Posted on 12/14/2008 5:51:07 AM PST by Kaslin
Last week, Barack Obama made some extraordinary statements. And some of them were not made from behind “the Podium of the President-elect.”
In a not-so-widely publicized interview with journalists from the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Obama answered questions on a wide range of issues, most notably, how he intends to deal with what he calls “the Muslim world.”
Early on, Mr. Obama was asked “do you anticipate being sworn in as Barack Obama, or Barack Hussein Obama?” This is an interesting question on a variety of levels.
Over the past two years, I have uttered Mr. Obama’s obviously Arab-sounding middle name on talk radio only a handful of times. I have recited the words “Barack Husein Obama” about as many times as I have said the words “John Sidney McCain.”
I have done this a time or two on my own local radio talk show in Washington, D.C., as well as on other radio talk shows where I have guest hosted, in Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, Chicago, and on nationally syndicated programs.
Without fail, my rare references to the name “Hussein” drew nasty phone calls and email messages each time. The comments were presumably from partisan Obama supporters, calling me a “bigot,” “fear-monger,” and “racist,” and insisting that I was only saying Mr. Obama’s middle name so as to embarrass him.
Of course, the reaction from these talk radio listeners implied that there is indeed something embarrassing about Obama’s middle name And it’s interesting that American journalists would raise this issue to Obama directly, even if in a somewhat back-handed way. In response, Obama stated “I think the tradition is that they (the former Presidents) use all three names. And I will follow the tradition, not trying to make a statement one way or the other. I'll do what everybody else does..”
Now, for the record, there is no clear, concise tradition at stake here. When reciting the Oath of Office, President Dwight David Eisenhower said “I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do solemnly swear…” And when it was Ronald Wilson Reagan’s turn in 1981, he stated “I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear..,” without reference to either his middle name or middle initial.
So does Obama feel it necessary to justify the uttering of his own middle name, by fabricating the notion that he’s just “doing it the way all the other President’s did it?” Is he uncomfortable with his middle name? Is he embarrassed by it? The name itself is not so important. It’s the reaction to the name, from Obama, as well as from his partisan “supporters,” that is noteworthy.
More importantly, Obama was asked whether he still intends to “give a speech in an Islamic capitol,” something he promised to do while he was a candidate. To this, Obama replied:
“This is something that I talked about doing in the campaign and it's something that I intend to follow through on. What the time frame is, how we structure that, you know, is something that I will determine with my national security team in the coming weeks and months. But I think we've got a unique opportunity to reboot America's image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular. So, we need to take advantage of that and the message I want to send is that we will be unyielding in stamping out the kind of terrorist extremism that we saw in Mumbai…”
Throughout his campaign, Mr. Obama reiterated the popular liberal notions that America is hated throughout the world, and this hatred is all because of President Bush, and once Bush is out of the White House the world will love America again. In his famous speech from Berlin last summer, Obama claimed that both Americans and Europeans need to follow the example set by “the vast majority of Muslims” who seek peace throughout the world. And his campaign promise to deliver a speech in an Islamic capitol was thought to be the ultimate gesture of tolerance and acceptance, the ultimate celebration of diversity, that would finally bridge the gap between the Muslim world and civilized society.
Yet now, as the soon-to-be 44th President of the United States, Obama is making his proposed speech at an Islamic capitol contingent on national security concerns. In discussing his promises to “reach out” to the Muslim world, he can’t avoid mentioning the murderous attack on the economic epicenter of Mumbai by Muslim extremists. He equivocates over a simple question about his own middle name. In short, Mr. Obama is, in a variety of ways, acknowledging, however hesitantly, that there are things about the Muslim world that are absolutely uncivilized, and are not to be tolerated.
Our President-elect may be, for the first time, awakening to some harsh realities about the world. He may also be implicitly acknowledging what he has always known, and the pacifist campaign rhetoric was nothing more than that - - rhetoric.
Regardless, one can only hope that an extremely liberal Congress, and the social and political left, generally, will experience a similar “awakening.”
This is where Obama and I part company. I have yet seen or heard one "moderate" or "peaceful" Muslim anywhere throughout the world. If they exist, they are without voice. If they think, they are without action. I look for them, but I see nothing. All Muslims speak with one voice and think with one mindset, and that's to kill the infidel...period. They see no middle ground, and I see nothing that makes me think otherwise.
Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. ...
Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.
There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech. ..."
Article: Obama's women reveal his secret
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html
Baraq Hussein mohammed 0bama is, and alway has been, a muzzie raghead. I would not be surprised if he used a koran. I can’t wait to hear the MSM’s explanation.
We have spent the last eight years nudging Europeans, claiming that they need an "awakening" about liberal policy toward Islamic extremists. They have grudgingly but astutely understood the idea of appeasement is futile and suicidal to civilization, while our own leftists were either absent from the discussion or remained in the back of the class playing with themselves.
He's got this bassackwards.
The majority of Americans and Europeans seek peace, whild the majority of Muslims support terrorism, either through their actions or their inactions.
So, Obama is still saying He’ll give a speech, in a Muslim nation, directed towards Muslims in general, about someting that is in direct conflicting opposition to what the majority of Muslims think and feel. But he has to make sure the “PopeMobile” squad is available to protect him.
Good luck with that.
Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008
In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...
Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004
In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.
The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD
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From "45 Communist Goals":
#27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
Whether he uses The Holy Bible or the Koran for his reciting of the Presidential Oath of Office someone is going to be upset!
Those ill-informed American voters who put this fraud in office are in for a rude awakening if he uses the Koran.
If he uses The Holy Bible stand by for a tremendous outcry from “the Muslim World.” Not that I give a rat’s behind!
We’ll shall see...
You need to get out more.
http://www.devvy.net/audio/dec08/communitarian_hoax.html
Listen to Devvy Kidd read The Great Communitarian Hoax. Hopefully this will come back into print. It explains exactly what is occurring today in the USofA and how Socialism is spread through Mandatory Community Service and the easy ‘jump’ from there to mindless sheeple accepting Marxism.
Scary stuff. Listen and learn.
Very interesting indeed, similar in a lot of ways to How the Black community did not show any anger at all toward the divisive and racial hatred shouted by Jeramiah Wright from the Pulpit.
Like Communities may not be as radical as each other but are compelled to support in some ways the message.
Moderate Muzzie: out of ammo.
no, no, the Moderate muslim uses a remote detonator instead of self immolation...
Change you can believe in.
There are no “Moderate” Muslims, however there are “Modern” Muslims (similar in scope to modernized Jews who don’t slaughter cattle at the altar). It’s the quiet Modern Muslim (who is afraid of his/her more fundamental brethren) who do not, cannot or will not speak up. For Modern Muslims it has been “1984” ever since they decided to modernize. They have sons who would do an honor killing in an instant if they knew. They have fathers who would do an honor killing in an instant if they knew. These are the Muslims who usually only attend mosque on the “high holy days” and who may or may not “fast” during Ramadan.
Can you blame them? Once they’re dead, there’s no do-over in order to subtly influence their children and grandchildren.
Will they fight with the Resistance if it comes to that? Some will, most won’t because of fear. Death has no do-overs.
Really? And where should I go?
You know peaceful Muslims?
The only real question is will it be tehran or mecca?
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