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Looking for the Ideal Spot to Make a Speech (Obama to Give Major Speech in Islamic Capital)
NEW YORK TIMES ^ | December 4, 2008 | Helen Cooper

Posted on 12/04/2008 9:45:15 AM PST by Alter Kaker

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office.

So where should he do it? The list of Islamic world capitals is long, and includes the obvious —Riyadh, Kuwait City, Islamabad — and the not-so-obvious — Male (the Maldives), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Some wise-guys have even suggested Dearborn, Mich., as a possibility.

Clearly it would be cheating for Mr. Obama to fly to Detroit, talk to Dearborn’s 30,000 Arab residents and call it a day. And Male and Ouagadougou, while certainly majority Muslim, can’t really be what Mr. Obama’s aides have in mind when they talk about locales for a high-profile speech that would seek to mend rifts between the United States and the broader Muslim world.

So Burkina Faso and the Maldives are out. But that leaves a whole swath of Islamic capitals, all ready to be spruced up for Mr. Obama to make his speech. I’ve thought hard about this, and asked a few people — diplomats even — which capital Mr. Obama should pick.

The consensus, after an entire day of reporting, is Cairo.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho2008; bhoforeignpolicy; dearborne; husseinobama; islam; mecca; obama
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To: Alter Kaker

Why not go for the gold and give the speech in Tehran?


41 posted on 12/04/2008 9:59:08 AM PST by BigFinn (Obama: all turban no camels.)
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To: blindsangamon; Irish Queen

Don’t you mean Londonistan??


42 posted on 12/04/2008 10:00:46 AM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: Alter Kaker

He cannot possibly be this stupid.

Oh, forgot, yes he can.


43 posted on 12/04/2008 10:00:56 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: smokingfrog

It will be Egypt..


44 posted on 12/04/2008 10:02:51 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Alter Kaker

ZERO HUSSEIN will give the speech in MECCA!! That is a certainty.. During that speeech, ZERO will announce that he has signed a Treaty there and ZERO has approved and started the Construction of a New Eastern WHITEHOUSE on the ground he is speaking from at that time!


45 posted on 12/04/2008 10:02:58 AM PST by NOBAMA in 08 ( OBIE HUSSEIN is a Pathetic Puppet of Bill Ayers and Associates!)
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To: null and void

Damien Thorne..


46 posted on 12/04/2008 10:03:32 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: NOBAMA in 08

if he makes a speech in Mecca, his very prescence there is prima fascie evidence that The Anointed One is of TROP. Non Muslims are forbidden to enter Mecca..


47 posted on 12/04/2008 10:05:30 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Alter Kaker

My guess - either Tehran or Cairo. But I’d bet on Tehran. They love to gather in these enormous crowds to hear their POS leaders speak (shouldn’t they love to hear ours?), he can meet with Mahmoud to dazzle him with his hypnotic speaking powers after Israel has destroyed their nuclear sites, and he can present himself as the Mahdi.

/s

But in all honesty, I would bet Cairo, Tehran, or maybe Jakarta. I love the Babylon comment, though. LOL - classic.


48 posted on 12/04/2008 10:05:33 AM PST by FarRightFanatic (It wasn't an election. It was a socialist coup.)
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To: Alter Kaker

Then Entitlement Uncool hasn’t even taken office yet.


49 posted on 12/04/2008 10:07:16 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Alter Kaker
Looking for the Ideal Spot to Make a Speech (Obama to Give Major Speech in Islamic Capital)

Guantanamo might be the clear choice for him. I hear he's got a lot of future loyal followers there after he frees them following the trials the democrats have been promising them.

Berkeley would be a close second. Those people there never met a terrorist they didn't like.

Or, how about one of those ultra-liberal universities in the U.S. (Columbia, Harvard, and others) where just about any terrorist leader is welcomed with open arms.
50 posted on 12/04/2008 10:07:37 AM PST by adorno
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To: Alter Kaker

Is this for real? It’s that citizen of the world bullshit again.


51 posted on 12/04/2008 10:07:52 AM PST by SMCC1
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To: sheik yerbouty
Non Muslims are forbidden to enter Mecca..

So how will ABCCBSNBCNPRPBS cover the event? Will all reporters have to convert to Islam first?

52 posted on 12/04/2008 10:08:43 AM PST by library user
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To: Alter Kaker

So where should he do it?.....

The bottom of a Baghdad porta potty, per chance?.....


53 posted on 12/04/2008 10:09:13 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Alter Kaker

A suggestion: ground zero in the Marianas Trench.


54 posted on 12/04/2008 10:09:43 AM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Alter Kaker

Tehran of course. he can stand side by side with little Ima_nutcase_on_a_jihad and help to bail him out. Times are tough in Iran too..


55 posted on 12/04/2008 10:10:02 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: Alter Kaker

I think he’d be comfortable in Mecca - maybe he can stand on top of that big black rock.....


56 posted on 12/04/2008 10:10:08 AM PST by Enchante (Countless Innocents in Mumbai, India Suffer the "Religion of Peace" in Action)
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To: Alter Kaker; Calpernia; Fred Nerks; null and void; pissant; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; ...

This-is-Not-from-the-Onion-Ping.


57 posted on 12/04/2008 10:10:23 AM PST by LucyT
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To: Troll_House_Cookies

Mogidishu alos has balmy beach breezes.
A wonderful vacation spot after a hard fought election.


58 posted on 12/04/2008 10:11:22 AM PST by woollyone ("When the tide is low, even a shrimp has its own puddle." - Vance Havner)
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To: LucyT; Alter Kaker

He’ll speak from Al-Quds, Baitul-Maqdis. Just my guess.


59 posted on 12/04/2008 10:12:44 AM PST by bvw
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To: Alter Kaker
"talk about locales for a high-profile speech that would seek to mend rifts between the United States and the broader Muslim world."

Oh BULLSH*T! How about we sit back and wait for a speech by an Islamic leader who apologizes for all the murder and mayhem caused by THEIR people.

Then we might consider talking...

60 posted on 12/04/2008 10:14:27 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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