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Firedoglake — ... Obama's speech in Cairo. Full text (below the fold). More analysis here. But...but...forcing people to buy health insurance is anti-freedom. Unions destroy all businesses, except our company's. And another little piece of K-Lo dies. Share

Obama’s Cairo speech: Surprisingly good
Hot Air » Top Picks — Obama’s Cairo speech: Surprisingly good posted at 9:28 am on June 4, 2009 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly I didn’t get the chance to watch Barack Obama’s Cairo speech live, although I’m sure that it will be chopped up on YouTube within the next couple of hours.  Instead, I read the full text posted by Andrew Malcolm , as well as Andrew’s commentary, and in most ways, it wouldn’t differ from a similar speech given by any recent American President.  In fact, the Cairo audience may have been a little surprised about the depth of the defense of Israel’s right to exist in peace, as well as the strong denunciation of ...

Obama's Cairo speech
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — Obama's Cairo speech wasn't bad. Nor did I expect it to be. Read about the whole thing here. Speeches are what Obama does. He does them well. Of course, some disagree. I have a relative like Obama. He says what you want to hear. On any particular issue he says one thing to one person in my family, and another thing to another member. I don't think he is dishonest, he simply wants to agree or please the person he is talking to. What happens though, is when you discover that he has said something very different to someone else than what he said to you, you wonder if you can trust him or you wonder what he really believes. Such is the case with ...

Obama's moral equivalence of the day
Israel Matzav — Obama's moral equivalence of the day [image] Then we have President Obama's moral equivalence of the day (text also here (Hat Tip: Memeorandum )): Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and antisemitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich. Six million Jews were killed - more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, ...

Reviews of Obama’s big Cairo speech
Sister Toldjah — Malkin and Morrissey have both weighed in with very different takes. I haven’t had a chance to read/listen to it yet - and I’m not sure I want to if it’s nothing but the typical Obama apologyfest (and do I want to hear him quote the Koran?), but here’s a transcript if you’d like to. Read more reactions via Memeorandum.

Obama's Speech to the Islamic World
Little Green Footballs — ... Andrew Malcolm has posted the full text of Barack Obama’s speech this morning: What Barack Hussein Obama told Muslims in Egypt. ...

HUFFINGTON POST: Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama’s Cairo Speech. “It betrays a na…
Instapundit — HUFFINGTON POST: Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama’s Cairo Speech. “It betrays a naiveté, perhaps feigned, about how the Arab world works.” Hot Air: Obama’s Cairo speech: Surprisingly good. They told me that if I voted for McCain, we’d get a President whose speeches on Islam were praised at Hot Air and criticized at the HuffPo. And they were right! Full text here, so you can make up your own mind. ...

Reactions To Obama’s Cairo Speech
Stop The ACLU — ... , written by Susan: Top of the Ticket has the whole speech, long winded as one would expect and the reactions to Obama’s Cairo Speech are varied on the left and the right. For example, conservative writer, Ed Morrissey at ...

How the President Betrayed Muslim Women
The Sundries Shack — ... asserted to a European interviewer last week, America is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Perhaps we’re eligible for membership in the OIC. But of course it’s a political project. You don’t seriously think that the progressive left gives a snorting rip for someone’s religious beliefs , do you? Except when the religion on question is Islam, Democrats go weak in the knees, like the President did in Cairo this past week. One of the things I found interesting about this speech (besides that he spoke at a segregated college and not a single pundit among the ...

Obamateurism of the Day
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... I wrote last week that Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo last week provided a cornucopia of Obamateurisms, and this is yet another example.  In his haste to butter up the Egyptians and the wider Muslim audience, Obama gave the Islamic world credit for an invention for which they don’t even get runner-up status: As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim ...

Obamateurism of the Day
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... For yesterday’s Obamateurism, we looked at Barack Obama’s Cairo speech for an assertion that Muslims invented the magnetic compass — which the Chinese did first, and the Europeans second before the Arabs.  In the same passage, Obama gave credit to the Muslims for inventing printing — for which they have ...