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President Barack Obama sought a “new beginning” between the United States and Muslims around the world in a major speech…but offered no new initiative to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
“We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world — tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate,” the U.S. president said in a speech at Cairo University.
“I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect,” he said. “America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition.”
Obama’s speech, interrupted by applause and occasional shouts of “we love you,” was an effort to restore the tarnished U.S. image among many of the more than 1 billion Muslims around the world, badly damaged by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the treatment of U.S. military detainees…
The choice of Cairo for the speech underscored Obama’s focus on the Middle East, where he faces huge foreign policy challenges, from trying to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to curbing Iran’s nuclear program.
How many Americans ask the same questions that people in the Middle East are asking? How many Americans questioned the policies that brought us to where we are?
How many of you believe that the relationship between the United States and the world of Islam can and will improve?
Here’s the prepared text of the speech.
#40 – Still not letting any facts get in the way of your hate?
But why should I care cause Obama’s gonna get me a pony, especially now that gas prices are going up.
All this muslim talk reminds me…did 24 jump the fucking shark or what. Who wrote that god awful POS this season. Bring back Sara Conner instead.
#41 Obama is focused on his political agenda…white Titanic is sinking fast
He is doctrinaire…facts means nothing to him…
Ronald Regan had a similar economy and with regulations rollbacks and tax cuts, ushered in a 20 year boom…
Obama is ushering in a decade long depression making the same mistakes FDR did and more…
“Its the economy stupid!” Clinton ought to tell Obama that.
What an idiot….making stupidly incorrect speeches pissing off our allies while our economy is sliding into the abyss…
This loser is taking us all with him.
Screw his stupid speeches….people are hurting…jobs homes families…are all under attack…and this dick head is flying around making speeches…
All the republican morons in here can only comment with “ROFL”, “I want a pony” and other juvenile shit.
Excellent. That tells me Obama is on the right track. Nothing of substance from the party of “No and I don’t know” as a response.
Obama said in his GREAT speech to the Muslim community what is below. I urge my fellow republicans to read it and learn what a leader is like. Go ahead, read it.
I would also add in a not so eloquent way, to STFU, you lost the election and fuck you.
“..Some suggest that it isn’t worth the effort – that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash. Many more are simply skeptical that real change can occur. There is so much fear, so much mistrust. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward..”
#7
Your memory is poor then for terrorist acts.
Not to mention that these terrorists are about as muslim as the
christians than bomb abortion clinics, are part of the klan and shot
a doctor in his own church.
#9
How about we do our part on our domestic terrorism?
-Thug Police
-KKK/White Power
-Christian Militia
Stones and glass houses come to mind.
#14
Muslims did not attack us on 9/11. Plain old ordinary evil men
did it. They are no more muslim than christians that are part of
the klan.
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Dallas, I guess your warm fuzzies for The “Muslim community” don’t extend to your own countrymen if they don’t vote correctly. STFU? Are you in grade school?
#47 .. , I guess your warm fuzzies for The “Muslim community” don’t extend to your own countrymen if they don’t vote correctly.Are you in grade school? ..
Did you not read my earlier post? I covered comments from you and other who think they are on some sort of higher moral ground.
Call it warm and fuzzy for Muslims if you like, Sure.
No. Not in grade school. I covered that too. If you must know, I’m electrical engineer that pays more taxes than 97% of the population with an education in the top 5.4%. You?
I did read your earlier post but I must confess, your point escapes me.I don’t consider myself morally superior, but your status whoring is indicative of the O worshipers I know.
Obama pledged to “create a new online network, so a young person in Kansas can communicate instantly with a young person in Cairo.”
If Bush had said this…
I find it revealing that “it is a sign neither of courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That’s not how moral authority is claimed; that’s how it is surrendered.” weren’t applause lines to the Egyptian audience watching President Obama. Like one of my readers, I agree it’s a great line, but I suspect it’s falling on deaf ears, which is why this speech feels good but is ultimately unproductive.
In fact, the lines that garnered applause were depressingly predictable. Anything in the vein of “America has been wrong in the past” or “Israel is wrong” got applause; anything in the vein of “Muslims have been wrong in the past” or “Muslims are making the wrong decision” was met with silence, as far as I can tell.
It seems there was a very positive reaction to “The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements” and “it is time for these settlements to stop,” but nothing for the seemingly commonsense “Hamas must put an end to violence, recognize past agreements, recognize Israel’s right to exist.”
The Muslim world cannot get along with each other. How is the US going to somehow manage this? Just because our president has some Muslim roots? Come on, who are we kidding.
I know Obama is deffinately trying to make a legacy for himself. But he is building too many fires and cannot watch all of them. I think his first task is to find a way to get ourselves out of the middle east and that would settle down the negative feelings they have for us.
#41 ps your “hate” crap is getting old…everyone can tell you are trying to deflect legitimate criticism by characterizing it as hate…
You are an enabler of tyranny…the true hater of freedom.
Alfrd1,
“What an idiot….”
“This loser…”
“Screw his stupid speeches….”
“…and this dick head….”
“and the dickhead is off ”
And the worst one of all:
“facts means nothing to him…”
All from your posts but the last one actually made laugh out loud! What a hypocrite you are. Wow!
“but offered no new initiative to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”
Thats an easy one.
STOP GIVING ISRAEL MONEY TO BUY WEAPONS TO KILL PALESTINIANS THEN DEFENDING THEM IN THE UN WHEN THEY USE THOSE WEAPONS!
There, solved the problem!
Basically, if you limit yourself to the truth of the way things have been, or are now, then YOU are part of the problem.
But, if you put yourself into the position of seeing how things need to be in order to solve the situation, then you don’t talk about the same things, or in the same way, as those who are part of the problem, because you are part of the SOLUTION!!
#55–Yea but jerkwad, I mean Zbitch==and speaking as you do as part of the problem, the Palestians lost a war and won’t accept their loser status as long as there are dipshits like you in this world. The USA keeps giving the Israeli’s the weapons to wipe the face of the earth clean, and they keep refusing to do it. Just give them enough BS for them to finally conclude for a long term solution instead of seeking peace as they have done so far.
Wow he didn’t use the word ‘crusade’ when addressing American – Muslim relations. Now thats diplomacy!
Better this than those previous eight years of a cowboy barging in crotch first into the Middle East.
#48 No. Not in grade school. I covered that too. If you must know, I’m electrical engineer that pays more taxes than 97% of the population with an education in the top 5.4%. You?
Dallas,
I know you don’t like to brag but please tell us what you really think and take it easy that throbbing in your head is your blood pressure. Too much STFU maybe? Loved that one since your mama taught it to you don’t you?
One question, if you live in Texas how in the hell do you survive?
/a soundwash distraction
Methinks there can be no doubt now as to what image obama is being marketed
as.
The current picture of the “Anointed One” on tour in the middle east that is on the front page of http://whitehouse.gov has picture of him that is framed in a manner that makes him appear larger than the Sphinx and the Pyramids.
A glint of light from above adds the final “messiah factor” to sell it to his adoring [brainwashed] fans..
However, that’s not the half of it.
The file name for the pic is, i shit you not,
hero_pyramids.JPG
um, Hero?
-A president that has led his subordinates on a path to destroy America in just over 100 days is hardly worthy of Hero worship.
What’s even scarier, is that the picture resides in a directory
called *hero* (and that resides under
the directory, *assets*)
-omg, there is a whole folder of
“Hero” pictures..perish the thought!
I would love to see his collection of
“Hero” pictures.
(whataya say, obamazoids? -start an online petition for obama to open
his “Hero” collection to the public,
-you know you want to)
(it is on tax payed property, after all)
I think it’s safe to say we now have no doubt as to the underlying theme for which his marketing guru,
(Oprah) is selling “Brand Obama”
as.
Anyone with marketing background knows
that since his campaign beginnings,[brand] Obama has been packaged and sold as a worldwide, brandy new, never seen before product.
[that you just have to have]
I think the folder and file name
says it all..
..and lets not forget, a brand name product is nothing but an icon for the huge corporation(s) behind it.
-heck, even the bible thumping repubs might be able to appreciate the dangers behind iconism. *rimshot*
View our Lord and gracious President in all his glory here:
http://whithouse.gov/assets/hero/hero_pyramids.JPG
-s