January 25, 2009
 

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Obama's sister, Maya said,

"There was always a joke
between my mom and
Barack that he would be
the first black president."

 

Now the joke's on us.
 


 

 

 

 

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Obama Makes Nice With Syria Diplomats and Democrats in Washington have confirmed that Obama wants to persuade the Syrian leader, Bashar Assad, to cooperate with the West, in the hope that he will loosen his country's close ties to Iran, forcing Tehran to the negotiating table as well.

Officials believe it will be more palatable for American voters for Obama to launch his rogue nation outreach effort with Damascus rather than Iran.   Both countries are accused of arming and sponsoring the terrorists groups Hamas and Hezbollah, funneling extremists and weapons into Iraq and attempting to purchase and develop nuclear technology.  A Syrian nuclear plant was destroyed in an Israeli air attack last year.

One source, who has discussed foreign policy directly with Obama in the last two weeks, has revealed that the president "is spending a lot of time thinking about Syria and how to improve relations."  Actually, he's been thinking about it for a long time..

On February 1st, 2008, Obama, showed his international naiveté by naming, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the architect of the current situation in the middle east, as his Chief Foreign Policy Advisor.

Two weeks after Obama names Zbigniew Brzezinski as his Chief Foreign Policy Advisor, Brzezinski arrives in Damascus, Syria, to begin talks with the terrorists and political assassins of the Assad regime.

The visit was not coordinated with America's embassy and was not covered by the press, although Syrian press accounts said the delegation would visit Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad; vice president, Farouq al-Sharaa, and foreign minister, Walid Mouallem.

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) commented, "I remember thinking, 'Why are we listening to him?' (Brzezinski)  He was the national security adviser for Jimmy Carter 30 years ago.  He proceeded to talk to us about Iran, and I said, 'Let me see, didn't the ayatollahs come to power, didn't we have this problem when you were in the White House?'"

Brzezinski was also the great promoter of Islamic fundamentalism, which he celebrated as the greatest bulwark against Soviet Russian communism.  Using the Islamic fundamentalists, Brzezinski hoped to make the entire region between the southern border of the USSR and the Indian Ocean into an "arc of crisis," from which fundamentalist subversion would radiate into Soviet territory, first and foremost into the five Soviet republics of central Asia, Azerbaijan, etc.  It was in the service of this Islamic fundamentalist card that Brzezinski first helped overthrow the Shah of Iran, and then insisted that the replacement could be no one else than Ayatollah Khomeini.

Brzezinski views history through the lens of Marxism, which, despite its atheism, has much in common with Islam.  Both Communism and Islam are universalistic ideologies that reject the idea of the nation-state.  Both do not regard adherence to treaties between nations as obligatory.  Both Communism and Islam are militaristic and expansionist creeds that do not recognize international borders.  Brzezinski’s globalism has become evident in Jimmy Carter.  Under Brzezinski’s influence, Carter lowered the defense budget and pursued a soft line toward the Soviet Union.  We can expect an Obama White House to pursue a very soft line toward Islam.
Muslims Await Obama's Change A coalition of the 12-largest Muslim organizations in the US has issued an open-letter to Obama urging him to break away from the policies of President George Bush's administration and to engage the American Muslim community.

"We...wish to see you instruct senior officials in your administration to reinstate roundtables with Muslim leadership for all departments, such as State, Justice, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services," said the American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT).

Unveiling the "American Muslims in the American Mainstream," open-letter in a press conference on Monday, December 29, AMT chairman Agha Saeed said the incoming Obama administration needs to take notice of the American Muslim community.

"Ninety-five percent of Muslims voted on the day of election," he stressed.  "That was the highest voter turnout of any community in America."

"As you assume your new duties, there are some areas we hope you will list among your priorities," read their open-letter.

"This includes restoring due process, objective justice, repealing manifestly unconstitutional clauses of the USA PATRIOT ACT, ending COINTELPRO campaigns against Muslim and Arab American communities, and ensuring that our nation rejects the use of ex post facto laws."

"We look forward to your proposals for providing universal healthcare to our citizens and fixing our nation’s broken immigration system."

"We demand that our government, the US government, take immediate steps to end the immoral and illegal Israeli bombardment of Gaza and its population," said Awad.
The Shadow Government While the media goes through a never ending cycle of adoring adulation toward Obama, there are many inconvenient stories that they simply refuse to answer.  One of those stories is the immense number of newly created advisors and envoys.  These advisors appear to have no clear role.  That's because there are already entire cabinets created specifically for what they are supposed to do.  The two latest are George Mitchell and Richard Holbrooke.  Beyond these two envoys, Obama has named an enormous amount of czars as well as a few other folks simply called advisors.

Obama is not the first to have czars, advisors, and certainly not the first to have envoys.  What makes the Obama administration different is first the sheer numbers of these folks, and second the scope that some of these folks will have.  In the case of both Holbrooke and Mitchell, there are in fact deputy level positions for each of their roles.  In other words, why are Holbrooke and Mitchell envoys to Afghanistan/Pakistan and the Middle East respectively, when the State Department specifies deputies to the Secretary already for those specific roles?  In other words, why did he name them envoys when they should have just been appointed Deputy Secretaries for these respective areas?

And, don't forget this stuff.
The New Age Is Here The Oprah Winfrey Show, taped at a Washington restaurant, overflowed with strange and messianic notions about Obama and how the thrill over him is unanimous.  Actor Forest Whitaker summed it up for Oprah: "The light of the New Age is here."  Oprah pal Gayle King passed along her agreement with a message that "Not only does he hear us. He feels us. That when I hear Barack Obama, they said, he talks to my soul." Whitaker also strangely claimed "we’re not used to seeing" a president and a First Lady who love each other, but the Obamas have signaled "it’s okay to love."

Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin strangely claimed it was "extraordinary" to have a president care about history, and told the audience Obama said to her in 2007 he’s not getting the presidency to be Millard Fillmore, but to be great like Lincoln. Ali Wentworth, the wife of George Stephanopoulos, painted an incredible picture of a massive gospel choir on the subway system en route to the festivities: "I took the Metro, and everyone was singing ‘Amazing Grace’ on the Metro."

More pap here.
It Begins On January 16, 2008, Obama had an approval rating of 83%, which was during the transition, a time when Obama didn't actually do anything (remember "No comment -- there is only one president at a time").

Today, a week later, he is at 68%.

What could account for this sudden plunge in popularity?  Could it be that the guy wants to spend a trillion dollars of taxpayer money at a time when we actually need our money just to make ends meet?  Call me crazy, but telling people he is going to take their money and use it to paint bridges ain't exactly persuasive stuff.

Maybe he is losing support among the lefties, who might be realizing that The One might be a warmonger, no better than Bush, for bombing innocent dirt farmers in Nowhereistan?

Whatever the reasons, his numbers are falling.
America's Lady Diana? Michelle Obama’s flair for fashion has captivated Washington and set the hearts of glossy magazine editors aflutter.  She has already eclipsed Carla Bruni, the super-model chanteuse and wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, the hyperactive French president. Not since Diana, Princess of Wales, has there been such a glamorous role model at the apex of society.

In her white, one-shouldered chiffon gown, she boogied to Stevie Wonder’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours and slow-danced with her husband at a succession of inaugural balls. Barack Obama held her lovingly around the waist, clasping two fingers around her back, and nuzzled her. Women’s Wear Daily, the influential American fashion magazine, said her ball gown made the Obamas look like newlyweds.
 
More here -- if you can stand it.

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