Expert economist and seasoned diplomat* Jon Voight isn't the only one on to the "fellow who's bringing us to chaos and socialism." All you have to do is look at Obama's trip to the Middle East to see his darker, more Muslimer, elitister, and inexperienceder side.
*Voight's experience includes having a head on his shoulders and an occasional thought. As he explained to fellow intellectual Bill O'Reilly, "I have a, you know, a head on my shoulders, and I can think of a few things."
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Obama Says Change Is Possible In Iran
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Iran's "robust debate" leading up to Friday's presidential elections is evidence that change is possible, and expressed optimism that...
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Obama Writes Note For Fourth Grader Playing Hooky To Attend Town Hall
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Ten-year-old Kennedy Corpus has a rock-solid excuse for missing the last day of school: a personal note to her teacher from...
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VIDEO: Obama's Middle East Trip Highlights
Scroll down for the latest video of Obama's Middle East trip... Reaction to Obama's speech: From Israel to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama's highly anticipated speech...
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Hamas Leader Reviews Obama Speech
About an hour after Barack Obama's excellent Cairo speech, I met with Khaled Meshal, the leader of Hamas, at his office here to talk about...
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Arabs Greet Obama With Mix Of Hope, Skepticism (SLIDESHOW)
A driving question behind much of the anticipation for President Obama's Middle East trip is: how will he be received by the people? Naturally, the...
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Obama In Cairo: Mission To 'Reshape US Image'
U.S. President Barack Obama's Cairo speech will give another push to the image of the United States, which has improved relatively in the whole world...
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Stephen Zunes: How Not to Support Democracy in the Middle East
Obama was apparently unwilling to take advantage of his highly publicized visits with the leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia to break with his predecessors' coddling of these tyrannical regimes.
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Murray Fromson: Tough Love for Israel
Obama told the leaders of Hamas that they must recognize Israel's legitimacy as a precondition for peace. That's tough medicine for the Palestinians to swallow and even tougher for Netanyahu to believe.
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Mark Levine: The Student of History Needs to Go to Summer School
For all its well-intentioned rhetoric, President Obama's speech was, sadly, conceptually flawed, empirically challenged, and politically blind to the daily realities that drive hundreds of millions of Muslims to increasing despair.
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Lorelei Kelly: Our President in Cairo: Muslims Listened. Did America?
We need to step back, take a deep breath and realize that we are at a turning point -- where all of our middle east relationships converge.
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Daoud Kuttab: Obama is First US President in Office who Speaks of the Suffering of Palestinian Christians
In Cairo, Barack Obama spoke of the suffering of a religious group rarely mentioned in the mainstream media: Palestine's Christians.
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Andrew Belonsky: Obama, Cairo and Institutionalizing Change
Egypt's government has worked at suppressing political opposition, employed torturous interrogation tactics and has a less-than-favorable human rights record.
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Dean Obeidallah: The View of Obama from the Heart of the Arab (Comedy) World
If someone threw a shoe, I have no doubt that Obama would have dodged it in a graceful slow-motion style like Neo from The Matrix and he wouldn't have even missed a word from his speech while doing it.
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Robert Guttman: Obama's Trip: Middle East 1: Europe 0
President Barack Obama has made it perfectly clear that the centerpiece of his current trip to the Middle East and Europe is his speech tomorrow in Cairo.
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Robert Naiman: In Cairo, Obama Can Score With Changed U.S. Policies Towards Palestine and Iran
If Obama stands firm on his policy differences with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, he can win tremendous goodwill for the U.S. in the Arab and Muslim world.
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Mirette F. Mabrouk: Obama Faces Almost Impossible Task: How to Please Everyone, All the Time
When Obama takes the podium at Cairo University, he's going to need to convince his listeners that he knows what they want -- they just need to give him a little time to deliver.
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Robert Naiman: What President Obama Promised in Cairo
U.S. policy in the broader Middle East over the next four years will be judged in the region according to whether the pledges that President Obama made in Cairo today are kept.
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Patrick Barry: Five Conservative Fallacies on Post-Election Iran
From what I can tell, there are five strains of conservative arguments on Iran - none of them coming close to being credible.
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Annelle Sheline: Egyptians' Excitement for Obama's Speech Conceals Mistrust
While some American pundits anticipate this address to the Muslim world as the symbolic 'book-end' to Bush's 'Axis of Evil' speech, Egyptians remain skeptical.
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Sanjeev Bery: Israeli Media Reads the Fine Print
In the hours after Obama concluded his speech, Israeli commentators were particularly struck by his implicit linkage of Palestinian aspirations and other global struggles for freedom.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The iPod and the Queen, the Kindle and the King
Promotion of literacy for girls is a noble cause. But unless sharia laws are repealed, more girls will find themselves in flogging pens rather than rising up the career ladder.
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Simon Rosenberg: Obama: No Realist He
Our president, as chief global advocate of free and open societies, cannot sit on the sidelines as people attempt to throw off the shackles of old and anti-democratic regimes.
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William Bradley: Repositioning America: Obama's Cairo Speech as the Ultimate in Event Marketing
Not only did no one throw shoes at Obama, the crowd of 3,000 in Cairo gave him a standing ovation. Watching the speech, I had the feeling that the world might be changing again.
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Deepak Chopra: Obama's Call to the Faithful
As civilized as it was for Obama to extend a hand to the faithful, Muslims cannot have it both ways. They can't demand respect while using religion as a reactionary force.
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Ray Hanania: An Analysis of Obama's Precedent-Setting Speech
Obama is stating what many of his predecessors stated but with more substance and a clear understanding of the fundamentals of the Arab and Muslim World.
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Andrew Marantz: Out of Arabia: Obama Speaks, India's Muslims Listen
Indeed, every Muslim I talked to, no matter how admiring of Obama, uttered some variation on the same meme: actions speak louder than words.
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Frankie Martin: Obama and the Dialogue of Civilizations
One of the questions we asked was "what is the greatest threat to the Muslim world?" In each country, the most common answer was: "American negative perceptions of Islam.
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Omid Memarian: Obama Egypt Speech: Venue Choice Draws Fire
Egypt has the least favorable approval rating compared to other Arab countries in the Middle East, which begs the question: is Egypt the right place to address the Muslim World?
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Carlos Watson: The Jerry Maguire Approach to Foreign Policy
To curb the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea, to stimulate a viable Israel-Palestine solution, he's going to have to pay. I'm talking cold hard cash.
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Annelle Sheline: Cairo's Reaction to Obama's Speech
I couldn't believe how positive everyone's reaction seemed.
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Russell Simmons: Winning The War On Terror
I was brought to tears by the president's simple, but truthful approach to building a bridge with the Muslim world.
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Omid Memarian: What Should President Obama Tell the Muslim World in Cairo?
What should the President say, and do, in Cairo to make the best of his trip?
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Shirin Sadeghi: View From Cairo: What About the People, Obama?
Obama's inevitable message to the Muslim world: the U.S. will look the other way at your governments' repressive policies because a working relationship with them is more important than peoples' rights.
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Kamran Pasha: Why Obama's Speech in Cairo Matters -- and Why it Doesn't
America will not advance our economic, educational and political stature. That is something only Muslims can and must do.
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Wajahat Ali: Meet the Muslims: Obama in Cairo
Obama's speech, which was meticulously and strategically crafted as if penned by a chess master, had to simultaneously appease millions humiliated and dejected by a hypocritical and brutal U.S. foreign policy, and also justify U.S. objectives without appearing imperialistic or apologetic.
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Faisal J. Abbas: Obama's Speech... A 'New Beginning' Indeed!
The president seemed to know every little detail in the 'What Upsets Arabs' booklet and tackled them one by one.
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Sean Gilfillan: President Obama's Speech: Classic Lesson in Counterinsurgency
If you don't think that President Obama's speech today was a classic lesson in counterinsurgency, then you are not looking at the big picture.
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Alexander Kronemer: Obama's Cairo Speech: It's a Rorschach Test, But It Doesn't Have to Be
The diverse reactions to Obama's speech in Cairo will have little to do with what he actually says. What the "Muslim World" wants and thinks remains a mystery to most people, including many Muslims who live in it.
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Mohamed Elshahed: Egyptian Commentator: "We Should Not Be Talking Directly To Our Enemies"
Viewers unanimously came to the defense of the American President and called the columnist things that ranged from "ignorant" to "victim who is afraid of help when it comes."
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Peter Daou: Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama's Cairo Speech
I know many will gush over President Obama's Cairo speech and I'm likely swimming against the tide of the media and my fellow Democrats and progressives.
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