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Obama: ""I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim Countries" (Video)
Gateway Pundit —
Countries? ...I don't recall our Pravda media telling us that when Obama was running for office? That's more information than we got in two years of campaigning. Barack Obama finally talks about his Muslim family members to Al-Arabiya network yesterday in his first formal TV interview. There was so much information in this interview that I've started a second post. Here is the video via Copious Dissent: ...
The Obama al-Arabiya interview
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Barack Obama decided to give al-Arabiya the honor of getting his first one-on-one interview as President of the United States, and while that might have been a good strategic decision, Obama’s performance didn’t cash in on it. Instead of offering both openness and a tough assessment of the problems the Arabs have to solve for themselves, Obama seemed more interested in feelings than national security. And in at least one instance, Obama accepted a strange paradigm from his interviewer that underscored his naiveté: Q: I want to ask you about the broader Muslim world, but let ...
Obama on the Middle East
Informed Comment —
... The transcript of President Obama's interview on al-Arabiya Television (Dubai)is at the latter's site and I will mirror it here, below. ...
The History of “Mutual Respect”
Flopping Aces —
... “to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,”- President Obama in his first television interview, on al-Arabiya. ...
A word on Obama’s interview with Al Arabiya
Sister Toldjah —
... about Obama’s interview he did with Al Arabiya earlier last week, but wanted to expand on it more tonight. ...
Obama, the Middle East and Islam - An Initial Assessment
Daniel Pipes :: Writings —
... , and the first interview granted to Al-Arabiya television channel . What to make of this whirlwind? Afghanistan and Iraq : No surprises – more emphasis on the former and less on the latter ("you're going to see me following through with dealing with a drawdown of troops in Iraq"). Iran : A willingness to talk to the Iranian regime mixed with a flabby reassertion of the unacceptability of Tehran's actions ("Iran has acted in ways … not conducive to peace and prosperity"). Arab-Israeli conflict : A strange mix: Yes, statements about Israel's security imperatives and no ...
Judea Pearl: Why can’t elites call evil for what it is?
Sister Toldjah —
... as it relates to US/Muslim nation relations, painting the US as the aggressor. Unfortunately, Barack Obama failed in this endeavor by going into his interview with Al Arabiya not painting America as a force of good in the world but instead as a force that should be ‘contained’ and ‘restrained,’ and one that had done ‘much wrong’ to Muslims over the last 20-30 years - and he said it all in an effort to “relate” to the Muslim world. ...
Berlin Wall Fell, Obama Stays Away
Daniel Pipes :: Writings —
... ." Let us meditate briefly on Obama and the year 1989. In one of the first interviews of his fledgling presidency, on January 27, 2009, Obama informed the audience of an Arabic-language television channel that he hoped to restore "the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago." How interesting that Obama praised 1989 as a time of exemplary U.S.-Muslim relations, and not the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Nineteen eighty-nine was an undistinguished year for U.S.-Muslim relations but it was before the U.S. government had ...
Forgetting the Fall -- By: An NRO Symposium
Articles on National Review Online —
... In one of the first interviews of his fledgling presidency, on Jan. 27, 2009, Obama informed the audience of an Arabic-language television channel that he hoped to restore “the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago.” ...
