News Flash: Obama (Almost) Saves The World [Reader Post]

I wonder if OBama will step down if we could get a million protestors in front of the White House. Will he hear us now?

LOL Date and time, I’ll be there.

Unbelievable that he is incapable of seeing how foolish he looks.

Obama’s first big speech was to the Muslim world while in Cairo.
That was about 2 years ago.
What’s been the outcome?
Zogby is a Middle Eastern pollster who often runs polls from the Middle East as well as his American pollings.
Here’s what he found among EGYPTIANS during a July 2010 poll…..

On the USA:
85% had an unfavorable attitude toward the U.S.,
87% had no confidence in the U.S.,
92% named the U.S. as one of two nations that are the greatest threat to them,
only 4% said if they had to live in another country they would choose the U.S.

On Barack Obama:
61% were hopeful when Obama took office,
61% said he had not met the expectations set in his 2009 speech in Cairo,
60% were discouraged by his Middle East policies and
54% had a negative view of him.

On Israel:
90% named Israel as one of two nations that are the greatest threat to them.

On the role of clergy in government:
65% agreed with a statement that “clergy must play a greater role in our political system.”

From Egyptians Disappointed with President Obama, Dislike US Policies

As a major Superman fan, I find it reprehensible that my beloved super hero is being photoshopped onto this dirtbag. We all know this miscreant is really the joker. And for that matter, is in the wrong city, as well as the wrong nation. So I shout to the world,,,,,if you as a people want this guy, please take him. We have no need for him. For the low price of one ‘dictatorship’ he can be yours. We’ll even throw in a used court jester with new plugs. A windbag that can explain the story line and the players, all the while telling you nothing. We’ll even throw in a couple of maidens. One sans a hammer but has a creepy botox smile. One sans,,,,,,,hmmmm,,,,,,,well she’s good at shaking hands and smiling for pictures with world leaders. Oh,,,she has a lot of toy ‘reset’ or ‘overload’ buttons just waiting to be pushed.

@Paula:

Now that! was a fun read! Keep them coming, you made my morning, thanks!

Obama bungles foreign affairs with an ally to appease our enemies yet again.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/05/did-obama-agree-to-expose-british-nuke-secrets-in-start-pact/

Nan G, add to Zogby’s polls, this from Pew:

85% of Egyptians consider Islam a positive influence in politics

61% of Egyptians were very, or somewhat, concerned with the rise of Muslim extremism in Egypt

49% of Egyptians have a favorable view of Hamas (a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot)

Favorable view of the U.S.
2008 – 22%
2010 – 17%

Pew also reported that most Egyptians believe in religious freedom but a majority believes in severe punishment for those who leave Islam. A majority of Egypians also support: stoning for adultry, cutting off of hands/feet for the crime of theft.

But cheer up; Obama is going to give us Iran On The Nile.

I find it chillingly naive (or duplicitous) whenever our media or politicians look favorably at the ”charitable wing” of Hamas, Hezb’allah, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, or any of the Muslim Brotherhood’s fronts.
It is as though they have blinders on about the MILITANT wings of all those organizations.
The money we send any of them is fungible; it all goes into the one pot.
And the claim that these organizations are moderating because they have charitable wings is so naive.
Islam demands a charitable contribution from all Muslims and any Islam-compliant banks.
That money goes to charitable wings of all of these terror organizations.
No moderating has happened.
But financing has been made easier.

Just a couple of days ago Obama sent former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Frank Wisner back to Egypt as a special envoy to talk with Mubarak.
Wisner did just that.
So, what did he decide after personally talking with Mubarak and other parties involved?
That Mubarak should STAY in office til Sept’s election.
So, what did Obama do?
Obama threw Wisner under the bus!

So much for anyone but a ”YES MAN.”

@richard wheeler: Ever been to Egypt? Ever hear of Bright Star?
Probably a NO for You on Both. Got news for You…they love Our Money but don’t like America. Just like Obama…Foreign Policy failure by design.

Why else wound Obama send an ass like Wisner to do Bogus Diplo? You need to brush up on that…
Maybe after the Super Duper Bowl…

@richard wheeler: Still in Brussels, NATO HQ for another month. Active Duty, then home to my spread and the Young Dogs can do the Hunting on a reduced Budget and with US prestige on a decline.

I have done two Bright Star missions training Egyptian Military. I have no doubt that the Israelis will without any US support be able to defend their Nation. Dictators in the Middle East are pretty much all you will see, whether it will be Mubarek or the Kuwaiti or Saudi Royals or the Punks in Iran. The larger picture there just must have escaped you. The Regime in Afghanistan is also as crooked as a dogs hind leg as well.

Back to Your NFL weekend … I have on call Staff Duty because others want to watch Adults play a child’s game.

Nan Did you not say we’re not getting the straight scoop from our news people actually in the square like Cooper of CNN or Amanpour of ABC? Didn’t you say you heard Ayres on ground in Cairo? Didn’t you suggest Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood.You are the one throwing misguided stones.

Exit ?? Do you believe the peaceful pro Democracy protests of many 100’s of thousands of Egyptions were disrupted by horseback riding ,machete carrying thugs hired and sent by Mubarek govt.,or as suggested here, were simply the hard working laborers of Egypt?

Anticrocks Most believe,including myself and Wordsmith(whose opinion I greatly value) that the M.B. plays a minor role in Egyptian politics with less than 20% of population in their radicalized camp.

Richard made me laugh with his ignorance of Egyptians workers and their attitude toward doing work:

An oldie but a goodie.
As Egypt became more extremist in its religiousity, not only did the photos of the women morph from modern-looking ladies to black bats, and the men begin going for that ”prayer-bump” forehead look, but people stopped being so hard-working.
Here’s the goodie:

Egyptian-born Muslim cleric , Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, has a few ideas to help shorten the prayer time: Muslims can do the mandatory pre-prayer wash at home before reaching the office, instead of in the office toilets during working hours.

“To save some time, they can also just put some water over their socks, instead of taking (socks) off to wash the feet,” Qaradawi says in his fatwa.

While it may be too early to judge the effects of the popular sheikh’s fatwa on productivity in the work place, Egyptian clerics, in a rare show of unity, have largely agreed with the Qatar-based cleric.

WHY????

According to an official study, Egypt’s six million government employees are estimated to spend an average of only 27 minutes per day actually working, reflecting a real problem with productivity.

All the rest of the time is wasted getting ready for their prayers, (abulations and changing clothing) praying (they can choose as long a chapter of the Koran as they want….or as short) and then changing back to their work clothes.

One spot to find this IN ENGLISH is here.

@richard wheeler: WE ARE Dependent on Foreign Oil due to Obama’s EPA. Quite frankly what You know about International Anything could easily fit up a Gnat’s @ss for a suppository.

You have an Obama Kool Aid problem. Go to Your local VA Clinic for detox. The Forest for the Trees issue eludes you here. Your Partisan Politics compromises your values if you retained any of them. No wonder you were not recalled to active Duty after 9.11.01 or Volunteered for Active Duty. It may have interfered with Your interests. I have 3 Purple Hearts and am rated at 40% disabled but have been recalled twice.

Watch your Super Dooper Bowl and relive your Youth on TV. I openly challenge your judgment here as valid because you just exercise Partisan Politics and let others do the job that You could not do. You made money while others did the dirty work to make that possible.

My Daughter urged Me to Retire, go home and oppose Max Bauchus for his Senate seat. I quite frankly refuse to tell enough LIES to get elected. I was offered a Star but refused it because it because that would compromise MY values to serve any longer than the next 30 days under a CiC that I cannot respect.

Your postings are humorous but defy any sense of logic. Your invite to my Place in Montana still holds.
You may see how America makes a living, produces a product that makes a profit and is in demand World Wide. at Ruth Criss Restaurants and Officers Clubs that You have never dined at. The Brits at Diego Garcia love that product. You can go there as a CIVILIAN.

Damn O.T. What got up your Knickers today. I simply agreed with Word’s analysis of Muslim Brotherhood’s role in Egyptian politics and you slam me like the crazed right winger you are.Your professed political independance is pure B.S.You’re just a water boy for the Beck’s and Hannity’s of the far right. I served my time honorably, received Navy Comm. medal with combat “V” and was 57 on 9-11-2001.INDIE Hell you’re right of Attilla the Hun and proud of it. Have the cajones to admit it and let’s move on.

Nan Pls enlighten me on Egypyion worker’s attitudes.

Anticrocks “Caliphates,overthrow us from within” Turn off Beck.

@richard wheeler: Just because you are pissed at OT, don’t take it out on me. For your information I never watch Beck. He is a populist and I abhor populists. Besides that, when he first got on Fox and began quoting Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny as if it were his own – without attribution, I quickly got my fill of him.

Look up Caliphate and try reading the Muslim Brotherhoods’ own friggin website. They openly admit they are for Caliphate.

caliph, calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif, khalifah (the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth) “many radical Muslims believe a Khalifah will unite all Islamic lands and people and subjugate the rest of the world” – Source

Your knee jerk reaction, trying to tie a point I made with something you evidently heard on Beck is typical and tiresome. I mistakenly thought you were interested in debate, but it seems you would rather cast stones.

@richard wheeler:

Rich, there’s a book out about the problems English-speaking news people have of getting the truth in Middle Eastern/Muslim countries.
I can’t recall the exact title, something like, ”Were you Raped? AND….Do you Speak English?”
Something like that.

In the past reporters took the word of ”stringers” who were locals paid to tell them the news.
But the stringers were proven to be utterly unreliable by facts gathered on the ground that contradicted their outlandish stories.

In fact the old Lancet article about how (was it millions?) many people were killed in the opening days of the US involvement in Iraq was a good example of the use of stringers to collect data.
They screwed up, not because they were evil, but because they went to people they knew and trusted.
Even if it meant getting and counting the same one dead person forty times!

Stringers in, say, Gaza, would paint awful pictures that, were a reporter to go out and look would be debunked in a day.

So, we got away from stringers.

Now, in Egypt this month, we relied heavily on reporters who spoke little or no Egyptian or Arabic.
If, say, some of the Muslim Brotherhood factions wanted to dress up and pass themselves off as violent out-of-uniform police, they could.
Tell me, if you had a gun and ammo at home and were really a cop, would you go out and throw rocks, getting hit by rocks in return?
Would you?
But our media has led us to believe that Mubarak’s supporters did just that.
Who is telling them that?
People can carry misleading signs just to trick one another.
Same thing happened at a few TEA Parties, IIRC.
Remember Mohammad taught that ”War is deceit.”

But did Mubarak’s side prevail?
No.

It seems that the Muslim Brotherhood has gained the most from the extension of the violence.
Even Obama downplayed the threat posed to the U.S. by the the Muslim brotherhood today in his interview.

REUTERS reports:

Tide turns in favour of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in revolt

Agence France Presse reports:

“Today we learned the Muslim Brotherhood decided to participate, which suggests they at least are now involved in the dialogue that we have encouraged,” Hillary Clinton told National Public Radio (NPR) from Germany.

The Washington Post reported:

The Muslim Brotherhood said it would send representatives later in the day to begin talks on a government transition. The talks would be the first between the government and the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in Egypt.

Who else benefited?

@richard wheeler: As I said, I detest Beck. He could do so much more good, but his insincerity rings through in all he does.

As for Hannity, he is the pit bull of political punditry. He makes no bones about who he is or what he does. His foretelling of Obama’s radicalism was spot on and many conservatives bashed him for it, only to turn around and then later laud him for it. Politics is an odd beast.

I like Hannity, he is sincere and as I said, in your face with where he stands. He has raised millions of dollars for the children of our brave veterans. As a vet yourself, I am sure you can appreciate that.

Thanks OT, antics and Nan! Yesterday was a busy day, we celebrated President Reagan’s birthday and my daughter’s and grandson’s. Grandson wanted a turkey dinner with all the fixens, I saved kitchen clean up to do during the game and am happy for my Packer backer family.

Anyway, I missed all your contributions to this thread until this morning. I learn so much from so many in here, just want you to know how appreciated you all are. Thanks for sharing, what takes time and effort on you part, all your work, your patience as well, is so much appreciated. And remember, one can be a grown up without being a grown up, sigh.

After reading the following two articles this morning, could we entertain the idea that Obama threw Mubarak under the bus while wheeling and dealing with the Russians for that rediculous START treaty? Just being sarcastic, but….who knows, it just might help him shove all that green energy down our throats by putting us “over a barrel,” an empty barrel, what ever they want, just “make him look good.”

First up:

U.S.-Egypt Relations Under Attack
By Ion Mihai Pacepa

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/usegypt_relations_under_attack_1.html

Pacepa explains a possible Russian connection using their old brain washing and front group tactics. Read the whole thing, it’s a must… these two paragraphs do tell us a bit:

The KGB community went to great lengths to transform an Egyptian-born Marxist, Mohammed Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, nom de guerre Abu Ammar, into a Palestinian-born Yasser Arafat. It took us years to credibly falsify his birth certificate and other IDs, to build him a new past, and to train him at the KGB Balashikha special-operations training school east of Moscow [6]. It took us more years and the help of former Egyptian ruler Gamal Abdel Nasser, another Soviet puppet [7], to catapult the newly-created Arafat into his position as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (also created and financed by the KGB). It is no wonder that in 1970, when Nasser died, the whole leadership of the Soviet bloc attended his funeral. During those early years, Egypt was literally being run by Soviet advisers — the KGB and the Red Army alone had some 18,000 advisers assigned there.

Now it seems that we are dealing with a new and better-looking Arafat: Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei, who recently popped up in Cairo, just as the newly created Arafat had popped up in Cairo in 1966, where Nasser proclaimed him the “leader of the Palestinians.” Previously, as director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), ElBaradei went out of his way to protect Arab efforts to secretly build nuclear weapons. In an article published in The New York Times, ElBaradei showed his true, anti-Western face: “We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security — and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use” [8].

#2:

Google Executive Emerges as Key Figure in Revolt

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703989504576127621712695188.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

Wael Ghonim is head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa for Google, whose offices in the region are in Cairo and Dubai.

For over a year young master Ghonim has been working with and for El Baradei, Ghonim has been actively inciting unrest in Egypt through a massive facebooking, twitter, etc. campaign. The goal was to get rid of Mubarak for El Baradei.

Mr. Ghonim is counted among a small group of political activists in Egypt whose social-media savvy over the past year helped spark the massive demonstrations threatening Egypt’s ruling regime. “I said one year ago that the Internet will change the political scene in Egypt and some Friends made fun of me :),” Mr. Ghonim wrote on his personal Facebook profile for friends after two days of swelling protests in Cairo. The next day, Jan. 28, he disappeared.
~~~
Last year, Mr. Ghonim was one of four administrators running the first of the major Facebook pages that became a virtual headquarters for the protest movement, according to a collaborator in the political opposition, and also according to an Internet activist familiar with the situation. Mr. Ghonim also set up the official campaign website for opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei and volunteered as a tech consultant for other opposition groups, according to Ziad Al-Alimi, a senior aide to Mr. ElBaradei.
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Online activists including Mr. Ghonim have played a central role in electronically sowing the seeds of the current protests. Mr. Ghonim joined Mr. ElBaradei’s political campaign as a volunteer about a month before Mr. ElBaradei, winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize and former head of the International Atomic Energy Commission, made a dramatic return to Egypt last February amid speculation he was seeking a wider political role.

Hmmm, the manchild uses Russia, Russia uses Baradei and Baradei uses a zealous, young, savy techie that just had to go out and get caught.

Missy #43 The oh sooo sweet grandma.
#46 Who is this??

ANTICSROCKS Sorry. Let’s do it.Your love of pretty boy Sean will not stand in the way.I appreciate what he does for veteran’s families.What’s his military background?