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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.
#56, so by that same logic the Jews should have just shut up coz they lost everything in WW2?
Yeah, right. If they did that and stopped using their ‘defeat’ to garner ill deserved sympathy the middle east would be one hell of a lot calmer than it is now.
#60 Soundwash the Retard
Obviously you’re not in the Graphic Arts field. All of our final, approved graphic elements that are ready for use reside in a “hero” folder too. When my boss tells me to use the “hero” shot of the front of the casino, I know exactly where to look and which picture he’s talking about.
Way to try to create a controversy where none exist. Keep trying. I’m sure you Rushpublican drones will be given new talking points and opinions to support once the Oxy wears off and your dear leader hits the airwaves tomorrow.
Oops! You left out an ‘e’:
http://whitehouse.gov/assets/hero/hero_pyramids.JPG
Nice pic. My favorite scene of the day was the hieroglyph he pointed out as looking like himself: “Just look at those ears!” he said, and it’s true — with the big ears it did look like him!
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“…the dickhead is off making stupid speeches…”
It’s one of the things we kind of expect presidents to do — he is, after all, the public face of the nation…
doh…someone please fix the second link. i left the “e” in whitehouse out. -thanks.
(i still haven’t fixed my copy&paste issue)
#62 ah, no.. I do not subscribe to either political party. -not for a long time.
I came to the realization some 20+ years ago that only a lemming could find virtue any U.S. politician of the last of the last 85 years or so.
Never got into graphic arts, but i have been into photography for 30+ years and work on alot of websites doing maintenance.
(-along with having a showbiz family)
Since i grew up on movie sets, I’ve always been interested in cinematography, how shots are framed, the use of perspective, camera angles and body language to sell a product or idea / ideology.
all that aside, in the 25 or so websites i’ve worked on, i’ve never seen a folder named “hero” -nor a graphic element called hero.
i was not trying to create controversy. i was poking sarcastically at the at the way he has been marketed.
—after 20 minutes, i finally found an a vague description of “hero graphics” -seems i was partially in error in eluding to his “hero worship” -kudos
however, i find that i was on the mark in pointing out the marketing aspect the Obama Brand.
“..Hero graphics are often called for when a new business is forming and a complex business model or process needs to be portrayed on the home page of website..”
http://mosswarner.com/blog/?p-269
One could easily say he is seen as nothing more than a solution to a “complex” business problem.
I still find it quite ironic that in the big picture, given the way he is portrayed to the masses, that particular photo is named hero and it resides in a folder called assets.
-had you quipped back with an actual definition of “hero_graphic” and left the politics out, your attempt to make a fool of me might have been more successful.
-you get an E for Effort..
alas, you appear to be nothing more than a 20 something fresh out of college who’s still wet behind the ears and smelling himself.
face it kid, in obama, you were sold a box of rocks.
-s
You’re right! Obama Rocks!
*B^)
$54 You hate…so much…its sad.
#63 The historically inaccurate speech, therefore stupid, is made from the helm of the Titanic…our economy did not respond to the political fixes of the democrats…
They bet it would recover on its own and so pursued their political agenda, and did nothing for the economy…they took advantage of the crisis, to pass what normally would not pass.
But the economy did not fix itself…and Obama’s actions have made it worse…especially his mistreating Bond holders, and inserting himself into the market…he has scared away investor capital.
Normally the economy loses thousands of jobs every year, even in boom times, as businesses go belly up…but when investors invest, they create new businesses that create employment so the net result is low unemployment…
The job creation side has been destroyed by Obama.
Having destroyed new job creation, having spent us into hyper inflation, he’s now off giving stupid speeches..
Pardon me if I don’t applaud the AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PRESIDENT none are supposed to speak ill of.
He is commanding the Titanic…he deserves no applause.
#55, zybch,
The best post so far. You summed up the entire problem in a few short sentences.
Obama shows he has no knowledge of history, claiming Israel was formed in response to the Holocaust. I know this is a common myth among Muslims, but Obama should know better.
#22, Cow-Patty,
#20 Time for you to study the incident(s) in question. Start with the diplomatic correspondence & the Frigate Captain’s orders and communiques… You are ignorant of this part of US & Arabic history.
As usual, you don’t have an effen clue what you are writing about. You seem to think an episode 200 years old is still shaping history today shows how much time you have to contemplate these things at the ole popcycle stand.
Please note that in the intervening years, the number of times the West has allied itself with Muslims. I’m sure you have time to look them up. You did invent Google.
Then note that the extremist elements that sought to remove America from the Mid-East were previous clients of the Republican Administrations. Yup, I guess you forgot how the Reagan CIA supported the Taliban and Al Quada during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. And it was the American (and British) occupation of Iraq and presence in Saudi Arabia that induced Al Quada to attack American targets.
These attacks were no more Muslim driven than the murder of a doctor can be blamed upon the whole Christian community.
#69, Lyin’ Mike,
I guess you are trying to impress us with your ignorance of history too. Have you been attending the Cow-Patty Community College of Ignorance?
Regardless of the number of times right wings nuts say it, the actual history won’t change.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PRESIDENT, I like that especially since everyone was so excited that we had elected a black man as President. Then while I listened to all the white people say this, while the black people said that we hadn’t elected a black man and that nothing had been solved or addressed with his election. This perfectly sums up Affirmative Action.
It would seem that President Hussein is a muslim after all, I wonder when he’ll come out of the closet. I heard his speeches and was thoroughly disgusted. His fellow Muslims will see him as weak and he’s alienated the Americans he’s supposed to be representing. He truly is a President for the REST of the WORLD and not of the UNITED STATES, a Globalist through and through. ;(
Whatever………….
Traaxx
Ok.. well if we’re going to beat on the-ignornace-of-history-drum, how about his undeniable gross manipulation of the facts to support his undying love of his Muslim brothers.
-Seems like obama’s bad habit of blatantly exagerating the facts to further his agenda is not limited to our borders. (granted, they all do that, -but still)
In his speech, he said America is one of the largest muslim *countries* in the world with 7 million muslims.
-Countries?? ‘excuse me??
I was wtf? no way. I live in NYC which has a decent reflection of the US population makeup as a whole. while a decent amount of Muslims, but heck, there arent that many.
Way more Jews than Muslims to be sure..
(however, they do *own* the streets my observation shows about 7-8 in 10 food cart vendors are Muslim. the same can be said of car service and taxis.
-both of which i use quite often. (i’ve actually asked almost every vendor/car driver i used–for the past 15+ years-who says NYorkers arent friendly)
-they are quite proud to speak of their homeland)
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so i hopped over to the trusty CIA World Fact book to run some numbers. I mean hey, the CIA should at least have an accurate account of how many people their are so as to alot how many WMD’s it’ll need to wipe two thirds of us off the planet to usher in the new world order, -rriight?
SO, it puts U.S. population at 307,212,123 plebians as of the July 2009 (estimate)
-of which 0.6% are of the Muslim faith.
So, 307,212,123 x 0.6% = 1,843,272.738 (!)
or if my math is correct, he inflated the population by a mear 73% or so!
he was only off by 5,156,727.262!!
To give him the benefit of doubt, i looked up the numbers (and logistics) behind methodology of the count..
CIA numbers from 2004 forward
2004 1.0% – 2930275.71
2005 1.0% – 2957341.34
2006 1.0% – 2984442.15
2007 1.0% – 3011399.47
2008 0.6% – 1822947.84
funny..by these numbers, Muslims are leaving in droves.. probably can thank in part, Bush’s 1 million man terror watch list for alienating them..
–to be continued
-s
Odd that someone who claims 30+ years of photography experience wouldn’t be able to corellate a “hero shot” to its equivalent in the graphic design field.
You wanted me to “quip back” a definition of “hero_graphic”. (BTW, I never said, “hero_graphic”) Well here ya go pal, someone you can’t claim is part of the left leaning liberal elite, that little ball of right wing hate herself, Michelle Malkin. What’s amusing is not that the term “hero” was used — “hero shot” is a common photography term to describe the best images of a series of shots. http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/10/every-shot-a-hero-shot-in-obama-land/
And it seems you’re more than a little late to the party as she (and others) tried to stir up the same controversy back in March as her above referenced web page shows. It failed back then too. Much, much ado about nothing.
Not good enough for ya? How ‘bout this then, “hero graphics”: http://med.unc.edu/webguide/policies/hero-graphics. Took all of a few seconds to find that with Google, not 20 minutes. Either you or your computer is very slow.
Just because some web admin/graphic designer/production artist named a file a certain way doesn’t provide proof of any “underlying theme” of some supposed marketing campaign. More than likely is that the people administering the website want the files labeled that way or the person responsible for naming the files is trying to be funny or sarcastic or both. Or maybe just sort of a nerdy double entendre. And just because the parent folder was called assets doesn’t mean a thing either. I’ve seen folders labeled “assets”, “resources”, “stuff”, “approved” “use_this,” etc., etc. Doesn’t mean a thing other than that’s how those particular people store those particular files on that particular computer.
You’re right that all Presidents are “marketed” in some way or another. Look at George Bush, marketed as a “compasionate conservative” when he was neither.
“alas, you appear to be nothing more than a 20 something fresh out of college who’s still wet behind the ears and smelling himself.”
Uh, no, you couldn’t be more wrong. More like a 40 something working graphic designer with 20+ years in the graphics art field and I smell just fine, thank you very much.
face it kid, in obama, you were sold a box of rocks. Well, better a box of rocks than the steaming pile of crap that was Bush/Cheney or the disaster that would have been McCain/Palin. I’ll take my chances with the adults that are in charge now.
We’re done here.