran? Mister! Iran is on the verge of being a nuclear power, is one of the top five oil gas countries in the world, and 70,000,000 population is not even comparable to Cuba, and Venezuela.”

In another post, she says that Former US Vice President “Dan Quayle misspelled one word and he was ridiculed for more than four years, while Obama has piled up worse mistakes but that mainstream media won't expose him.

Here is a opinion piece on Yahoo news that questions the same thing:
‘Imagine that John McCain named a young running mate to campaign with him, and this national rookie suggested America had 58 states, repeatedly used the wrong names for the cities he was visiting, and honored a Memorial Day crowd by acknowledging the “fallen heroes” who were present, somehow alive and standing in the audience. How long would it take for the national media to see another Dan Quayle caricature? Let's raise the stakes!'

In Shahriblog we, we read [Fa] that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can lead to Obama's downfall.

The blogger adds that Ahmadinejad continues his radical rhetoric that hurt Irans' economic and political interests while Barack Obama has begun to edge away from his former offer to pursue talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after being hammered by Republicans as being an “appeaser”. The blogger says Obama is not a saint but he is not under influence of the Israeli lobby and he does not think that everything can be solved by war.

Iranian blogger, Voacapitol says [Fa] that Senator Josef Liberman, who supported President Bush's remarks, asked how Obama could sit at the same table with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President who sends weapons to Hamas, Hizbollah or other terrorist groups?

The blogger adds although White House speaker Dana Periono says Bush did not mean Obama, many politicians believe he was the target. Republican candidate John McCain also said he did not think Bush was talking about Obama but that Bush must explain what he wanted to say to Ahmadinejad, whom he called a ‘corrupted corpse.'

Another blogger, Vahshateh Marg, which translates to Fear of Death, believes [Fa] that Bush's comments were targeted towards both Ahmadinejad and Obama. He adds:

The Democrats already reacted to Bush's Speech. Now we should wait for Ahmadinejad's reaction to that.

The blogger reminds us how several months ago, Mohmmad Javad Larijani, an Iranian politician (his brother was former chief Iranian negotiator on Iranian nuclear program), told a reporter about negotiating with the US: “If we find ourselves in the heart of hell, we will negotiate even with Satan.”

Khomenei's Generation says [Fa] that Jewish communities in the United States are afraid of Obama because they consider him a disciple of Noam Chomsky! He adds:

I remember 10 or 11 years ago, Iranian Leader [ Ali Khamenei] predicted that everything will start the moment that the American people will come to the streets and take the power out of the hands of the Zionists in the USA!

Writing in Farsi, Malkoot says:

“Clinton should control her temper…Clinton did not think that her deterring threat did not help to solve problem but just makes things complicated. What a logic it is that Israel because it is our ally, then we have every right to obliterate any country that attacks it…. Clinton’s words mean that we have power to do this and it legitimates our action….if there were some Iranians to prefer you to Obama, now you have lost them all. What a logic it is, that they have a problem with the Iranian rulers and they say what they want…these words are so far removed from logic.”

Mehiran addss [Fa]:

I want to ask Hillary Clinton this question was USA able to obliterate Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq …. And all these countries did not have half of Iran’s military power and its population.

Meanwhile, Anti Mullah has published a photo featuring a Muslim woman standing outside a mosque in California, holding a banner with slogans in support of Obama. He says:

Note the “bilingual” aspect uses English lettering for Persian (not Arabic) words to reach a broader audience than writing it in Farsi (Persian) fonts.

The banner says: God is great. Obama is the leader.

Kamangir, however, thinks the photo is fake and shares his ideas about it here:

“Let’s also accept that “[there are] rumors of the Islamic Republic of Iran also passing the word to their American agents and clerics to support Obama”. Let’s go further and accept too that this plan is actually materialized and that a Muslim is going to hold a banner in support of Obama and to encourage fellow Muslims to vote for him. In what language will he/she write on the banner, besides English? My guess would be Arabic. That’s why I doubt this
picture is, as Anti Mullah suggests, “definitive evidence” for the claims mentioned in the above. Why? Because the word “Rahbar” is Persian for “Leader”. Shouldn’t they have used an Arabic word, written with English letters of course, instead?”

Omid Memarian, a blogger and journalist admires [Fa] the relative financial transparency in the US election. He says despite all the criticism concerning financial transparency in the elections, it is not at all comparable with the Iranian elections. He says in the United States, people or companies that support candidates, announce it and people can check about contributions on a few sites.

Meanwhile, Arash Kamangir writes that he likes Senator Barack Obama but finds that some of his remarks are too simplistic, including when he promised to sit around a table with the Islamic Republic on the first year of his presidency. He writes that Senator Hillary Clinton’s answer to the same question was very thoughtful.

He explains:

It is not really easy to be exposed to all the news about the upcoming elections in the states and remain silent, even if you know about American politics less than you know about Canary Islands. Taking a side feels good, as well. Therefore, this is why I chose Barack Obama.

* Republican vs. Democratic: I guess with my tedious arguments against the overdose of religion in Iran, it is clear why I like the Democrats more.
* Hillary vs. Barack: Maybe I don’t like her just because of the “Clinton Dynasty” thing. I’m just fed up with people with similar last names occupying the news.

Nevertheless, I find some of the remarks of Barack too simplistic, including when he promised to sit around a table with the Islamic Republic on the first year of his presidency (link). Hillary’s answer to the same question was very thoughtful.

The blogger further adds:

Enough with this “Idiot’s Guide to US Elections”, I admire Americans, because a black person or a woman are the most likely to end up to be their president. This is happening less than two centuries after blacks were lashed down there. I believe there are a lot of things that we, Iranians, have to learn from the “Great Satan”.

Another blogger from Iran, Winston says that Governor Mitt Romney has suspended his campaign.

The blogger explains:

It's a shame that such a hardcore Conservative man was unsuccessful in his bid for the presidency of the United States. He gets the war against Jihadism very well and he's a true social and fiscal conservative. His speech is inspiring and true to the point. I'm hopeful that he can launch a major presidential campaign at a later time. Romney is the type of leader the United States need to remain the best country of the world. I liked what governor Romney just said at CPAC:

“America must remain the hope of the earth”

It must remain the hope of the earth and it is the hope of the oppressed and those who seek liberty and justice. Though it can't be achieved with the likes of Hillary Clinton or Hussein Obama who are the defeatists' choice and have no problem to surrender to the enemies as soon as possible.