Posted on 01/28/2009 5:05:30 AM PST by Tolik
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Obama - results are in! Come and get it!
Iranian leader demands US apology
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7855444.stm
What I find humorous, and disturbing, is the during the election the nobama campaign removed women in ethnic muslim garb from out of frame during speeches, and screamed “BIGOT...RACIST” anytime any one mentioned his muslim ties. They did everything in their power to distance the candidate from his muslim heritage.
Now, in his very first sit down interview; even before a US network got one, it’s muslims, muslims EVERYWHERE in nobama’s background on a muslim news channel. Nary a peep from the media that propped up this phony during the campaign, either.
Frauds, all of them.
The Saudi’s got Obama into Harvard Law by paying for a new building at Harvard. Quid pro quo. Obama’s been bought and paid for long ago. Not to mention George Soros, Acorn, and millions of dead voters. Oops, we’re not to mention fraud anymore. Sorry.
I love VDH.
If there is a clearer-thinking writer on the American - and world - political landscape I have yet to read him. Every column a gem.
This is such a sweet, delicious fact, like a big boulder in the road that high velocity Bush haters always smash into. I've heard a couple of them melt down when this is pointed out to them.
"In an interview with one of the Middle East's major broadcasters, President Barack Obama struck a conciliatory tone toward the Islamic world, saying he wanted to persuade Muslims that 'the Americans are not your enemy,' " the New York Times reports. "The interview with Al Arabiya, an Arabic-language news channel based in Dubai, signaled a shift--in style and manner at least--from the Bush administration."
Obama also addressed Muslims directly, saying, "We respect your faith. It's practiced freely by many millions of Americans and by millions more in countries that America counts as friends. Its teachings are good and peaceful." Can you imagine George W. Bush saying anything like that?
Oh wait, sorry, Homer nods: That last quote was from Bush's speech on Sept. 20, 2001.
Still, the pace of change is just dizzying! OK, so it's not so much what Obama said, but where he said it. Bush would never have given an interview to Al Aribiya.
Darn it, we messed up again! The Associated Press reports that "Obama's choice of Al-Arabiya network, which is owned by a Saudi businessman, follows the lead of the Bush administration, which gave several presidential interviews to that news channel."
Even so, change is all around us! As the AP notes, the new president's policies are completely different:
Obama's predecessor, former President George W. Bush, launched wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which prompted a massive backlash against the U.S. in the Muslim world.
Bush just went around launching wars for no reason! It's not as if these wars were provoked by an attack on America or an invasion of a neighboring country, or else the AP would have mentioned it. Obama, by contrast, just wants to give peace a chance, as another Associated Press dispatch notes:
Obama is expected to double the number of American troops in Afghanistan this year, as the country becomes one of his foreign policy priorities.
The Washington Post reports that "the change in Washington appears to have rattled al-Qaeda's leaders, some of whom are scrambling to convince the faithful that Obama and Bush are essentially the same." Good luck with that, guys!
That is a priceless book cover. And he has lived with them.
worth reading
I'm inclined to believe this. It'll be easier to do if I can see something to corroborate it.
If you read the Al-Arabiya interview, Obama says that he has ‘lived in Muslim countries.’
He used the PLURAL. Think about it.
I can only repeat my tagline: “Please God, save the United States from the Democrats,” and I might add: Barack Hussein Obama. “Amen”.
BUMP!!!!
—put me on the VDH ping list , please—
He always makes too much sense to be taken seriously in Washington.
The argument from Osama bin Laden that America is a “weak horse” was one of the most crucial in his decision to attack America back then and there. Regardless of how it was framed in words by our allies and enemies, the whole idea of American response was to demonstrate that we are the “strong horse” and the jihadists are the weak one.
Every step of the way this message was misserved or outright attacked by our own media, and by international media, following its example. The world would have been much more safer place already if enemies of the West knew, that the West can’t be clobbered into a submission by a low level terror with an occasional bigger success and by clever propaganda playing on the west’s own sensitivities (absent in the Islamists world of course).
The examples you posted highlight quite well that big chunk of media is capable only to play hate-Bush-love-Obama game and can’t do serious analysis of serious issues.
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Thanks
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