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Posted on 06/04/2009 9:08:48 PM PDT by jazusamo
WASHINGTON -- According to the mighty Wurlitzer in the White House press office, this week's penitent presidential venture to the Middle East has been "historic" and a "new beginning" for our relationship with Islam. Unfortunately for Mr. Obama -- and his campaign promise to make a major speech in a Muslim capital -- Osama bin Laden didn't play along. That's the trouble with homicidal megalomaniacs; they very often don't abide by the rules of "acceptable behavior."
As the Grand Apology Tour swept into Saudi Arabia, the al-Qaida terror chieftain released yet another diatribe on audiotape, condemning "U.S. aggression" in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Though Mr. Obama's carefully scripted "grand gesture" before a thoroughly screened audience in Cairo was simultaneously translated into a half-dozen tongues and broadcast around the world, it wasn't enough to push the bin Laden commentary off Islamic Web sites. That's because bin Laden gets it and Mr. Obama doesn't.
Osama bin Laden doesn't make any apologies for who he is or for the violence he advocates. He is a vicious religious extremist and is proud of the sanguinary carnage he has wrought against thousands of innocent Muslims, infidels in general, and Americans and Jews in particular. He knows his audience is but a tiny fraction of the world's 1.4 billion Muslims, and he is well aware that if only 0.1 percent of them become "jihadists," he will have succeeded. Bin Laden doesn't want to be liked. He wants to be feared.
Mr. Obama, on the other hand, is desperate for affirmation -- thus his repeated references to his "Muslim father" and "the Holy Quran" in an effort to "bond" with his Islamic audience. To demonstrate empathy with "our Arab allies" -- and show improvement from his predecessors -- he did not visit Israel and pointedly condemned Israeli settlements, which, he said, "undermine efforts to achieve peace." To further establish how "different" he is, Mr. Obama has become very deft at distorting the truth to serve his own ends.
He has been practicing the lines he used on this Muslim Outreach Expedition for months. In April, while in Turkey, Mr. Obama baldly stated, "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation." He stressed, however: "We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world -- including in my own country. The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans." "Shaped" and "enriched" are not words that spring instantly to mind when visiting ground zero in New York or the west wall of the Pentagon.
As the White House embarked on this "new chapter of engagement" between the U.S. and the Muslim world, it changed the presidential job description and stretched the facts. "I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States," Mr. Obama told his Cairo audience, "to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear." He also told an interviewer, "If you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." Sorry, Mr. President, but that's not even a stretch; it's just a baldfaced fabrication designed to ingratiate yourself with your "audience."
The 1,209 mosques in the United States claim slightly more than 2 million members. There are 48 Muslim-majority nations on earth. Even tiny Oman (population: 3.3 million) has more Muslims than the USA, as do more than two dozen Muslim-minority countries. We do have more than Iceland (Muslim population: fewer than 500).
Note to White House staff: These are called facts. He needs to stick to them. Osama bin Laden and the ayatollahs in Tehran (Iran's Muslim population: 63 million) know better, and they see his grasping for approval as what it is -- weakness. Mr. Obama's plaintive promise of "mutual respect" and his Utopian hope that a "peace agreement" between Israel and the Palestinians would keep the Iranians from using nuclear weapons and Islamists from wanting to kill Americans is beyond naive; it is dangerous.
Some of the Sunni Muslims Mr. Obama met with and spoke to in Riyadh and Cairo undoubtedly want to believe that this "enlightened" American president will protect them from extermination by a Shiite Muslim-Persian bomb. Others may even hope that he can help prevent their heads from being removed by bin Laden's minions. More likely, the pragmatic among them will get quietly to work assembling their own nuclear arsenals.
Endlessly apologizing to everyone for everything the United States has done "wrong" or "failed to do" denies the reality of our past and present enemies, and it denigrates the American people. Just prior to the president's departure for meetings with Saudi King Abdullah and the group hug with Muslim leaders in Cairo, an abortion doctor was murdered, and two U.S. soldiers were gunned down in front of an Arkansas recruiting office by a Muslim convert.
Before getting on Air Force One, Mr. Obama took time out to tell a French television reporter, "I think that the United States and the West generally, we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam," and then he ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to start protecting abortion clinics. Too bad he didn't do the same for military recruiting stations.
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Bambi can’t change the world by wishing it so. He is delusional, completely off his rocker
Amen to that!
As Ollie pointed out, Zer0 is only showing weakness.
“Sorry, Mr. President, but that’s not even a stretch; it’s just a baldfaced fabrication designed to ingratiate yourself with your “audience.””
Seems Obama, and his handlers are so stupid they don’t realize the “audience” he is ingratiating himself to is wise enough to realize they are being manipulated with words, and are insulted by his blatant and obvious disregard of their intellect.
I’m certain you pinged me jaz. I came upon this thread prior to your ping. Thanks for that in advance LOL.
Just so you found it! :)
You nailed it, the people over there won’t fall for his BS as his followers here do.
What a f*****g embarrassment “zero” is.
I predicted the bill would come due one day when Clinton was butchering and politicizing intelligence agencys, sadly I was correct.
The bill that will come due because of Barack Neville Chamberlain II Obama will make 9-11 look like a happy memory.
God help us.
It is the 1930’s again.
BUMP!
I pray you’re wrong but afraid you may be right.
He’s a narcissist; its all about him and his constant need to play the daily round of “American Idol-Uncontested”.
Some of the medias orgasmic descriptions of his speech in Cairo are beyond bizarre—they’re symptomatic.
Zero stumps daily to renew and maintain the mass hysteria/hypnosis. They call it “charisma” we call it brainwashing.
What’s it going to take before these groupies see the truth? And will they be too ashamed to ever admit that they were USED and manipulated, to be part of a movement to destroy America as we know it and their own children’s future?
So, is this just part of his global community organizing?
Pathetic, yes. Scary, yes.
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By their fruits you know them.
And looking at the fruits of Islam - I never see any love directed anywhere. All you see are pompous men claiming to be religious while picking a religion that glorifies horror, murder, torture. They seek to judge, to rule, to destroy unless the most powerful one of them has people believing just as he determines is correct.
Frankly - if you had to pick between a life filled with torture, beheadings, beatings, terrorist activities, orders from Osama, and a life filled with the Holy Spirit, love, seeing the good in people and life rather than focusing on the hate - it is not a hard choice.
I just thank God that we have a God honored by doing good rather than evil, love, rather than hate. What a blessing we were given a God of love rather than one that wants butchering. How could we have been so blessed and why did God pick man for these blessings?
Man is nothing - absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things - but God chose to send His Son to pay the price for man’s sins so that those following Him could have a place with God for eternity. God even made His Son a mixture of God and man to bring about this eternal life. What an honor and given by Jesus one born in a manger, a carpenter - not a royal king, one who rode on a donkey to the place of his cruxification to pay the price for us.
What a miracle those people saw when they looked on Jesus.
You are so right. All the while they preach saving the environment and they don’t even comprehend or see that America is being destroyed before their closed eyes.
They don’t even see that the whole environment agenda is merely about controlling America and her lands, a marxist agenda. Those people know they are teaching lies.
They must think they are god and can change one bit of the wheather, the warming/cooling of the planet. Man does not and never will have that power.
Yet, they do not see what is going on right behind them as they cloy for power to tell other Americans how to save the planet.
We are mocked daily by the Europeans for being so stupid. Article after article seeing what is happening to America and they don’t. They merely follow the party line.
They have scales over their eyes, of biblical proportion.
People of the lie.
Great article from a real American hero. Thank you.
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