Qaddafi Calls Obama 'Our Son'

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, took the lectern at the United Nations on Wednesday morning for his first address at the General Assembly and delivered a long and rambling diatribe - far exceeding the 15-minute limit on speeches - against the Security Council and a host of other perceived enemies, while urging the world to welcome President Obama, referring to him as "our son." In the first third of a speech that lasted more than 90 minutes, Colonel Qaddafi focused on what he called the inherent unfairness of the United Nations, which gives the five permanent members of the Security Council far more authority than the nations only in the General Assembly. This, Mr. Qaddafi said, was dictatorship, not democracy and, as such, "was terrorism itself."