Thursday, June 04, 2009

Obama's Speech to the Muslim World

President Obama gave his big speech to the Muslim world from Cairo, Egypt today.  Like most of his speeches, I didn't watch it.  I read the transcript, which you can find here.  My initial reaction is that it is a good speech given the audience.  Israel will not like it, but maybe some mainstream Muslims will be swayed by the speech.  Is it naïve and ignorant?  Yes, but consider who he's talking to.  It will not work with the Muslims who are already radical, as Iran is already criticizing him for the speech, saying that the "sweet talk" will not sway them.  Osama bin Laden is encouraging Muslims to prepare for a "long war" against infidels.

 

Check out this little gem from Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) statement on "global warming."  Oh, and guess who would profit from having a "low carbon economy?"

 

The longer American students are in school, the farther behind the rest of the world they fall in terms of math and science education.

It appears that the FBI was ordered to back off of investigations of radicalized converts to Islam like the guy who murdered a new soldier last week in Arkansas.

 

One out of every six dollars of Americans' income is in the form of a government check or voucher.

 

Al Qaida is looking for volunteers to sneak bioweapons across the Southern border into the United States.

 

Sonia Sotomayor made a statement indicating that women make better judges back in 1994, before her statement about Latina women making better judges in 2001.  Harry Reid is hoping that he will not have to read any of Sotomayor's opinions.

 

President Obama is demanding a government-run health care option modeled after Massachusetts' socialized medicine plan.  Here's a preview of what that looks like, courtesy of Mitt Romney.  This alone should disqualify him from being the Republican nominee for President.  A socialist from Canada is in Washington to promote socialized medicine here.

 

Top executives for Chrysler and GM were grilled yesterday on why they are closing dealerships across the country.  The Chrysler bankruptcy might not go as quickly or as smoothly as originally thought, because a federal appeals court will hear tomorrow from some of the bondholders who believe that the bankruptcy is unconstitutional.

 

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warns that large budget deficits threaten financial stability, and former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan calls the idea of "too big to fail" and subsequent bailouts the biggest threat to the economic future of the United States.

 

Roy Barnes acknowledged yesterday that he made mistakes in his term as Governor, but assures voters that he has learned from them.  Washington may have already jumped into the race behind Barnes.

 

Clown Prince Vice President Joe Biden managed to make Governor Perdue a supporter of high-speed rail, as long as the federal government pays for it with "stimulus" money.

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