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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

Tehran. With a Code Pink Honor Guard.


61 posted on 12/04/2008 10:14:57 AM PST by Doctor Raoul (It's no longer the Press Van, it's a "Tanker" Truck!)
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To: Alter Kaker

Obama should find a nice cave on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan and seek out Bin Laden. Surely, Osama BL could suggest some great places for Obama, born Islamic under
Sharia Law, to give his “Manchuarian Candidate” speech . . .


62 posted on 12/04/2008 10:16:01 AM PST by gatorman (Gatorman - DEFENDER of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy in Sheepleland.)
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To: Alter Kaker

Yemen


63 posted on 12/04/2008 10:17:01 AM PST by Carley (Prayers for Sgt. Eddie Ryan)
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To: Made In The USA

Wouldn’t it be strangely surreal if he chose the Temple Mount...


64 posted on 12/04/2008 10:17:05 AM PST by xmission (www.iwilldefendtheconstitution.com)
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To: Centurion2000
Hmmm .. I'm betting ... BABYLON ... about 90 klicks south of Baghdad.

He could announce he is building the New Babylon there, which would be the new capital of the world.

65 posted on 12/04/2008 10:17:20 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; SunkenCiv
How about Detroit?
66 posted on 12/04/2008 10:18:38 AM PST by Perdogg (01-20-2013 Obama's last day - If we survive)
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To: Alter Kaker

I hear Mogadishu and Nairobi are nice this time of year. And after all, they voted for Obama.


67 posted on 12/04/2008 10:20:55 AM PST by pabianice
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To: Zhang Fei

How about Peshawar or Islamabad...perhaps Kabul.


68 posted on 12/04/2008 10:21:15 AM PST by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to America)
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To: Alter Kaker

Heal the rift? Yeah, maybe you should talk with India about that rift.


69 posted on 12/04/2008 10:21:30 AM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: FarRightFanatic

Will he first crawl out of the sacred well?


70 posted on 12/04/2008 10:22:53 AM PST by satan
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To: econjack

Obama is a moron if he thinks talking to the islamics will change their minds about killing infidels. The NYT must be morons, too, if they think this is a serious possibility.


71 posted on 12/04/2008 10:23:28 AM PST by astounded (The democrat party is a clear and present danger to America)
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To: Alter Kaker

How about Crapistan?


72 posted on 12/04/2008 10:26:02 AM PST by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: library user
So how will ABCCBSNBCNPRPBS cover the event? Will all reporters have to convert to Islam first?

No, they'll have a dhimmi embed.

73 posted on 12/04/2008 10:26:39 AM PST by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: smokingfrog

Oh, my!!

LIke father, like son?


74 posted on 12/04/2008 10:27:45 AM PST by Iowan
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To: r9etb

I’d suggest Cairo....more Islamic Militants there. He’d be speaking to Zawahiri’s Muslim Brotherhood buddies.


75 posted on 12/04/2008 10:27:57 AM PST by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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To: Troll_House_Cookies

I’ve been to Indonesia and the southern Philippines about this time of year. Great beaches and food....


76 posted on 12/04/2008 10:31:04 AM PST by VanShuyten ("Ah! but it was something to have at least a choice of nightmares.")
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To: Alter Kaker

The question remains,,why?


77 posted on 12/04/2008 10:31:39 AM PST by austinaero
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To: goodnesswins

TOP OF THE WORLD MA!

78 posted on 12/04/2008 10:31:54 AM PST by Vaquero ( "an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: missnry
Asscrackistan?

Whoooey, hoo boy, that really got me laughing!

79 posted on 12/04/2008 10:32:53 AM PST by happygrl (BORG: Barack 0bama Resistance Group: we will not be assimilated)
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To: Made In The USA

“How about Mecca? Isn’t B. Hussein supposed to lap that big box thingy a bunch of times? I think the ritual calls for Obama to wear a sombrero, whistle dixie, do shots of Gin, and briefly pause every so often to do the macarena dressed as Porky Pig.”

LMAO!!!! Thank you for that! I have tears in my eyes...GOD but you provided some much-needed comic relief!!


80 posted on 12/04/2008 10:33:18 AM PST by austinaero
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