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A Study in Contrasts
Barack Obama, June 4, 2009, in Cairo:
I’ve come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles — principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Elliot Abrams, writing yesterday at his “Pressure Points” blog for the Council on Foreign Relations:
Published in GeneralThere are many ways to measure the success of American foreign policy, and popularity is not necessarily the best one.
But when an administration and a president start out as Mr. Obama did, in essence reviling his predecessor’ policies in the Arab world and assuring Arabs that he had a new and better way, it is striking if the product is less popularity.
And that is the case in Egypt. A new Pew poll says that while [George W.] Bush’s popularity in Egypt in his last year in office, 2008, was 22 percent, today Obama’s rating has fallen even lower–to 16 percent.
Troy,
Sphinx and Sphinx Jr.
Now that I’ve got that out of my system.
The Obama foriegn policy is a failed foriegn policy. It was fundamentally flawed from the start. This is what the Benghazi cover-up is all about. As far as G.W.B., no one criticized him more or over a longer period of time than BHO. What comes round goes round.
Regards,
Jim
The lies Obama told himself were that America and Islamic countries have mutual respect, and that they both want tolerance and diginity for all people. Not true. You know, I think W wasmorerespectful of Muslims in that he spent more effort on installing a democracy in an Islamic country.
Come on now, Troy. The president has just announced a new new beginning, so here is where he turns it all around! That and yet another recovery summer, and we’re back on Easy Street.
Ah, yes, the good old days of Obmamism . . . the cringe-inducing auto-hagiographical world of our philosopher King. Yes, there’s this gigantic abstraction called “Muslims around the world” with which you, yes You, can start us anew, dispelling the benighted past with your radiant intellect.
The Left will keep clinging to this inanity, for to shed it means to admit they’ve perpetuated a fraud.
When you see these words:
doesn’t the name Muslim Brotherhood roll right off the tongue? The name of the outlawed group that Barack Hussain Obama demanded Mubarak include in the room.
We gave this moron the football.
We gave this moron the football.
Yes we did. And we Americans get the leaders we deserve. Democracies fail by choice.
After 12 years of post-911 government effort to ensure coordinated counter-terror operations by lavishly funded bureaucracies, the FBI had to ask the public who the Boston bomber was that the FBI itself interviewed some months prior.
At the same time, tax goons were busy looking into the prayer habits and reading lists of supposedly free citizens seeking nothing more than to lawfully exercise their rights.
This while the nation’s chief executive tells us that we’re silly conspiratorialists if we worry about the size, intrusiveness and competence of the Feds.
Again, we get what we deserve.
In Barry’s defense, he was originally told they were “largely secular“.
doesn’t the name Muslim Brotherhood roll right off the tongue? The name of the outlawed group that Barack Hussain Obama demanded Mubarak include in the room.
We gave this moron the football. ·2 hours ago
We gave this moron the football.
Yes we did. And we Americans get the leaders we deserve. Democracies fail by choice.
After 12 years of post-911 government effort to ensure coordinated counter-terror operations by lavishly funded bureaucracies, the FBI had to ask the public who the Boston bomber was that the FBI itself interviewed some months prior.
At the same time, tax goons were busy looking into the prayer habits and reading lists of supposedly free citizens seeking nothing more than to lawfully exercise their rights.
This while the nation’s chief executive tells us that we’re silly conspiratorialists if we worry about the size, intrusiveness and competence of the Feds.
Again, we get what we deserve. ·12 minutes ago
This is a perfect encapsulation of what’s happened, a snapshot of our own self-destruction.
I wonder what Team Barry’s response will be when we have a mostly secular beheading done to a soldier, a police officer, a woman, on the streets of NYC? Boston? San Francisco?
I wonder what Team Barry’s response will be when we have a mostly secular beheading done to a soldier, a police officer, a woman, on the streets of NYC? Boston? San Francisco?
No need to wonder, Chris . . . Barry’s Team will chalk it up to “workplace violence.” His pals in the Ministry of Main Stream Propaganda will echo that message, and that will be that.
My bad. I know Team Barry already has a response template for these things.
The easiest job in the world is when you’re not responsible for anything bad that happens, and you take credit when anything good happens. It’s Team Barry’s Winning Formula ™.
I wonder what Team Barry’s response will be when we have a mostly secular beheading done to a soldier, a police officer, a woman, on the streets of NYC? Boston? San Francisco?
No need to wonder, Chris . . . Barry’s Team will chalk it up to “workplace violence.” His pals in the Ministry of Main Stream Propaganda will echo that message, and that will be that. ·0 minutes ago