Seven Tips to Obama

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has met President Hamid Karzai while on a visit to Afghanistan. He will soon be heading to Iraq, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian territories. Here are seven recommendations that his team of 300 advisors might have missed:

1. Don' t keep insisting to the Arabs that you're not a Muslim...they already know that, and they don't care.

2. Don't be shy about using your middle name. You and King Abdullah of Jordan share the same one.

3. Avoid wearing local traditional garb. However sword dancing is okay since Bush has done that.

4. Kissing on the cheek is okay but not knuckle-bumping.

5. Don't ask them to recognize Israel's right to exist. It already exists!

6. Don't take sides between Fateh and Hamas...it will only cause you headaches.

7. Camels are not pets.

Jamal Dajani produces the Mosaic Intelligence Report on Link TV

Comments

[confuseddemocrat]

Another thing not to do: Please Barack don't visit the Pakistani-Iraqi border, John McCain says its far too dangerous

[newsjunkie5]

This is HILARIOUS!

Love Tip # 7...sooo true.

Funny piece Mr. Dajani.

[neesy08]

karzai sounds raher down to earth. It's not the Muslims who are giving him problems with it, however.

As for his name, mine is the reversal: I use the middle and disdain the first.

[PATina]

hahahahahahaha.... that was cute !!

[brighterside]

1 Don' t keep insisting to the Arabs that you're not a Muslim...they already know that, and they don't care.

It amazes me that some people will go through great lengths to convert Muslims into Christians these days.

Yet when a real Christian like O-bama says that his a Christian, they make it an effort to prove his a Muslim.

AMAZING!!

[hank48188]

I can recite some catholic prayers because i was once a catholic, Obama can recite Evening Muslim Prayers because he WAS ONCE A MUSLIM. His step-father was a muslim and he lived in a Muslim country. Now Obama is a apostate, rejecting the religion he was born to.

[leonardox1]

hank48188...you're trying to market old- tired- bigoted rumors. I bet your hero is Rush Limbaugh!

[brighterside]

Can you show me proof? What mosque does O-bama go to pray? And if he is a muslim what is he saying his a Christian? Certainly no muslim will admit they are Christian since that would automatically ban them from the muslim religion. If thats the case his Christian.

I find this weird that Christians want to convert the whole world to Christianity. Yet can't accept a man's word that his a Christian. What hypocrites.

By the way, the Muslim, Jewish and Christian God is the same God.

[jad114]

Hank: Get a life! Just accept it... the US is finally going to have its first person of color as president!

[marymansour]

Very tongue and cheek and to the point. Enjoyed the blog immensely.

[CamJam]

Jamal Dajani,

OHHH This article brought me a laugh today! Thank you! It's much needed my way.

You are not only helpful and informative (per many other articles and videos I've viewed) but you also have a wonderful sense of humor.

All the best your way Jamal
**waves from the Pacific NW**

[leonardox1]

Totally! Love tip # 7

[Liberoservative]

Humor or no humor..

I am just tired of everyone having an opinion of what O needs to do or NOT do......

Good grief peoples.. he is running for POTUS... and the USA is a big big nation with lots of different different ideologies, ethnicities, religions, prejudices..............................

You are trying to mold him into your perfect candidate by making be YOU!!!!

He can't be you.. he has to be us.... US!!! Us and in the USA.....

You either trust him or not to bring our country back to what it was meant to be... a nation of the people, by the people and for the people...

Have you seen and "for the people" in the last 20 years? Since Reagan introduced "trickle down econ" ???

No.. we have all lost our bearings... we have lost the soul of America for greed....

A nation that cares not for the poorest amongst them is a nation doomed for failure... it is the poor that make the nation great.. and the rich that reap the rewards....

When you fail to reward your poor, you will end up "eating cake"

[justice2008]

Wow...wow...just chill dude! Why are you so uptight. This is FUNNY...no need to get emotional!

[Gma11]

Fully agreed!!

[sowhatdemos]

Liberoservative:
No.. we have all lost our bearings... we have lost the soul of America for greed....

Yes, we have.
Dr. King said in 1967 in his "Beyond Vietnam" speech " a nation that year after year spends more on war and militarism than it does on the social uplift of its people is approaching spiritual death."
We haven't changed from that path in 40 years. The speech is still relevant today. It's in the archives, just type in Beyond Vietnam. It is one of his more powerful speeches and well worth a listen.

[brighterside]

I see you grief and anguish. Its been a long and tiring 8 years. We have lived through one of the most disgusting and humiliating president in American history. But fear not. Someone brings hope. His not the messiah. His not the second coming. His just someone who cares and makes a lot of sense. His a smart individual and has great vision for what our country can be. We all need a good leader and someone that we can all be proud of. He may not be perfect and we will disagree with him. But he brings hope, prosperity and opportunity. Something that was missing for the last 8 years.

[ann1]

Just seven huh!

[jad114]

This is humour! Perhaps you should send them to the editor of the New Yorker.

[justice2008]

Its nice to see some hilarity mixed in with the honest to goodness truth. Obama would be a fool to not take these points and pin them up in front of every desk he sits at during his campaign.

[MPeter]

Great suggestions. Everything is bang-on, except for the fist bump. It is about youthfulness and the fact that we are equal partners in this thing of ours. It is a sign of respect and recognition of a shared responsibility!!

[leonardox1]

Great advice! I'd like to add to it...why is he taking Dennis Ross with him. No one likes him in the Middle East.

[BillZBubb]

That's simple: It is because Ross is in the Israeli's hip pocket. Having him along reassures those who foolishly link Israel's national interest with our own.

[Jeffomil]

Another uninformed anti-semite heard from.