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"Truly terrifying"
The American Scene —
... oppose tax hikes, or any other apologia for the Obama Administration. Here’s an idea for the GOP: present a sane, centrist plan of specific, pragmatic, sometimes painful cuts to get America’s fiscal house in order, make the case that failing to adopt the plan or some similar alternative is fiscally reckless, and win on that issue because you’ll be correct.
Happily, the Obama Administration’s foreign affairs efforts are more praiseworthy. Nice speech.
Obama In Cairo: Speaking Flattery to Power (Guest Voice)
The Moderate Voice —
... Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo is one of the most bizarre orations ever made by a U.S. president, not a foreign policy statement but rather something invented by Obama, an international campaign speech, as if his main goal was to obtain votes in the next Egyptian primary. ...
What President Obama Won't Say - "What If I am a Muslim?"
Buzz Tok —
... The idea behind the image and the headline is obviously to
try to paint the idea that President Obama is an undercover Muslim as he was about to make a speech to Muslims in Cairo. It is a feeble attempt to reignite a lot of
the internet hype/lies of the ’08 election that was spread about the then
junior Senator from Illinois. Drudge ran
a similar caption back in February of 2008. ...
What Does Obama Believe?
Just Politics..? Daily Feed —
... F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, or George W. Bush would have said. Indeed, Kennedy and Reagan both called for the Berlin Wall to come down and Bush increased U.S. aid to Africa more than any president before him. I find Obama’s remarks curious mainly because he has rejected the term “terrorism” and replaced it with “man-created disasters” which completely removes the entire “spread of evil” thing.
Before the remarks above were made Obama said this in Cairo:
But I do have an unyielding belief that all ...
No False Choices for the Impressive David Miliband
The Washington Note —
... Two things strike me about this.
First, I have watched Miliband repeatedly reach out to Arab and Muslim communities -- and he has made it a major mission of his staff to get the entire government to reframe how it approaches the challenge of modern terrorism at home and abroad. He was affirming the humanity of the Muslim population before most other Western leaders -- and has now been joined by Barack Obama in doing much the same as we saw in the US President's excellent Cairo speech.
I have always admired Miliband for rejecting the swaggerism of ...
New Middle East Events Prove it: Obama Right About Most Everything
Hit & Run —
... last seen around these parts burbling about President Obama's "metaphorical call to duty" and "redefinition of patriotism" in the face of that dreaded "strain of ideological conservatism that wields market fundamentalism as a sword and cultural populism as a shield," is back at his New Yorker "Comment" perch declaring that every recent positive bit of news out of the Middle East just might be the result of Obama's June 4 speech in Cairo. The words of an American President, even one from ...
Guest Post by Jonathan Guyer: Shipwrecked, Before Reaching Gaza
The Washington Note —
... Gaza is still a taboo subject for American leadership. Even as President Obama briefly acknowledged Gaza in his Cairo University speech ("And just as it devastates Palestinian families, the continuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza does not serve Israel's security."), not enough has been done on the ground to allow the flow of humanitarian and reconstruction aid. ...
Islamist Perfidy and Western Naivety: Which Is More Lethal?
Pajamas Media —
... burgeoned to the point of nearly making the former unnecessary. For while there is no doubt that Islamists (and their misguided Western cronies) distort the meaning of jihad, increasingly, even when the true meaning is in plain sight, America’s leaders and media still fail to discern it. In other words, apathy — or willful blindness — regarding jihad has become so deep-seated in the West that Islamists need no longer actively dissemble. Consider: When President Barack Hussein Obama address ...
OBAMA'S CAIRO SHOUT-OUT
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
... Consider: When President Barack Hussein Obama addressed the Islamic world from Cairo on June 4, 2009, he said: “As the Holy Koran tells us, ‘Be conscious of God and speak always the truth’ [Sura 9:119]. That is what I will try to do — to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us.” Let us for the moment put aside the fact that Sura 9, from whence Obama quotes, contains the most violent and intolerant exhortations in all the Koran (which is saying something). The problem here is that the original Arabic text of ...
