Can it really be that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has never received a Chutzpah of the Week award? Checking my records, I was a bit surprised to discover that this is the case, particularly since he is now in the running for one with a positive connotation. Here are the grounds for the award, as reported in The Guardian by Robert Tait:
Having failed to win a response with an 18-page letter to President George Bush or to a request to visit the site of the September 11 2001 attack on New York, Ahmadinejad has offered himself as an observer in next year's presidential election.
This has got to be the best application of sauce-for-the-goose logic that I have encountered in some time. Needless to say, in the wake of our last two Presidential elections, there have been no end of jokes about a need for observers; but this one appears to be the real deal. My guess is that Ahmadinejad will be dismissed as he always has been; but, whatever his cultural biases may be, it is nice to see that he has a good intuitive grasp of the true nature of chutzpah!
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