Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Chairman of the Young Arab Leaders in the UAE On Obama

Very Blunt here. Yip of the hat to Inside Catholic Blog .Here is just a part:

The Democratic Party contender’s promises appear to swing from one end of the spectrum to the other depending on the audience he is addressing. He had previously referred to the Cuban embargo as an utter failure and promised to end it; yet when he spoke last year to a Cuban-American audience he promised to maintain it because it is “an important inducement for change”.
The same has also occurred with regards to other issues such as immigration and the decriminalisation of marijuana. However, in the emotional Middle East, it was only when we heard him promise to keep Jerusalem united as capital of the state of Israel forever that we began to realise that he is not greater than the sum of his parts.Mr Obama later spoke on CNN and backtracked on his unified Jerusalem comments as he once again adjusted his rhetoric to suit the audience he is targeting. Jewish voters have come to realise this about Mr Obama and that is one of the main reasons they are justifiably wary of voting for him.
We in the Middle East when conducting our endless Bush rants concerning the Iraq war fiasco conveniently neglect to mention that this is the first American President to visit a mosque – and just after the 9-11 attacks – as well as to reassure Americans, both Muslim and non-Muslim, about Islam.He is the first President to utter the words “Palestinian state” (said during the height of the second intifada) rather than dance around the phrase for eight years like another sweet-talking Democrat did even though he was in power during the most peaceful of times in the Palestinian territories for decades.
Whatever we say of Mr Bush, being a flip-flop ain’t one of them.

No comments: