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Obama's sister, Maya said,
"There was always a joke
between my mom and
Barack
that he would be
the first black president."
Now the
joke's on us.
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Hello,
Mahmoud? |
Obama
placed the Middle East at the forefront of his first hours in office
yesterday as he sought to make good on his promise of "ushering in a new
era of peace."
In a flurry of telephone calls from the Oval
Office, he reached out to leaders in the region and vowed to engage
immediately in pursuit of a permanent Arab-Israeli settlement.
It's no coincidence that Obama's first official call to a foreign leader
went to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a/k/a "Abu Mazen." By
choosing Abbas as his first phone homie, he was sending a message.
A spokesman for Abbas revealed that Obama had told the Palestinian
leader that their conversation was his first with a foreign statesman
since taking office. Obama also spoke to President Mubarak of
Egypt, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, and King Abdullah of
Jordan.
In case you need
a reminder, Abbas' Ph.D. thesis asserted that there was no
Holocaust. Oh, and then there's that little detail of how he was
Arafat's paymaster for the Black September terrorists who perpetrated
the Munich Olympics terrorist mass murders. |
Closes
Gitmo |
Obama is "reversing
a Bush Administration policy to hold terror suspects and accused enemy
combatants at a prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and halting military
commission trials." The Financial Times reports Obama is "preparing to
sign an order on Thursday that would call for the detention facility in
Cuba to be shut within a year."
Obama also will sign two
executive orders altering CIA detention and interrogation rules,
limiting interrogation standards in all U.S. facilities worldwide to
those outlined in the Army Field Manual, and prohibiting the agency from
secretly holding terrorist detainees in third-country prisons."
The president also instructed the attorney general, the secretaries
of defense, state and homeland security, and the director of national
intelligence to conduct a review of the status of the detainee Ali Saleh
Kahlah al-Marri who is currently held at the Naval Brig in Charleston,
S.C. This will ensure the same kind of legal and factual review is
undertaken of the al-Marri case that is being undertaken of the
Guantanamo cases."
What
did al-Marri do?
I'm watching Press Secretary
Gibbs first briefing now. He keeps saying that Obama's closing of
Gitmo "makes Americans safer." Several reporters keep asking
Gibbs, how closing Gitmo can make Americans safer when the
Administration doesn't even know what it is going to do with the
terrorists.
He is evasive. He's dancing around questions about
military commanders expressing reservations about Obama's plans for
fighting terrorism and withdrawing from Iraq? |
Funds
Abortions |
On his first day on the job, Obama
issued an executive order reversing the Bush administration policy
that bans the use of federal dollars by non-governmental organizations
(NGO)that discuss or provide abortions outside of the United States.
Obama will sign the executive order on the 36th anniversary of the
landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in all
50 states.
The policy, known in governmental circles as the
"Mexico City policy," requires any NGO to agree before receiving U.S.
funds that they will "neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a
method of family planning in other nations."
The language was
announced at the United Nations International Conference on Population
in 1984, and was approved by President Reagan and originally drafted by
his assistant secretary of state, Alan Keyes. |
Celebrities
Obama |
In a new YouTube
video produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions, dozens of
celebrities -- television and movie actors, sports heroes, musicians and
more -- describe how they will pledge to "be the change" and "be a
servant to our president." Actors Demibrain Moore and her boy-toy
Ashton Kutcher begin the closing scene by saying, "I pledge to be a
servant to our president and all mankind."
Actress Susan
Sarandon, a member of the of the Creative Coalition,
says that Egypt, Abu Dhabi and the world are impressed with the
American people for selecting Barack Obama as their president. "I
know just coming back from Egypt and Abu Dhabi and other places in
Europe that the world is so happy that we’ve changed direction.
They’re so hopeful."
Ellen Burstyn, also a member of the Creative Coalition,
spoke on January
19th to a group of the nation's top high school students. She told them
that after she graduated from high school in Detroit in the 1950s, she
took a bus trip to Texas on a crowded public bus there she sat next to a
black man, who was startled and jumped up. A white man informed her, "We
don't sit next to colored folks down here," she said. "I felt this shame
come over me that went right into my heart. "Today that shame is
lifted on Martin Luther King's birthday, and I have the honor to read
the words of our next president, Barack Obama."
In this
video, the Good Morning
America ladies were orgasmic, and a weeping Beyonce describes her night
singing for the Obamas, saying, "It's probably the most important day of
my life."
Obama is like the biblical Joshua and Martin
Luther King Jr. was like Moses, boxing promoter Don
King
says. "I would say that he would be Joshua going across to the
Promised Land, who said 'I might not get there with you, but I can see
the Promised Land.' But we gonna’ get to the Promised Land.
So Joshua carried them across. Martin Luther King, Jr. was prevented
from going into the Promised Land."
CNN's orange-haired
septuagenarian chatterbox Larry King has been
bowled over by the new Age of Obama, enthusing that his youngest
offspring (from his seventh marriage) wants to be black. I guess
it's a case of black being, er, the new black. Larry, 75, gushed: "My
younger son Cannon, he is eight. And he now says that he would like to
be black. I'm not kidding. He said there's a lot of advantages. Black
is in. Is this a turning of the tide?" |
"Obama"
The
Musical |
Obama's presidential campaign inspired millions. Now, it has
inspired a London musical.
"Obama on My Mind" will open at a
small theater in the British capital in March, producers have announced.
The play's book, music and lyrics are by U.S.-born writer Teddy Hayes.
Hayes on Wednesday described the show as a humorous romp set in an
Obama campaign office, with songs that mix pop, gospel, jazz, "some
Motownish stuff" and even tango.
The musical will run at the Hen
and Chickens theater in north London from March 3 to March 21.
Casting has not been announced, but the producers have spared themselves
the challenge of finding a presidential lookalike -- the Obama character
never appears onstage.
"Nobody can really impersonate Obama, can
they?" said Hayes. "He's a one-of." |
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