President Obama Does First Formal TV Interview as President with Al-Arabiya

I voted for this? In one week he is totally destroying america! Now gives first post election interview to a reporter in Dubai? Where is his reaching out to lead as a moderate? I wan my vote back!

Funny…it’s an Arab station…….Change we all can believe in….gimme a break…

You. Are. ********. Me.

How dare he speak to these people? We owe no explanation to the Arabs, since we haven’t invaded any Arabic-speaking countries and don’t wish the goodwill of the Arab Street.
Oh, wait.

“I voted for this?”
I doubt you voted for Obama.
“In one week he is totally destroying america!”
ROFLMAO.
“Now gives first post election interview to a reporter in Dubai?”
Huh? Obama has been interviewed dozens of times since the election.
Though I am unsure whether Jake is saying this is his 1st formal interview since being inaugurated or his 1st interview with this station. It could be both.
“Where is his reaching out to lead as a moderate? I wan my vote back!”
He’s reached out to moderates for his cabinet and reinstituted moderate positions that were once right wing.

Outrageous! Incovnceivable! Obama is making a shrewd political move which will instantly improve the country’s image and standing with millions of people around the world, and the only downside is it will tick off few Drudge-zombies. I’m moving to Canada!

You morons voted for him–you got him.
He’s a socialist.
He is as far left as one can get.
Look out–it’s only beginning.
Our country will go to the dogs under this idiot.

Did anyone else see the similarities between the rabid Obamabots and 14 year old girls at a Britney Spears concert?
This guy is about to get exposed, and the US is going to have a serious case of buyer’s remorse.
You thought Dubya was bad? At least he’s not playing paddycake with Al Qaeda.

The Herald, are you kidding me? The people in the middle east are almost completely unified with their hatred of the USA and Israel.

“I voted for this?”
I didn’t but i warned my friends not too and now they are starting to see what i saw all along…

Has anyone considered the fact that we are in two wars in the Middle East? Look where not talking to our enemies got us in the last 8 years….

this guy is a disgrace, 1 week down 207 to go, can you imagine what this country will look like then??? that is if we still are a country

“So let me get this straight. I his first week, President Obama issued an EO to close Gitmo and another EO about being nice to terrorists. Now, his first TV appearance is on a middle east TV network.
Am I missing something here?”
Probably.
“Whose interests does President Obama have in mind?”
That would be our interests.
He is restoring American ideals that the right wing perverted with infinite detention without trials and torture.
And he is reaching out to the people we are going to need to combat terrorism.
Or perhaps you preferred when we randomly attacked Arab countries that had not attacked us while our leaders got rich off no bid contracts.

YOU AIN’T SEEN NUTTIN YET …WITH HIM AND PELOSI AT THE WHEEL…..AMERICA ASK FOR IT…NOW YOU GOING TO GET IT..HANG ON FOR THE RIDE BABY

Obama has spoken non-stop to us for the last two years. You people don’t listen. What is wrong with telling the world that America is ready to be a shining beacon of democracy and that we are not afraid to speak to people in other nations to tell them where we stand and what we expect.

Another worthless Demopublican…

Look at all the fear of imminent terrorist attack.
Its a wonder you guys make it out of your mom’s basement.

Are you really surprised? This is what Barack Obama said following 9/11:
“In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
Looks like we know where Obama is shifting now. His first phone call to a foreign leader in office was to Abbas, not Olmert. The US is no longer a friend to Israel.

hahaha you guys are so miniatureminded it’s hilarious.
Right now Osama Bin Laden is pulling his hair out wondering how on earth he’s going to maintain the vitrolic froth of his followers going. The US of A has just elected a President who is actually comfortable talking about Arab related issues in terms other than “terrorist”.
Really this is Change. This is how you defuse Al Qaeda and Muslim Extremist hate with outspending 1 Trillion Dollars and 4225 Honest Marines.
It’s a smart and annoyingly efficient strategy. It’s the same kind of method that took down Clinton and McCain; both of whom were dying for confrontation and sharp words but instead were smothered into defeat.
Yes. Certainly Change I can believe in.

Not sure what all of you myopic lack-wit quipsters are all whipping yourselves into a frenzy over. Makes perfect sense to me…. Al-Arabiya obviously allows teleprompters in their interviews which is why he chose this as his first.
TS

What most have not realized is the O does not care what Americans think.
There is going to be a real surprise when they realize that transparency in gov’t means seeing thru O’s un-American policy and even a bigger realization that is his intent.
America does have some stupid citizenry.

This is directed at the imbecile named Bill who while trying to be sarcastic said we owe an explanation to the Arab street for invading an Arab country. Amazing, isn’t Bill, how the Arab street never needed an explanation from Saddam on the mass murder ,torture, and rape rooms, but somehow , they now require, as you say quite foolishly, an explanation. What explanation is needed when they see the end results in Iraq those being the liberties and thriving economy they are experiencing. Liberals always feel the need to apologize to fake victims, and never make time for the real victims, like those of terrorism that have claimed most of the lives in Iraq, and those of Saddams death mill.

The “Muslim World” is not by nature but rather association considered “terrorists”. President Obama is making some seriously legitimate efforts to win prosperity in the world. How some of you see this as un-American is why were are in the mess to begin with.
I understand how Bush supporters are frightened by Obama but for cripes sake, give him some time. He’s not an evil man.
For the first time in over 40 years, we have a President that wishes to create peace in the world without a hidden or subversive agenda. Instead of complaining how ‘your’ country is so immediately flushing down the toilet, why not sit back and see what this man has in mind? Have you ever seen a President do so much, so quickly in such bold measure? It sounds to me more as decisiveness rather than brashness and I believe he deserves not only our support, but our patience.

“OBama is merelya usurper, he is NOT natural borne citizen. Sooner or later a lawsuit,or the military, will expose this fraud for who he really is.”
ROFLMAO!
Now a birther wishes for a military coup!
I thought the left wing nuts about 9/11 were from another planet but apparently the right wing did not want to be undone so they unfurled the natural born citizen craziness!

I am sick of bush ruining America’s image..
Obama, in a matter of a week has built up the reputation of the country. We should thank him that he is engaging and is willing to stand for american ideals.. while still wanting to achieve peace.
Obama clearly said.. he rejects the choice between our safety and our ideals in the inaugural speech.. im glad to see he is keeping his promises.
People voted for hope over fear. this board makes up the 30% that disapprove of the prez.. thank god 70 % of this country are not as dumb as the people on this blog

Stop it and stop it now. Don’t judge this guy for the first 6 days he has been in office. Get a life and go back to doing what you are capable of doing, be a “plumber”.

What the Hell In wrong with you people
He is doing what the Bush should have done. Talking trying to get some understanding around the world and No killing. What is wrong with that? Finely someone with brains

“Wow, really? Do you read the news much? In the last week, it has come to light the 3 former GITMO detainees are back at it. I know, I know, it’s Bush’s fault.”
Bush’s admin released them didn’t they?

obama is a rookie pilot who has taken the controls of a Boeing 747 in a hurricane….what kind of outcome are you people really expecting from this guy?

Yup – one of the wild and crazy right wingers sent here from Drudge signing in. I guess Obama can’t undo Bush’s Guantanamo and cozying up to the anti-Israel forces in the Muslim world. BTW, anyone see his REAL birth certificate lately? That is, someone that is not in the tank for him???

Wow!, not sure what this is about, but not surprised to see so many comments, it struck me as well when I heard it on the news, I immediately wanted to know what he said. I am not a reactionary person and truly chastised those that foresaw doom with this man becoming president, however in hindsight the media is telling us something by using the term aremegdon like economy, and apocolyptic down turn in jobs, then following up wtih and Barrack Obama will be speaking on Arabic TV …. Wow … hope they post the content of his speech/interview in unedited American.

I didn’t vote for this garbage that Obama is pulling! He told us he was a “centrist”. Well guess what folks he isn’t! He won just 53% of the vote, 4% changing their minds would have made him a loser. I fell STUPID for having voted for him.
Never again.

Rush, Hannity, Boortz and other called him a radical and you closed your ears. Well, you got this clown and my flag proudly hangs upside down and will remain that way for the next four years.

Obama is going to try a different way to reach out. I say let him give it a shot his way. Time will be the judge of whether talk wins over action. Historically dialogue with enemies has resulted in war. If he starts or perpetuates a war in Pakistan, Iran or elsewhere in the middle east, wonderful. We shall prevail and he will have my support.

I find it interesting that there is so much resistance to the idea of Obama talking to an Arab newspaper, when none of you (yet) know the content of that interview.
Wouldn’t it be prudent to put-off your criticism until you have all the facts?
It has been said, “Pride goeth before a fall”. I did not vote for Obama. And perhaps Obama will fall. But in the meantime, isn’t it purdent to hope for the best?
By the way Beto — 1/3rd of the worlds population is not Arab. 1/3rd of the worlds population is “Muslim”. Arabia is a Muslim country. And most “Arab’s” are Muslim. But not all Muslim’s are Arabs. Persian’s (Iraq/Iran) are not Arab’s, but they are “mostly” Muslim.
There is a difference.
I know it may seem “picky”. But it’s very important to state the facts correctly, otherwise you are liable to make incorrect assessments of a situation, based on inferences that are incorrect.

JEREMY: i guess i didn’t make my sarcasm clear enough.

Smart move. Eight years of Republican’s blind belief in righteousness against all mankind have left America’s stature in shambles abroad. This new tack may prove precisely the antidote we need: transformative leadership that seeks consensus rather than playing havoc with the Middle-East, stopping only when the streets are strewn over with corpses and enveloped in flame. If we, as a nation, don’t address how we conduct ourselves abroad we are doomed. Continuing to pursue the same course of action as the Republican’s while expecting a different result would be the definition of madness.

Jake you have some of the most absurd readers.
Just reading your blogs helps me to understand how an idiot like Bush was eleceted then reelected.
I realy am beggining to give up all hope that America will ever be what it should be.

Obama’s Treasury secretary is a tax scofflaw. Obama’s chief of staff is as dirty as they come with close ties to Blagoevich, as he along with Obama ran Blago’s 2002 campaign according to Rahm in a New Yorker interview. Add to that Obama’s twenty year history of sitting in the pews of an anti-American pastor whom he realized was crazy just this past year, and you’ve got the makings of the Greatest President That Ever Lived tagline by the media. This guy is a Chicago hack through and through who the media decided to coronate at all costs. Look at the postive versus negative news stories Obama and his opponents got and you’ll see Obama got overwhelmingly positive news coverage whilst his opponents both Hillary and McCain got overwhelmingly negative ones. This is a media creation. Obama is the epitome of liberal fascism. He will undoubtedly bring ruin to this nation through socialism and redistribution.

ROTFLOL
It is amazing to watch the liberals spin and froth and foam!
Get used to it…this is the first dyed in the wool radical that we have had as president.
There is much worse to come! I fear for America!

Please, if everyone is so well educated on the things that they regurgitate…use footnotes. That is what we learned in school, if you finished.

He is extremely naive. Militant Islam hates us because we are successful and their countries rely on the USA. Obama isn’t going to change that with words. Guns? Maybe….

I hope you liberals, briiliant Hollywood stars and those who voted for this idiot are happy when our corporate tax rate becomes the highest in the world so our companies won’t be competitive and lay off more people, he raises taxes on those that have money to invest and makes them pull back and quit which will matters worse, and when
we’ve ruined our country with
socialistic policies that have been proven to
fail many times.
Good going America for voting this
arrogant nut in and thank you Pelosi, Reed and you
other sorry liberal democrats who
forced the lending industry into horrible lending practises that have led us to the mess we’re in. Go ahead and blame everyone else and maintain your hipocritical self righteousness but you need to get your thinking straight and take some responsibility instead of blaming America first for everything and selling us out. You obviously haven’t had a member of your family killed by a terrorist bomb. Hope you enjoy socialism and the collapse of America. Good going idiots.

what are you liberals gonna say when our solders start dying in Afghanistan, and obama is seen as a hawk, oh i forget, i know what you will say, it is bushes fault. ha. thankfully for our Nation obama is not going to be able to do a lot of the domestic tax raising he wants because it is going to get sticky on the international seen

I get all emotional when I see him walk. His presence, the way he carries himself.

“I hope you liberals, briiliant Hollywood stars and those who voted for this idiot are happy when our corporate tax rate becomes the highest in the world so our companies won’t be competitive and lay off more people”
Get a new script, the campaign one is old.
Obama is not going to raise corporate tax rates and he never planned to.
He was not going to cut the rate as McCain planned to.

Folks, Saudi Arabia is one of our allies (albeit sketchy) in the War on Terror. They’ve allowed us to station troops in their country for years. They have the toughest anti-terror laws in the Middle East. There are probably more Al-Qaeda members in London than Dubai, and they all hate Saudi Arabia almost as much as they hate us. In fact, they hate Saudi Arabia because its government helps us hunt them down.
I don’t like Obama, either. But there are better things to slam him on than the fact that he’s talking to the Saudis. As President, he should be conversing with our allies. When he starts cozying up with Iran, then you’ll have something to complain about.

WOW – And I had actually given the American public two years before they woke and one day and said “What the hell have I done by voting for Obama??!!!”. Some of you catch on quicker than I gave you credit for. CHANGE? What change – look at the retreads that he is naming to his administration. The only change he has in mind is to swing the Country to the far left and reduce us to nothing but a France wanna be. We will be sitting around the fire with our grandchildren telling them about the good old days when America was a great country. A country where it’s citizen took care of their own and didn’t expect the Feds to do take care of them from cradle to grave. It is a sad path we started upon.

Here’s to everyone who wants to sit down and talk calmly with our adversaries instead of treating them like pariahs. This worked really well with Japan in 1941.

“It’s amazing how short some people’s memories are. In 1993 the World Trade Center was attacked my Muslim fanatics. Who was President then? It wasn’t George W. Bush. It was the Dem’s hero, Bill Clinton.”
Yes and his admin tracked down, arrested and convicted those responsible who rot in jail as we speak.
“Then there were more attacks on USA sites, The USS Cole and more embassies during Clinton’s presidency.”
So an attack on the military counts as a terrorist attack?
“Then, due to Clinton’s response, we got Sept. 11, 2001, which was planned during Clinton’s presidency. What George W. Bush did was to make sure it didn’t happen again. Which it didn’t”
So the attack on the Cole counts but the thousands of terrorist attacks (aka Bring it on) that killed thousands of Americans in Iraq do not?
Right wingers really do have some logical contortions to cover up Bush’s cowardice and stupidity.

Hey how come Obama hasn’t bought all my gas the last 6 days and he hasn’t even made my mortage payment yet!

Hey Steveinsd…better check your own spelling before you call the 25% of the population I belong to ignorant. I consider myself forward thinking, intelligent, a professional with a master’s degree AND I thought Bush protected this country very well. I thank God for that. Go ahead…call me crazy…it won’t hurt my feelings a bit. Conservatives have tough skin, esp. when we are subject to all the liberal bs being tossed at us.

The question of how we relate to the arab world??????
We are the infidels….period.
If they die while fighting the infidels they go to allah….
If they die while killing Americans….they go to allah and have special privileges…
…when are the stupid and gentle people of the U.S. that want to make sure that these terrorist get a fair trial
…going to realize that after you give these terrorist that fair trial….
they would absolutely not think twice or hesitate to walk into your childrens daycare and detonate themselves and every child in the room? for allah.
How can people that don’t comprehend that fact be trusted to guard this country?

This is a blessing in disguise… With this move Obama has definitely upset some of his biggest supporters in the American media. They all wanted that first television interview as president. You know Brokaw is probably getting hammered, pacing in front of his Obama shrine at this moment. Maybe the media will try to get him back, and actually ask him something other than; “How are you feeling at this very moment?”, and “What’s your opinion on the BCS system?”. He might actually get a tough interview. I’m just trying to stay positive.

I guess we are supposed to isolate ourselves and eventually get hit again…NO..We have to talk to people, and if our President gives a lousy interview to a middle eastern tv station it is not time to put on a turban. Give me a break right wingers, you will have 8 more years to yap all you want, but make sure it’s something that has an actual argument.

Since when did reaching out become an issue. Haven’t WE ALL been reaching out since our earliest years to build relationships? Thats how its done! Standing in a corner solves nothing, unless you want to stay in a cycle of hatred and misunderstanding.
And whats wrong with being muslim, I’m not, but I don’t understand how having a certain belief instantly makes you a hater or a terrorist. Hold that mirror up and quit throwing stones y’all, propogating hatred accomplishes nothing.

Obama’s first presidential interview with an independent Arab TV network? What a statement to the Muslim world from this new administration – and what speculative fodder for conservatives…

So, President Mohammed’s first post election interview to an Arab reporter. And you are surprised why? LOL
I believe the garbage spewed by BHO during week one is only the tip of the iceberg. Soon you Obama-bots will realize what you’ve put in office. For the rest of us, get your popcorn ready! It’s going to be a rough four year ride.

He is elected and the first people he wants to talk to is the arabic world… Not the American public.
*Change*
1/20/2013

The Hope and Changer in Chief thinks that the power of his personality and the flash of his pearly whites are going to convince the Iranians to give up their nukes. SURE.

The road to hell is being paved by Obama’s good intentions.

The funny part is watching the left applaud the move. ha, except no one is laughing. Obama is a joke and is in way over his head. 2010 cannot come quick enough so we can have midterm elections.

“don’t judge obama after only 6 days in office” ???
yeah, i am sure there was some intellectual motive behind him hiring a tax evader as our new secretary of treasury.
delusional and blind supporters – get real

“they will blindly oppose him and spit hatred regardless of whether its for their own good. ignorance is running rampant in this country. sad”.
Does this comment refer to the Bush bashers of the last 8 years.
HOPE AND CHANGE, YEAH, BABY!

Now the CIA has a real mission…

Why is George Mitchell going instead of Hillary?

90% of these responses are completely stupid and look more like people making fun of right-wingers than actual right-wingers.
Unfortunately for this nation, for most of these posts the latter is probably more accurate…

What a surprise. This is the priority of this arrogant guy. He hasn’t had a press conference yet with our own media nor a sit down interview since the inauguration. Yet he chooses to sit down with an Arab network. We will see what appeasement looks like. That combined with a number of executive orders never before seen in one week’s time. Do we have a new Hugo Chavez here — America’s version of a dictator? This guy is a wack job being who was promoted by the media and rich liberals, and the gullible American voter bought the myth of Obama hook, line, and sinker.

Bush was killed in the media and on the blogs about the ports possibly being run by an Arab company. Republicans were heavily criticized for that.
Now Obama goes to do an interview with Al-Arabiya which has a very small outreach and the people (Republicans) who say that it is ignorant are being considered racist on this very message board?
Can anyone see how this works?

Where have all these folks been? The rest of us have been here while the President talked to us for almost three days. Now these folks are saying the President is talking to an arab station first. DUH! , if you hadn’t of stuffed your ears with cotton you’d know what’s really going on…..
Not talking to people doesn’t fix ANYTHING!! You have to talk, discuss, consider, listen – NOT STICK YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND or start shooting.

Most of you are missing the point of this news. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with eastern idealism vs. western patriotism. Obama only has one of those traits, and you figure out which one that is. This is justice. The liberals voted this guy in, and now they scratch their heads? If there’s another attack on American soil, who among us wouldn’t blame Obama for it? And to you Dems that voted for him… He’s been saying this all along. He said he would be doing all this stuff… And now you want your vote back? Well, it doesn’t work that way. You should have paid attention when it really mattered. Now, what are you going to do? Vote him out? Good luck on that. And a note to you folks who did vote for him, you cleared the path for your own destruction. So look in the mirror and blame yourself.
I’m not blaming all dems… McCain was a huge mistake and republicans are just to blame for this trainwreck.

Why, oh WHY does the media love to stir up the pot when it doesn’t need to? ABC interviewed Obama about a WEEK before he was inaugurated! We’re not supposed to view his sitdown with ABC’s This Week as a ‘formal’ interview???? Was it informal? Was it a Casual Sunday interview??? Should he had done a big stupid splashy sitdown with the likes of Larry ‘Softball’ King, Diane ‘Incredulous’ Sawyer, or Katie ‘Ratings Challenged’ Couric before going to speak with the foreign press (which in this day and age of ever increasing globalism is a very good thing!).
Even if you don’t like his politics, most rational people can see it is very smart to speak to the rest of the world…unless those same people, also don’t think that America is the dominant superpower in the world today…and thusly, as the world leader, its head of state should speak to the world at large about our intentions and policies.

I hope it helps, but I think Obama is being somewhat naive. If anyone watched 60 minutes last night on this very subject, I don’t see how anything will ever change. They are two very stubborn countries…..and this has been going on for decades.

I can hear him talking now. “PLEASE PLEASE LIKE US”. Will let your brothers go, will make our survellance weak, will let you come here in droves and change our laws,etc. Will even send you tons of money. Just LIKE US PLEASE.

It’s interesting that Clinton did nothing to protect this country, but was ‘loved’ around the world…and some or our citizens seem to think he was a ‘great president’. Most frequent to the White House…Yassar Arafat…speaks volumes. Honestly, he wouldn’t and couldn’t make those hard decisions which would have caused many to dislike him due to his deep seeded insecurity. Such is it with Obama. He’d rather weaken this country and be adored around the world than to do the right thing and take the chance of not being popular. Unfortunately, in this cold cruel world, it’s better to be feared than loved. Just a thought…take away all of our foreign aid to these countries that hate us and see how long it takes for them to ‘come around’ to like us again…if they don’t, things will not have changed and we’ll have kept our money…just a thought.

THANK GOD we now have a President who understands a little something about diplomacy and common sense. The world is lucky to have Barack Obama in place at this time.

I’m very concerned, but I’m going to wait and see before passing final judgment.

Just another bunch of non-news.
Is anyone surprised? Is anyone surprised about anything BO has done yet?
The majority voted for him, they got what they wanted. It remains to be seen if it is good or bad for the USA.
I actually like the snub to his blessed media. Perhaps they will actually take him to task on some of his actions in the future. You never know.
I’m more worried about INCREASING government spending – especially after we (the collective) have blasted the last president for 6 years about his spending.
Politics = Hypocrisy no matter what side of the aisle you are on. It will not change until all of our elected officials are actually forced to be responsible for their actions.

I’m sure obama does not run rings around me intellectually, nor around my offspring, who have exceeded him in every way.
Obama is so willing to talk to the enemy, and I’m reading all these posts in support of talking to everybody.
Iran has said they will talk to obama, sure they will, but with PRECONDITIONS.
1. Withdraw ALL American troops from ALL arabic countries in the world.
2. Stop supporting Israel.
Otherwise, no talkie.
Iran’s got the guts that I wish obama had.

I would think his first Presidental interview would be to us the US citizens first and foremost.
I don’t think anything good will come out of this.
From my standpoint as a business owner and employer of 12 employees, I refuse to surrender my profits from my hard work and years of going without so others can have a sense of worth.
I fear that the USA has been sold a bill of goods and I will not take a wait and see he’ll do right stance. He is in big game and better get ready for microscope review of everything he and the Clinton admin does.

Americans are such pansy little children.
It is really just so funny that I was laughing while reading all of your comments.
You know, the Middle East is the source of a lot of dangers the United States faces – perhaps it isn’t so crazy to have the President of the United States actually address that population very earlier in his Presidency.
We had 8 years of the opposite and look where it got us… Perhaps a bit of a change might just help.

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I guess you had better try and unseat the Chief Justice because he screwed up the oath.
THIS IS TOO TOO FUNNY!

” wow. its amazing how smart conservatives are. within two weeks they are predicting the downfall of our entire nation. yet they supported george w bush’s policies for 8 years. its pretty evident that Obama can do no right in their eyes no matter what he does. they will blindly oppose him and spit hatred regardless of whether its for their own good. ignorance is running rampant in this country. sad. ”
Shoe is on the other foot now isn’t it?
” blindly oppose him ” seems like the last 8 years.
” can do no right ” seems like the last 8 years.
” blindly oppose him and spit hatred ” Definitely the last 8 years.
Let’s see how many movies are made depicting Obama’s assassination ( I would assume none will be made and I would hope not ) But it wasn’t a problem when Bush had the starring role in the movie. That was very classy.
The last 8 years dissent was your patriotic duty Liberals. Now that Obama is President thats not so anymore, nobody has the right to question Obama or the trillions of dollars he wants to waste under the guise of a “stimulus”
Bush tried to be bipartisan and was rewarded by being called an idiot, liar, etc. Again very classy Liberals. You don’t like a taste of your own medicine… too damn bad.

“THANK GOD we now have a President who understands a little something about diplomacy and common sense. The world is lucky to have Barack Obama in place at this time.”
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Diplomacy at the international level between countries, is first carried out by envoys, diplomats, representatives, not presidents and kings.
Don’t be so naive. They are going to eat you, him, and probably the rest of us, for breakfast.

I think or know that he is NOT American, which President would give a foreign newspaper/live interview to a FIRST interview. Only if he knew that he was NOT legally voted in, but BOUGHT and STRINGARMED in.

Barack’s allegiance is NOT to the USA.
POTUS must be a natural-born citizen to establish his allegiance – Barack is NOT a US citizen and does not have any allegiance to the USA!
He FORGED a birth certificate to pretend he’s a US citizen – when he is not!

Just remember, of the 303,000,000 Americans, 240,000,000 didn’t vote for this clown.

Time for a tax revolt.

What is funny is how many people who feel compelled to speak here do not even know the difference between Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera. Al Arabiya was established at about the time the Iraq War began, in March 2003, and was designed to compete with Al Jazeera, which of course is famous for being wildly anti-American, anti-Israeli, and one-sided. Al Arabiya has widely been accused in the Arab world of being. If Al Jazeera is biased in the obvious way that Fox News is, Al Arabiya models itself on CNN — it may exhibit biases, but at least it is trying to be balanced.

Rose:
Read “Rules for Radicals” by Saul Alinsky. It was Obama’s playbook, and the useful idiots fell for it hook, line and sinker.

TheBrain….I AGREE COMPLETELY..obama is a fraud, and it WILL COME OUT!!!

Time for a tax revolt.
Posted by: Sidney | Jan 26, 2009 7:41:25 PM
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Right on, Sidney! We all should follow the shining example set by our new Treasury, Tim “TurboTax Did It” Geithner.

Obama threw America under the Obama BUS

Great! Perhaps, the MainStream Media (aka public relations branch of the Democratic party) now realizes Obama’s primary allegiance is to the Middle East. What’s his middle name, again?

And I actually regret my last comment, it was the wrong thing to say. I’ve just been getting irate over comments about the left thinking Barack is the messiah.
Everyone needs to take a chill pill, including myself. Just give the guy a chance. Please?
He’s not going to be a dictator,
He’s not a Marxist,
Hes not a Bolshevik,
He’s not a Fascist,
He’s not a Muslim,
Are you disqualified if you are?
He won’t destroy America.
Just give him a chance.
And if things don’t work out,
We’ll have a new president in four years.

This jerk will be gone by 2010. He’s clueless and is drinking his own Kool-Aid. You think there was outrage over Clinton? That’ll look like a happy day at Disneyland compared to Barryworld.

Four years of carter. He can’t prepare us by saying things are going to get worse, we won’t buy it, we know what he is trying to do. Hey “change you can believe in”.

I am embarrassed to see our President get on TV with the Arab world. Lack of respect to all of the Americans. With all of the dialects in the Arab world what assurances are in place to assure that his words will specially transmitted? At this time I feel this shows weakness on his part.

“Americans are such pansy little children.”
Americans expect their newly elected leader to fix our house before he fixes some other house. I can only assume from your comment that you think I am a racist for saying that, huh?

“arent too bright!” – Liberal bright one, it is “aren’t” not “arent” !! HA HA HA You probably need a teleprompter like your Reagan-wannabe messiah!

STOCK UP ON ARMS AND AMMO. WE MAY HAVE TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK IN THE END. THE REASON THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS INSTITUTED! And for the liberal spell checkers in here – that’s all you really have at the end of the day because liberalism is based on emotion and when you can’t win with that you get petty.

Numerous factors led to this, but if we Republicans can remain calm and not splinter apart in remedialist factions like what Mike Huckabee did to the Culturalists among us, we’ll provide in 4 years an extremely adept, accomplished, capable, intelligent, articulate and cerebral challenger in Mitt Romney. John McCain never stood a chance as he merely benefitted from a crowded field that had Romney flanked from the left (McCain, Rudy) and the culturalist right (Huckabee, Fred). Bush was bad enough with his $700B stimulus that did nothing but help banks shore up their balance sheets for a mere couple months, and now Obama wants $1Trillion. Already, without the Trillion, we’ve spent more on this stupid bank bailout than we have all wars our nation has ever fought–combined. This is a great robbery and the Democrats are in total control now. Hopefully the fiscal restraint returns to the Republicans so we can have a little hope as actual, thinking, sane Americans. Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan are great young talent in this arena, and we’ll see how things pan out over the coming years. But one thing always is on my mind whenever I see Mitt Romney on TV: who the hell would want McCain or Obama running things over this guy? I guess it’s proof that there is little justice and that we end up electing the least capable among us–hopefully, with freed terrorists and pandering to the middle east, sanity will return to those who lost it and we’ll correct not just course in 4 years, but what I believe to have been 16 years of bad leadership from Clinton and Bush 43 and now Obama.

It’s going to be a rocky ride. It looks like we’re being taken down from within and it’s only day 6! 1984?

Republicans still crying. Waaah. Waaah. Waaah.
Listen to you all and your lame posts.
Still mad.
Losers. Go to Alaska. I heard the Governor hunts.

Bush maid evry one mad. Obama is loved.

Is everyone that reads Drudge short on critical thinking skills? jpt , I wish you would not let Drudge link to your stories. ABC is better than the people that link attracts.

Bottom line, Obama is a MUSLIM. He will favor Muslim above all the unenlightened who voted for him. He does not have the interests of the USA at heart. He chose criminal minds for his cabinet. Hope he wakes up soon as he is just too full of himself.
Some of the muslim beliefs are female genital mutilation, women treated like trash or worse, men get by with murder, literally. Do you want more?? Should he be allowed to lead our country BACKWARDS? Wake up people. He is a nut case.

Major Mike:
Thank you for the sound advice . You expressed so much of what I have been thinking and feeling since before the election. I didn’t expect the ones who put this guy in to see his true side so quickly-but-see it they will. We need to be prepared. We The People!!
America First!

The radical Arab Muslims would kill any American if they could no matter who it is! An interview to talk with them will not make them like us any more….they want us destroyed…period…the end. I don’t think we need to “make nice” to any of them!!!

“liberalism is based on emotion”
He says whilst going on a highly emotional rant.

I still can’t believe a liberal clown tried to say someone wasn’t bright by stating “arent too bright”! Without a teleprompter, they’re just Reagan-wannabes!!! HA HA HA Gotta love how more people watched the GREAT Ronald Reagan’s inauguration than Obama’s! Obama still couldn’t beat him even though he had a far larger population! HA HA HA Poor things.

Lee”’
You poor dumb soul. Thats what Kennedy did to Castro and Cuba. Then a few days later Castro pointed nuclear weapons at America

I walked for miles my feets are hurtin. I need free medcal.

Conservatives. Stop posting on here. The Democrats are starting up operation Stonewall of Ignorance. It’s not worth contending with people, via blog comments, who will not be swayed by reason under normal circumstances.

the sleeper!!!!!!!!!

President Obama, you are a true leader. You understand the complexity of the situations around the world and you understand how to solve the problems we face in the manner that will result in the least chaos and most benefit. I applaud you for your diplomatic maneuvering thus far, God knows we’ve needed this (and more) for 8 long years.

Peace can only be achieved through diplomacy. To achieve peace we have to look at the root cause of the problem. The problem, the way I see it is, Israel took some land belonging to the Palestinian people, Golan Heights, etc. The Palestinians want these lands back. Israel has refused to return back these lands. Israel has continued to build settlements on these lands. The Palestinian freedom fighters trying to get their land back has been labeled terrorists. The past presidents have never been able to resolve this conflict for reasons I fail to understand. But after watching what just happened in Gaza, it is hard for anyone sit back and not be disturbed by those images. So something has to be done. Israel is an ally and a good friend of the United States. But it comes a time when friends have to be honest with each other. So taking hints from Obama, if I were Israel, I would start making plans of moving out of these lands and signing some peace treaty with the Palestinians so they can have their own statehood and rule themselves. The sooner the better. I say this because the International community is becoming overly critical of the Palestinian people’s suffering. The international community did that during the holocaust and during apartheid. Israeli people should live in peace without fearing some rocket falling on their head. The Palestinian people should have their own country. So Obama work towards this eventual peace in the middle east. Yes we can cave peace here. Yes we can.Then there will be no excuse for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be exploited as a religious war against Christians, Jews and Muslims. This will make the United States a little safer.
As for, Gitmo. Thank you Obama for closing this place down. As a nation of law. We cannot hold people indefinitely without trial. Justice delayed is justice denied. You are innocent until proven guilty. 7 years is a very along time to be holding anyone without trial. We have to live by example.
We have to normalize relations with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and other countries that the previous administrations did not like. These countries could be buying Fords cars, Chryslers cars and GM cars now. Gas in these countries is cheap as hell. They can afford our SUVs and the other cars that we call Gazllers. That is more jobs for the big three automakers. More jobs for part suppliers. That equates to less foreclosures etc. So Obama, continue the great job you are doing there.
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“THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING! THOSE WHO VOTED FOR THE MESSIAH………………….ARE YOU HAPPY NOW THAT YOU VOTED ‘DOWN’ AMERICA???”
I know, god forbid a President gives an interview on a foreign tv channel that reaches a group of people we have been warring against since the 1950s.
“WE made the Mulims hate us ?”
Yes, we did. We have been messing in their affairs for 60 years. They didn’t respond until about 30 years ago. I’d say they have been remarkably patient considering how many innocents the Shah slaughtered with our backing.

Reading some of these post seems the right has drank LETS HATE EVERYONE IF THEIR NOT FAR RIGHT CHRISTIANS BUSH KOOL-AID!

I love it!!!!!

I’m reading through a lot of fear, which is basically illiteracy. The station is in DUBAI, A LONG TIME ALLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

Dem1 – When do I gets to go to de doctor for nothin? Obabma rules!
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When its free you won’t be able to get in because everyone will be going for a hang nail, illegal immigrants too. Ask the people in Canada, great if you don’t use it.

MR ANDERSON
5 Dollars thats all you have looks like Busheconomics hurt you too hun 5 dollars dont seem like your too confident I Will bet you a 1000 dollars the Republicans dont resurface until 2016?

@connie | Jan 26, 2009 8:02:27 PM
I’m not a christian, but I find it funny that this scripture is in the bible…
“A wise man’s heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man’s heart directs him toward the left.”
Ecclesiastes 10:2
Seems even in the old testament, people knew the left was wrong.

Al-Arabiya is owned by Americans. It was created in 2003 to counter negative broadcasting on Al-Jazeera. It was initially used in Iraq but has ventured out to the entire middle east. Which is exactly why Obama picked them over Al-Jazeera.

I’m amazed at the number of “Obama voters” who are SHOCKED! simply SHOCKED! This man promised to talk to people. He’s talking to 23 million. What in the world is not to like?

“Last time I checked the first WTC bombing,”
And the perpetrators were apprehended, tried and now rot in jail.
“the USS Cole,”
Yes in mid-Oct 2000.
What did Bush do about that when he took over 3 months later?
Oh yeah….nothing.
“the rampant de-funding of our military, and”
Well the Cold War had ended.
“the breakdown of our intelligence agencies happened under Clinton, you idiot.”
Breakdown?
I seem to recall Bush getting a very specific warning about Al Queda dealing with hijackings and New York City.
Guess he was too busy on vacation after a tough whole 6 months in office.

Wow
I just hope Obama doesn’t forget to go all the way and give the chosen alrabia rep a hug on air…..after all the radicals just need to know we care and it will all be good…World peace here we come….or something.
This is like a bad skit making fun of how repubs think a hard-core liberal president would rule. If this story was anywhere but on one of the primary outlets I would call BS and laugh.

In response to:
Posted by: Ryan C | Jan 26, 2009 8:06:46 PM
………
KSM was involved in the first WTC attacks and was captured by Bush not Clinton.

RYAN C
There is no point in trying to throw logic to the right And possibly Educate them a little I mean Cmon look at their President Bush like they say the ones on the right aint to Bright!

Jake, as an intelligent journalist, do you not find the absolute ignorance and hatred here scary? We finally have an intelligent president and it appears many of the people of this country do not deserve one. I guess this explains how Bush won twice.

If many of the comments here are any indication, we show ourselves to the world as a country of illiterate, bigoted, narrow-minded, ignorant louts.

Remember, Obama is the consummate liar. He won’t produce his certificate of live birth therefore we don’t know for sure if he is serving legitimately. We don’t know. He also is hiding his college records. Anyone ever wonder why this is? Maybe it is because when he went to college he applied as a foreign student because he had an Indonesian passport. And maybe it is because his education was funded by radical elements in the middle east. In regards to his birth certificate, what is hiding? Any ideas. I am pretty sure it is because it will reveal that Barack Obama Sr. is NOT his biological father. If you want to read a little more, go to (eich tee tee pee colon slash slash) obamadaddy (dot) blog spot (dot) com and see for yourself.

“It’s a lot harder to hate a guy or group who acknowledges the challenges your society faces.”
Uh, no it is not. And by the way, Bush was the first President to acknowledge the two state solution and he supported the Palestinian election, and they hated the US and elected Hamas.
Europe supports the Palestinians over Israel, and the radical Moslems still hate Europe.
Why are liberals so ignorant?

Unfortunately, the majority of the people responding can’t distinguish between moderate Arab nations and the ones fallen to the extremists. Both the right wingers and the Middle Eastern extremists feel threatened by this. Oh, the irony!

Tired of Dumb,
That’s what most Americans are. Spot on, we just have to accept we live in Rome.

Surprised ObaMa0 didn’t give his first TV interview in Beijing or Moscow. Perhaps Cuba or Venezuela is next?

I am curious to see what the President says. What is the President’s overall strategic goal by doing this? I didn’t vote for President Obama. I voted for McCain. Our goal as Americans is to support our President because like it or not, he was chosen by a electoral and public majority. However, we also have a duty to our country to speak out when we have disagreements and provide sound alternatives. I wish he would have chosen an American media outlet so we could understand him better. I still have no idea what his stances on any issues are. However, I am willing to see how this plays out. Remember that Regan brought down the USSR by out spending them, but there was also an appeal to the people to rise up. Isn’t that what Pope John Paul II did in Poland?

@Kermit | Jan 26, 2009 8:16:35 PM
Ah, yes.. the old liberal standard battle cry of ‘Blood for Oil’. So how much oil did we get? Not much. What we did get is the elimination of a very evil tyrant and as long as Obama doesn’t blow it by snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, a democracy that with some nurturing care and protection, grow to be a great nation.

Al-Arabiya is owned by Americans. It was created in 2003 to counter negative broadcasting on Al-Jazeera. It was initially used in Iraq but has ventured out to the entire middle east. Which is exactly why Obama picked them over Al-Jazeera.
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I don’t know if there’s any point in injecting reality and reason into this mad mob mentality, but maybe it’s worth a try.

Kermit said: “why am I bothering trying to communicate to such intolerant, racist, presuppositional, reactionary ignorance?
Just stare at FOx Tv and drink Rush Koolaid. ”
A bigot is a person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles or identities differing from his or her own, and bigotry is the corresponding attitude or mindset.
According to the above definition, Kermit, you are a bigot yourself. Not only that, you’re a hypocrite.
Hypocrisy is the act of condemning or calling for the condemnation of another person when the critic is guilty of the act for which he demands that the accused be condemned.

Ryan, how old are you? You must not be that old, you haven’t lived long enough to know how great this country once was, and how far we’re going to slip in the next four years. Those that work hard, pay their taxes, and have a strong faith, they are the backbone of America. This president, along with his ‘stellar’ administration, doesn’t give a rip for the aforementioned. It’s a shame. When you’re young, liberalism is a beautiful thing. But you have to grow up sometime and realize the damage it can do, and will do, to the country you love.

al arabiya is NOT owned by Americans

Smiling and good speech makes a President now days in America~! Who cares anymore whether you are qualified, a true follower of our principles and laws, upholder of the constitution and bill of rights, legal candidate for an office, associations with mafia, terrorists, haters of America etc.! Doesn’t matter! Hire or vote in a traitor that is fine! Just so he smiles and speaks well and perhaps is from or has a foreign ethnic background especially! Personally, I don’t trust Obama further than I can spit! I hope and pray he isn’t as bad as his credentials say he is! For they speak a world of information that he is not fit to be a citizen much less our President! Color of skin has nothing to do with it but multitudes of issues such as political philosophies, background activities, associations, upholder of our free enterprise system and capitalism, etc., have everything to do with it along with views on human life protection from the womb forward! So, as you can see Obama is far out and radical. Hope things work out for our people and our nation but along with the economic problems fostered by Democratic blunders throughout Congress over the years we have a weak foundation now.

MR ANDERSON
5 Dollars thats all you have looks like Busheconomics hurt you too hun 5 dollars dont seem like your too confident I Will bet you a 1000 dollars the Republicans dont resurface until 2016?
Posted by: Angie | Jan 26, 2009 8:05:38 PM
How many welfare checks would you have to save?

Just whose president is B.H.Obama supposed to be anyway?!

Ryan C
Nazism = National Socialism
The communists hated the socialists (Nazis) because they were exterminating them, like they did the Jews and anyone that didn’t buy in (Catholics and Christians). The Nazis and todays liberals have a lot more in common than true Conservatives. Just listen to some of Hitlers speeches, they sound like they could easily be delivered by anyone in the Democrat party.

Drudge-Rush People…
We all know it is more fun to assume than read, but please, please actually read about stuff before you get scard and spout hate….
Its really not that bad, it is a station of our ally, and its going to be ok…

Obama is busy hiring Icelandic economists for his race to self destruction.

I hope Jake and/or other journalists reading these comments don’t take them as indicative in any way of the views of the American public at large. It’s clear to me from the tone of the comments that most of the commenters were routed here via Drudge or Freeperville.

Why is Barack Obama “quietly” doing an interview on an Arabian radio station?

I’m laughing at the Dems! They and the leftist media have pilloried GWB at every turn. Soon the boot will be on the other foot, and oh boy, it will be a delight to stick it in. Obama will fail, there is no doubt. He cannot save the economy with his witless stimulus, which amounts to a mix of social welfare, pure waste and pet Dem agendas. Like Pansy Pelosi’s 100′s of millions on birth control which cannot possibly have any benefit for a decade? The US cant survive a decade waiting for resolution! No astute financial whiz has endorsed it, it is widely seen as futile. Next comes the new bank crisis when credit card and motor car debt will collapse on default! The banks have not improved one jot after receiving $350 billion! They’re going to eat the next 350 billion too, with no tangible result. This crisis is a monster, out of control. Estimates now say 10 trillion might not be enough to save the banks! On foreign policy, Obama is a joke. He’s leading with his chin and he’s going to get smacked! The Islamists and Jihadists are not interested in peaceful solutions? They are religious fanatics, driven by an insane desire to destroy Israel and the West. You cant reason with them? The only language they understand is superior force. Iran is racing to complete its bomb, and nobody’s doing anything about it? When it has it, it will dominate the ME, including all of the US friends, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi etc. The ME will become an Iranian fiefdom. The only hope is that Israel, under Netanyahu, says NO and launches a preemptive thermo-nuclear strike to destroy all Iranian nuclear facilities, missiles and airforce! And, he will do it, count on it! The Sabras are made of much tougher stuff than the weak,effete milksop Dems! Israel will save themselves, but there’s no saving the US under this present bunch of cowards.

HEY…has anyone seen the ‘‘American Recovery 5 and Reinvestment Act of 2009’’.
It’s just full of welfare programs!! I don’t see anything to stimulate the economy in it. What a joke.

America will stand and fight.I estimate that probably 175 Million Americans did not support Obama, regretably not all went to the polls, Obama is losing ground allready from his supporters, The civil unrest will start slowly but then will grow immensely and swiftly, The sad part is that the democrat congress will be a large part of his downfall.

Barney Frank and Nacy Pelosi caused the housing meltdown by forcing banks to lend money to illegals. Bush and McCain tried to reel them in but they cried “Racism.” Now look at the economy…it is wasting away thanks to Barney and his Anti-God sidekick Miss Nancy. God help this country now that the false prophet is in office.

oops that was dictater!

it is a shame that we have come to this. but, when you take an animal away from his cage, he becomes an animal. what is civilization? i guess just a thing, maybe where smart trees garther.

Madge Owens is a stain. No concept of history or finance for that matter.

Lisa, I stand corrected , thanks for bringing that to my attention.

“The real amazing part is how so few of you realize Congress runs everything. It was a Democrat run Congress that put us in this mess. The whole banking and investment mess is because of Democrats who were over seeing it.”
Hmmm so there were no issues with the banking/investment mess prior to 2006.

Elections have consequences. The next election will be in Nov 2010. Plenty of time between now and then for the American people to wake up and smell the coffee (wish it smelled that good now, but alas, it is already starting to smell like we’ve been duped!). This will be like the Clinton period all over again – a crazy two year period followed by sanity and fiscal restraint. Well, I least I hope this is the future, as the present is very scary indeed – counting the days until our new savior gets his first test from the terrorist factions. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Marion Barry seen entering the White House carrying small plastic baggies? What the…

Conservatism = FREE TRADISM, FREE MARKETISM, PRIVATIZATION, CORPORATISM – all opposed by the nation builders Washington, Madison, Adams, Clay, Lincoln…the original GOP and the New Deal Democratic Party.
None of the above is Capitalism by the way. Alexander Hamilton, the father of American Capitalism, wrote what that was – read his three reports to Congress. Why? Because they are what we followed under Lincoln, and more fully under F.D. Roosevelt. What the GOP and Conservatives stand for today is directly opposite to his views and Washington’s views, and Madison’s views, and Jefferson’s views, and Lincoln’s views, heck American history.
Modern Progressivism – is a fusion between Jeffersonian views on Liberty (Right to Privacy), Madison’s respect for Civil Rights (upholding the Constitution, thus closing of Guantanimo Bay, ending torture), and the Hamilton/Lincoln economic system (true Capitalism) of Infrastructure building, National banking with more government control, and protecting American workers jobs. There are still some Dem’s who are not this way, but the new Dem’s for the most part are what we would call Republicans in Lincoln’s day, Whigs in Clay’s day, Nat. Rep’s in Adams day, and Federalists in Hamilton’s day.
So we have Conservatism representing government control of your private life (liberty) and none over the economy (free trade/markets)…and the Progressive movement representing Liberty in private matters, and government intervention in the Economy. Hmmm, considering history…I wonder which our Founder’s would indentify with – the anti-Union/Federalist weak government free trade GOP or the Union/Federalist strong government Democratic Party of progressivism..hmmm..

Have you liberals lost enough wealth yet? Jobs? Was the Democrats bright idea of forcing the banks to make mortgage loans to those with no credit or employment through the Community Reinvestment Act not proof enough of their stupidity?
Jesus, what I wouldn’t give to spend one day in such blissful ignorance.

my friends, it is not not late. surely freedom and the American way will rule. Hale to America. I love this place.

“I know the believers don’t want to hear about the birth cirtificate, but how about explaining how he got into Pakistan when he was in college? He could not do so on an American passport so what passport did he carry?”
Except he could do so on an American passport.
The travel ban for American to Pakistan is ,like so many other “facts” in the Obama birth certificate tin foil hattery, made up.
There was no travel ban only a travel advisory which is something the State dept issues anytime there is even remote danger to Americans visiting.

I give Obama only 4 years. Carter II

IMPEACH OBAMA before it’s too late.

Oh the Republican Melt downs what Fun they are HEY CHERLY you might want to counsel some of you Republican People on here Seems they are going off the Deep End its not Healthy Cheryl please council you fellow party members hahahahahahah

Welcome to Hussein Obama’s “change you can believe in.” Every time an American speaks against his political agenda the race card is played by him and his socialist Democrat goons or him. And now he has quickly switched to being the Islamic guru he denied being during the elections. Less than four years to go. Hope all you ultra-liberals remember each and every painful moment of what you elected.

The messiah is going to take a crack at the middle east? Here is a clue: butout.
You’ll soon join the list of failures.
Hey BO, any problems here in the USA that you can think of? dingbat

Liberals are so gullible.

It must be tough on some of the extremist right wingers on this forum to watch what has happened in only a week.
“The following is our President following through on his campaign promises and this is democracy in action.
1)Stop America torturing and honor the Geneva Conventions and started the process to close Guantanomo (serving our constitution, treaties, and rule of law)
2)Opened up the Freedom of Information policy to be what it was meant to be
3)Instigated a transparent government program
4)Instigated a stronger ethics program
5)Pay freeze for those who earn over $100K in his administration,
6)Involve both the Republicans and Democrats in the Economy Package
7)Opened up embyronic stem cell research
8)Released the “gag” on family planning and services programs overseas
9)Set up his open government website (we hope to see more)
10)Hired people on his cabinet and administration that have merit and that are Republicans, too. Kept Gates on
11)On day 2, he and his Sec. of State set a strong policy for foreign affairs with a strengthened Dept. of State where “Development, Diplomacy, and Defense” would be the integrated strategic tools
12) allow States the liberty to bring on stream improved auto emission standards
13) open lines of communication to the larger world
I’ll tell you, this is great government and I’m proud to see this going on.”

“…And the inconvenient downside to avoiding the Iraq intervention is that a choke point of the world economy would still be controlled by a psychopathic crime family that kept a staff of WMD experts on hand and that paid for jihadist suicide bombers around the region. In his farewell interviews, President Bush hasn’t been able to find much to say for himself on this point, but I think it’s a certainty that historians will not conclude that the removal of Saddam Hussein was something that the international community ought to have postponed any further. (Indeed, if there is a disgrace, it is that previous administrations left the responsibility undischarged.)…”

It must be tough on some of the extremist right wingers on this forum to watch what has happened in only a week.
“The following is our President following through on his campaign promises and this is democracy in action.
1)Stop America torturing and honor the Geneva Conventions and started the process to close Guantanomo (serving our constitution, treaties, and rule of law)
2)Opened up the Freedom of Information policy to be what it was meant to be
3)Instigated a transparent government program
4)Instigated a stronger ethics program
5)Pay freeze for those who earn over $100K in his administration,
6)Involve both the Republicans and Democrats in the Economy Package
7)Opened up embyronic stem cell research
8)Released the “gag” on family planning and services programs overseas
9)Set up his open government website (we hope to see more)
10)Hired people on his cabinet and administration that have merit and that are Republicans, too. Kept Gates on
11)On day 2, he and his Sec. of State set a strong policy for foreign affairs with a strengthened Dept. of State where “Development, Diplomacy, and Defense” would be the integrated strategic tools
12) allow States the liberty to bring on stream improved auto emission standards
13) open lines of communication to the larger world
I’ll tell you, this is great government and I’m proud to see this going on.”

WOW–these are some very scary comments.
Guns, war, violence, shaking our fists at all who disagree with us–that’s the Conservative way. Very scary.
Conservatives made this country great? Are you serious? People like Rush? You’re joking.
And for all of you idiots who still believe the crap you’ve been fed about Obama not being a citizen–I have a nice bridge to nowhere that I can sell ya’! You betcha’!

Harvey Sen. John McCain was a victim of torture in Vietnam and has spoken out strongly against the use of torture by America.

Of course we all remember President Bush holding hands with the Saudis, in bed with the Saudi’s in huge oil deals.
Bush family and Saudi family greasy as thieves.
All the while Saudi has no democracy, treats women as secondary citizens and fights democratic reform.
We know where the hypocrisy lies.

“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened. ”
-Norman Thomas

After reading these comments you have to wonder why many countries choose to look down on us.

all democrats and republicans that voted for the robbery of our treasury should be tried for treason.
how could the voters support either of these ‘corruptions’ on our country?
i guess you can fool all the people all the time.
if the mayor of our town gave the city’s treasury to private businesses, i think he would be recalled quickly and charged with malfeasance of office at a minimun.
get ready for the new stagflation.
adios,
Harvey
Lancaster, Taxifornia
got rope?

David your a dreamer, you talk of ideals and principles that the enemy has no respect for. These people will take our noble rule of law to beat us over the head. BTW, those wonderful values that established this country are Jeduo-Christian, over 80% of the Founding Fathers went to seminary. Ever heard of Voice of the Martyrs, see how much compassion Christians receive from the Muslims majority of various countries. You really think that appeasement going to work then your very naive, history can show you that; Neville Chamberlain.

Perfos:
A little lesson here:
Dems took control of Congress in 2004. Took Senate in 2006. The President can’t spend a dime! Reference Artice 1 Section 8 of the US Constitution:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

“Of course we all remember President Bush holding hands with the Saudis, in bed with the Saudi’s in huge oil deals.”
Of course we remember the bin Laden families being flown out of the country right after 9/11 during a nationwide grounding of commercial aircraft. Let’s not forget that 15 out of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudi.

Timberline get your facts right. Republicans held Congress from 2001 through 2006.

“Dems took control of Congress in 2004. Took Senate in 2006. The President can’t spend a dime!”
You apparently need a lesson as well.
The Dems took the House and Senate in 2006.
There was a brief period in 2001-2002 where the Dems & GOPers had a power sharing agreement in the Senate after Jeffords jumped ship

“The 109th United States Congress was the legislative branch of the United States, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, from January 3, 2005 to January 3, 2007 . . . both chambers had a Republican majority, the same party as President Bush.”

rush is not a conservative.
bush is not a conservative.
the republican party is not conservative.
conservatives are not a party.
[i]‘A 19 year old that is not a liberal has no heart. A 35 year old that is not a conservative has no brain.’[/i]
a quote from W Churchill, i paraphrased it somewhat from memory, but the content holds true.

“The 108th United States Congress was the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 2003 to January 3, 2005. . . Both chambers had a Republican majority.”

All these stupid little details argued back and forth make me sick.
Bottom Line: ONE PARTY AIDED OUR ENEMY IN A TIME OF WAR. LOWEST OF THE LOW.
GUESS WHO ——– DEMOCRATS….

Food for thought.
Obama’s ties to the teachings of Saul Alinksy while he was community organizing in Chicago. Here is Rule 13 of Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals:
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Wake up America…..

regardless of what you think of obama, you have to wonder what message he thinks he’s sending. is he thumbing his nose at our press? is this simply supposed to be a good will gesture?
we sent the uss cole into yemen as a good will gesture. i would have thought that might have taught us a lesson? after all, if clinton wasn’t loved enough to keep us safe, does obama think he will be?
every day we get more of the pieces to the puzzle that is obama. to bad the us press didn’t do it’s job before he was elected so that we are not still trying to put it all together!

If Europe had more than the USA, why is that many more people migrate to the USA than Europe?
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For one, European countries enforce far stricter immigration laws. Yes, they’ve exploited cheap labor like the states, but to a far less degree. Immigration here has been fed by an uncontrollable border for many years, and by businesses who prefer paying illegals a pittance to paying Americans decent wages.

If you are really upset with Obama, write your senators and your U.S. House representative and tell them that you want them to look into the question of whether O is a natural born citizen or not. His father was a UK citizen, not a U.S. citizen, so that makes him ineligible to be POTUS.
Do it tomorrow and let’s stop the madness now, while we still can.

Obama’s ties to the teachings of Saul Alinksy while he was community organizing in Chicago. Here is Rule 13 of Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals:
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
The best part is this is said without a hint of self awareness or irony as the above perfectly describes what the right wing has done with ACORN over the last few years.

Scott you seemed to have miss out the fact the world financial system is in dire straights and apparently old George Bush could do bugger all to stop it. .. . it was beyond his pathetic control.
If President Obama is able to rescue the mess he’s been left, it will be a HUGE accomplishment.
Bush could do nothing and did nothing.

rjjrdq,
You do know that John McCain, among others, has ALSO called for Gitmo to be shut down, don’t you? Is he a Muslim too?

Obama has been in office one week and he’s already screwing up. I will continue to laugh at his failures.

How do you like that. Now he’s thumbing his nose at the US media and the American people. Way to go BO.

Wow such ugliness from both sides! I have never seen such a great divide between the right and left in my life and the venomous hatred grows worse with each passing day.

Shiloh these are isolated right wing extremists (adolescent males) putting their fear and filth up here. Don’t concern yourself.

How very interesting, currently 534 comments on a Jake Tapper, about nothing blog.
Yet a complete WWF blowout is occurring. George Bush rarely released this much passion even on faux liberal sites like HuffPo bashing him. What a unifying force Barack Obama has become in infuriating an entire nation in a few days.
Protocol states the first interview goes to an esteemed American propagandists. I hope the media which Mr. Tapper stated was down on their knees before Obama have just been smacked aside like Rush Limbaugh.
Maybe if George Stephanopoulos had done is job Mr. Obama would understand with enough fear how the media should be respectfully treated.
MSM he is treating you like children. Wake up.

Impeach BOBO now!

As an American living overseas and working in a Moslem country I see nothing wrong with the interview. After all, you all have heard from him countless times over the last months; do you really need to hear from him in an interview right now. Grow up. You sound like my 5 yr old, who gets pissed when his sister gets the ice cream before he does. Fact is, we need work on the Moslem world, engage it more.

It must be tough on some of the extremist right wingers on this forum to watch what has happened in only a week.
Imagine a President actually following through on election promises . ..
“The following is our President following through on his campaign promises and this is democracy in action.
1)Stop America torturing and honor the Geneva Conventions and started the process to close Guantanomo (serving our constitution, treaties, and rule of law)
2)Opened up the Freedom of Information policy to be what it was meant to be
3)Instigated a transparent government program
4)Instigated a stronger ethics program
5)Pay freeze for those who earn over $100K in his administration,
6)Involve both the Republicans and Democrats in the Economy Package
7)Opened up embyronic stem cell research
8)Released the “gag” on family planning and services programs overseas
9)Set up his open government website (we hope to see more)
10)Hired people on his cabinet and administration that have merit and that are Republicans, too. Kept Gates on
11)On day 2, he and his Sec. of State set a strong policy for foreign affairs with a strengthened Dept. of State where “Development, Diplomacy, and Defense” would be the integrated strategic tools
12) allow States the liberty to bring on stream improved auto emission standards
13) open lines of communication and dialogue to the larger world
I’ll tell you, this is great government and I’m proud to see this going on.”

“Obama did NOTHING to close it!”
Sec. 3. Closure of Detention Facilities at Guantánamo. The detention facilities at Guantánamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than 1 year from the date of this order. If any individuals covered by this order remain in detention at Guantánamo at the time of closure of those detention facilities, they shall be returned to their home country, released, transferred to a third country, or transferred to another United States detention facility in a manner consistent with law and the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States.

So no American address? just a Middle East address from MR. President? Wow what country is he President in? All I have to say is we as Americans need to bond together Right wing and Left wing. We need to realize that there is no need to dwell on the past, because no matter how hard we dwell on it we won’t be able to change it. We need to worry about the now and the future. We need to get over being separated by our choice of party, and get back to the basics. Sadly this I know will never happen, and we can never see eye to eye, because liberals are to self centered, and they think they are never wrong. Quite sad..

Please tell me this is a joke–please?
(No I am not talking about the President, but what the “President” is doing….)

Be careful what you ‘HOPE’ for, you just may get it.

You right wingers should give you head a shake. America fell so far with Bush at the helm, we’ll be lucky to regain our balance never mind move ahead.

“The following is our President following through on his campaign promises and this is democracy in action.
1)Stop America torturing and honor the Geneva Conventions and started the process to close Guantanomo (serving our constitution, treaties, and rule of law)
He reserved the right to use other interrogation techniques that will remain secret. Wonder what that means? A little torture maybe in special cases?
4)Instigated a stronger ethics program
Then immediately gave an exception to his designee for Deputy Defense Secretary. Oh well, all rules are meant to be broken but sooo fast??
5)Pay freeze for those who earn over $100K in his administration,
Uh, that was on his staff, not his administration. And BTW, government pay raises take effect every January so this effected No one.
6)Involve both the Republicans and Democrats in the Economy Package
Involvement means arrogantly telling the Republicans that “I won” Why did he make a charade of this.
7)Opened up embyronic stem cell research
Sorry, he has done nothing on this yet. Besides, embryonic stem cell research was legal and funded under GWB. Only restriction was that new embryos could not be destroyed.
8)Released the “gag” on family planning and services programs overseas
Yep, now my taxes are being spent on abortions overseas. Is this what America exports, abortion?
10)Hired people on his cabinet and administration that have merit and that are Republicans, too. Kept Gates on
So much for repudiating Bush’s military strategy in Iraq.
11)On day 2, he and his Sec. of State set a strong policy for foreign affairs with a strengthened Dept. of State where “Development, Diplomacy, and Defense” would be the integrated strategic tools
Wonderland of words.
13) open lines of communication to the larger world
Gives first interview as President to an Arab newspaper. In your ear MSM!
I’ll tell you, this is great government and I’m proud to see this going on.
Same old same old. He is in over his head. On his first day, in front of all the media, he had to ask Greg Craig what he was signing in the executive orders. He doesn’t have a clue.

The terrorists will get good treatment and early releases from our prisons, if they even do any time.
Meanwhile, the victims of terrorism will continue to live with the scars from seared flesh and continue to limp along on the stubs of limbs that were blown off while Obama and his cronies giggled.

Have anyone noticed how Narcissistic
Barack Hussein Obama is? –take a look, dude !
And the liberal groupies are just pumping up the pretty boy.

The Messiah is off to a great start. What next, a state dinner for Castro and Chavez?

Wake Up People! So many sniveling he is the first Black President. Get a Grip and do your home work. 6% Black 44% ARAB 50% Irish/American. All he has given is Lip Service! The World will see in the weeks to come he is nothing but Trash!

This is a brilliant move by President Obama.
The Middle East is the our biggest foreign policy concern. Granting them his first interview will begin the process of strengthening relations with the Middle East.
And it ticks off conservatives. Double Bonus!!!!!

What did you expect from the ego maniac? I especially like the Mussolini look down at the audience when he speaks. I’ll bet millions of libs weill deny they voted for this jerk in a less than a year!

“he is nothing but Trash!”
More right wing intelligence.

Jake Trapper is a Journalist, and this is what Journalism is supposed to be. Just the facts thank you, the Who, What, Why, Where, and When is all we need.
Good job Mr. Trapper.
How do you maintain a job a with ABC?

“Hey Ryan C, lets be friends.”
*chuckle*
You’ll find the commentary here is a bit more balanced on article that do not have a Drudge linking.
We still get right wingers but its not the endless parade of morons with the same talking points.

Barack Obama is our president. Love it or Leave it. I am an American and behind this man. For those of you that are not – feel free to go to a better country.

Liberals will first cater to those who hate America the most.
Here is the basic liberal foreign policy:
“…to provide or supply what amuses, is desired, or gives pleasure, comfort, etc.”
… to those who love nothing more than
a weak and powerless America.

“What Socialism and the “nanny” state has done is it numbed the initiative and enterprise of many people. They have become apathetic, because they pay so much tax that they can’t improve themselves.”
Business taxes are lower in Europe then here. Europe has higher individual taxes.
They also do not have to pay for healthcare for their workers as that is handled by the state.
European businesses have inherent advantages built in for them over American businesses.

Lisa….I may be mistaken but I do not think that Bush ever did a sit down with any Arab networks other then the coalition network set up in Iraq….now Al Arabiya pirated his interview and ran it on their network and the important items dubbed out…..this is fact……check yours….should not have voted for Obama…..this was a bad idea…..why? The president of Spain did the same thing and now a militant terrorist group has access to the President of Spain……they hold the country hostage anytime they need something…….check the facts…right after the Madrid bombings!

–Can we just have “W” back?–please.
This BO is too much odor

The treatment of GWB and SARAH PALIN was disgraceful.
Now, America is reaping what she sowed.

PEFROS
BO STAND FOR BARACK OBAMA?

Millions for condoms as ‘stimulus’.
Giving Car makers Billions in loans they will NEVER pay back as you bankrupct them with requirements for cars no one will buy.
You’ve made your bed, America. Lie in it.
We are circling the bowl, and the siphon effect is just kicking in.

- Mark Andrew Dwyer
A cult of personality or personality cult arises when a country’s leader uses mass media to create a heroic public image through unquestioning flattery and praise.
Wikipedia [1], edition of Jan 21, 2009 11:08:07 GMT
I exploit you you still love me
I’m a cult of personallity..

“make us feel ashamed that we admire and respect them”
He’s a drug addled hypocrite who makes his living sowing hatred amongst our fellow Americans.
You should be ashamed if you admire or respect him.

I am all for giving Obama a chance to succeed or fail. The man has been President for about a week. Having said that, agreeing to have direct talks with Iran confirms what I have thought-these guys think a lot like Kennedy-McNamara in the 60′s. They actually believe they are the best and the brightest. And what is going to happen is that we will do a silly dance with Iran. And, that will go on for about 2 years. Just enough time for Iran to develop a bomb or two and totally shift the balance of power in the region to Iran. These Harvard guys never learn.

“Lisa….I may be mistaken but I do not think that Bush ever did a sit down with any Arab networks other then the coalition network set up in Iraq…”
You ARE mistaken, bryon. Bush specifically sat down for an interview with Al-Arabiya. Google it. It’s not hard to find the truth if you make an effort.

Anyone that uses the “Stop drinking the Kool-Aid” line, needs to look at what is in their glass.

“Business taxes are lower in Europe then here. Europe has higher individual taxes. They also do not have to pay for healthcare for their workers as that is handled by the state.
European businesses have inherent advantages built in for them over American businesses.”
Yeah right, Ryan C! Of course private people are less important, so let them pay more tax! As for state healthcare, its UNSUSTAINABLE! Cant you read?
I notice you say nothing of the Socialist disaster in the UK? Browns profligate NHS funding is a big part of the financial collapse occurring right now!
His chances of re-election in 2010 are somewhere between zero and .001%! Cameron will walk it, if theres still a Britain to govern, that is!

Greg Barton – feel free to leave then. This is the USA. Love it or Leave it brother.

He can get in contact with his roots and his major campaign contributors this way. No sense not touching base with his homeland in the first week or two.

Holy Toledo! What the heck was Obama thinking? Obama is out of control and needs to get his act together soon or everyone will have no confidence in him. Scary stuff!

Lisa lisa lisa…..you mean the elie Nakousi interview….the same elie nakousi working for the Washington Post and the Times!…….you see……the sit down was with elie…..the interview was farmed to not only arab stations but to european as well…..
If you were really on your game, you would have known that the Dems led by Pelazi hammered Bush for that interview…..screaming the same thing!……my how the tables turn!
Get over yourself…….its our turn to fry YOUR president!

Love this “interactive user comments” feature!
This page took about 5 minutes to load on my mobile phone. And for what? A mere 3 paragraphs from Jake Tapper folowed by OVER 500 juvenile comments from people insulting each other.
ABC – Can we please stop trying to incorporate web 2.0 features into the site or at least hide them somewhere? If I want to debate, I can go to a blog or better yet do it in person where I can’t hide behind a username. I really don’t care to have all of this garbage load when I’m just trying to read a quick story–especially when everyone’s idea of debating a topic is insulting each other and their beliefs.
Thanks.

The very FIRST presidential interview with the media goes to an Arabic cable TV network???
I bet the mainstream media folks are a little peeved….is he cheating on the very ones who brought him to power??…..maybe their slobbering love affair has hit a bump……………

Holy Sheeets! Everything about Obama is coming true. Obama has his priorities all screwed up. First thing wants to release terrorists and now this. Can anyone explain why we saw this coming, but still voted for this guy?

and3 – you should really do a little research and take a look at our “friends” Saudi Arabia – of whom we are not at war with? Dummy. Love it or Leave it.
er darling…I was commenting in reaction to a specific post. who’s the dummy now? maybe you should pay attention…or shut up and speak when you know what you’re talking about?

Dean, Kennedy gave up listening posts in Turkey in exchange for the Soviet pullback from Cuba. Kennedy also gave the approval for the assasination of the leader of South Vietnam. Kennedy also began the secret war in Laos. Kennedy also screwed up Eisenhower’s plan for Cuba and his screw up caused the Bay of Pigs (he told Eisenhower that he didn’t use the US Navy as was per the plan because he wanted to maintain “plausible deniability” of US involvement). Kennedy’s weakness in Vienna is what led the Soviets to begin building missile bases in Cuba. Let’s see… what else… oh yeah, he didn’t write “Profiles in Courage” Ted Sorenson did. He also didn’t write “Why England Slept,” his father’s employees did. Like you say, “read about it.” I wouldn’t be too thrilled with the Kennedy myth if I were you…
Read the Obama autobiography and you’ll ssee that Obama surrounded himself with MMarxists, and was raised by his white grandparents and mother to view the US in the most negative of lights. Very sad actually — It would be interesting to hear what you think of Obama after he’s been in office a few years…

Ha! This man Obama (Mr. Wonderful) did not fool me! We are in for some long 4 years. OBAMA 2012 THE END OF AN ERROR!!!!

I must say he really thinks he is a savior. Somehow he has drunk his own kool-aid.
I did not vote for either main party candidate. The solution is a viable strong 3rd party to hold the crooks in each party accountable.

Ford – feel free to leave the USA if you think it is so bad. Love it or Leave it. We WON. You LOST.

btw…15 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudia Arabia…our friends…(do you think they have any culpability for breeding intolerance…duh?) the interview is supposed to reach 23 million readers in several arab states…so yes…i stand by my original post…dummy.

I can’t wait until President Obama captures Osama bin Laden.
The conservatives will be so pissed!

“i guess you haven’t even read Obama’s own words in which he claimed he was addicted to cocaine and weed! he wasn’t just a user, he was an addict!”
Dreams of My Father: I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.
Discussion with high school kids during campaign: “You know, I made some bad decisions…. You know, got into drinking and experimenting with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time where I didn’t apply myself. It wasn’t until I got out of … high school, and went to college that I started realizing, man, I wasted a lot of time.
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie!

lisa! hypocracy……the left holds the trademark on the word!….again….it is a matter of position…..if he holds an interview with “The network” that is one thing….to hold it with a person who plays both sides of the fence…..that is another…..Obama would never stoop so low as to interview with elie or anyone like her on a one on one…..he wants to meet with the “group” or “network” that is the problem……personally I did not like Bush talking to elie…..I did not feel like he needed to seem apologetic…..anyway…..as a teacher…..I always tell my students…..dont google anything…..most of the information on the internet has problems……

I am surprised that ANYONE is surprised
Buying Gold

Fluidizer – YOUR President is American. You are unAmerican. Feel free to find the door bro.

Question for conservatives?
If capturing Osama bin Laden meant President Obama would definitely be re-elected, would you want it to happen?
I’m guessing you do not.

“Diplomat-in-Chief”?
MORON-in-Chief is more like it.

Would anyone really be that surprised if Obama signs an agreement surrendering the US to the terrorists now? Afterward he would probably just laugh at us all and take his money and live happily ever in his birth country. This is really scary stuff people!

Perfos say:
“because he is black no matter what happens this tool will be re-elected”
Right wing intelligence.
Fluidizer say:
Wait and see my Friend. Wait and see.

adn3 – The Saudi’s should be bombed. That we can agree on. But I love my country and you are a dissenter. Love it or leave it bro.
ummm I’m no bro, bro…and I do not feel Saudia Arabia should be bombed. But what I do feel as that we need to quit apologizing to the world. When citizens of other countries can look at themselves and say *I’ve done all I can to increase tolerance and world peace* then by all means they can criticize the US.
I’m sick of Americans beating up on Americans…we are not the problem.

Christie,
Sorry to say you believed in ALL of his lies and fabrications.
We are now totally screwed as a nation thanks to the many gullible voters like you.

What? A president engaging in foreign relations! OMFG he’s acting like… Every president we have ever had who wasn’t George W Bush.
Foreign relations is part of the Presidents job. You guys are so used to executive branch stupidity that you think it is normal.

All you libs shouting “Love it or Leave it.” What are you still doing here? Didn’t you leave 8 years ago…or did you just come back after the recent election?

“Exactly, careful about Rush! He got addicted to pain killers that were prescribed to him do to an ailment. He has since beaten the habit years ago and has succeeded in life to become a borderline billionaire, if he isnt already.”
He was a success before his drug addiction and will remain a success because his listeners are lemming readily accepting of anything he says.
He could begin praising Obama tomorrow and a vast majority of dittoheads would nod.

Unbelievable how the conservatives are such poor losers! They stole two elections in a row but couldn’t steal this one. Does anyone REALLY believe McCain got all those votes? Not with the anchor of Sarah Palin around him. Diebold even changed its name and they STILL couldn’t overcome the avalanche of progressive voters. Look at the huge 1.8 million crowd for an inauguration. All the 5 conservatives that are left in this country can do is blog. Ha Ha. Notice how we progressives don’t have to put ten comments in a row. It’s probably George W. Bush himself blogging, crying his eyes out that John Conyers is finally going to drag Karl Rove before a judge.

Interviewer asks a double question ‘about the demonization of America, its high priests and’
O says: right
‘and it created its own texts’
O says: right
and it goes on and O talks about the children, his words and his actions….
was Demonized by America, or is America the Demon, the question was a bit of a double entendre…

I have news for you John, Obama will not survive beyond 2012 and the Dem Congress will fall in 2010. The American people don’t tolerate fools for long. Posted by: John R | Jan 26, 2009 10:38:35 PM
Keep wishing all you want. Read the news: Republicans are very worried because they know that they are going to lose more seats. If people think Republicans did such a great job, why didn’t they win this time???

ABC. Time to remove this feature. All you’re doing is stirring up the lunatic fringe in the country. Or are these posters the type of viewers ABC covets? Either set some standards, or lose the posts. (To give you an idea of what I’m talking about, the difference in the tone between, say, Oprah and Jerry Springer is intentional. Freedom of speech does not mean you cannot set standards. Quite the contrary. You are not required to be a fool’s paradise.)

Al Araybia ask: about “Arab peace plan”
O talks: about the complexity of addressing the Arab world as a whole, gets twitchy and then talks about how ‘Israel’ will have to compromise
One sided?

Pete, 53 percent for Obama vs. 47 percent for McCain is NOT a landslide. What you and your ilk, and even the President himself, need to remember is that almost HALF OF VOTERS REJECTED OBAMA AND HIS PLAN FOR THIS COUNTRY. Just remember that…Posted by: Cynthia | Jan 26, 2009 10:40:33 PM
And by how much did Bush win by in 2000? In 2004? How many states did McCain win Versus Obama? Since we’re a Republic, how many electoral votes did Obama win versus McCain? Twice as many? LOL

Obama is already worst than Carter. PEOPLE this is SCARY STUFF and please OPEN YOUR EYES! Thanks.

name calling and blind attention to one’s side or the words of transparent propagandists is not political discourse.

In on week the Obama Presidency reminds of a ride on “Space Mountain” at Disney World. A roller coaster in the dark with sharp drops and turns. I think America as we have known it is on its way to the dump. All the hate for Bush brought about change, change that will destroy us all.
We are a culture in decline.

Radical pacifist secular socialists do what they do…NO surprise…why is anyone surprised? Ohhh, they didn’t check his record, they didn’t believe he was the #1 liberal in congress…they just believed (after 6 years of pounding by the media) that Repubs are evil devils…suckers, by June you will see both your 401k as it is now abut the country a lot worse off…you fools.

Hey! What is the problem. mr obama and all those who bought the oval office for him wanted change and they are getting it. Be happy and be proud what you’ve done to our once great country. One week in office and it already looks like a failed administration. Looks like mr obama needs to start listening to advisers and Limbaugh real hard and real fast if he is going to pull this off.

“Am I missing something here? I just don’t see what the big deal is with this interview. After all, Bush gave many interviews with Al-Arabiya. Here is a link to one he did in 2007″
Ssssshhhhhhh…..
Next thing you know the right wingers will find out Bush was interviewed by Al-Arabiya in the White House then what will they say about Bush?

Folks goes easy on the right wing They still are under the Intoxication of Bush they cant help their Pathetic selves

John, The governing of America is not decided as a zero sum match. What I say is true and I mean it respectfully. Just because 53% of the electorate voted for Obama doesn’t mean that he (or you) should forget/ignore/discount the 47% who did not. Just like the person behind the hero in his chariot who whispered in his ear, “All fame is fleeting,” so should you all on the Left remember the same… 41 learned that after his 80% approval rating after the Gulf War dropped into the 30s, which led to Clinton’s election, and Harry Truman learned as well after having high marks for handling the end of WWII and the Marshall Plan, only to be left at the train station, alone with his wife, as he left office disliked by the electorate, and finally as Winston Churchill found out when he was uncermoniously ejected from office before the War was even over.

hey cynthia ,we did not lose….we ALL lost!!!!!!

As a Canadian, Im so optimistic that a real change in the American rhetoric has come & that will go along way to bring a more peaceful world!
Bravo President Obama….a man who is making his promises a reality!!

“Hey! What is the problem. mr obama and all those who bought the oval office for him wanted change and they are getting it. Be happy and be proud what you’ve done to our once great country.”
I am. Already he is fulfilling promises he made during the campaign. We are on the road to returning American ideals to America.
“Looks like mr obama needs to start listening to advisers and Limbaugh real hard and real fast if he is going to pull this off.”
If Obama needs to know how to illegally score Oxycotin or Viagra he can consult Rush.
But on matters of national security and the economy I prefer he listen to people who know what they are doing.

a full 2/3 of Republicans in a recent poll do not believe in evolution despite the ridiculously high amounts of evidence. We’re dealing with morons here.

I see a common thread that the commentary should be shut down because someone disagrees with your views. Rightly so you will encounter a few idiots but at least they have the right to express their opinions. This is America and we do still have the freedom of speech. That needs to be respected and protected!
Some blame Drudge or Limbaugh as if they don’t have a clue as to what is going on. Yet, most of the people that complain about Limbaugh have never listened to his show! If you would take the time and “listen” to his show you would realize that he is not the horrible monster the MSM wants you to believe. It appears to me that the ones that claim to be for free speech are the ones trying to shut down free speech. For the ones that are trying to shut down free speech I have no respect for you!! For the others that just want the freedom of speech, I applaud you!!

“Obama has to be stopped before it is too later.”
Right wing intelligence.
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And we have another shallow shot at a typo. Great work there, skippy.

Here is a link to President Bush’s 2004 interview w/ Al-Arabia:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119097,00.html

“The American people don’t tolerate fools for long.”
That Bush served 8 years gives lie to that.”
So Ryan C, are you saying the American people tolerate fools? I prefer to think the sudden demise of Jimmy Carter proves otherwise! 4 years of the DEM peanut farmer were too many already.
Besides, Reagan wanted to sort out the Iranian kidnapping of the US embassy that Carter allowed to drag on for over a year. And he did! In about a week too.
Iran had a great deal more respect for Reagan than Carter.

Dietrick, Shame on you. However, what you suggest is exactly what Margaret Sanger had in mind when she began advocating for “reproductive rights.” Although, she meant that the poor and minorities and the less intelligent be able to secure abortions and use contraception…

Groucho – FACT – Rush Limbaugh is a drug addict.
You cannot support America without supporting the President. It is like supporting the troops without supporting the war. Love it or Leave it. We Won and you LOST. GO USA!
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Wow. That’s deep. Hmmmmm….did you support W? Now looks who’s supporting the troops all of a sudden….interesting.

Some of these comments are scary. Many make claims based upon opinion rather than facts. Some reek of hatred, lies, ignorant and disgust supposely coming from the hearts and minds of so called good Christian Patriotic Americans. Why are you quick to criticize anyone you disapprove of?; yet you do not contribute anything useful to the betterment of society. Why not run for a political office or join a think tank organization to provide alternatives to better the nation? I know why. Its easier to blame others and make excuses for your own failures than to take risks to bring about positive change.

Wow, one week in office, let’s recap.
1) Fight for the terrorists “rights”
2) push the largest pork bill in the history of the usa, in the name of saving us all
3) Approve federal dollars for overseas abortions
4) Tell the struggling car business to invent new cars
5) Grant your first formal TV interview to an Arab station.
AWESOME!

You cannot support America without supporting the President. It is like supporting the troops without supporting the war. Love it or Leave it. We Won and you LOST. GO USA!
Posted by: John You must be Mr. Oxymoron. Hi.

Lisa, I said “maybe I’m being paranoid”.
For the record, I didn’t vote for McCain or Obama.

John and Pete, You just don’t get it… Oh well…

Are you kidding me, you can’t support the USA without supporting the troops. HAVE YOU GONE THROUGH THE LAST 8 YEARS WITH YOUR EYES AND EARS SHUT!!! All we have heard is we support the US, but not the president, the troops, or the war. So I will support all of these things and hope the president has sucess, but so far he is doing a very poor job. I’m very afraid from his latest statements he may put even Carter to shame. No matter what though, I do not support him.

This is the “hope” and “change” people voted for? So glad I don’t have a vote for him on my conscience. This week should serve as a reason not to vote for a campaign based of slogans.

Isophist: What ridiculous amount of evidence are you talking about? Details please. Otherwise it is just ridiculous.

“So Ryan C, are you saying the American people tolerate fools?”
Yes. While there are many wonderful qualities that are American being taken for a ride by a leader is a great American tradition.
“Besides, Reagan wanted to sort out the Iranian kidnapping of the US embassy that Carter allowed to drag on for over a year. And he did! In about a week too.
Iran had a great deal more respect for Reagan than Carter.”
Its as if right wingers are completely unaware that Reagan made a deal to unfreeze Iranian assets among other things so they would let the hostages go.
Did you hear that?
Your hero bowed down to terrorists and paid them off.
Of course later he also sold them weapons so we could send cash to right wing death squads in Nicaragua.

Hey When are you you guy’s on the wrong side of the right going to admit your HUGE mistake with Dubya. Oh yeah, that would make you look foolish. All you guys have is TAX CUTS, TAX CUTS, TAX CUTS, how’s that working out so far. I’m seeing how that’s working out for the middle class, small business, and the rest of nation. Right on you guys have one hell of a plan

I don’t have TV. Anyone know if this was even aired to USA? Can someone point me to a link?

Jimmy, I shouldn’t have used the word “morons”
Secondly, as a scientist, it is extremely hard for me to see all that I do see without thinking about evolution. It just makes too much sense while “intelligent” design does not. However, if you are not in my field, I wouldn’t expect someone to see what I do.

all of you chill out and stop acting like little kids

Groucho – no matter how you spin it – Rush Limbaugh is a DRUG ADDICT.
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I don’t care if he is or isn’t. It certainly doesn’t seem to affect his intellect and his arguments (whether you disagree or not) are solid. And, I didn’t spin anything. I kept on point and you chose to argue a moot point.

All this “love it or leave it” talk reminds that for the past 8 years I’ve been hearing that “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism”. Well, you want me to admit you’re right about something, I will. I have decided you were right, dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
I feel patriotic, and I am going to disagree with you, the President, and the Democratically controlled Congress. I dissent from the new policies and the ideas behind them, and I am going to continue to.
I do love America, I am not leaving. I am a veteran, a taxpayer, and a voter. I will not be silenced by your scorn, and here and elsewhere I am going to be heard. I will be working toward the next Presidential and Congressional elections to return some conservatives to leadership.
Changes happen. The current Congress has two years, then the next election happens. Pr. Obama has four. I think I’ll make a countdown calendar like the ones I’ve been seeing the last 4 years.

John — see my response to Pefros. Simple as that.

“I don’t have TV. Anyone know if this was even aired to USA? Can someone point me to a link?”
WaPo has a summary up and you can go to the Al Arabiya website for the video.

Dearest Isophist — Thanks for the apology. And I suppose turn-around is fair play. Yes, my small mind missed how this political little discussion turned to evolution? Oh well, in that you are not in my field I should realize you don’t see it my way either.

John:
No, I’m just trying to point out patriotism is not to just blindly follow, but to support the country and its leaders as it/they fall in line with following the U.S. Constitution.
It is still the supreme law of the land, (as it was written, inviolate).

To Darlost
Actually I can support the USA, while not supporting the president. Were you living in a cave with Bin Laden the last 8 years. How many democrats have said how they support the USA, but have trashed the last president constantly. The democrats have been the most unpatrotic group that I have ever seen. So as far as I’m concerned what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. I will treat President Obama just as well as all of you democrats and media has treated President Bush the last 8 years. I don’t know if I can really lower myself to that level, but I will try.

Not much left to destroy boys of course Obama did that in the last four days, lost all those jobs, democrats caused all the problems on the bush watch because the republicans trusted them so much as not to even check them, yes it is amazing what those nasty old left wingers have done.
If he pulls it off, just by chance, you republicans better start looking for a new party because you will have dug too deep this time, destroyed the country indeed, you are for the party and let the country be damned, looks like a case of class warfare to me.

I meant to say that Obama needs to control Obama before he continues to get out of hand. I had high hopes with Obama, but that has all chanced. Obama is acting extremely scary and has his priorities all screwed up.

WE ALL LOST!

Like all of you still wouldn’t be complaining up a storm if he did the interview on NBC.

John,
You missed the point…again. It’s not about me “losing”, nor do I feel I did. Democracy played out. I simply affixed to Obama the same type of labels, statements, negativity that was hurled at Bush the last 8 years.

“Dear Ryan C — his “address” was not his first TV interview.”
You asked for his economic plans and I provided an answer.
So basically you’re pissed that he gave his 1st interview as President to a proWestern arab outlet?
Do you realize how bigoted that sounds?
Or do you care?

Prefos-
Love it or leave it? LOL. How are there any democrats left in the US. And I am patrotic, I am a veteran of the Gulf War, a taxpayer, and a voter. Yes the democrats won the election. Not trying to contest that FACT. But I don’t have to support that, I’m following your lead.

the demonization question was a creeper
O=Obama

Obama record week one.
1. Signs executive order for $460 Million for international abortions resulting in 10,000 deaths per dat at $100 per death.
2. Signs executive order giving rights to terrorists at Gitmo.
3. No rights for unborn children however.
4. Gives first interview as president to an Arab TV station not an American.
5. New definition of bi-partisian, “I Won” so we are going to do it my way.
6. So Obama will talk with Terrorists but not Americans or people across the isle.

In the words of FDR: “You have nothing to fear, Obama and Spiderman are here.”

“I don’t think there’s anybody better that you could have in the presidency than Barack Obama at this time. He understands economics. He’s a very smart guy. He’s a cool rational-type thinker. He will work with the right kind of people. So you’ve got the right person in the operating room, but it doesn’t mean the patient is going to leave the hospital tomorrow.”
WARREN BUFFETT, CHAIRMAN, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY

It’s not our fault conservatism screwed up everything.

Palin made Bush look like Einstein

This little silliness has made me a tad tired and hungry. Think I’ll go have little snack of government cheese.

“The only thing we need to open with the Middle East are the belly doors on a B52 loaded with nuclear cruise missiles.”
Ahhh yes genocide as a right wing policy, now where have wee seen that before.

Does anyone actually care about what our founders created!!?? Have we turned into a nation of sheep!!?? Wake up people!! It is patriotic to question govt!! Keep it in check!!
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Are you freaking kidding me? Who cares what our founders created?

“My grandfather did not sit for 3 1/2 years in a POW prison camp so this clown can make a mockery of our country”
Did he sit in prison so one day the country he loved and served would torture people as a matter of official policy?
I doubt it.

Linda, than I offer to you that everyone on the left that has posted to these pages against Bush and the duly elected administration of this country needs to leave. And quickly. Because you are not Americans either. If you LISTEN and READ the Oath of Office of the President and the Congress it refers to the Unites States, its Constitution, and the Offices of the respective officeholders. Not the people. Otherwise, Articles of Impeachment would not exist. Which is why the US military swears an oath to protect the US against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Which would be why the Constitution provides for a Petition of Recall for ANY elected official. The President is not exempt.
The Law protects the institution. Not the person.

Uhhh, Errr…Obama is making Carter look like a great president and we all know how terrible Carter really was (2nd worst just in front of Obama so far…hopefully Obama will get his act together soon!).

Change is almost here. All I will have after funding abortions in other contries and paying for lawyers for terrorists and paying double for coal because of cap and trade will be two nickles I can rub together – That’s the change you voted for!

I could care less which arab terrorists our military and CIA torture. However, since torture is wrong, I feel that our military will go on a “Kill’em All” mentality. That is the way we did it back in ’91.

“Which would be why the Constitution provides for a Petition of Recall for ANY elected official. The President is not exempt.”
The Constitution says nothing about recall one way or the other.
The mechanisms that provide for removing an office holder are impeachment for federal judges, the President and Vice President and the House/Senate can expel members.

fear is the mind-killer. look inward.

“Why is it the liberals are usually the people that have never served in the military or protected our freedom?”
Reminds me of Bush and Cheney and how they weaselled out of Vietnam.

Some Libs need to WAKE UP and OPEN THEIR EYES. Obama is scaring everyone with his priorities and early actions so far. Needs to get his act together ASAP!

As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border.

I’m glad we show the rest of the world in the blogs and comments how racist, unintelligent, jealous, anti-American and hateful to each other we are and not just to the rest of the world. There isn’t anything good about killing innocent people, other than it’s the only thing I think we as Americans can agree on. We shouldn’t fear terrorist when we should fear our neighbors they are destroying our country just the same!!!! Too often we… enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy

1.8 million attending Obama’s inauguration? and only 14 were missing work…

Hello! There is no such thing as right wing intelligence.

He has SO MUCH to learn. His inexperience shows every day. Obama, APPEARENCES matter as much as substance. Just as the CEO’s of GM and Ford shouldn’t have taken the plane for appearence sake, YOU should not have done the interview with Al-Arabiya. You are confirming what your detractors believe about you, giving support to your opposition in Congress, and you are giving pause to those who voted for you but weren’t comfortable doing so. VERY poor decision.

For those people who think that President Obama is destroying America by giving the first interview to an Arabic TV, let me tell you with full respect that you are idiots!
If Alqaeda is a bad organization, it doesn’t mean that all Arabs and all Muslims are. Arabs/Muslims would like to live in peace like other nations.
I believe that Mr. Obama is on the right track to talk to all nations, this is how to gain respect and to get America to be respected again around the world. Go president Obama and be the president of the whole world, you deserve it.

Very intelligent to speak with them. His interview and message will reach billions!

Oh dear Dietrick!
You believe your own obnoxious propaganda and thats fatal! Prelude to suicide.
FYI, GWB has a 4 year bachelor degree from Yale and an MBA from Harvard. Not too shabby for someone so “dumb”?
Btw, there are grave questions about Obama’s first degree and his law effort later! You should know that…but..ah well.

The war on terror is a hoax. Why don’t you people do a little research? Every “war” this government creates only results in the further loss of liberty and prosperity. You are under attack, but not from Muslim terrorists.

Engagement with the Muslim world is crucial for U.S. security. Bravo to President Obama for immediately taking this issue up. By giving this intelligent interview on the eve of Mitchell’s visit to the region he is demonstrating to all how serious he is about it.

The entire point here people: Does diplomacy (Obama’s plan) work to stop tyrrants. Has it EVER avoided war?
Nope.
Waterboarding is an under-used tool. It should be expanded to include kidnapping suspects.
And anyone who voted for this guy. Who knows- maybe we’d find a real answer from a liberal.
Until then we’re stuck with hyperbole and RULES FOR RADICALS.

What will bring Obama crashing down in the end is his own narcissism and arrogance …the 57 million Americans who said NO to Obama aren’t fooled by this fraud.

While Obama lied, journalism died.

any American who voted for Obama must suffer from Stockholm syndrome like Patty Hearst did

And Americans thought Palin was bad!! Please! Im going to be laughing my you know what off for the next 4 years. Thanks for the last laugh OBAMA!

Re:The war on terror is a hoax. Why don’t you people do a little research? Every “war” this government creates only results in the further loss of liberty and prosperity. You are under attack, but not from Muslim terrorists.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. — James Madison

Engagement with the Muslim world is crucial for U.S. security.
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It certainly is, how can one forget the Twin Towers?

Obama had an 81% approval rating last week at inauguration…and by this week his approval has dropped to 68%…down down the goblins go…he’s already a failure and who did he Blago to get the job? Remember when America had a Real President?

Yeah, this has never been tried before.

GO OBAMA! Now meet with the Russians and patch things up. We need a global unity to solve our issues and ramming our weakening superiority down the throats of the world is not going to make things better.
He’s been on American TV enough and needs to turn about the global tide of negativity about the U.S.A.
W bankrupted not only our economy to eliminate Saddam who was put in place by his daddy and Rumsfeld and Reagan. So much money, so many lives lost becase we screwed around in another nation’s government and it backfired.
Not like it was the first time.
Has anyone noticed that the United States doesn’t manufacture anything anymore? We could never ramp up to make weaponry, tanks and military gear like we did during WW2 because our factories are gone… we import everything.
That scares me much more than Obama appearing on Arab TV. Buy American, or leave the Chinese crap you don’t really need at Wal-Mart. It’s very scary that some Toyotas are crafted with more American-made parts than Fords.

I support the president but not his policies. I hope his policies fail. I recall REid, Pelosi, and all others, not to mention the media, wanting BUsh to fail in the War on Terror. There is not much of a difference here. We will make sure we put as much resistance to Obama as possible. He is not MY PRESIDENT. 4 years, if he is lucky and does not get impeached for trying to give our country away.
Posted by: JOe | Jan 26, 2009 11:37:56 PM
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I’m not aware of anyone wanting Bush to fail. I rarely agreed with Bush’s policies but never wanted him to fail. To state that one wants Obama to fail (“I hope he fails”) is to want the country to fail. Obama is OUR President just as Bush was OUR President.

Time will reveal the putz & dunce that Obama truely is… Remember liberals kill & eat their own kind after awhile. Obama will, over the next 4 years, lay waste to the Democrat party.
Democrats are in the honeymoon phase right now. Wait till 2 years into this marriage of America with Obama, we’ll be headed for divorce, baby !!!

“For Immediate Release September 13, 1993
INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT BY ARAB TELEVISION
The Oval Office
Q Mr. President, thank you very much for this –chance to
speak to the Arab nation and Arabic Television through NBC television on
this very historic day. What would you like to say to the Arab world at
the –
THE PRESIDENT: I would like to say that I hope all the people
in the Arab world will support this agreement. It is the beginning of a
new relationship, not only between Israel and the PLO and the
Palestinians, but I hope it will lead to a comprehensive peace in the
Middle East.”
See how well the last one worked?

“pretended from abroad” or “The means of defence agst. foreign danger,”
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Please check what line you’re looking at…or re-read my posts.

How the heck can you say this is a nightmare? The guy has been in office a week now and your all down his throat about him using “non violent” outlets to gather support in the Middle East. Grow up, and take that stuck up attitudes with you too. What this country needs is for all the nay-sayers, and whiners to leave it. You are keeping the people down, not the government or terrorists.

“Groucho,
I know a Afghani war refugee, young man around 19…he says the Tali Ban is real and that things got better after American occupation.”
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Please re-check my posts. I think you’re either looking at the wrong line or misunderstanding my posts. I am mocking the mockers.

I saw this interview on CNN. Obama was fantastic. I voted for him and knew he would be a great president, but he is even better than I expected. By the way, Bush gave interviews to Al Arabya also.

I guess one of the “leg-tinglers” is engaged in frantically scrubbing my posts.
…getting too close to the truth.
And to “Not Afraid”…the cowards are people like you, who claim that the defenders of America condone the murder of innocent children of enemy combatants who shoot from their living rooms while hiding behind their 10 year old daughters skirts, while you find no such “moral dilemma” about American babies being left by “your President” to die in hospital storage closets.
You’re worse than a simple coward…you are a hypocrite and a reprobate.

Just watched the actual interview. President Obama did do a good job of reaching out to the Arab peoples, and also expressing strong support for safeguarding Israel.
A very measured and intelligent interview.

how do you have a dialogue with a people whos desire is not life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but the destruction of the U.S.A. and Israel. how do you compromise with them?

Everyone on here does know that ABC is a liberal news network right?
Where did all this angry neo-conservative talk come from….
Please address those topics to FOX NEWS

Unfortunately, the network Al-Arabiya is highly state influenced, and is a very poor objective source of news across the middle east. This comment comes from someone who lived and worked in Saudi Arabia for 6 years. You know news has an agenda behind it if it is allowed to be played in Saudi Arabia with-out having an illegally modded satellite hook up for news via television or internet.

“we enter his administration as free-enterprise, market-dominated, laissez-faire America.”
With an annual huge budget deficit, a horrid monetary policy, crushing debt, an paralyzed banking industry, catered consumer/investor confidence and rapidly rising unemployment
Yay laissez-faire!
“We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden — a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.”
Actually our model would probably be more like Germany.

I am going to try my best to support our new President, even though I did not vote for him and do not agree with the vast majority of his principles or ideas. I have not seen the interview yet so I will not judge it’s content. But can the left wing liberals see where our concern is when the first real interview he does is over there? Im not saying the end of the world has come, but it concerns me to say the least.

See lot’s of liberals cheering the ‘new approach’ of diplomacy.
Too bad you’re just tuning in to the real world.
Times diplomacy avoided war or stopped tyrrants: None. In over 3000 years of history.
Times the republican formula of peace through strength has stopped tyrrants and ended oppression: TOO MANY TO COUNT.
Can a single liberal contradict me? Watch them reach folks. . .
its never happened. Peace only comes after one side wins, check that, after the West wins.

“And so you will I think see our administration be very clear in distinguishing between organizations like al Qaeda — that espouse violence, espouse terror and act on it — and people who may disagree with my administration and certain actions, or may have a particular viewpoint in terms of how their countries should develop. We can have legitimate disagreements but still be respectful. I cannot respect terrorist organizations that would kill innocent civilians and we will hunt them down.
But to the broader Muslim world what we are going to be offering is a hand of friendship.”
PERFECT! No wonder why al-Qaida seems so nervous about the new President: he can “hunt them down” and undermine their recruiting rhetoric.

“Engagement with the Muslim world is crucial for U.S. security.”
I agree. We’ve been engaging the Muslim world since late ’01, early ’02, and we’ll engage until there’s no more engaging needed. God bless America.

Karen,
I will definitely watch it before I judge. I am of the thinking that reasoning with terrorists will not work – mostly because of so many past attempts that have failed and the fact that the extremist Muslims believe we should all die. But, if Obama can stop all of this with mere words I am all for it. Only time will tell.

pefros…you are the smartest person on this blog without a shadow of a doubt.

9/11 was years in the making under the incompetent Clintoons…who gave us blackhawk down, the world trade center bombing, waco, columbine, uss cole, khobar towers etc etc… Thank God Bush won the Iraq war and kept us safe — we won’t have to deal with Saddam’s evil WMD wielding sons in 10 years. Bush liberated millions from fascist dictators while the liberals just watch keith obermann and wet their pants…

Mike,
I understand the difference between Muslims and radical Muslim extremists. And like I said I have not seen the interview so I will not judge. But our problem is with the extreme Muslims right? That is why I’m saying I don’t think TALK will work with EXTREME radical Muslims. I’m all for the extending of a hand in peace to those who want peace. My concern is with the ones who don’t want peace.

Remember Nick Berg? He was beheaded by Islamic murderers on camera.
Waterboarding is child’s play to such people. Let’s increase it.

“a full 2/3 of Republicans in a recent poll do not believe in evolution despite the ridiculously high amounts of evidence. We’re dealing with morons here.”
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Evidence? Really? What evidence. All of the evidence always leads to something missing. How long does one have to look for the missing? The whole evolution theory doesn’t make any sense. There are no other examples of things getting “more complex” with time. Everything gets less complex and broken down. By simply applying the three basic laws of reason one can ascertain that there must exist a “god” and that evolution is false. If you can’t make these arguments, Philosophy 101 should be on your “to do” list.

58 million NOBAMA voters
Funny part about it you Republicans no deep down you are on the wrong side of history. Pretty soon Republicans will be extinct as a old 20th Century breed of primitive thought and behavior. :)
All that is left of the Republican party is uneducated, bigots, racist, fearmongers, primitive thinkers and a fastly deterrating party.
Obama is a political genius! He is five times smarter than both Bush and McCain. C average and D average respectively LOL!!!!

LMB,
You say: “That is why I’m saying I don’t think TALK will work with EXTREME radical Muslims.”
Neither does President Obama. He has said repeatedly (including in this interview) that he will hunt down terrorists wherever they may be. You seem to be pushing an open door.

And I wonder if the American public will even get to see the interview…I think in a few months those who didn’t vote for him will be saying, “I told you so.”

The ONLY way to stop war is to ensure all countries are Democracies. Two Democracies have NEVER fought a war with each other — never. So Bush installing the Arab world’s first democracy and ousting the fascist genocidal Saddam regime will get us far closer to peace in the Middle East than all the junkets of Hillary Clinton and all the appeasement by Obama of our enemies. At least Obama is smart enough to keep the entire Bush team at the Pentagon and Defense, he knows the democrats are worthless there. Meanwhile Mr. Peace Obama bombed Pakistan last week — did the press in their kneepads even notice? haha

MIT ROMNEY 2012!!

I am going to wait and see what Obama does for this country. It is going to take a while to straighten out the mess Bush left him. But we must at least wait it out 4 years. Let’s see what he can do before we ( kill the messenger).
I highly doubt he can fulfill hisd campaign promises but what the hay, let’s let him try. We’re stuck with whatever outcome we have so at least look at the bright side or at least on the less dim side.

JQ – to be pleased that Barack Obama chose to do this tonight is curious. No one here sees the real agenda – and certainly not you. The minute Obama gets one job he starts campaigning for the next. His next job is to convince the world to align into a U.N. run “one world” government. Barack Obama has no genuine motives. All the world is his stage and you my friend, are simply going to pay his admission price to watch his dramatic performances.
At least half the United Staes is on to this guy.

Obama has just installed the most corrupt administration since the 19th century. the blago hoodlums…the tax cheats…the whitewater fraudsters… remember when it felt good to be American? alas. won’t be long before more Canadians like Obama than Americans do…we’re almost there

And I wonder if the American public will even get to see the interview…
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The interview is available all over the internet. It is very good and worth watching before judging.

LMB,
If there were posters who claimed that terrorists could be talked out of their extremist, hateful ideology, they are naive imbeciles. Someone who is willing to blow himself up strikes me as someone who is quite certain about his beliefs.
But certainly do not conflate such posters’ nonsense with Obama’s policy.

I’m shocked about how stupid Democrats are. Anyone who disagrees with them is automatically labeled a Republican or Neocon. Republicans can be just as bad, but the level of arrogance the Democrats have been showing lately is just sickening.
Since moderate non-partisans are the fastest growing political pool in America, both sides should be listening more to the MIDDLE instead of the lunatic fringes.

What a riot! Everybody complained all the time about the ‘Neo Con’s’ now we have the ‘Neo Com’s'…
LMAO

In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent.”
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:
“Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!I witness that there is no god but AllahI witness that there is no god but AllahI witness that Muhammad is his
prophet… “
According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim’s complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam.
Obama knows this from his Quranic studies — and he knew the New York Times would publish this fact and it would be seen throughout the Islamic world. Now in his first week in office, who does he address? The Muslims.
You make your own judgment. The truth will set you free.
The actual quote from the book “Audacity of Hope” is from page 261 and is as follows: “Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
I guess he’s a man of his word…

yes, once/aways – President Obama is a blood-thirsty muslim . . .

oh yes this is the man that has done so much in a weeks time, like asking someone behind him whats a good answer for the question that was asked,lol. oh yeah what a leader, and still reading from a tele promp, has nothing in his heart to speak from.

In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent.”
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:
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Ad here is what the author, Kristoff has to say about this BS:
“I’m writing in part out of a sense of personal responsibility. Those who suggest that Mr. Obama is a Muslim — as if that in itself were wrong — regularly cite my own columns, especially an interview last year in which I asked him about Islam and his boyhood in Indonesia. In that interview, Mr. Obama praised the Arabic call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset,” and he repeated the opening of it.
This should surprise no one: the call to prayer blasts from mosque loudspeakers five times a day, and Mr. Obama would have had to have been deaf not to learn the words as a child. But critics, like Jerome Corsi, whose book denouncing Mr. Obama, “The Obama Nation,” is No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list, quote from that column to argue that Mr. Obama has mysterious ties to Islam. I feel a particular obligation not to let my own writing be twisted so as to inflame bigotry and xenophobia.”

Simon is complaining about the brutality of German Police Officers while asking me to try taunting them to see what happens. LMAO – there-in lies the problem.

cost me almost nothing . ..

THE PROBLEM IS PRESIDENT # 44 MAY APPEAL TO MANY MUSLIM PEOPLE WATCHING HIM ON TV. BUT ALL THOSE PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THE GUTS TO GO ON THE STREET AND MARCH AND PROTEST AGAINST TERRORIST, AND WHEN TERRORIST WANTS TO WIPE OUT A COUNTRY OUT OF THIS WORLD, IT’S NO MUCH ROOM FOR DIPLOMACY.

I think I want the US to succeed. Obama purchased the presidency. There is speculation he’s not even a citizen.(?). This Administration is Clinton REDUX. The media even has the Obama sheeple calling TEDDY K. the lion of the Senate. A actual killer whos MOM bought the silence of all investigators and prosecutors. Charlie Rangel Tax dodger. Pelosi , Reid. goodbye US

Shocking? I don’t think so. Obama gave plenty of hints during his run-up campaign so its not surprising one bit – Change, yep most voted for it and now they are complaining about the change Obama wanted. Can’t win for losing!

I received this email from a fellow retired service man and I am very upset with the possibility of any plans to put a burden on people who put their lives on the line for twenty years or more and fought so hard for this TriCare benefit. I know money will be channeled to those looking for hand outs, politicians can get rewarded by votes. I will be keeping an eye on your vote on this legislation. Please remember military retirees have family that can vote too. We will remember your vote, and remembering Pearl Harbor will dwarf in comparison to your vote

Just Say NO to the ACORN Brownshirts and letting Obama use the bad economy as his Reichstag burning excuse to install his socialist BS on the once free USA

Little do you all know that the stimulus money will go to A.C.O.R.N
and the people on welfare.
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No it doesn’t.
The money slated for ACORN is for this:
The funding will provide competively awarded grants to national and regional nonprofit housing organizations to develop or rehabilitate low-income housing.

this man wants the folks in gitmo to have their day in U.S. courts because he feels is the human thing to do. yet he has no human feelings for that baby moving in that womans tummy. he prefers the to protect the feeling of something crawling up his newscasters leg when he walks into a room instead. everyone who voted for that one is complaining that we who didnt vote for that one are now letting our feeling be known. well remember we had to put up with your feeling for 8 years, so dont feel too bad, one good turn deserves another. and dont worry he is our president also, we are not so nasty to not admit that, yet you on the other side refused to admit President Bush was you president also at the time. we didnt like what you were doing to him, but we loved you anyway, you all were funny then and much funnier now. ha ha ha

“”"No it doesn’t.
The money slated for ACORN is for this:
The funding will provide competively awarded grants to national and regional nonprofit housing organizations to develop or rehabilitate low-income housing. “”"
EQUALS-more money for people who suck off the govt. in the first place. Super-duper.

This little radical leftist punk who has never done a noteworthy thing in his life is president of the United States?
God help us…

someday we will be proud again of a free and strong USA and not care what they think in cuba or belgium. Obama is the “World President” not the US Pres. He can’t even win a single county in Oklahoma but gets the full support of his Luo tribe in Kenya. nuff said :)

@Dumm,
Obama threw America under the O’bus.
Wow,,,
Do you think he will take his crazy uncle back from under the bus?

So what’s the point of this “interview”? Is obama trying to convince the arabs that he loves them? For sure they don’t love him.
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Why don’t you watch it before commenting on it? It’s a great interview available on the World Wide Web.

Told you,,,
He listened to his uncle for 20 years.
You guys still did not believe it.
Ha,,ha,,ha,,

Those who voted for Obama will get what they deserve.

mike said “Those who voted for Obama will get what they deserve”.
not just them, the rest of us will get bent over too

How come BO has hidden virtually everything about his past.
Birth certificate, college records, selective service, passports, travel to Pakistan, clients when he practiced law, associations with communists, radicals, islamists, who actually wrote his books?
People hid things about themselves for a reason.
When he says he loves this country, I practically loose my lunch.

Chicago, are you suggesting we dont know who our enemy is? Seriously? And your posts actually seem a little smarter if you dont start them with idiot.

Obama’s “regional strategy”, will be judged on 5 results only, Mike:
- Iran stopped from trying to make nuclear weapons ( or having their capability destroyed)
- Iran stopped from funding, arming and encouraging its surrogates, Hezbollah and Hamas, to attack Israel.
- Syria strongly persuaded to drop its evil alliance with Iran, or else.
- Israel guaranteed a peaceful, prosperous future by resolving the Palestinian issue in a way that doesn’t threaten Israel’s security.
- Iraq continuing its path to a safe democracy without being hurt by premature troop withdrawals.
I strongly doubt Obama, Clinton, Mitchell et al can achieve any one of these goals, let alone all of them.

As Obama said in the campaign interview:
“MY MUSLIM FAITH”
He hugs the muslims and they will hug him back with terrorism.
Braised be Allah

We all know how good the bush middle east policy was.

for PA re efficacy of diplomacy:
I think the Marshall Plan prevented war, tyranny, etc. I also suggest the Council of Trent, Kissinger and the Paris Accord, Lee’s surrender at Appomatox, the U.N. Charter, the US Constitution, and the time Ogg the Caveman laid down his cudgel against PA the Caveman. Remember that one? You were there!
Oh, and the Diet of Worms. Almost forgot that one.

Oh, by the way, what is his middle name?

I’m gonna write a book.
It’s gonna be called “Why Christians are a disservice to Christ”.
The wrong-wing conservatives love to identify themselves as “God-lovin’ Christians” yet it’s never dawned on them for one instant that they aren’t living the life he called them to. Obama is doing exactly what Christ would have Christians do.
“Love your enemy. Do good to those who persecute you and pray for those who wrong you.” These are the words of a man who’s reached enlightenment, and yet neanderthals deign to call themselves his followers.
Y’see, Jesus saw people like Falwell, Limbaugh, Hannity, and Hagel in his day, except they were called Pharisees and Saducees back then. Were he around today he’d recognize his true opposition, and it would be the right-wing conservatives that would seek to do him in.

oncealwaysamarine….Semper FI…you rock

Obama starts out with at best only 53% of the US voting public on his side. Day by day he is loosing the confidence and support even of those that voted for him. It won’t be long before he has the lowest approval level of any president. He will be lower than W within a couple of years. This kind of putting those that support those that attacked us first along with radical environmental and false science like Algore’s “global warming” will rapidly drive him down.
I don’t expect him to even make 4 years. His arrogance will be his downfall and likely impeachment, much like Nixon was due to arrogance he will be removed.

Pefros,
Stop acting like religious people aren’t crazy. All they want to do is kill the other guy, no matter the origin of their beliefs.
Religion has often been the source of human suffering in this world.

You know the ones posting negative comments:
We as Americans work in conjunction to this news network morons. Al Arabiya was created to be a direct competitor of Qatar-based Al Jazeera.
Do some research before you start talking. Education is priceless.

I FULLY SUPPORT PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND HE IS DOING A GREAT JOB. ALL THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS ARE COMMING FROM THOSE RACIST PEOPLE WHO ARE BUSH SUPPORTERS.

WRONG
President Barack Obama won approval from 68 percent of Americans in his first three days on the job, emerging at the high end of ratings for the last eight first- term predecessors, according to a Gallup poll.
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C’mon Paige! You should know Gallup or any polls are notoriously unreliable? It means nothing. Remember the polls that said Clinton would win Iowa?
Obama will be judged on RESULTS, not efforts and most definitely not on speeches! As they say, talks cheap…..

ditto Romney in 2012. I have faith that America is not quite ready to become a European socialist basket case, and Obama will be one term president. At some point they’ll run out of the excuse that it’s “Bush’s fault”. If I am wrong, g-d help us when “Atlas” shrugs. Then this recession may indeed become a another depression. The Federal Government has one real duty to the people – protect us from enemies foreign and domestic. Bush succeeded – at least on the “foreign” end – and soon we’ll learn that change does not mean a good thing. Obama is either incredibly naive or Machiavellian – either way – we the people are in for a bumpy ride!

We need to read a little Kipling and learn a little history from our Brit friends. Most of the middle east will calm down when we get out of Afghan/Iraq

lol @ McCain Voters…

It’s so well said, it needs repeating:
“Thank you President Bush from being the first to bring Darfur to the world’s attention. You have 80% approval in Africa for your amazing AIDS funding. You’ve granted the biggest wilderness sanctuary of the coral reefs ever done in the Pacific. You’ve liberated millions in Iraq and Afghanistan from fascist tyrants. You tried to regulate Fannie and Freddie to prevent the housing bubble but democrats like Barney Frank stopped you. In the end you prevented all attacks on US soil since 9/11 (a plot from Clinton years). I’m glad our heroes waterboarded the terrorists to discover new plots against the West. Pouring water on the little Al Qaeda heads was hardly “torture”. I’m sorry Obama’s first move was to use taxpayers money to fund millions of overseas abortions in 3rd World, and release our enemies from Gitmo. God Speed.”

half of you people must be high!
Obama’s foreign policy if F’N insane. Why does he seem to want to do everything to undermine our country at this point? Beware of people who want a one world government. It’s all about control and taking away our freedoms while the masses blindly agree that everything is good… every heard of hitler?

Can you say “ANTICHRIST” (is HERE). But don’t be alarmed, “JESUS CHRIST is on the way”. The time is short, keep looking up as you see the time approaching. “BELIEVE” on HIM and you shall be SAVED!!

I don’t want change, I want dollars.

“I understand how difficult for you to be defending the indefensible ideas of the liberal left, but at least give it a try. It’s time you grew out of the childish name calling.”
A brave insight from the right wing.

It seems as if “Muslim” or “Arab” are still just translations for “Enemy” to a lot of Americans. Do you really think your president is selling the USA off to the enemy by just giving an interview to Al-Arabiya? It is shocking to learn how many Americans are still not understanding how desperately the US needs the rest of the world in the current crisis. “The World” is not that large Disneyland made for to be visited by the inhabitants of the only real country! I am posting that as a German working for US companies for almost 10 years.

LMFAO @ the Righters……..
Absolutely Pathetic!
( most are under the influence, can you tell)??

duh what please explain my point is we have talked in the past till our faces were blue we have still been bombed, etc etc bla bla bla if our point is to make peace with the extremists forget it

LMB, we have alienated the Arab world for far too long. The whole policy of ‘not talking’ to other nations is totally counter-productive–regardless of the other nation’s disposition. Also, the fact that Obama is making such a gesture to the Arab world will make it much, much harder for Osama bin-Laden to recruit new members. We will never, never, never win the ‘war on terror’ if we have not won the hearts of those tat could potentially turn on us if we alienate them and blindly support those that oppress them. Obama is doing the right thing. Just wait and see how things look for us and the Middle East in a year or two from now.

@ LMB
I can see that you are not trying to agitate. Still, the facts you claim are in contrary to reality. One example is the US providing more aid than any other country. This is something being claimed by many Americans. The truth is that the per capita spending for foreign aid provided by the US ranks it somewhere between 20 and 30 in the world. After WWII the US saved the world. Over the course of the last 8 years your administration did almost the contrary.

The title of Obama’s next book will be:
DESTROYING AMERICA–ONE STEP (SIGNATURE) AT A TIME.
Darwin would be proud of him.
Lord forgive us, for we know not what we do.

Pefros, the point is not to make peace with the extremists. The point is to make peace with the Arabic people at-large so that they don’t get involved with the extremists. If we imporve our image in their eyes and give them a little respect, bin-Laden’s recruiting quotas and (most importantly) financial donations will go way down. It’s the only way. We can’t staying on this course of killing one only for three more to appear in his place. We improve relations (hurting terrorist support and recruitment) while we carefully pick off the terrorists that exist now. A year or two of this and terrorist groups will loose a ton of footing.

I have read some of these, but lets be serious why would I read all of them for the most part people in this country have no clue anyway.
But things you should consider…The CoC (Commander in Chief) is the leader of the military, one in which he has never served, and the first thing he does is go and interview telling the Islamic world how weak we are. Remember who we are fighting, Islamic Extremist, and think about how they are going to use this to rally the people up who the American Soldiers are fighting…Real safe and convincing to the man / women who ask no questions but just shows up and fights who / where he is told better than any other country and military in the world…
Does anyone know what the plans or for the people from Cuba getting released? Nothing is worst then going to hunt down the same man twice.
How many years has the middle east been in a constant war? As long as anyone alive can remember and long before President Bush was in office, oh the father not the son…if it was so easy don’t you think someone would have done this before?
Your first interview, not even geared to your own people…remember this is the same Guy who didn’t wear a flag on his suit when he was in the senate.
I can leave you with these thought…to hell with anti-Christ…what about something as simple as Anti-American?

Is anybody else as scared as I am? This guy’s first phone call to an international leader is to the the leader of Yassir Arafats (lesser of two terrorists organization) the PA. His first formal interview is with Al Arabiya. It is exactly as we warned, although, I must be honest, I didn’t think it would be this bad right out of the gate. We are so screwed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah Terry. That’s how WE felt when Bush was president. Your Freedom of Speech is not going anywhere.

Wilhelm, I do not have the facts in front of me, but the last statistics I read was that we were the leader in foreign aid (per capita may be a different story though). I am not an expert on the matter.
Now with the latter part of your post I will agree to disagree. I don’t think Bush will be seen as such a failure in the history books as he is being portrayed now. Yes, our economy is in a recession. We can hardly blame that solely on the president. He had to react to direct threats against our national security and defend a country from a modern day Hitler (Sadaam). The fact that Iraq is now a democracy in that climate in the Middle East is quite a feat. Respectfully, LMB.

Obama is showing who he REALLY is now with a first TV interview for Arabic TV. Do you think Obama is about HOPE and CHANGE?
CHANGE for the worse. HOPE we can vote him out in 2012.

Nice job Libs, you’ve voted in an insane man as President of our country.

We now have an insane person as President of the United States. Nice going!

KJ, your post below might simplify it for some. Plus, JUST WHY do you think AlQuaida is acting REAL nervous lately????????
“”"Pefros, the point is not to make peace with the extremists. The point is to make peace with the Arabic people at-large so that they don’t get involved with the extremists. If we imporve our image in their eyes and give them a little respect, bin-Laden’s recruiting quotas and (most importantly) financial donations will go way down. It’s the only way. We can’t staying on this course of killing one only for three more to appear in his place. We improve relations (hurting terrorist support and recruitment) while we carefully pick off the terrorists that exist now. A year or two of this and terrorist groups will loose a ton of footing.”"”

bibiniji, if abortion was illegal, it would still happen–just in Vietnamese nail salons instead of clinics. In an ‘abortion-free’ America there would not only be babies killed, but also a ton of teenage girls who made bad decisions. Prohibiting things with the law only creates a black market supply for those things. All of the drug cartels’ victims, people killed by drug gangs, and human trafficking victims owe a huge ‘thanks’ to people that think laws will keep things such as drugs and prostitution (and abortion) out of society.

Anne,
Do you really believe that? How many people here have actually been to Afgan or Iraq?

bibinji….”300,000 Iraqis kill by Saddam”…?? We’ve killed over a million. So if you’re going by sheer numbers, who’s worse?

normal american,,
The PREMISE of what was posted is quite accurate…………please read it carefully and THINK..

A few quick problems with the invasion of Iraq; they came in at about 853 trillion dollars over budget and its still costing us billions a month, they lied to get there, they killed tens of thousands of Iraqis (amost as many as Hussein, maybe more), they destroyed major infrastructure in the country, displaced what is probably a million people and it actually stirred up a lot of hate against Americans.
It’s hard when a foreign people come into your country, huge weapons, incredible attacks from the sky, destroy your homes and neighbourhoods, kill thousands upon thousands and then occupy the country. Some people don’t like it. I’m sure Americans would love it – another people attacking and occupying your country.

Retired, I am grateful for your service and am in no way a history expert. But reread my post, I did not say Sadaam was a threat to our national security (even though I believe that when you let a murderous dictator aquire power it is a threat to everyones security).
I said that Bush was responding to threats to our national security (planes flying into buildings killing thousands, etc.). He went after Bin Laden/Taliban and went into Iraq to save hundreds of thousands of people that were being mass murdered. Sadaam was captured. And has Iraq not/have not had elections as a democracy?

You GO!! bibiniji

I am going to ask this again, who has done any service in Irag or Afgan?

pefros: If you and your family were being tortured and killed by a murderous dictator like Sadaam would you rather a country come in and save your a$$ or sit on the sidelines, watch, and say hey “this war is going to cost way too much”? I don’t think anyone is a proponent of war, but sometimes isn’t it a necessary evil?

bibiniji: I do love Jesus…and I think he’s more than capable of sorting things out with people who get abortions. If we prohibit it with laws, MORE lives would be lost due to infections from illegal abortions. Additionally, the law does not have jurisdiction in our under pants. Period. Also, I have read the Bible and I’m intelligent enough to see that things such as the seven-headed monster in Revelation symbolized things like trade routes that John intended on sending his encrypted message through so that it could reach other Christians, not..well…a seven-headed monster that will come and devour people. God would not have created any of us just to eventually send to hell; and he wouldn’t have created us all differently if he wanted us all to be the same.

LBM yes I’d much prefer a foreign people attack my country with viscious military might, destroy homes, blow up our government buildings and fuel plants, kill thousands upon thousands of our people . .. way better

normal american,
Sure, whatever you say, whatever you say……You still aren’t getting the big picture…….

Ben, he is counting on his sheep to follow blindly without question. It’s all part of the plan he and the DEMs have for us. Fortunately some of use still have a little freedom and can still speak for ourselves, but that will be changing soon as well. Lord have mercy on our souls.

Anne,
Big picture, what big picture that nothing you do with change an extremist mind? The Islamic World and religion are both made up by extremist? Please when was the last time you did any time in the Islamic World yourself?
Robert,
With your degree did you ever make visits to the area of the world known as the Middle East?

“Lord have mercy on our souls.”
American religious right version of “Allah be praised”.

Retired, I guess I’m just a little confused with people’s posts on here. They want to make peace with other countries and look like the good guys, but it’s ok to watch mass murders of hundreds of thousands of innocent people from our peaceful land? I don’t see how you can do both and see yourself (a country as a whole) as peace keepers.
And Ben, I absolutely see your point. There is definitely no easy way to engage an enemy without civilian casualties. That is the unfortunate side of war.

kj, if you love JESUS then you should really read your bible again, so you can truly understand it’s blueprint for life eternal and it’s current value here on earth.

LMB we need to look at all the countries where people are starving and being killed. Why are we not in Darfur, Zambawe and other lands.

pefros: “LBM yes I’d much prefer a foreign people attack my country with viscious military might, destroy homes, blow up our government buildings and fuel plants, kill thousands upon thousands of our people . .. way better”
I dont need a smart a$$ comment, we’re having a conversation. One of the few on here without acting like 5 year olds. Anyway, I don’t really see either as being too wonderful. You vote for watching genocide and I vote for stopping it, even though I know civilians will be killed. I don’t know who’s right but at least I hope I made my point that neither sounds warm and fuzzy.

This is so crazy…most of you so called adults sound like my kids arguing in the backyard.

retired soldier I cannot answer that. Glad you made it back in one piece.

Anne213, you don’t get the link between Power, Abortion, and the Iraq war? You have to look at the big picture, Anne213, to understand what is going on in our political environment today. Once the American People figured out that the Iraq War wasn’t going to be a “Cake Walk”, the Dem’s jumped ship and started to attack the President to gain Political Points (Hillary Clinton is a Great Example of this). Again, it all comes down to POWER and Abortion for the Dem’s. I’m not going to explain that again.
As for Ben, yes… we heard a very very small group on the far left wing of the Democratic Party complain about Serbia…. but on the whole, Democrats backed THEIR President for attacking Serbia (pre 9-11 and no threat to the USA) and the Republicans supported Clinton. Nice try, though, Ben.
Robert

The Commander in Chief showing weakness to the enemy who can careless if hes humble, has Muslim tie in his family, etc. See people dont understand the mentality of the Middle East. Theres no compromise and no surrender. If anyone doubts that ask yourself how long has the Israel/Palestine conflict been going on? How many times has the Middle East stated that as long as we supply Israel with war supplies that we are the enemy? Wake up! Barry Boy just said thats not going to change anytime soon. Playing nice nice with Haji Bob is doing nothing but prolonging the inevitable.

Thanks LMB. I think if we keep up our nation building it will break us at the bank. We have not even paid one cent on the debt Iraq/Afghan have cost us. We just keep borrowing from the Chinese. I think our childern and grandchildren will suffer because of it.

It was a brilliant and BOLD move by Obama. I’m surprised how bold and direct it is.

I am a conservative and I did not vote for you…I apologise for that.
you are my president now and have shown
qualities that I forgot existed.From now on I will vote for the right person not for a specific party
god speed

Robert: the Dems did not ‘jump ship’ and suddenly start attacking the president. The Dems were duped into initially giving Bush the authority to use force w/o Congressional permission (not necessarily going to war in Iraq) because Paul Wolfiwitz (then under-Secy of Defense) created the Office of Special Investigations w/in the DoD in order to ‘re-assess’ intelligence on Iraq to ‘find things’ that were ‘overlooked’ by the Intelligence Community at-large. Then, Bush et al. thought they could waltz into Iraq, oust Saddam, and declare ‘mission accomplished, while they had no understanding of Iraqi tribal dynamics and no exit strategy. They effectively turned Iraq into the world’s largest terrorist haven. THAT is when the Dems (and Hillary) dogpiled Bush. Don’t blame the Dems.

Originally posted by Solly on Jan 27, 2009 3:24:01 AM:
“- The Western allies only withdrew from Afghanistan after the Taleban were defeated and Hamid Karzai’s government elected and established. It was time to go. Iraq had nothing to do with it, that was much later.”
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That is not correct.
It was not time to go. Have you noticed that we still haven’t “gone” from Afghanistan yet? The Karzai government has never been able to get on its feet. It still isn’t. That’s why we’re still there.
It is also not correct to say that “Iraq had nothing to do with it.” The invasion of Iraq diverted attention, effort, funds, and troops that could otherwise have been focused on finishing the job in Afghanistan.
The planning for the invasion of Iraq began even before the invasion of Afghanistan began. Just six days after September 11, 2001.
America had to divert troops from Afghanistan to Iraq.

Africa Corps: I think you’ve got the wrong impression about people. People putting “I support the troops, not the war” on their Priuses usually do so because they don’t want people to die. People who put “Support our Troops” stickers right above their Suburbans’ gas tanks…well, come on, don’t you see the irony?

If there is any kind of cease fire, it will be because the terrorists are laughing so hard that they’re unable to squeeze the trigger or push the detonator buttons!

KJ, they weren’t ‘duped.’ The Dem’s saw the same national security ubrwkk reports about WMD’s that Bush saw over at the White House. Look, the Russians, the Israelies, the British, and the Germans all had the same intel that said: “Saddam is developing WMD’s.” Once we got into Iraq and it turned into somewhat of a Quagmire, then the Dem’s jumped ship – don’t deny it. Also, it’s hard for this country to fight a war with many in the Congress giving the opposition “Hope” and “embolding” them thinking that Congress could make Bush pull out of Iraq. It was “Treason”, KJ.
Hindsight is 20/20, right dude…. the monday morning Quarterbacking is for wimps.

It’s somewhat too bad the attack on Iraq left tens of thousands of them dead, maimed and wounded . . .

Can you imagine if the world treated us as if we were all like those our own neo-nazi white power idiots.
good work Mr President.
speak softly and carry a big stick
we are behind you 100%

Afrika: Charging Marines and arresting CIA agents is total BS. I never have, and never will, endorse anything against our troops, intel agents, etc. I never supported the idea of a preemptive war; but, that has nothing to do with the troops. The troops are following orders as they have always honorably done. My problem is with the leadership who put them there in the first place. There is a huge difference between my position and that of the ‘Jane Fondas’ of the country (there are far less ‘Jane Fondas’ now that during ‘nam).
Robert: Paul Wolfiwitz (a dual citizen of US and Israel) and his Office of Special Investigations did politicize the idea of going to war in Iraq. His office did fabricate and exaggerate intel info. They made huge (and wrong) speculations regarding data provided by National Reconnaissance Office (satellite intelligence). Seriously, it is a fact. They, with the ‘help’ of Israeli intelligence, did ‘dupe’ everyone. Look into it. Look at “American Foreign Policy: Patterns and Processes” by Witkopf et al. 2008. Thompson Publishing. There is a chapter on ‘Military Might’ that tends to explaining the DoD, but it cites examples of the dynamics of the DoD under different presidents. It happens to provide a detailed explanation of Wolfiwitz and Iraq. The sources cited are creditable.

Yeah Robert, slaughter Iraqis for global advantage and use of their country. Perfectly understandable to any sane person.

Obama is as smart as Bush (and his ilk) is stupid. He will isolate the extremist- the al-Zawahiris and Limbaughs of the world- and make a positive difference in the world. It’s great to see competence at work, especially when it comes to the POTUS.

Robert: It’s not about hold on to the oil it self, it’s about what currency the oil is traded in (US dollars). If oil were to be traded in anything other than dollars, THEN we would have to worry about the oil itself and we would be screwed. Saddam, depending on what kind of mood he was in on any given day, would sell oil for Euros. That is one reason why we ousted him. Iran has acted similarily in the past. That is why we threatened them, not because of the nukes. Israel’s concern is the nukes. Our concern is what currency oil is traded in. As long as oil is traded in dollars, we can ‘print’ as many dollars as we need to buy oil. Ever heard of the term ‘petro dollar?’ It’s a fairly complicated concept, but if you look into it, you’ll see how it all works.

How could congress control Bush. He had over 750 signing memos saying what he would obey and not obey. So much for checks and balances.

Mr Solly, see this is just what we dont need anymore. The racist undertones in your not so profound commentaty on what President Obama is planning to do going into his second week as president. By him being president has proven that your dated views of what America wants should be shelved to grow dust as a new America takes shape. Thus his platform of CHANGE. Move on and aquire some new material. There is a new generation thats coming along . You have had your turn, so sitback watch Bedtime for Bonzo and remenise of the good ole days and let the more educated youth make some decisions. Its people like you that never served in the service and sat at home and had there cushy over-paid Ford,GM jobs that have ruinned the indusrty. Those jobs are gone and we have to educate ourselves.I wonder how much time have you put into helping develope the ststem that you feel is going to be screwed up by Mr.B.O. I’ll be around for the mess that we will be in. No more grants for the veterens help educate ourselves so that we arent caught up in the system ,and the kids that are graduating after putting so much work into the process to go to college. That kind of thinking is killing the programs that help people from being in tne system youdespise soo much. Well Thanks Mr GOP.

Long Live the USSR – United States Socialst Republic with Czar Obama at the Helm and PM Pelosi and Reid…

Prefos… what I’m trying to say is that it all comes down to National Security. If our economy is threatened by ‘whatever means’, then our Government considers that a threat to national security. Since Crude Oil drives this economy and this country, then the Middle East is in our Best Interest. If our Economy fails, then the world economy will probably collapse and cause unrest in many Nations – this could lead to some really bad things (like a rogue nut job overthrowing a government and getting hold of a nuke and using it on US or Israel or whoever). Right now, we are the World Superpower – we control things through the Department of State with the Power of the Military backing up the Dept of State’s words … but it is the economy that gives the military its power to back up State.
So, you have to look at the big picture. If you want, I could argue “ethical” reasons for invading Iraq instead of economic / political ones – if you wish. Look way down below at my first post … I give 9 points as to why we liberated Iraq…. many of them are for ‘ethical’ reasons.
Jay… I believe that the Saudi Arabian citizens were “upset” with the Saudi government for allowing “infidels” (US Citizens) on their soil. After the Cold War ended, the Saudi people put pressure on the Kingdom to “kick out” the American Military. So, I believe that one of the reason we went into Iraq was to keep a foothold on the region militarily (since Saudi Arabia was out). And it worked… but at a huge cost. With the US Military in the region and on the ground (with a democracy in place in Iraq), this puts our Generals in position to strike in all directions… if need be.
KJ, yes, I agree with you on the currency situation… but the Iraq War was more than just about Oil… it was about keeping a large Military force in the region… it was about liberating 30 million Muslims from an evil “Hitler Type” dictator …. it was to stabilize the region through the “Big Stick” of the US Military. So, it’s much more complicated than just oil and money….
Robert

The left should be quiet, listen to the right, and do what they say. This would prove that they have the high ground. This is what the smart people think, so if you disagree you must not be smart. In fact, if you disagree you must be a bad human being.
Consensus says that the will of the right is the best determination and direction for this country – and the left winning the election shouldn’t be an important consideration when the greater good of the world is what’s at stake! I hope the left understands that if this doesn’t take effect – after the right has told them over and over what is best – there may be deadly violence. Unfortunately, in order to get the proper attention, the deadly violence will have to be directed at voters and the families of the left-voting districts of the country. It appears tragic, but it is understandable and nothing can be done to stop it except the left giving in. And again, everyone thinks this way – there is just too much video of pseudo-important people repeating it over and over.
*Important: the above is an illustration of the liberal position on Israel. Replace all occurences of “left” with “Democrats” and “right” with “Republicans” in the verbage above to see the magic happen!

We elected a Leader of the Free World.
This is how you do it. Isolate the radicals, starve them of their base.
Treat people respectfully, listen to them, state your principles and stick to them, back them up with force if necessary, but always realize that the vast majority of people just want to have a decent life, make money, raise their kids up, enjoy their friends and family, etc.
Al-Queda is over. A few years from now they’ll be discredited and pathetic.

“All Palestinian women should be designated as weapons of mass destruction and should be sterilized.”
Kitchen sink right wing intelligence.

Wow, Pefros. Thanks for making my point. “Closed minded” = “doesn’t agree with me”, huh? And, “Downfall of Western Civilization” = “extreme fear of not agreeing with me”. Wouldn’t the threat of extreme fear, like “Downfall of Western Civilization” – unless I agree with you, of course – be a perfect illustration of exactly what I said? Now where could I find such a Rube? Maybe one who pretends he travels, now that would be boss!
Of course, the references to the anonymous “others around the world” viewing me in what is implied as a negative light adds a professional journalist quality to your retort!
I would give you a point for that, but the ommision of a quote by a real life pseudo-important person makes it even.
Thanks for the reinforcement!

oh Marym, you world traveller, are we loathed by the world. Bush had a great relationship with many european leaders. Sarkozy, Merkel, Brown, Berlusconi, conservative leaders of countries who are attempting to ditch the lethargy of socialism while Obama would move us in that direction. Quit apologising for your country (we don’t need you to)and learn what’s great about it.

wait! no i disagree!

“Robert: Are you actually saying that the incursions into Iraq and Afghanistan have helped to keep Russia and Iran from attacking Israel or Saudi Arabia? Do you have anything at all to back that up with?”
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Yes! Robert is right. Forget Afghanistan for the moment. That war is mainly to stop the Taleban setting up a big al Qaeda Jihadist base in the ME. But the presence of 140,000+ American troops in Iraq, supported by a powerful airforce group and any required number of CVNBG’s (Carrier Vessel Nuclear Battle Groups) makes a massive difference! Certainly that force can swat Iran like a fly at any given time! Which is why Iran is using the Shia connection to try to get the US forces out. Iran could easily take Saudi out but for the US. Just as Saddam would have done if he had been allowed to. Kuwait was always just a first step for Saddam.
If Iran dominates Saudi, Kuwait and Iraq, it corners all the ME crude! The US had a narrow squeak in the first Gulf War, we now know the danger.
Russia is a bit different. I doubt they intend any adventures in the ME right now, but sooner or later, yes! Putin has quite deliberately built Russia into the main source of gas for Europe. He now controls one of the main energy sources for the EU. We have all witnessed Russian blackmail of the EU with gas. Now, if he could extend that to denying crude to them too, he would have them in the palm of his hand! Without firing a single shot.
If that happened, the EU would buckle to Russia’s demands. The Europeans have no stomach for a fight. Only the US, via NATO, could prevent it. But Europe has long lost enthusiasm for NATO because they really dont want to fight.
Of course, Iran would not want Russian domination either, but they might enter an alliance of convenience. However, getting into bed with Russia is like getting into bed with a Siberian tiger. Sooner or later its going to devour you!
Its generally believed in intelligence circles that Putin wants Russia to regain its former superpower status it had as the USSR. Its not about Communism this time, its about Russian Nationalism. Putin is a near fanatical Russian nationalist.
So the US needs to be very conscious of Russia’s ambitions, plus Iran’s too. And looming in the background, is the growing Titan, China. China is resource hungry and its only a matter of time before they start looking at the ME as an important source. Important enough to deploy naval forces nearby, that is.
For the US, the price of peace and prosperity is eternal vigilance and military readiness. Any falling asleep at the switch would be fatal. I dont think Obama entirely understands this, he’s too idealistic and optimistic, but geopolitics is a hard, tough battleground where only the strongest survive.

If you travel through the United States you’ll find Americans don’t really trust or like each other that much. Americans are afraid of each other. Frightened culture.

Solly, I’m very very impressed. You see things the way they are…. from a Historian’s point of view with a practical mentality. Bravo, my man (or woman)!!! Too bad we can’t get together and talk Geopolitcal politics over a beer or coffee. :-) Nice job.
Robert

Two very different wars Robert. Both of them failures in their own ways. Both based in large part on the arrogance of the leader – in the first Gulf war it was the arrogance of Hussein. In the Iraq war it was the arrogance of Bush. And in both cases, one country invaded another. Iraq was no threat to anybody by the time of the last attack. They could barely feed their people. They couldn’t get an airplane in the air to defend themselves. It was a straight out attack upon a people for land control orchestrated with the slickest state of the art of propaganda campaign. A travesty.

oh there’s a million exceptions Mark, but as a larger society Americans lock their doors and dont’ trust each other.

@ LMB
Can we just agree on a couple of historical facts?
1. The US has been attacked on 9/11 by people being trained and financed out of Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. Iraq had nothing to do with it. In fact, Saddam considered Al Quaida as a threat to his own regime.
2. Both Bill Clinton and GWB coud not protect their homeland from those attacks.
3. The fact that no similar attack has been executed since is no proof for any achievement of GWB. No similar attack had been carried out before either.
4. Saddam used to be brutal dictator and nobody should be sorry for his end.
5. If the Iraq war was justified by the suppresssion of the population, why is the US army not in Belorussia, in Sudan or in Myanmar?
6. If the Iraq war was justifired by the international threat, why is the US army not in North Korea and Iran?
7. Since the invasion of Iraq the country is a training ground for international terrorists and one of the most dangerous places in the world. The surge reduced the number of US victims and suicide attacks, but Iraq is far from being a democracy. The government is ruling a fraction of the country only.
8. GWB is not responsible for the financial crisis and the US being that dependend from other countries now. But he is responsible for having ruined the reputation of the US in the world.
9. All international polls show a support for Obama of around 90 percent. This is NOT because everyone in the world wants to rob the US and feels Obama is selling your country off. This is because your great country has a leagcy of leading the free world. The USA has been the hope of billions of people worldwide and we want your country to be that bright light again. Maybe Obama will turn out to be a great disappointment, but for now he is providing hope to everyone worldwide!
Let him talk to the Arabs and try to win them for democracy and peace. It´s bettern than throwing bombs!

Prefos…dude… what are you thinking? Saddam was selling oil for food – and then selling his food for money. Don’t you remember the UN and Koffie Annon’s son caught up in that whole deal? The food was there, it was just that the Evil Dictator (like Hitler) wouldn’t allow his people to have the food. Another reason for Bush 43 to take out Saddam…. thanks for reminding me of that situation.
Also, read Solly’s post just down below these… it hits the nail on the head, one of the most well written posts I’ve ever read. You really could learn a lot from it.
Robert

I just mean its too bad Americans don’t trust each other. Too many extremists.

Regarding Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden and their ilk:
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think that when you look at the rhetoric that they’ve been using against me before I even took office –
Q I know, I know.
THE PRESIDENT: — what that tells me is that their ideas are bankrupt. There’s no actions that they’ve taken that say a child in the Muslim world is getting a better education because of them, or has better health care because of them.
In my inauguration speech, I spoke about: You will be judged on what you’ve built, not what you’ve destroyed. And what they’ve been doing is destroying things. And over time, I think the Muslim world has recognized that that path is leading no place, except more death and destruction.
Now, my job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world, that the language we use has to be a language of respect. I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

This administration will be the most disastrous in the history of the union.
We have a president with zero national security experience, and zero legislative accomplishments. He has done nothing except run for president and write about his accomplishments. He has accomplished NOTHING!!!
He is already falling all over himself. It won’t take 4 years for things to collapse. We are already falling apart.
As a retired senior military officer I have served in SW Asia and Central Asia.
Our job was to kill insurgents and we did a good job of it. Just look at Iraq.
We eliminated thousands of them over there and Obama said the surge didn’t work!
Obama was elected by minorities, the liberal Hollywood left, illegal aliens & misinformed couch potatoes utilizing the most massive voter fraud in our country’s history. You reap what you sow! Now you’ve got a grand mess.
You can keep your change. I’ll keep my guns and my money…..

Solly and Robert, Thanks for your great posts!
Ricardo

“Al-Queda is over”? Can you say Somolia? Al-Queda have discovered the Disney theme park of terrorist training camps.
“The lethargy of socialism”? I’d say ‘apathy’.

You’re welcome, Ricardo. I find it stimulating to talk Geopolitical Politics – I wish I would have earned a degree in that field and then worked somewhere in the State Department…. pipedream…. but, hey, I can dream – can’t I? :-)
Robert

It’s also kind of sad those darned Arabs get so upset when we bomb and attack them. Why can’t they just take it like men?
Why don’t they just accept the fact we’re going to take over and occupy their homelands?

It’s been an exceptional day bertW
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“It’s amazing Obama stressed in his campaign he would open up dialogue with the muslim world and he got it done in six days.
Amazing.
Six days . ..” – Pefros
Yeah, maybe now he can rest on the seventh.

Rag Head TV– ha,ha,ha,ha,ha!

“He’s going to run the country into the ground, and trample the Constitution as he does it.”
Oh, we’ve already seen that pal.

This Country is in for a very long four years. Remember the story about the emperor with no clothes? There is no greater example than Barak Obama. Sooner or later even the news media will have to stop drooling, and start reporting. I saw the housing crisis coming several years ago. Prices don’t go up this fast, I thought. Many smart people explained to me why things were “different” now, as they reaped large gains trading houses as if they were stocks. Now, many of these folks are left holding the bag, with inventories of much pricier properties and much larger mortages. The same thing is going on with Obamamania. Unfortunately, the Country will have to deal with this when reality sets in.

The Republican Mantra is at it already.
They will not be content until they have stripped, looted, stolen and shipped off the last peice of America to a third world country or Communist Dictatorship.
They are at WAR with OBAMA and what still stand of the American Middle Class !!!

I have no problem with Obama giving his first interview to an Arab network. Mainly, because he did no such thing. Once again, image is more important than truth. Obama has been in the media ad-nauseum for months. He has been in front of the press corps several times in the last week. Get real.
What I have a problem with is having an administration that thinks there is a middle ground that it can create. And I have a problem with the hoards of people who are blindly following a figure for mostly emotional reasons.
The modern day middle eastern conflict is the proverbial multi-headed monster. It is an evolution of a centuries old process and mindset that uses ethnicity and religion to justify, divide and control.
Israel is the Arab and Persian best friend. Without them to unify against, this monster would have to feed elsewhere; Arab vs. Persian, Shia vs. Sunni, Muslim vs. Hindu, etc..
And guess what? Israel is the Palestinians best friend as well. Without Israel, the Palestinians are the poor man’s Kurds. Until the end of WW2, the Palestinians were kicked from pillar to post by all their so-called allies. At least the Kurds managed to keep something of their own. But, Israel is reborn, the Arab kingdoms, many of which fully supported the Nazis during the war, hate it. They attack and are defeated. They attack again, and are defeated. They attack again, and are defeated. This time Israel keeps a buffer zone of land to protect its self from the repeated attacks. Along comes Arafat, and bang – it becomes present day middle east.
Wise up. Again, everything the Palestinians wanted (with the exception of Israel ceasing to exist) was offered to Arafat during the Clinton administration. Bill was so proud – he managed to get a great deal put together (unless you were Israel). And when it came down to nut-crunching, Arafat walked away. Why? 1) Arafat was a puppet 2) “Everything they wanted except Israel ceasing to exist” meant “Israel continuing to exist is more important than everything else they wanted”.
Along with this, the Arab Kingdoms are threatened by their own populace. How? Through religion, in this case Islam. Islam, which we are told is so pure and true, is its self conflicted between the aforementioned Sunni and Shia sects, Persian (Iran) influence vs. Arab influence, etc..
I am all about mutual respect. I don’t have to agree with you to coexist with you. But, I should be free to self determine and so should you. When those things collide, we here in America debate it, vote on it, and find a way to live. Other parts of the world find a straw man to lob explosives at.
Sorry for not making America the bad guy. Take solace in the fact that in this “untrusting” and “fearful” country you aren’t beheaded for doing just that.

So many posts here I’m the only one who will read mine. May as well get on the soap box, anyway. I made it around the world to many countries 50 years ago. They had to same attitudes they have today; love your people, hate your country. What you libs don’t get is that we are despised because of what we are and what we have. Instead of trying to destroy us and make this nation into a third world dump, you need to get over flagellating yourselfs and find a pair of cods. It is a mystery to me why those in this nation who have the most want to demean us the most. Emigrate to Gaza or one of the Arab countries and voice your opinions there.

Obama doesn’t realize that the Muslims only accept that you change to their ways or die. Wait, maybe he does. Buy ammo now before he taxes that 500%. By the way Richard, the WTC WAS attacked before by the same group under Clintons watch.
And this blame Bush for Iraq thing? Get over it, go back and see the vote in congress concerning Iraq. It was the whole of congress also. Except some whackos didn’t get it. Wait, how did B.Hussein vote concerning a mass murdering, assist the terrorist, pay the suicide bombers family, not let the inspectors do their job, hurry and hide our stuff in Syria dictator? Oh, I think he probably just wanted to talk to Saddam. Yea, then we would have seen another 911 if we didn’t invade Iraq. Wake up you people.

Bush, despite his faults, was focused on keeping us safe from the terroritsts. Obama, despite his “good intentions”, is focused on keeping the terrorists safe from us.

remember the “BOOK”??????????????………….. you were told of this day……….it was called an ABOMINATION………..enough SAID……….

Unlike Rush, I hope Obama succeeds. He is well on his way to curing global warming, stopping the terrorists by closing Gitmo, Providing health care to all, Providing jobs and stimulus to the American economy, making friends with all of our former enemies, ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and being an all around good fellow. Now why couldn’t
Bush have thought of all these wonderful things, Oh yeah, they were all his fault.

Gimme a break. The Republican Monta. I call B.S. Obama is a socialist pig. I hope that he succeeds as President in so much as the country does not tank and go into a depresssion, our citizens are kept safe from attack, our troops continue to get support both physically and are backed, and lat but not lease none of our civil rights are inhibited. (i.e. the 2nd ammendment). I do not support the current presidents apparent socialist ideology and agenda and hope that he fails miserably when it comes to implementing any of this leftist mantra. This country is a great experiement in freedom as a free republic and is the last beacon of unadulterated freedom in the world. Our founding fathers created a limited government and gave it certain powers. They gave the people rights. It’s time to trim the fat off of the pig and get back to what this country is founded on. Good old fasioned conservative values.

that slurping sound that you hear is the democrats drinking the cool-aid. i just cannot fathom how you people are OK with obama meeting with the very people that want to kill us just because we aren’t muslim. i’m praying that we remain safe until there is another president in office that will actually protect us from our enemies instead of surrendering to them.

A fool is born every day, after reading some of this crapy comments from some of you, it’s clear how Mr.Obama got elected.Hand outs come at a price, what coming out of your wallet? Those of you that have no wallet, stop breaking into your neighbors house an stealing their money.
You liberals are a bunch of cry babies, looking for the free milk of hard working Americans who have earned the right to call youa bunch of leaches.

b hussein, steering into the curve!

“You liberals are a bunch of cry babies”
Right wing maturity.

I didn’t vote for him….you did !!!!

It’s about time we have a leader who doesn’t wait until his last 6 months in office before opening public dialogue with the Middle East.

hey “jesus”, in the Rush interview he said that if Obama’s policies are socialist, then he wants him to fail. He starts out the interview saying he wants him to be successful. Don’t just read segments that CNN puts out that are taken out of context. watch the whole interview.
I also don’t see how closing Gitmo will stop the terrorist unless you are saying we are the terrorist?
Lastly, Recessions are cyclical. they actually run on about an eight year swing. I am glad he is helping now but it is troubling that he is spending a trillion USD of money we don’t have. Still I hope it works. econ 101; you want to catch it early, 2 years out, Bush and the Democratic Congress didn’t, I admit that, but also the worst thing you can do after the recover starts (and I do believe within 6 to 10 months it will start on its own) is to keep enacting policy aimed at stopping the decline. You have to aid the upswing and I don’t think he will know the difference. Democrats are never pro business and you have to be to aid the upswing.

Enough of the bitchin- I think it would be nice if the “news reporters” would let us all know what Obama said, then I/we can make up my mind about this story.

No conservative would ever support impeaching a president who had not broken the law, and certainly would not make stupid, criminal threats against the president. I did not vote for President Obama, but, since it is clear that he will have the political capital to do what he wants, I sincerely hope that his programs will have the results that he has stated that they will have. As far as granting his first interview to al-Arabiya, we in the U.S. already have a pretty good handle on what his stated views/goals are…

Someone wrote:
Unlike Rush, I hope Obama succeeds. He is well on his way to curing global warming, stopping the terrorists by closing Gitmo, Providing health care to all, Providing jobs and stimulus to the American economy, making friends with all of our former enemies, ending the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and being an all around good fellow. Now why couldn’t
Bush have thought of all these wonderful things, Oh yeah, they were all his fault.
You know nothing about history, science or world politics. I suppose you would think thay if we be nice to terrorist they would be our friends. Yes there is global warming but it is a cycle that our world has gone thru for centurys.
Go ahead and worship your savior Obama and you’ll be dissapointed because he’s just a president like everyone else has been. The era of “Obi 1″ shall be what Congress lets it be.
Remember history, Hitler promised to be everything to all people too.
Mike
Co.

Have any of you nuts even read the interview??? I doubt it.
Of course many here think that Bush made them safer, when in reality the exact opposite is true.

Pefros..
Are you suggesting that the long-defunct Federalist party will rise once again as a political party? Perhaps then the Democrats and Republicans will merge into the old Democratic-Republican party, just like the good ol’ days.
But… what about the Whigs?

Oh yes, this sounds like anti-American clap trap…
“Much of the interview was spent defining the new approach that the United States would implement in that region: respectfulness over divisiveness, listening over dictating, engagement over militarism. But the president drew the line when it came to terrorist organizations.
“Their ideas are bankrupt,” he told host Hisham Melhem, when asked to respond to recent audio clips from al Qaida leadership calling him various epithets. “There’s no actions that they’ve taken that say a child in the Muslim world is getting a better education because of them, or has better health care because of them.”
Oh no wonder republicans are scared… they don’t agree with any ideas unless they include perpetual war, fake patriotism, or draining the treasury.

The biggest crime in this country is us, if you want to see the root of the present money crisis, it is us, look back in the laws over the past 32 years, both parties have thier people of fault, but the Demo’s have more thne thier share, Jihad started under Carter, Savings and Loan in the late 1980′s was law signed by Carter, present banking crisis signed under Clinton – not deregulation , but re-regulation, and the some republicans went along with it, that is the fact, me I saw this coming 30 years ago as a young man, house paid for, steady job, wife employed, debt free, living withing my standard, heavy invested untill Nov. 2007 in the market, energy and realestate, got out, why, not smarter, just realized that the level of greed in this country at my level of the food chain was getting silly. Obama is not your messiah nor mine, you will see this, you got yourselves into this and expecting someone to get you out of it shows the same brain power that got you into this mess in the first place, myself Iam a just a peasent working for wages, I expect no one to take care of me or my family, but I will in the end pay for the redistripution of debt that is about to happen to us, I will get the oppertunity to one more time to support village idiots that breed more like themselves who cant take of themselves,
I have one thing left to say, I own guns, have all of my life, I intend to give them up when they come get them, they can have them, but being an american I will have a choice on how I give them up, that choice is shortly afer the last bullet is fire they can have the gun, then the gun is just a club, and there are far more effective clubs then a gun…aw ya, there are about 96 million gun owning americans like myself and about 35 million more who wished they were like us, that is the real power…

“And so you will I think see our administration be very clear in distinguishing between organizations like al Qaeda — that espouse violence, espouse terror and act on it — and people who may disagree with my administration and certain actions, or may have a particular viewpoint in terms of how their countries should develop. We can have legitimate disagreements but still be respectful. I cannot respect terrorist organizations that would kill innocent civilians and we will hunt them down.
But to the broader Muslim world what we are going to be offering is a hand of friendship.”

The nations of the world (including the Arab states) are in agreement that Israel should end the settlements and go back to the 1967 borders. But Israel wants to have its cake and eat it too. Symbolic gestures like phoning Abbas or having an interview with an Arab channel are one thing, having the gonads to be the first president since Eisenhower to say no to Israel is another. Will Obama have the guts to do it? Considering the advisors he has chosen, I say no.

Hey Hassley, why would Israel return to borders prior to 67? let’s see, they were attacked, kicked their aggressors butts and rightfully took their land… no attacks no land. now beat it kook!

Jake Tapper: Could you please please post a link to the full interview?
a lot of people here are becoming confused and frightened. Hahaha. thanks.

*sigh*
ok, so he gives his first interview post-election to an arab network. its like the naysayers have never heard anything he’s said or done before. he’s been telling us what he wants to do now for the past year or so, so what do you need to know? i think its a good step in foreign policy with a particularly heated region. its not like he’s heading over there to collaborate with the enemy. he’s giving a highly volatile region some positive attention they deserve. the “change” Obama was talking about in his campaign platform has reached the ears of so many nations abroad that i thinks its only fair that the hotbed of our nations international turmoil get some primary coverage.
seriously, why so jealous of the arab network getting the first interview?
its like being PO’d that you didn’t get the first cookie at snack-time in pre-school, or not getting the larger half of a candy bar you had to split with a sibling when you were younger.
oh, and a little diplomacy would be nice so my brothers-in-arms dont have to keep getting blown the hell up over there.

get over it haters. President Obama is the real deal. Republicans have drove this country to the brink of collapse. The Majority of Americans realize this pertinent fact. That is why PRESIDENT BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA was elected. Cleaning up the mess of a bunch of rich idiots who have used you feculent, ativistic, pleabeians won’t be easy. My advice is shut up and learn!!!

“Dumya destroys a country that didn’t attack us”
Actually that is in error. As a former Navy pilot, several of our pilots were shot at by surface to air missiles the size of telephone poles in Iraq for years. We just did nothing about it for 7 years.

KR
Richard the lionheart killed 2700 muslim prisoners in the third crusade if my memory is correct. I don’t think this was a Bible/Koran issue on either side. Just good sport in the old days.

“Obama is the consummate liar. He won’t produce his certificate of live birth” (pk)
“we’ve spent more on this stupid bank bailout than we have all wars our nation has ever fought–combined” (Dem1)
Incorrect. Iraq war cost is well over half a trillion (probably closer to a trillion by now), and the USA has spent fortunes on many wars: WW1, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, invasion and occupation of Iraq, …
“Obama is a MUSLIM” (GanjaZombie)
1. So what if he were? What exactly happened to freedom of religion?
2. There is no remotely credible evidence to suggest that he is Muslim. The idea was invented and propagated as a weapon against him, without any regard for fairness or truth.
“Some of the muslim beliefs are female genital mutilation, women treated like trash or worse, men get by with murder, literally” (GanjaZombie)
1. Female genital mutilation is not commanded by the Qur’an, and is practised by only a minority of Muslims. Female genital mutilation is also not commanded by the Bible, and is practised by only a minority of Christians. The reasons are somewhat different, but female genital mutilation cannot reasonably be described as a ‘muslim belief’.
2. Yes, women tend to be treated poorly under Islamic rule. Similarly, women used to be treated poorly under Christian rule. Islam is essentially just behind the times, which should surprise no one.
3. By “getting away with murder”, you are no doubt referring to the so-called “honour killings” happening in some countries now. These are indeed deplorable. So are lynchings in US history. Neither travesty proves any religion to be evil.
“I still have no idea what his [Obama's] stances on any issues are” (jefferson)
“ideals and principles that the enemy has no respect for” (Cindy)
Is the USA so weak that it cannot uphold principles which its enemies do not respect?
“those wonderful values that established this country are Jeduo-Christian” (Cindy)
No, actually. Check the Ten Commandments against US law, for instance, and look at the explicitly secular foundation of the USA. Also, the 1797 US Treaty with Tripoli says “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”. It is true that this does not mean the USA was not “a Christian nation”, but it does mean that the government of the USA was not based on Christianity.
“[Obama] has already murdered 34 innocent civilians” (pefros)
What on earth are you talking about? Seriously, I’m at a loss.
“His first task was to go ahead and give money away to abortion clinics. He is providing Government funding (our tax dollars) to women that dont know what birth control is” (Diana)
Government funding for birth control, and education about it? Excellent idea. What Obama has actually done is to remove the prohibition on birth control in connection with government funding. This should dramatically reduce abortions, particularly the so-called “back yard abortions”.
“The solution is a viable strong 3rd party to hold the crooks in each party accountable.” (TonyG)
Unfortunately, the existence of a strong third party is almost impossible in the current US electoral system. Introduce preferential voting, and try again.
“What kind of credit would the media and democrats give Bush if we found out [Osama bin Laden] was already dead?” (Fluidizer)
Interesting question, actually. I oppose the so-called “War on Terror” on numerous grounds, but I will concede that it succeeded in separating bin Laden from al Qaeda. It doesn’t matter very much whether bin Laden is alive or not right now – either way, he has no real power.
‘All you libs shouting “Love it or Leave it.” What are you still doing here? Didn’t you leave 8 years ago…or did you just come back after the recent election?’ (Crash)
Maybe they still loved their country, despite disagreeing with the way it was being run. Just a thought.
“Why is it the liberals are usually the people that have never served in the military or protected our freedom?” (Charles)
I have friends who are serving members of the US military, and others who are veterans of the same. Their political views vary somewhat, but I don’t think any of them would object to the label “liberal”. Bluntly, I question your “usually”. Ask some Vietnam veterans, for instance – they led the anti-war protests when they got home.
“this is the real world, and other countries are trying to kill us” (Charles)
Frankly, the USA has actively worked to create that hatred against it, over the past half-century or more. This is the real world, and no country is powerful enough to cow the rest of the world into submission. Attempts to control the world (“be the world’s policeman”) will backfire, no matter how good or bad the intentions are. Obama’s interview is one step towards defusing the genuinely-dangerous hatred of the USA.
“Torture (Recognized international definition) includes any act that causes permanent physical disfigurement or bodily injury” (pefros)
Pefros, I don’t know where you got your definition. Here’s the definition given by the United Nations Convention Against Torture: “any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person”. Waterboarding qualifies as torture because it is simulated drowning; the victim believes he is about to die. Oh, and waterboarding can cause a variety of physical damage. And death, for that matter.
“Waterboarding is an under-used tool. It should be expanded to include kidnapping suspects.” (groucho)
What happened to habeas corpus and the presumption of innocence under US constitution and law? You are proposing the torture of people who have not even been convicted of a crime. Frankly, I think that suggestion refutes itself.
“I can literally think of no criticism of Bush that in the one week of Obama the I, liberals havent completely abandoned when their guy does the same thing.” (Handley)
-Authorisation of torture
-Violation of individual right to privacy (wiretapping scandal etc.), in violation of US constitution.
-Holding prisoners without regard for basic human rights, in violation of the US constitution and international treaties.
-Invading a sovereign nation and attempting to justify it by use of deliberately falsified ‘intelligence’.
I could go on, but I feel the point is made.
“how do you have a dialogue with a people whos desire is not life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but the destruction of the U.S.A. and Israel. how do you compromise with them?”
The majority of Arabs have much the same desires that Americans have. Their violent radicals are a small minority, just as the USA’s violent radicals are a small minority.
“Times diplomacy avoided war or stopped tyrrants: None. In over 3000 years of history.” (Chico)
As mentioned in an earlier comment by someone else, look at apartheid. Look at the USSR.
“Times the republican formula of peace through strength has stopped tyrrants and ended oppression: TOO MANY TO COUNT.” (Chico)
There are a few problems with this:
1. It is expensive, in human lives and in money.
2. It tends to backfire in the long term. For instance, the CIA originally trained and equipped al Qaeda to fight against the USSR. That hasn’t worked out too well in the long run. The USA installed Saddam Hussein as dictator of Iraq, which also didn’t work out too well.
Obama is doing exactly what he promised he would do. Where exactly is the problem?