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Obama To Israel: Tone Down Rhetoric On Iran |
Ahead of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's trip to Washington this
week, the US has been urging Israel to "tone down" its rhetoric on Iran
and to stop threatening a military strike on its nuclear installations,
The Jerusalem Post has learned.
This was one of the purposes of a
secret trip to Israel three weeks ago by CIA Director Leon Panetta,
foreign diplomatic sources said.
Ostensibly, the CIA chief came
to share information on Iran's nuclear program with Israeli intelligence
officials and find out how serious the new Israeli government was in its
stated position that Jerusalem cannot allow Iran to become a nuclear
power.
Panetta was hosted by Mossad chief Meir Dagan and
intelligence officials, but also met with Netanyahu and Defense Minister
Ehud Barak.
While Obama is intent on
spearheading an international campaign to prevent Teheran from building
nuclear weapons and believes that a nuclear Iran would pose a threat to
the stability of the Middle East, US officials -- led by Undersecretary
of State for Political Affairs William Burns -- plan to offer Iranian
leaders a new approach and a return to the international fold in
exchange for freezing their nuclear program.
One official said,
however, that while the administration's policy was a risk worth taking,
it could fail and it might be necessary for the US and its allies to
accept the fact of a nuclear Iran.
"...it might be necessary for
the US and its allies to accept the fact of a nuclear Iran" -- that's
some statement -- Obama is already prepared to accept a nuclear-armed
Iran. |
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Obama Legitimizes Killing Of Unborn |
After
receiving an honorary doctorate in law at the University of Notre Dame’s
graduation ceremony yesterday, Obama
delivered a speech to the school's
graduating seniors that sought to legitimize his position in favor of
the legal killing of unborn children.
Obama told the graduates of
the nation’s most well-known Catholic university that abortion "has both
moral and spiritual dimensions" -- although he did not explain why he
had made this conclusion -- and made it quite clear that, even so, he
has no intention of moving from his position that it ought to be legal
for a pregnant mother to have a doctor kill her unborn child for
literally any reason at any stage of pregnancy.
Obama also did
not take back his declaration made in 2007 to Planned Parenthood that he
would sign the Freedom of Choice Act, a bill that would eliminate all
the state and federal limitations on abortion that have been achieved by
the pro-life movement in the 26 years since the Supreme Court legalized
abortion on demand in its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
Nor did
Obama rescind his vow to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act that
currently protects states that do not recognize same-sex marriages from
being compelled by the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution
to recognize same-sex marriages contracted in other states.
Nor
did he reverse his executive order allowing federal tax dollars to be
used for research that kills human embryos in order to extract their
stem cells.
Nor did he reverse his order to allow U.S. foreign
aid dollars to be used to perform and promote abortion in foreign
countries.
But he did lecture the Notre Dame graduates that the
"two camps are irreconcilable" on the question of whether unborn life
ought to be protected in law or left vulnerable to abortion, making it
clear that he falls on the pro-abortion side of this unbridgeable
divide. |
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Obama To Visit Africa In July |
Obama will
visit Africa for the first time since being sworn in as the first black
U.S. leader when he travels to Ghana in July, a trip many Africans hope
will herald powerful help for their poor continent.
Ghanaians
celebrated Washington's decision to choose their country for Obama's
debut in Africa, where he is a hugely popular figure.
They said
the visit represents a chance for Ghana, which expects to start
producing oil in 2011, to press its claims for greater engagement with
the West.
Ghana, a gold and cocoa exporting country whose economy
is struggling with inflation of more than 20 percent and a high budget
deficit, is in talks with the International Monetary Fund to secure $1
billion to boost its foreign exchange reserves.
"During his
visit, Obama will hold bilateral talks with his Ghanaian counterpart,
President John Evans Atta Mills, aimed at strengthening the fraternal
relations existing between the two countries," the foreign ministry said
in a statement.
Many Africans had hoped Obama's inauguration
would mark the start of a new U.S. push to alleviate the poverty,
hunger, conflict and corruption that blight much of the continent, but
Obama's first four months in power have been dominated by the financial
crisis at home.
Obama will also visit Cape Coast, a former slave
trading hub in Ghana. |
New York Times Spiked Obama
ACORN Corruption Story |
Acknowledging what the blogosphere has known for weeks, the New York
Times finally went on record to admit that just before last Election Day
it killed a politically sensitive news story involving corruption
allegations that might have made the Obama campaign look bad.
But the admission on Sunday, which came seven months after NYT staff
reporter Stephanie Strom's reporting about possibly illegal coordination
between the Obama campaign and ACORN last year, took the form of a
snarky column from Clark Hoyt, the Old Gray Lady's "public editor."
Hoyt used the word "nonsense" to describe the allegations of impropriety
leveled against ACORN and the Obama campaign.
Details are
here . . . |
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