article.nationalreview.com - 6/5/2009
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Obama has a cult of personality in the Muslim street. If he can exploit it for Americas and the worlds benefit, he should.
jihadwatch.org - 6/4/2009
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jihadwatch.org —
Here is the text as prepared for delivery,
provided by the White House, via USA Today ,...
June 4 -- with comments interspersed: I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand ...
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Platitudes and naivete: Obama's Cairo speech
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 6/4/2009
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President Barack Hussein Obama , born to a
Muslim father and educated in a Muslim country, won...
a rousing response in Cairo today with an outreach to a Muslim world that reviled his predecessor George W. Bush. He won a gasping cheer at the start, ...
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What Barack Hussein Obama told Muslims in Egypt (text here)
huffingtonpost.com - 6/4/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
Below, the full text of President Obama's speech
in Cairo, Egypt, titled "A New Beginning." Video coming...
soon... * * * * I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand ...
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Obama Speech In Cairo: VIDEO, Full Text
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The Corner on National Review Online —
... , and focuses on the key policy weakness on Iran. I enjoyed Jonah s column today and I suspect we agree about 70-80% on the speech. But Jonah leaves out a key thing in criticizing Obama s self-regard. In discussing his personal history, Obama said this: Much has been made of the fact that an African-American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President. But my personal story is not so unique . I have been appalled by Obama s solipsism from the very beginning, but this is exactly how he should be using his story to shed a better light on his country for ...
Summary
PoliPundit.com —
Jonah Goldberg sums up Obama’s Middle East trip:
In addition to CEO of GM, Thwarter of Rising Ocean Tides, and countless other duties not found in the Constitution or tradition, Obama has decided to add Defender of the Muslim Faith to his job description.
Barack Obama, Defender of the Faith
Patterico's Pontifications —
... noticed Barack Obama’s promise to defend the Muslim faith from its detractors. A day later, Jonah Goldberg commented on Obama’s new job description: ...
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mudvillegazette.com 5/25/2009 — From July, 2008...
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"I’m reluctant to say “the war has ended,” as he did, but everything else he wrote is undoubtedly true."
- Michael Totten , on Michael Yon.
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Obama: 'New beginning' in Cairo
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CAIRO -- President Barack Obama, calling for "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world,'' said in a long-promised and widely watched address from Cairo today that the "cycle of ...
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