It's gotta be hard to not sound repetitive when writing about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Sometimes, you have to "settle" for the beauty of cadence and say the heck with having heard it all somewhere before.
That's what Politics Daily did, quite effectively, with its list of winners and losers for 2009. (By the way, if you don't know which column he was in, repetition is the least of your real-world problems.)
The Web site explained its choice of category this way: "Iran's president was exposed by his own rantings ... to be "a Bush-bashing, Israel-hating, Jew-baiting, Obama-knocking dictator with a messianic complex and an obsession with obtaining nuclear weapons."
It's not as succinct as Maureen Dowd's deft dismissal of him months ago when she played on the mouthful of syllables in his name -- "I'm a dinner jacket" -- but it's a well-crafted sentence, concise in its own way.
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