Mmmmmmm...
Posted on 12/04/2008 9:45:15 AM PST by Alter Kaker
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office.
So where should he do it? The list of Islamic world capitals is long, and includes the obvious —Riyadh, Kuwait City, Islamabad — and the not-so-obvious — Male (the Maldives), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Some wise-guys have even suggested Dearborn, Mich., as a possibility.
Clearly it would be cheating for Mr. Obama to fly to Detroit, talk to Dearborn’s 30,000 Arab residents and call it a day. And Male and Ouagadougou, while certainly majority Muslim, can’t really be what Mr. Obama’s aides have in mind when they talk about locales for a high-profile speech that would seek to mend rifts between the United States and the broader Muslim world.
So Burkina Faso and the Maldives are out. But that leaves a whole swath of Islamic capitals, all ready to be spruced up for Mr. Obama to make his speech. I’ve thought hard about this, and asked a few people — diplomats even — which capital Mr. Obama should pick.
The consensus, after an entire day of reporting, is Cairo.
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Good luck with that, Bambi.
Why not Rawalpindi?
It’ll be a one liner.
“We give up!”
I hear Mumbai is nice this time of year...
HUH....he really thinks he is King of the World....or is this a joke?
London.
That comes after “Thanks for not blowing my secret that I’m one of you guys”
Detroit?
A Federal Prison?
Mecca.
It’ll be in Hyderabad, Capital of the Islamic Republic of the Deccan.
Gaza City
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
Alrighty then... that should solve that War on Terror thingie and we can get back to some real serious wealth distribution. ;-)
I vote for London, too.
How about London, England?
Step One in the path to Obama’s reconversion to Islam while in office. If he is re-elected in 2012, Obama will re-convert to Islam in January 2013.
When he returns, have the INS check his immigration status.
Mmmmmmm...
He would not have any difficulty getting into Meca.
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