Ari Fleischer: Obama's Cairo Speech "Too Balanced"

Think Progress:

Today, former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer told CBS that he disapproved of President Obama's speech in Cairo about the U.S. relationship with Muslim communities around the world. His problem with the speech? It was too "balanced."

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Comments

[Freenation]

01:29 PM on 06/06/2009

can HP please add a disclaimer in all their articles which states 'the following member is a A.IPAC person' if applicable, just so the readers are 'balanced' when making their comments....

[Naville]

09:31 PM on 06/05/2009

Ari Fleischer is showing his true colors. Ari is AIPAC member, which means he cares more about Israel than his does about American values and interests.

if he moves to Israel, he will definitely be a settler. In the last two decades AIPAC has been promoting the image of Israel (with the help of the mass media) as a weak and tiny country surrounded by a sea of enemies.
Both the media, AIPAC, public official who benefit from those entities promote Israel as a democracy that has same values and principles as we do here in the U.S. which all a sham.

There is nothing wrong for supporting an ally. what is immoral and shameful is to nurture theocracy state that continuously oppresses a large segment of people with systematic and often cruel measures.

if OBAMA sticks with his neutral and honesty broker, you will see extremist settlers coming out of their closet with vengeful acts of terror like we never identified with Israel.

the more America and the world demonstrate impartiality and promote human rights values, the more Israel becomes ugly to bear.

The settlers have already started their campaign of terror.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g4UnXRYC6yA28KX9_LsRFEwMhqwA

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/06/03/1005612/new-settler-violence-outposts

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5giCLoqxk--2Tu-m8t0qBCx53SM6Q

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3726117,00.html

America keep your values in practice, these zombie settlers will come out looking for blood.

[CitizenJ]

10:44 AM on 06/05/2009

These guys keep saying things that just blow my mind.

[popart]

10:38 AM on 06/05/2009

George "W" was clearly "un" balanced......oh you mean his speeches...i thought you were talking about him in general terms...

[ImJustSaying007]

09:34 AM on 06/05/2009

He tells Israel that Palestine deserves a state....................... Tell Palestine to stop bombing Israel .......Ari's right.........That is balance.

[ImJustSaying007]

09:29 AM on 06/05/2009

Rest in .....................G....................O..........................Peace

[elimenez]

09:15 AM on 06/05/2009

Oh for the love of cake, next he will be saying his speech was too smooth, or too articulate. I'm surprised the quote didn't read something "that their Obama talking big words and is too comofusing."

[idisVA]

08:51 AM on 06/05/2009

This President cannot win for losing.. Now he his being accused of delivering a well-balanced speech.
The Republicans are looking more and more like the losers they are.

[MikeGhouse]

08:48 AM on 06/05/2009

Republicans are good hearted moderate individuals, who are letting the party's character reflected by the wrong people; the party bossess have no clue what peace or dialogue means, all the know is chaos and the perpetuation of it. They are a total disconnect with the public and the world at large who wants peace and justice.

I am a Muslim and I know what it means to be a Muslim when the terrorists acted out as if they represented my faith, and now as a Republican I know what it means to be a Republican when the extremists act as though they represented the Republican Party. I am not ashamed of being a Republican and a Muslim, I know the end of extremism is about to come when we lose more seats in the senate and the house. I am sure the majority of the Republicans will wake up and dump the extremists like the Palins, McCains, Romneys and their likes and I sure hope we have learned our lesson and dumped Bush, Cheney, Rove and the ones in that gang. We have to bring some sanity and gain the trust of the public again.

Republican party bosses make statements that should be comedy. Here is this joker Ari Fleischer... for the majority of Americans and perhaps the world wide audience.

Mike Ghouse

[confidance government]

07:36 AM on 06/05/2009

"too balanced" ??? WTF? That's what passes for criticism these days?

[toggan]

07:02 AM on 06/05/2009

The republicans are a joke. Really!!! This is truly funny...LOL... If you don't have anything nice to say...psssst: Be quiet. Obama's speech was excellent and Ari knows it.

[MajorKong]

06:38 AM on 06/05/2009

Maybe we could arrange for someone from professional wrestling to go over there and give the kind of macho chest-thumping speech Ari prefers.

[JayinPhoenix]

05:35 AM on 06/05/2009

Ari is suggesting that reaching out with respect to mainstream Muslims is the same as being "soft" on terror. The number of logical fallacies inherent in that idea just boggles the mind. With this speech, if anything Obama probably did more to really combat terrorism in the long run at its roots than any of our bombs or waterboarding has ever done.

[buddhistMonkey]

05:15 AM on 06/05/2009

((( Ari Fleischer: Obama's Cairo Speech "Too Balanced" )))

That statement alone is literally everything you need to know about Ari Fleischer, and the Bush Administration generally.

[moUSAnMe]

02:13 AM on 06/05/2009

bush co is a bunch of clueless b.u.t.t.s.