Obama to Address Muslim World From Egypt

WaPo ^ | May 8, 2009 | Anne E. Kornblut

[Red Steel]

President Obama will make his promised speech to the Muslim world from Egypt, a White House official said on Friday.

Obama pledged during the campaign to address the Muslim world from a Muslim capital within the first few months of taking office. Picking a site proved challenging for a range of reasons -- from diplomacy to security -- and the decision took longer than expected, with Obama commissioning options from a research team.

Having settled on Egypt, the White House today announced that he is adding a stop there to his early June overseas trip. That trip will also take him to Normandy, France, for the anniversary of D-Day, and to the Buchenwald concentration camp and Dresden, Germany.

Choosing Egypt will inevitably bring comparisons with a major speech that then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave in Cairo 2005, urging democracy and reform in the Middle East.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“Choosing Egypt will inevitably bring comparisons with a major speech that then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave in Cairo 2005, urging democracy and reform in the Middle East.”

Especially since Hussein will be announcing the surrender of the West.

[fso301]

President Obama will make his promised speech to the Muslim world from Egypt

Uh, I thought he already did that in Turkey.

[Semper Mark]

and while he’s in Egypt making his speech to the Muslim World...we should go to the White House and move him out.

[null and void]

I’m just surprised he isn’t doing it in Tehran.

[DannyTN]

He would do it from Kenya, but I guess even Obama is not that arrogant yet.

[GOP Poet]

is there ever a day that goes by that this narcissist does nit give a speech?

[cdchik123]

yet we can’t get a ceremony during the National Day of Prayer.

[missnry]

President Obama will make his promised speech to the Muslim world from Egypt,

How ironic, the birthplace of Yasser Arafat!

[rdl6989]

I hope somebody counts the number of times he bows towards Mecca.

[ikka]

“Ich bin ein Muslim”?

[sheik yerbouty]

He is mobilizing the ummah..They are his constituency..

[happygrl]

Especially since Hussein will be announcing the surrender of the West.

He has something in mind....maybe he'll announce that he has come to bring in the Mahdi.

[joydocsusie]

Perhaps B. HUSSEIN Obama found another item to apologize for and B. HUSSEIN chose Egypt to do it in.

[joydocsusie]

Perhaps B. HUSSEIN Obama found another item to apologize for and B. HUSSEIN chose Egypt to do it in.

[Yaelle]

How many trips has he taken in these few months?

[SatinDoll]

Uh....I thought he did that already in Djakarta, Indonesia?

[4woodenboats]

Uh, I thought he already did that in Turkey

I think that was just a test jive...

[Joe Boucher]

Hopefully his socialist ass stays there in egypt.

[Jimmy Valentine]

"....maybe he'll announce that he has come to bring in the Mahdi."

More likely that he will announce that he IS the Mahdi...and the fifth Imam too!