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| Arabs see Obama's 'change' as more of the same |
| 2008-11-06 |
| Ohfergawdsake. He's been elected for less than 24 hours. Yeah...so what's the holdup? An Arab dictator would have had the political opposition shot by now ... As this year's historic American presidential race draws to an end, people across the Middle East anxiously waited to see how Americans would vote in anticipation of what the future holds for the turbulent area. The vote, which has generated unprecedented levels of interest worldwide, will be closely watched by Arabs with some pan-Arab news channels offering 24-hour coverage on Election Day. Despite the high level of interest in the election, many Arabs say neither of the two presidential candidates offer much hope for change in the Arab world., Republican John McCain is viewed as an extension of the current administration, and Democrat Barack Obama as powerless to make any real changes in the Middle East. Thirty-two percent of Arabs polled by Zogby earlier this year believed that American policy towards advancing peace in the Middle East will remain the same, with only 18 percent believing that Obama and 4 percent McCain had the best chance of advancing peace. According to an AlArabiya.net poll, 62 percent of readers said that the elections do not matter to them because either way the new president will be an avid supporter of Israel. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Btw, wingnuts in France already are seething at the idea of rahm emmanuel... lol, you just can't please some people. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-11-06 13:39 |
| #5 Enjoy your little talk with Mahmoud, Barry... The Iranian daily Jomhouri-ye Eslami's editorial was headlined, "That Black Man Will Never Change U.S. Policy." It added, "The most that that black man can do in the White House is to replace some of the staff and change some ceremonial procedures. He will never manage to change the structure of the American regime, which was established by capitalists, Zionists, and racists." |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-11-06 12:10 |
| #4 Arabs say neither of the two presidential candidates offer much hope for change in the Arab world Not antisemitic enough! Not muslim supremacist enough! Not paying enough tribute to the Master Race! Obviously, there's no pleasing some people, if the Zero is not suitable enough for them, then only a military coup by CAIR would satisfy them (and probably not even that, as they start infighting). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-11-06 11:51 |
| #3 Arabs say neither of the two presidential candidates offer much hope for change in the Arab world That's because 90% of all your problems are the person in the mirror. Even if your scapegoat Israel disappeared off the map today, there still would be no change in the neighborhood and cloistered world you live in. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-11-06 08:10 |
| #2 True, bigjim-ky. What they don't know, though is that Obamarx is an avid supporter of... Obamarx. That is his prerogative and so if it will be expedient to be an avid supporter of Israel one day, and an avid unsupporter of Isreal the next, that's the way it will be. |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-11-06 06:02 |
| #1 There's just no pleasing 'em. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-11-06 01:29 |