Wait a minute. I thought that the mere prospect of the upcoming Hope’nChange policies was supposed to end crap like this. Weren’t the protests all about Chimpy McBushitler’s neocon fascist foreign policy? And yet these same people are burning images of a liberal Democrat who’s promising to talk with their country (Iran). Huh. It’s almost like they’ll still hate us regardless of who’s in charge.

But wait. Via Ace, the text of the story is even better:

Iranian demonstrators burned photographs of Barack Obama today as they protested against America’s inaction over Gaza.

Dozens of people gathered in Tehran waving Palestinian flags and defacing and setting fire to images of the President-elect.

…The demonstrators, waving Palestinian flags, some chanting “Death to Obama”, had gathered outside the Swiss embassy which handles US interests because Tehran and Washington have not had diplomatic ties for nearly three decades.

Pictures showed the president-elect’s image laid on the road for cars to drive over it and other images showed demonstrators burning an Obama poster.

But…but…hope! And…and…change! You mean these people just hate American leaders not willing to totally capitulate to them? If only someone had mentioned before.