Flash: Nasrallah speech

It was not a necessary speech. He should have waited a few days. His distinction between the "electoral legitimacy" versus "the popular legitimacy" is meaningless because there is no standard way of measuring popular legitimacy except through elections, unless he is suggesting that public opinion polls are more reliable than elections. I understand that because Hizbullah and opposition seem to rely on public opinion polls that tell them all of Lebanon is behind them. I don't know what "reform platform" of the opposition he is talking about: there is no reform element in the Hizbullah election plank. I saw a reference to spreading "virtue" and fighting "vice." Is that reform or a recipe of a different social order that is alient to sinful Lebanon. And he talked about the other side resorting to "blatant sectarian agitation" and lies--which is true--but this talk is a day late AT LEAST. That should have been said much earlier. He talked about foreign intervention but did not mention Saudi Arabia: Hizbullah still refuses to name Saudi Arabia and guests on Al-Manar, my sources tell me, still requests that guests not criticize Saudi Arabia.