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CNN's Zakaria: ‘Obama could have given’ Trump’s Saudi speech
The Hill ^ | 05/22/2017 | Mark Hensch

Posted on 05/22/2017 5:05:30 PM PDT by ForYourChildren

".@FareedZakaria: Trump’s speech on Islam “was frankly the kind of speech Obama could have given" https://t.co/mxgAJY6Qbx " — Brooke Baldwin (@BrookeBCNN) May 22, 2017

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Monday praised President Trump's weekend speech in Saudi Arabia, saying former President Obama could have given it.

“It was nuanced. It was frankly the kind of speech that President Obama could have given. It had the kind of empathy and nuance that people look for," Zakaria said Monday on CNN, praising "both the symbolism and ... the substance."

“Because ultimately what you’re trying to do is convince these Muslim countries to in some way take on, battle, expel as President Trump said, the scourge of Islamic terrorism.”

Zakaria added that Trump’s remarks pleased Arab leaders by sounding “more resolutely anti-Iranian” than past presidents'.

“There’s no question people in the region, particularly the Arab dictators and Arab monarchs, like what they hear from Trump.”

Trump on Sunday implored Muslim nations to form a new coalition to defeat extremism.

“[Terrorists] do not worship God, they worship death,” he told leaders of more than 50 Muslim-majority nations. “A better future is only possible if your nations drive out the terrorists and drive out the extremists.”

Trump’s speech avoided the term “radical Islamic terrorism,” a phrase he often used during his 2016 election campaign.

The president, who repeatedly criticized Obama for avoiding the term, instead described a “crisis of Islamic extremism, and the Islamists and Islamic terror of all kinds."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cnn; fakenews; obama; saudi
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To: ForYourChildren

Arabs are pretty stoic souls but the thought of Obama giving that speech would have them rolling the aisles laughing their asses off


41 posted on 05/22/2017 5:24:31 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (the long night is over)
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To: ForYourChildren

Hey Zakaria, you’re dumber than dog poop. Shoulda, woulda, coulda doesn’t count in the real world.


42 posted on 05/22/2017 5:25:55 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: All

yes he could, at the Vatican


43 posted on 05/22/2017 5:26:10 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (If I had a dollar for every time Stephen Colbert has made me laugh, I'd be broke)
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To: ForYourChildren

Only if he weren’t in league with their beliefs, had a backbone and weren’t such a parsimonious ass...

And yes, that is racist...


44 posted on 05/22/2017 5:30:30 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ForYourChildren

O’bummer would have NEVER given a speech like that.


45 posted on 05/22/2017 5:31:48 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: ForYourChildren

shouda coulda woulda, obama is a cockroach under trumps foot. He could never be the man Trump is


46 posted on 05/22/2017 5:32:09 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: ForYourChildren

So why didn’t he?


47 posted on 05/22/2017 5:32:14 PM PDT by Gamecock ("We always choose according to our greatest inclination at the moment." R.C. Sproul)
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To: ForYourChildren

However, Obama groveled, bowed and kissed the Saudis.

Potus Trump gave a great speech.


48 posted on 05/22/2017 5:33:54 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (120+ days without ving Hilliarly/Huma as POTUS! Thanks, President Trump for this great reality gift!)
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To: Sasparilla

Zakaria is a jerk. “Obama could have given this speech [but didn’t].” Then: “The speech will be welcomed by dictators and monarchs.” Trying to have it both ways.


49 posted on 05/22/2017 5:35:21 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: ForYourChildren

And if a frog had wings.....


50 posted on 05/22/2017 5:35:25 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: ForYourChildren

It’s such a breathtaking fairy tale, Zakaria is beyond being a liar, beyond biased in saying it. He’s evil.


51 posted on 05/22/2017 5:36:13 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: ForYourChildren

In Obama’s case “could” = No Bloody Way


52 posted on 05/22/2017 5:37:30 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ForYourChildren
And if my aunt had any balls, she could be my uncle.

Paraphrasing Christianne Amanpour on CNN today, she said there was absolutely no way Trump could achieve peace in the region, but if he did it would only be because of the work of presidents and diplomats before him who did all the heavy lifting. LOL!

So he can't do it but if he does she wants to give Obama and Kerry the credit!

53 posted on 05/22/2017 5:41:08 PM PDT by dead
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To: ForYourChildren

As a Muslim, Obama couldn’t have given it.


54 posted on 05/22/2017 5:44:59 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: ForYourChildren

Then why didn’t he?


55 posted on 05/22/2017 5:45:21 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: ForYourChildren

So is Zakaria deaf? One of the major thrusts of Trump’s speech was to urge isolation of Iran - to form an alliance to counter Iran. Obama kept saying that Saudi Arabia and Iran should find a way to “share” the Middle East - to find a way to live together. Obama had a tilt toward Iran, which antagonized Saudi Arabia.


56 posted on 05/22/2017 5:47:58 PM PDT by RAldrich
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To: ForYourChildren

It would have been nearly impossible to read the teleprompter with him all bent over and his head pointed towards the king’s crotch like he was, though.


57 posted on 05/22/2017 5:48:32 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (12:01 PM 1/20/2017,,,The end of an error.)
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To: ForYourChildren
CNN's Zakaria: ‘Obama could have given’ Trump’s Saudi speech

This nitwit is too stupid to realize that Obama couldn't even have shined Trump's shoes...on Sunday...in Times Square...at high noon...with pre-printed instructions.

58 posted on 05/22/2017 5:49:54 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: ForYourChildren

Did the douche explain why Obie didn’t give the speech? Eight years not long enough?


59 posted on 05/22/2017 5:51:50 PM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: ForYourChildren

But he didn’t. Trump DID. enough said.


60 posted on 05/22/2017 5:53:26 PM PDT by Newton (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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