Barack Obama -- June 04, 2009

June 4, 2009

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"Islam has always been a part of America’s story"

Barack Hussein Obama

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Obama's Egypt Speech	Obama sought a "new beginning" between the United States and the Muslim world on Thursday but offered no new initiative to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. As soon as the speech is analyzed, there will be postings here. • Lots and lots of quotes from the Quran -- no word on whether he quoted these lines from heart, or whether TOTUS fed him those lines. • Yup, the US of A is a meanie, we overreacted to 9/11, and we should get rid of our nukes -- Iran can keep theirs. • The people of Iraq are better off today -- but that their liberation was wrong. • Obama pandered to the Muslim world by dissing Israel in a major way, he downplayed the role of terrorism, made Hamas look like a rowdy Boys Glee Club, called for the internationalization of Jerusalem, and used the Palestinian party line to describe the Israeli presence not only in the West Bank and Gaza but its VERY existence. • The Telegraph's Stephanie Gutmann writes that the worst folly of President Obama's speech at Cairo University is in the basic premise, to "continue the outreach and the effort to change the conversation with the Muslim world." This supposedly monolithic "Muslim World" is Swiss cheese. All over the world, as I write this, followers of Fatah are pitted against Hamas, Sunnis against Shi'ites, Janjaweed against Darfurian civilians. There was a terrible war between Iran and Iraq, civil wars in Lebanon and Yemen, military coups d'état in eight Arab countries. Obama should stop mincing around and drop the euphemisms. His problems, our problems, many millions of Muslim's problems are with radical Islamists -- the Al Qaedas, the Hizb al Tahirs, the Hamas, and Hezbollahs of the world. • What didn't he say? -- Obama never mentioned the absence of human rights, women's rights, and religious rights in the Muslim world. More to come.
Obama Butters Them Up In Cairo	Charles Hurt, writing in the New York Post, says that with his trademark humility, Obama noted in his speech this morning that "change cannot happen overnight" and that one speech in Cairo -- even delivered by him -- will not bring about world peace. Oh, snap! But if world peace is attained by complimenting those on the other side into submission, he made some serious progress. Obama really buttered them up in Cairo. He thanked them for everything from algebra to the pen, though he curiously failed to mention that they often throw people in prison for using it. He even went so far as to tell the audience that he considers "it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear." Wow. That won't be the last time you hear that line, and anyway, where exactly is that in the oath of office he took? And if talking is going to resolve all the problems in the world, Obama got a good bit of that out of the way today. He talked and talked and talked and talked -- And then kept talking. Vacillating between a lecture-some professor and a talk show therapist, Obama started out numbering the grave and important issues he wanted to discuss. After a half-dozen, he junked the whole numbering system -- or lost count. The problem with talking so much is that you eventually just start babbling and saying a bunch of stuff that makes no sense. At one point, Obama fretted over the rise of new power that, to the horror of civilized people, exudes an obsessed and twisted view of "sexuality" and "mindless violence." Islamofascism? -- No, the Internet.
Arabs Like Obama, Not America	As Obama prepares to address Muslims around the world, questions about the mood and opinions of Arabs are surfacing. A new poll on attitudes in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates shows that the election of Obama is fueling hopes about U.S. Middle East policy. But it also reveals that most Arabs hold unfavorable views of the United States. Attitudes in the Arab world toward the United States are still negative, according to the 2009 poll conducted by the University of Maryland with Zogby International. Seventy-seven percent of those polled say the United States is the second-greatest threat after Israel, still an improvement compared to the 2008 poll. Forty-five percent of Arabs polled have a favorable view of President Obama. University of Maryland Professor Shibley Telhami commissioned the survey. "They like him. They are open to him. They are hopeful," he says. "The majority is expressing hopefulness toward American foreign policy since he has become the president, but that has not yet been translated into profound change in attitudes toward American foreign policy."
Obama Leaks Nuclear Secrets	Click images for large, readable documents
Obama: Cut Medicare, Medicaid	Obama said Wednesday he wants at least $200 billion cut from Medicare and Medicaid spending over the next decade to help pay for overhauling the nation's health care system and providing coverage to 50 million uninsured Americans. The reductions in the programs would come on top of the $300 billion in cuts already proposed in his budget. More here . . . That "50 million uninsured Americans" number includes 12 million illegal aliens. Obama is willing to cut back on Americans for illegals.
Comrade Obama More Left-Wing	Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday that he and Cuban ally Fidel Castro risk being more conservative than Obama as Washington prepares to take control of General Motors Corp. During one of Chavez's customary lectures on the "curse" of capitalism and the bonanzas of socialism, the Venezuelan leader made reference to GM's bankruptcy filing, which is expected to give the U.S. government a 60 percent stake in the 100-year-old former symbol of American might. "Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right," Chavez joked on a live television broadcast.
CBS Bans Eligibility Billboards	The company touting itself as the "world's largest out-of-home media" enterprise has banned WorldNetDaily's national billboard campaign that asks one simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?" CBS Outdoor, a division of CBS Corporation, sells more outdoor advertising than any other billboard company in North America, and refuses to accept purchases of space on any of its 550,000 displays nationwide, media buyers report. "Here we have one of the largest media companies in the U.S. now not only refusing to allow news coverage of a vitally important national question being asked by millions of Americans, but one that won't even permit the purchase of space to raise the question. "What is the value of a First Amendment in a country when this kind of self-censorship is at work -- self-censorship specifically geared to stifle inquiry and debate about the most powerful person in the country," said Joseph Farah. "CBS is a company that is not squeamish about feeding America's children a steady diet of offensive movies, obscene rap music and even TV commercials that push the cultural and moral envelope. But CBS is afraid to put up a sign containing four innocent words of constitutionally protected, non-inflammatory speech. You explain that to me. This is a giant media conglomerate unworthy of operating under the protection of the First Amendment." The local account executive at CBS was shocked by the response from the top levels of the corporation. "We just received an e-mail from CBS Corporate," he wrote. "They are aware of this campaign and we are not allowed to install it. This came straight from corporate. Sorry!"