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President Obama's first call 'was to President Abbas'
timesonline.co.uk ^ | January 22, 2009 | Tom Baldwin

Posted on 01/21/2009 5:20:49 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

President Obama placed the Middle East at the forefront of his first hours in office yesterday as he sought to make good on his promise of “ushering in a new era of peace”.

In a flurry of telephone calls from the Oval Office, he reached out to leaders in the region and vowed to engage immediately in pursuit of a permanent Arab-Israeli settlement.

The spokesman for President Abbas revealed that Mr Obama had told the Palestinian leader that their conversation was his first with a foreign statesman since taking office. Mr Obama also spoke to President Mubarak of Egypt, Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, and King Abdullah of Jordan.

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1 posted on 01/21/2009 5:20:50 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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That’s great. You’d think he would put America first.


2 posted on 01/21/2009 5:23:01 PM PST by RolandTignor
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Who else would you expect someone named Hussein to call first?


3 posted on 01/21/2009 5:23:20 PM PST by stockstrader
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That’s nice. And our allies can wait their turns?

Canada? England? France? Germany? Japan? I would have thought there were about a hundred heads of state he should have called before Abbas.


4 posted on 01/21/2009 5:23:20 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“peace” as defined by the koran and muslims.


5 posted on 01/21/2009 5:24:05 PM PST by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I think I would have called our largest trading partner, and multi-thousand mile border-neighbor Canada first. Then our closest military ally, the U.K. But, that’s just me.


6 posted on 01/21/2009 5:24:15 PM PST by americanophile
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Do these calls count as “terrorist chatter”? Just wondering.


7 posted on 01/21/2009 5:24:23 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

is first call is to him, and his first action is to stop the 9-11 terrorist trials so they can get additional rights in the US courts.

Way to go hussien!


8 posted on 01/21/2009 5:24:23 PM PST by icwhatudo
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Somehow, I think I would have felt better if it had been to Gordon Brown. But that's just me, I guess.

ML/NJ

9 posted on 01/21/2009 5:24:28 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: Cicero

THere ya go, thinking the old way again. Friends who have stood by you for decades are just part of the problem.

Do I need a sarc tag?


10 posted on 01/21/2009 5:25:37 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Did he call Castro too?

ML/NJ

11 posted on 01/21/2009 5:26:04 PM PST by ml/nj
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Muzzie talking to Muzzie?


12 posted on 01/21/2009 5:26:17 PM PST by WellyP
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Boy.. all the various news of Obama’s plans to destroy our country and Israel are coming out fast and furious tonight.

Last one standing..turn out the lights please.. that is if we have any lights left burning after he destroys our energy sector too.


13 posted on 01/21/2009 5:27:08 PM PST by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Ring...Ring...Ring...

Abbas: "Hello...President Obama...is that you?"

Obama: "Allahu Akbar."

14 posted on 01/21/2009 5:27:17 PM PST by rickmichaels (I feel sick.)
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To: noiseman
Do these calls count as “terrorist chatter”? Just wondering.

It won't when he reverses the Patriot Act.

15 posted on 01/21/2009 5:28:11 PM PST by fanfan (Update on Constitutional Crisis in Canada.....Click user name)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Just damn.


16 posted on 01/21/2009 5:29:06 PM PST by NYRepublican72
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To: RolandTignor
That’s great. You’d think he would put America first.

I agree, his first call should have been to the President of the United States.

17 posted on 01/21/2009 5:29:06 PM PST by Doe Eyes
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To: penelopesire
...that is if we have any lights left burning after he destroys our energy sector too.

You nailed that one too,,,,it looks like Hussein is about to stop offshore drilling.

18 posted on 01/21/2009 5:29:29 PM PST by stockstrader
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Wonder what Israel must be thinking....


19 posted on 01/21/2009 5:32:24 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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In a flurry of telephone calls from the Oval Office, he reached out to leaders in the region and vowed to engage immediately in pursuit of a permanent Arab-Israeli settlement.

Finally we have a leader who gets it and we can soon have peace in the world. /s

ROTFLMAO because of the cool aid drinkers of hope and change.

20 posted on 01/21/2009 5:32:55 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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