Posted on 04/22/2009 6:34:14 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Congressional Quarterly has a short piece on team Obama's sudden revisiting of three free trade agreements that have been languishing in Congress for quite some time, all three efforts that the Bush Administration began but was unable to settle.
One is a trade agreement with South Korea, the second is a Panama trade agreement and the third the Columbia Free Trade pact. It is the later that I find the most interesting and the most hopeful.
I find it interesting because the Democrats have been adamantly against this agreement with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for several years now. The Democrats base their claim against supporting the agreement upon the long, bleak history of government violence against union organizers there.
For decades union organizers in Columbia have been assassinated by shadowy government kill squads and anti-union activists. Unions in the United States have used this as a basis to claim that Columbia is not a legitimate member of the international community and is not worthy of our trust by cementing a trade agreement with her. In 2008, John Sweeney of the AFL-CIO gave the union line against Columbia that is echoed by the Democratic Party...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
LATimes: Obama's New Muslim Appointment is Hope... for Egyptians?...
Does Obama’s Latest Appointee Support the Jihadist Muslim Brotherhood?
I will begin this right at the top by saying that I don’t care a whit if the appointment of any American official brings hope to Egyptians. After all, an American official should be concerned with America’s interests not Egypt’s. Not that I am saying that American officials or appointments should necessarily have as a chief criteria for appointment an interest in the denigration of any foreign land, but that what’s good for America should be any new official’s chief concern.
However, apparently the L.A. Times thinks that it is germane to U.S. interests that Egyptians are “rejoicing” that President Obama has appointed a female American Muslim to his administration. In, “Muslim woman’s appointment as Obama advisor draws cautious optimism” from April 22, Noha El-Hennawy is reporting from Cairo that Egyptians are happy with Obama’s purported outreach to Muslims.
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And the sheeple snooze on ... .
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But, there is reason to understand why Arabs might look upon Mogahed’s appointment as a boon to their cause. Mogahed is part of an organization that is a supporter of engagement with the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood, a group whose stated purpose is to destroy the west. The Muslim Brotherhood sees its mission as, “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ’sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
As Jihadwatch reports:
Mogahed, along with John Esposito, cooked the results of a Gallup survey of Muslims to increase the number of “moderates.”
Mogahed was also a member of U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project, which called for engagement with Muslim Brotherhood.
No wonder Muslims are excited over the appointment.
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I really screwed this post up.
Sorry guys... I’m re-doing it.
It happens to the best of us!
My flaw is “flying fingers”!
One wonders exactly what her qualifications are for the job, other than wearing a veil to work.
We'll have to elect an Ataturk after Ibn al'0bama leaves office to clean out the muslim nutcases from the government.
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