Obama’s Cairo Speech: So Many Apologies So Little Time

Flopping Aces ^ | Thursday, June 4th, 2009 at 10:04 am | Mike's America

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6,000 words and half of them mush!

I’ve only started going through the speech President Obama delivered in Cairo Thursday. Full text is here. The first thing that struck me is that he could have delivered a really good speech by cutting half of it out. Yes, leave out the apologies and the mountain of moral equivalence and the Bush blaming which simply validates extremist ideology and it would have been fine.

But when you make statements like this what purpose does it serve other than to strengthen extremism?

OBAMA: Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich. Six million Jews were killed – more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, ignorant, and hateful. Threatening Israel with destruction – or repeating vile stereotypes about Jews – is deeply wrong, and only serves to evoke in the minds of Israelis this most painful of memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve.

On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people – Muslims and Christians – have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.

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And:

Here’s the Wordle of Obama’s speech. The larger the word, the more times it was used:

[Bon mots]

The Great Groveler.

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I like this wordle:

Wordle: Braveheart Speech

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[GinaLolaB]

Who could have imagined that we were horrifically attacked by Muslims on 9-11-2001 and fought 2 miserable 8 year wars costing us trillions of dollars and thousands of military deaths and injuries and after all that we end up with a Foreigner Muslim as President. The Foreign President is crawling around the Muslim Eastern world on his belly begging for forgiveness from Osama Bin Laden and Bin Laden enablers in the Saudi and the Muslim's to forgive us and please to show us the way.

My sister in law's brother worked at the World Trade Center building 7 and on 9-11 he personally witnessed Americans splattering on the sidewalks. He said they were splattered like watermelons and that when they hit the ground only a red spray flew into the air. He said they went "kerplunk, kerplunk, kerplunk." He has never been the same since.

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How quickly we forget.
Every America should be required to view this awesome 9/11 video made by a New Yorker who lived through it.
It has been viewed by millions, and is now in the Smithsonian.
http://attacked911.tripod.com/

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[VaBthang4]

I thought it was a good speech. I didnt hear him apologizing or bowing or any of that nonsense. The only small part I had a problem with was...

"Likewise, it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit – for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear. We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism."

I dont think any of us are being hostile towards muslims when we disagree with this. I dont have a problem with muslim women wearing them if THEY so choose. But THEY must choose that and their right to wear what they want cannot trump the absolute requirement for security and identification.

Otherwise, I liked the speech. It was not meant to minister to you and I. It was meant to reach out to the middle of the muslim world. It probably achieved that goal.