[x_plus_one]

Christianity is a prerequisite for the modern christian democracy. This fact is too distasteful to fall out of the mouths of the liberal intelligentsia. So now, we are all told and are required to group think and agree with the premise that the coming of democracy in the middle east is just around the corner.

Obama is fiddling for time while the middle east is handed over to the moslem brotherhood.

And we are sitting on our hands with a moslem president named Barak Hussein Obama while Islam marches on. If the president was pro-christian he'd at least go by a western name.

[Uncle Ike]

” of the liberal intelligentsia. So now, we are all told and are required to group think and agree with the premise that the coming of democracy in the middle east is just around the corner. “

Sadly, it’s not just the ‘liberal intelligentsia’ — it’s a common belief among a large segment of our fellow FReepers, these days..

And if we harken back to the Iraq invasion, the unspoken assumption by all players (up to and including Rumsfeld and Bush) implicit in the ‘narrative’, was that, where the tanks passed, something akin to “Poughkeepsie-on-the-Euphrates” would spontaneously, magically, spring up in their wake...

[zzeeman]

...at least go by a western name.

That reminded me of how clueless I was during the 2008 election. I actually thought that there was NO WAY that America would ever elect a president with that name so soon after 9/11 and with all that was happening around the world and in our own country.