In another affront to a key ally, the White House reportedly doesn't buy Israel's story over the Gaza flotilla flap and supports a U.N. probe of its actions. Helen Thomas would be proud. According to the Weekly Standard, the investigation will be "one-sided, focusing entirely on Israeli behavior and not on Turkey or Hamas" -- despite overwhelming evidence that the terrorist group planned to assault Israeli forces.
It has become increasingly clear that this administration is appeasing the Muslim world at the expense of Israel, a strategic partner in the Middle East at a time when Iran threatens the world with nukes. Where does this reckless new anti-Israel policy come from?
The Israeli press blames the president's own personal bias. Citing recent remarks by a top Egyptian official, it's convinced that President Obama is a closet Muslim secretly furthering the agenda of the Palestinians and other Arabs. "The American president told me in confidence that he is a Muslim," Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said after a recent one-on-one meeting with Obama. He made the remarks on Nile TV. It was from Egypt that Obama made his famous "olive branch" speech to the Muslim world essentially apologizing for the War on Terror.
While Obama's father and stepfather were Muslim, and he himself studied Islam as a child in Indonesia, there's no evidence that the president practices Islam. As far as we know, he doesn't pray five times a day or observe other Islamic rituals. But Obama, who speaks some Arabic,
Does he actually speak Arabic, or did he memorize some bits during the year he was a student at the Malaysian public school, or learnt by rote at the neighborhood mosque he attended with friends? He does -- or did -- speak Malaysian, but he strikes me as not having a gift for languages, and surely lost almost all of it since being sent to his grandparents.
has made it clear that he identifies at least culturally with Islam. He has waxed fondly of its traditions, once describing the Islamic call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth."
This may explain in part why Obama has expressed sympathy with the widely held Muslim belief that American foreign policy -- expressly its partnership with Israel -- is largely to blame for anti-American terrorism. But it was at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago that his political views on Israel likely cemented. His old church called for a South African-style boycott of Israel for its "apartheid" against Palestinians while Obama sat in its pews for some 20 years.
Trinity also sang the praises of Hamas, even reprinting the group's terrorist manifesto in its church bulletin. Written by Hamas deputy chief Mousa Abu Marzook, a fugitive terrorist, the letter was featured on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "Pastors Page" under the title "A Fresh View of the Palestinian Struggle."
Wright, a one-time member of the Nation of Islam, gave Jew-bashing sermons while mentoring Obama. He once joined Louis Farrakhan on a trip to Libya to pay homage to Moammar Gadhafi. In 1995, Obama joined Wright in Farrakhan's Million Man March. In 2008, Wright honored the Farrakhan as a hero on the cover of his church magazine, a publication the Obamas presumably received. Both Islamism and the radical "Black Liberation Theology" Wright preached reject the Jews as God's chosen people.
No media have dared ask what Obama believes, though his church had a role in shaping his views -- and those views are now shaping U.S. foreign policy. "Obama and many of his advisers reject the idea that Islamist ideology is fundamentally opposed to Western civilization, mainstream among the world's Muslims, and the root cause of our problems," said former federal terrorist prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, author of the new best-seller "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America."
"They come from the point of view that American policy is the root cause," he added, "especially our tilt in favor of Israel." Now they're tilting in the opposite direction, a shift that could embolden the terrorists and alienate a strong strategic ally in our fight against them.
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whatadeal , you're a fool wagging your finger at the truly evil will only result in a severed hand.
Obama won't resign, that requires a concience, he has none.
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Bambi won't resign - Michelle won't let him.
She like being queen too much.
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The Israeli press blames the president's own personal bias. Citing recent remarks by a top Egyptian official, it's convinced that President Obama is a closet Mulsim secretly furthering the agenda of the Palestinians and other Arabs.
(CNN) -- President Obama's speech on the gulf oil disaster may have gone over the heads of many in his audience, according to an analysis of the 18-minute talk released Wednesday.
Tuesday night's speech from the Oval Office of the White House was written to a 9.8 grade level, said Paul J.J. Payack, president of Global Language Monitor. The Austin, Texas-based company analyzes and catalogues trends in word usage and word choice and their impact on culture.
Though the president used slightly less than four sentences per paragraph, his 19.8 words per sentence "added some difficulty for his target audience," Payack said.
He singled out this sentence from Obama as unfortunate: "That is why just after the rig sank, I assembled a team of our nation's best scientists and engineers to tackle this challenge -- a team led by Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and our nation's secretary of energy."
"A little less professorial, less academic and more ordinary," Payack recommended. "That's the type of phraseology that makes you (appear) aloof and out of touch." Who added the word "appear"?
The monitor's chief word analyst found these three sentences insensitive: "Already, this oil spill is the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced. And unlike an earthquake or a hurricane, it is not a single event that does its damage in a matter of minutes or days. The millions of gallons of oil that have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico are more like an epidemic, one that we will be fighting for months and even years."
"You shouldn't be saying that in Katrina land," said Payack, referring to the 2005 hurricane that devastated the Gulf Coast. "New Orleans lost a third of its population; it's still recovering."
But he praised Obama's phrase "oil began spewing" as active and graphic.
At a micro level, the average word in the speech contained 4.5 letters, a bit longer than is typical for the former constitutional law professor, Payack said.
Obama's nearly 10th-grade-level rating was the highest of any of his major speeches and well above the Grade 7.4 of his 2008 "Yes, we can" victory speech, which many consider his best effort, Payack said.
"The scores indicate that this was not Obama at his best, especially when attempting to make an emotional connection to the American people," he added.
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Let me put this in a way that the typical Grade 7.4 level "Yes, we can" Obama voter will understand: Barack Hussein Obama is a doodoo head.
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I wonder how Mr. Payack would have graded this speech. Of course, this was an actual speech by an actual President.
Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic, south, those barriers cut across Germany in a gash of barbed wire, concrete, dog runs, and guard towers. Farther south, there may be no visible, no obvious wall. But there remain armed guards and checkpoints all the same--still a restriction on the right to travel, still an instrument to impose upon ordinary men and women the will of a totalitarian state. Yet it is here in Berlin where the wall emerges most clearly; here, cutting across your city, where the news photo and the television screen have imprinted this brutal division of a continent upon the mind of the world. Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar.
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After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.
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General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
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Same as it ever was. If you don't support Barry, you're a racist. If you don't back the liberal agenda, you're stupid. If you don't willingly accept higher taxes, you're greedy. Got it.
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This evaluation says more about Mr. Payack and his bias than anything else.
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Elsewhere I've read that President George W. Bush's speeches were written at a consistently higher grade level than President Obama's. Perhaps in this, too, President Obama has swung round to agree with his predecessor.
"The symptoms of this crisis of the American spirit are all around us. For the first time in the history of our country a majority of our people believe that the next 5 years will be worse than the past 5 years. Two-thirds of our people do not even vote. The productivity of American workers is actually dropping, and the willingness of Americans to save for the future has fallen below that of all other people in the Western world.
As you know, there is a growing disrespect for government and for churches and for schools, the news media, and other institutions. This is not a message of happiness or reassurance, but it is the truth and it is a warning".
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Actually he never finished the 9th grade so he did quite will. All the rest of his paperwork is fake. He should have just held his middle finger up to the camera. We all would have understood that.
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(CNN) -- President Obama's speech on the gulf oil disaster may have gone over the heads of many in his audience, according to an analysis of the 18-minute talk released Wednesday.
