Posted on 11/03/2008 8:26:54 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Syrian Government Newspapers Back Obama Monday, November 03, 2008 By Julie Stahl
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) – Syrian government newspapers are endorsing Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama.
The editorials, recently translated, appeared prior to the U.S. attack on a network of al Qaeda-linked fighters who were moving from Syria to Iraq two weeks ago.
Columnist Dr. Eid Abu Sika wrote in the Syrian government daily Al-Ba’th that it was “now the turn” of the Democrats to be in power in the U.S.
“All Arabs prefer Obama over [Republican Presidential candidate John] McCain,” Abu Sika wrote. If the U.S. does not elect Obama “it will be the biggest country in history that is swimming against the stream,” a translation provided by Middle East Media Research Institute on Friday said.
Another columnist, Nadia Damiati in the Syrian government daily Al-Thawra, referred positively to Obama and his running mate Sen. Joseph Biden.
Their campaign slogan of “change and experience” indicates that “the Americans aspire for their country to take a moral stance, be an honest broker, act in accordance with the U.S. constitution, not ignite wars, not spill the blood of innocents in the world, and not deceive the [American] people regarding the danger of terrorism [and the need] to fight it,” Damiati wrote in August.
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No news here. This was a given.
Known by the company he keeps.
And the company he does not the press to see him with.
On Trick or treat night, Obama got huffy with reporters who were following him around. Why? Because he needed some time alone with his family? Not. It is because he did not want the press to be around when his kids went to the homes of Ayers, Farrakhan and Khalidi.
That which is like unto itself is drawn.
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