President Obama made his Cairo speech soon after taking office. Then he used his unparalleled powers of persuasion again a couple weeks ago to speak out to the Muslim world once again.
According to Al Jazeera, President Obama’s even less popular in the Arab world than he is in the United States:
While dubbing his speech Winds of Change, in reference to the uprisings ongoing across the Arab World, his speech made it clear that the same winds were not yet blowing in Washington DC, and perhaps never will. President Obama’s second speech on the Arab world, delivered on 19 May, showed such constancy and lack of change in US policy as his first speech, delivered in Cairo on 4 June 2009. This is not to say that the two speeches lacked flair and imperial hubris in the delivery, but rather that their characteristic lack of substance or novelty, let alone their decorative and gratuitous verbosity, demonstrate that imperial climate control in Washington can never be “changed”, not even by the wind of the Arab uprisings.
The problem with US policy in the Arab world is not only its insistence on broadcasting credulous US propaganda – easily fed to Americans, yet with few takers elsewhere in the world – but also that it continues to show a complete lack of familiarity with Arab political culture and insists on insulting the intelligence of most Arabs, whom it claims to address directly with speeches such as Mr Obama’s.
… When Obama speaks of how America’s “short-term interests” in the region, at times, “don’t align perfectly with our long-term vision for the region”, he is peddling the biggest imperial lie of all. America’s short- and long-term interests in the region have always been control of oil resources, securing US profits, and defending Israel. Until “winds of change” blow on these interests, the position of the United States as the most powerful anti-democratic force in the Arab World will remain the same, Emperor Obama’s speeches notwithstanding.
Uh-oh. Looks like the Muslim world has figured out the same thing American voters have figured out:
Hope and change is really smoke and mirrors.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Al jazeera is RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!
France. Muslims. Evolution.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2075011,00.html
Blow your mind
"science has never demonstrated the connection between Homo sapiens and man."
ROFLMAO. Now, technically, we're homo sapiens sapiens -- but in his case, I'd gonna have to go with the more atavistic definition.
"...Anyone know how to say "Hope and change" in Arabic?..."
"Allahu Akbar", or something...
funny too!
Arab Spring = Rabee'ya Al-'arabee
Hope and Change = Amal wa tabdeel
This is all bullshit! = Kool shee xharatil thouratiya
I love Obama! = Currently not translatable!
Since I'm already here and this is off subject, as far as muslim arabs and their 15 seconds of fame is concerned, go ahead and take a look at this refutation of the Faker-In-Chief's fraudulent long form BC:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=305705
And yes, I'm still a birther! The man's a consummate liar and he has millionaires and billionaires paying for his re-election while he's out getting in yet another round of golf!
Fantastic,hysterical, clever!! thank you
If I may be so bold as to step in and answer the question, "How's that Muslim outreach going?" on behalf of the White House... The guy in the photo above ain't yelling, "You scream; I scream; we all scream for ice cream!"
I *think* he's screaming:
"Who ate the last ham sandwich?"
Either that, or:
"Anybody want to play bumper pool?"
Dear President Obama:
I am writing today with a somewhat unusual request. I am asking that you return America to its August 20th, 1959 borders so that Hawaii is no longer a state and you are no longer a citizen.
Sincerely,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
.... Hahahahaha ~!........
Tesslea, this is an absolutely fabulous post. Funny as hell and straight to the heart of the matter regarding the Imposter-In-Chief's legitimacy.
LOLOLOLOLOL *claps* Awesome!!!!!!
Tess, that is a masterpiece. I'll be smiling all night at work. Thank you for that one.
In "Dreams of My Father" Obama, says because he lived in Muslim Indonesia when he was eight, he is uniquely prepared for the complexity of handling western and Islamic relationships. Like the Christ Child in the Temple, Baby Obama debated Mullahs on such topics as does a bad acid trip involving an out of body experience count as a pilgrimage to Mecca and taught himself enough Arabic to order his own humus platter when his mother took him to the local kabob restaurant.
Yet another bone-headed myth born in the faculty lounge of Barack Obama's intellect goes "Pfffft!"
Arabs must be first class ingrates; HRH Backswing the First offers to throw Israel under the bus, and this is their response.