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Barack Obama plans to reach out to Muslim world
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... to be sworn in like every other president, using his full name: Barack Hussein Obama. "I think we've got a unique opportunity to reboot America's image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular,'' Obama said Tuesday, promising an "unrelenting" desire to "create a relationship of mutual respect and partnership in countries and with peoples of good will who want their citizens and ours to prosper together." The world, he said, "is ready for that message." Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-b...
Obama Plans to Reach Out to Muslim World
The Page by Mark Halperin —
Obama steering clear of Illinois scandal
The Swamp —
... Obama, for his part, maintains that he had never discussed the appointment of his replacement with Blagojevich, portrayed by federal prosecutors as offering the seat to the highest bidder in the land of Lincoln. ...
Amanda Carpenter: Obama to "Reboot" Relations with Muslim World
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Barack Obama believes his presidency presents the opportunity to renew relations with the Muslim world. "I think we've got a unique opportunity to reboot America's image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular,'' Obama told the Chicago Tribune. Last week the New York Times reported Obama's staff was considering scheduling a speech in a Islamic capital during Obama's first 100 days, like Cairo or Jakarta where Obama spent time as a child. Obama confirmed this to the Tribune reporters. Obama said he had an "unrelenting" willingness to "create a relationship ...
Wonderful: Obama Plans to 'Reach Out' to Muslim World
JammieWearingFool —
In typical mamby-pamby liberal fashion, he calls this shamless pandering reaching out . Considering we've been under attack by radical Islam for decades now, shouldn't it be the Muslims getting their house in order and doing the reaching out? Barack Obama says his presidency is an opportunity for the U.S. to renovate its relations with the Muslim world, starting the day of his inauguration and continuing with a speech he plans to deliver in an Islamic capital. And when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20, he plans to be sworn in like every other president, using his full name: ...
The Early Word: Blagojevich Fallout
The Caucus —
... On Tuesday Illinois Senator Richard Durbin suggested that a special election be held to fill the vacancy. On the president-elect’s schedule today: Private meetings in Chicago where he will be joined by Vice President-elect Joe Biden, according to the transition team. Mr. Obama didn’t say much about the Blagojevich scandal in an interview with the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday , his first newspaper interview since the election, but he did discuss his plans to travel to ...
Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central —
... In a new interview with the Chicago Tribune, Barack Obama confirmed that he will use his middle name, "Hussein," as he takes the oath of office in January. "I'm not trying to make a statement one way or another," Obama said. "I'll do what everybody else does." ...
What Is It We Did To The Muslim World?
Riehl World View —
Via Amanda Carpenter at Townhall linking to this item.
I get it, ... okay?
Still, from the Marines in Lebanon, the USS Cole, 9/11 ... to Mumbai, among many other issues and incidents, not to forget our sacrificing to liberate millions of Muslims in Iraq and Bush's careful rhetoric all along ... what the Hell is it we did to the Muslim world that requires us to improve our image? And what does he intend to do to "reboot" the image of Muslims to many fair minded Americans who look at world events and wonder what the Hell ...
Transition News 12/10
The Stump —
... Obama wants
to change America's image in the Muslim
world--and he will say his middle name, Hussein,
at the inauguration.
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Barrack Hussein Obama’s Middle Name Comes Out of Hiding
Say Anything —
But But But John McCain put the middle name off limits.
So now it’s ok to use his middle name?
Barack Obama says his presidency is an opportunity for the U.S. to renovate its relations with the Muslim world, starting the day of his inauguration and continuing with a speech he plans to deliver in an Islamic capital.
And when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20, he plans to be sworn in like every other president, using his full name: ...
ChiTrib: He'll 'Be Sworn in Like Every Other President, Using His Full Name: Barack Hussein Obama'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Today's Chicago Tribune boasts of an interview with Barack Obama. Carried in both the print and Web editions, the latter version is headlined: "Barack Obama plans to reach out to Muslim world: In exclusive interview, he says he plans to be sworn in like every other president, using his full name: Barack Hussein Obama" ...
Obama/Blagojevich or Podcasts?
The Anchoress —
... It makes sense to me that a senator who is moving on to become president would have some contact with the sitting Governor about his replacement. Barack Hussein Obama (as with Ms. Rodham-Clinton in 1992, we’re allowed to use the full name now that the election is over) is stupid to deny that he’s ever talked to Blagojevich; it just makes gives him a quick patina of mendacity - and gets people thinking, “so much for change…” ...
Obama to Use Full Name When He Takes the Oath of Office
The Caucus —
... The president-elect told the Chicago Tribune that he would use his middle name out of tradition but also because it could help re-establish ties with Muslim countries. “I think we’ve got a unique opportunity to reboot America’s image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular,” Mr. Obama told the newspaper Tuesday. He also said he had an “unrelenting” desire to “create a relationship of mutual respect and partnership in countries and with peoples of good will who want their citizens and ours to prosper together.” The world, he said, “is ready for that ...
Obama to "reboot" America's image in the Islamic world
Jihad Watch —
... "Barack Obama plans to reach out to Muslim world," by Christi Parsons, John McCormick and Peter Nicholas for the Chicago Tribune, December 9 (thanks to all who sent this in): ...
The Whole Camel
Gates of Vienna —
... in outreach to the Religion of Peace, and an indication of the increasing dhimmification of the Bush administration during the waning of its second term. With the imminent ascension of President Barack Hussein Obama, all indications are that Sada Cumber’s position will become superfluous. Mr. Obama intends to act as Chief Muslim Outreach Officer in his own administration. Not only that, he plans to celebrate his Husseinity at his swearing in. According to The Chicago Tribune: Barack Obama plans to reach out to ...
I Applaud Barack
Rhymes With Right —
It is his name he should use it proudly . Barack Obama says his presidency is an opportunity for the U.S. to renovate its relations with the Muslim world, starting the day of his inauguration and continuing with a speech he plans to deliver in an Islamic capital. And when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20, he plans to be sworn in like every other president, using his full name: Barack Hussein Obama. The mans name is Barack Hussein Obama. Why should he shrink from using it? Indeed, one of the silliest controversies of the election season was over whether or not the use of ...
I just had a rivalgasm! Was it good for you, too?
Corrente —
Every time Obama takes even more counsel from wingnuts, don't you feel the earth move in the scintillating "Team of Rivals" way that's got the Village all a-twitter?
Ooh, ahhh, just a little more to the right. OOOOOHHHH! YES! YES! YES!
...Obama said he has found inspiration in a "prayer circle" of supportive clergy leaders.
Pastors on that regular prayer phone call toward the end of the campaign included T.D. Jakes, of the Dallas-based mega-church The Potter's House, Saddleback mega-church pastor Rick Warren and Joseph Lowery of ...
ThinkFast: December 11, 2008
Think Progress —
... In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, President-elect Barack Obama said his presidency is an opportunity for the U.S. to rebuild its relations with the Muslim world. He is planning to “set the tone with ...
