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The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama ("he talks too much")
http://online.wsj.com ^ | NOVEMBER 29, 2009, | FOUAD AJAMI

Posted on 11/29/2009 10:00:28 PM PST by Para-Ord.45

A foreign policy of penance has won America no friends. By FOUAD AJAMI

'He talks too much," a Saudi academic in Jeddah,...

It was the norm for American liberalism during the Bush years to brandish the Pew Global Attitudes survey that told of America's decline in the eyes of foreign nations.

... 2009 bring findings from the world of Islam that confirm that the animus toward America has not been radically changed by the ascendancy of Mr. Obama. In the Palestinian territories, 15% have a favorable view of the U.S. while 82% have an unfavorable view. The Obama speech in Ankara didn't seem to help in Turkey, where the favorables are 14% and those unreconciled, 69%. In Egypt, a country that's reaped nearly 40 years of American aid, things stayed roughly the same: 27% have a favorable view of the U.S. while 70% do not. In Pakistan, a place of great consequence for American power, our standing has deteriorated: The unfavorables rose from 63% in 2008 to 68% this year.

Mr. Obama has himself to blame for the disarray of his foreign policy. American arms had won a decent outcome in Iraq, but Mr. Obama would not claim it...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabworld; bho44; bhojobapproval; worldopinion

1 posted on 11/29/2009 10:00:28 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
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To: Para-Ord.45

Talks a lot; says nothing.


2 posted on 11/29/2009 10:02:52 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Para-Ord.45

NO CHIT?? The muzzie at least got this one spot on!

He says NOTHING better than anybody!

Barry is too egomaniacal and narcissistic to grasp the First Law of Holes:
“When you get to the bottom, STOP DIGGING!!”

SOME FOLKS THINK HE TALKS TOO MUCH!

I say put on another pot of coffee and TURN HIM LOOSE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-SP_JzyRFs


3 posted on 11/29/2009 10:03:24 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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To: Para-Ord.45

His tribal Indian name: Empty Buffalo Hide.


4 posted on 11/29/2009 10:04:23 PM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

This song is as old as Barry is...

Momma Stan Ann probably sang it to him...

You Talk Too Much

(Joe Jones and Reginald Hall)

You talk too much
You worry me to death
You talk too much
You even worry my pet

You just talk
Talk too much

You talk about people
That you don’t know
You talk about people
Wherever you go

You just talk
Talk too much

You talk about people
That you’ve never seen
You talk about people
You can make me scream

You just talk
you talk too much

[Instrumental Interlude]

You talk too much
You worry me to death
You talk too much
You even worry my pet

You just talk
Talk too much

You talk about people
That you don’t know
You talk about people
Wherever you go

You just talk
Talk too much

You talk about people
That you’ve never seen
You talk about people
You can make me scream


5 posted on 11/29/2009 10:05:20 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: exit82

His other tribal Indian name: Dances with Party Crashers.


6 posted on 11/29/2009 10:12:04 PM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: Para-Ord.45
Obama:

Blah, blah, blah, America sucks, blah, blah, let me bow low before you, blah, blah, let the evil imperialist nation I represent kiss your @ss, blah, blah, America sucks, blah, blah...

7 posted on 11/29/2009 10:16:08 PM PST by MCH
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To: Para-Ord.45

Good job, Barry. You campaigned on the idea that you could change the world’s opinion of the US. You succeeded.

They used to fear us. Now they laugh at us.


8 posted on 11/29/2009 10:24:47 PM PST by bigbob
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To: bigbob

“They used to fear us. Now they laugh at us.”

Kind of like my beloved Chicago Bears. *sob*


9 posted on 11/29/2009 10:43:56 PM PST by karnage (worn arguments and old attitudes)
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To: Para-Ord.45

All of his speeches are about him in some odd twisted way. He references himself or some alleged past experience, even to a point of non-relevancy.


10 posted on 11/29/2009 10:59:00 PM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Para-Ord.45
Headline:

Muslim Street Tired of Boy Prez Babble, Want Money and Surrender Now


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

11 posted on 11/29/2009 11:03:21 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: skr
Talks a lot; says nothing.

There is nothing a liberal elitist loves more than the sound of his own voice.

12 posted on 11/29/2009 11:07:15 PM PST by freespirited (People talk about "too big to fail." Our government is too big to succeed. --Chris Chocola)
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To: Tennessee Nana
This song is as old as Barry is...

Joe Jones, 1960:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GOYYbiEul0

13 posted on 11/29/2009 11:12:54 PM PST by TChad
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To: Para-Ord.45
From Washington to Jackson, presidents gave about three speeches a year on average. In his first year in office, President Clinton gave over 600. Things have changed, but it's not clear they've changed for the better.
14 posted on 11/29/2009 11:15:30 PM PST by smokingfrog (I'm from TEXAS -- what country are YOU from?)
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To: Para-Ord.45

On his first apology tour of Arabia, the Bummer shared a highly suspect narrative of Arab history. It could be they don’t want the “compliments.”


15 posted on 11/29/2009 11:31:01 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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To: Para-Ord.45

Only other narcissists enjoy pandering.


16 posted on 11/30/2009 12:51:55 AM PST by Psalm 144 (What did you think NEW WORLD ORDER meant? The Constitution? States' rights? Individual liberty?)
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To: Para-Ord.45
Two very telling paragraphs from the article;

"...No one told Mr. Obama that the Islamic world, where American power is engaged and so dangerously exposed, it is considered bad form, nay a great moral lapse, to speak ill of one's own tribe when in the midst, and in the lands, of others."

"...but in the privacy of their own language they doubtless wondered about his character and his fidelity. 'My brother and I against my cousin, my cousin and I against the stranger,' goes one of the Arab world's most honored maxims. The stranger who came into their midst and spoke badly of his own was destined to become an object of suspicion."

17 posted on 11/30/2009 5:09:26 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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