The limit of Obama's imagination [Egyptian magazine calls him Barack Hussein Obama]

Al Ahram ^ | 2-28-08 | Hamid Dabashi

[SJackson]

My bold, is it OK to call him Barack Hussein when you write for an Egyptian publication?

Certainly no surprise the Jews got to Obama.

[Hamid Dabashi:] Columbia University's Hysterical Professor

A Prof [Hamid Dabashi] Tangles the Truth - article by Daniel Pipes by Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com
December 1, 2004

[vpintheak]

"Brother Barack" What's all this about him being a muslim? I gaurrantee no muslim will ever call me a brother.

[SierraWasp]

Memo to Senator McCain: “Tell those bastard Egyptian mag editors to KNOCK IT OFF!!!”(/sarcasm off)

[lakeman]

The problem with Barack Obama is thus the limit of his imagination, for the hope he has managed to generate in young and progressive Americans of all colours and creeds has now far surpassed his own limited courage. He has come up through the ranks and moved from an unknown local politician in Chicago to a national figure of open-ended possibilities. When he groomed himself to look like Malcolm X, consciously modulated the cadence of his voice to that of Martin Luther King, and actively sought the public endorsement of the Kennedys, he had no idea what hidden hopes, what repressed aspirations he would awaken among young and idealist Americans. If he does not listen carefully to the echo of the voice he has unleashed in this valley, he would be yet another bitter disappointment, even if (or particularly if) he gets to be the next President of the United States.

OUCH

[alecqss]

“is it OK to call him Barack Hussein when you write for an Egyptian publication?”

No, and Egypt should immediately apologize for that. Also no one should draw a picture of Obama.

[boxerblues]

bump for later

[The_Republican]

LOL!

[Retired Greyhound]

The Limit of Obama’s Imagination:

Destined to be a short topic

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Don’t worry. McCain will soon issue an apology to Obama for the Egyptian magazines transgression.....

[gusopol3]

I came to the United States in August 1976

maybe he can be thrown out on a technicality. Obama campaign is probably paying him to write this drivel, so Obama can say, "see, I'm not a radical."

[SJackson]

"Brother Barack" What's all this about him being a muslim? I gaurrantee no muslim will ever call me a brother.

I don't know if Dabashi is Muslim.

[zimfam007]

It is clear after reading this article that the author is obviously an immigrant that assimilated into the “hate America” culture so commonly found in academia rather than assimilating into American culture at large. If he associates so easily with the “disenfranchised and disempowered” people of the world whom America has “terrorized” over the last 8 years, then he should leave this “evil” country and stop tainting the minds of our youth.

[SJackson]

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[tumblindice]

(Saucy sax music intro.)
Bachelor number one, well, he’s a glib closet-Muslim, possibly a drug addict/rump-wrangler! Contestant number two is a bachelorette. She’s a ruthless harridan who would crush your `nads OR shake your hand! And bachelor number three is an irascible, duplicitous `Mr. Burns’.
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[bill1952]

belligerent Republican thuggery around the world and predatory capitalism at home.

We are now thugs and ... predatory capitalists??

Does this guy string for PRAVDA, as well?

Sounds like Fidel...

[Tigercap]

Someone call the Chicago Tribune!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Meanwhile the NY Times says McCain is doing it again:

McCain Steps Up Criticism of Obama
The New York Times ^ | February 28, 2008 | JULIE BOSMAN and ELISABETH BUMILLER

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Senator John McCain stepped up his critique of Senator Barack Obama on Thursday by accusing him for the second consecutive day of a willingness to hand over Iraq to Al Qaeda, as the Democratic contenders released record-breaking fund-raising figures.

At a news conference at Hobby Airport in Houston, where Mr. McCain was endorsed by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, Mr. McCain opened with a formulation of why he contended Mr. Obama is not ready to be commander in chief.

“On the issue of my differences with Senator Obama on Iraq, I want to make it very clear: This is not about decisions that were made in the past,” Mr. McCain said. “This is about decisions that a president will have to make about the future in Iraq. And a decision to unilaterally withdraw from Iraq will lead to chaos.”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What a bunch of left wing,...Marxist drivel....

There is no doubt that Horowitz has it right....

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Time for my link to :

Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left
(Paperback) by David Horowitz (Author)

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and a review:

505 of 597 people found the following review helpful:

Vastly Illuminating, September 25, 2004

By	Kat Bakhu (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Hardcover)

I had long wondered why people on the Left had the propensity to speak more positively about people who would slit their throats than they do about their own country, which affords them more freedom and opportunity than anywhere else. David Horowitz has answered that question thoroughly and convincingly in his Unholy Alliance. Where I felt bewildered and confused, I now feel crystal clear. Unholy Alliance is such a great book.

It begins with the leftist movements at the beginning of the 20th Century, and works its way up to the present day, exploring the anti-American attitude of these movements in detail. Horowitz shows that the enemies of the US back then are largely the same group today, operating under the same misperceptions, making the same mistakes, and pursuing the same impossible utopia.

Individual chapters are included on the Patriot Act (I was persuaded that it is a GOOD thing); the democratic flip-flop on Iraq once G.W. Bush implemented what they agreed with Clinton needed to be done; the driving components of the current anti-war movement; as well as chapters on individual personalities who are major spokespeople of the Left. Horowitz covers a lot of ground, and he covers it concisely and clearly. Unholy Alliance is richly informative without ever being boring or plodding.

This book is so illuminating that I simply cannot do justice to it here. I love people who reason so clearly that they help me get my own reasoning clear. Horowitz is just that type of person! In the terrain of mindless clichés (no-blood-for-oil, etc.), he is a breath of real fresh air.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Everyone needs to see this....

[calcowgirl]

Memo to Senator McCain: “Tell those bastard Egyptian mag editors to KNOCK IT OFF!!!”(/sarcasm off)

There oughta be some kinda campaign law against that sorta thing, ya know? /s