On Arab TV, Obama makes overture to Muslims

Your metaphors are horrible. What does blinking and making policy decisions have to do with one another?

Unless someone shaved off your eyelids, blinking is easy; being the leader of the free world is not. Get some perspective, pay attention in your Social Studies classes and please for the love intelligent thought make an educated response instead of a random one.

You don't have to agree with people, but please stop trying to use random logic to make points. For the sake of your own arguement.

and you stop talking nonsense about sense.

Agreed Times a billion (Brendan)...Jammer, Do you realize who were are talking about here??! A time frame??? The fact that there is discussion is a huge improvement....wanting a time frame on this is....not so smart a suggestion. You dont have to be a genius to know that much.

You can't put a time frame on anything and it actually help.

Not war. Not nations. Not anything. Known time frames tend to be anti-helpful than actually helpful.

So they are both stupid not one more than the other.

and stating he won't do much isn't necessary a guess as it is a fact. He'll paint pretty pictures with words and inspire a few people, but he won't change anything.

Their problems have been in existence for thousands of years and they have never been solved. No President of any country, including the United States, will change that.

And considering you can't add much to any discussion outside of being pissed off and an angry human being that you are not automatically agreed with....your opinion of anyone on this site is meaningless.

You just talked in a couple circles there. But let me say....there has already been changes....now whether you deem them significant or not?? Your deal, but there has been and will be some gradual changes. There is nothing wrong with inspiring people, that is what we need, people like to teach their children the American dream and ask them what they want to be when they grow up and really dont believe they can. If you want to be a sourpuss-y so be it..........

If you want to lower standards so that "change" happens, be my guest.

They couldn't get much lower than they've been.....but ok.

It's not ok when little things are mentioned as change. If you're going to belittle the term into being pointless then you might as well not use it at all.

WHAT???just because they're little they're not change?? little is not the same as belittle. if you're disagreeing just be disagreeing, how about you just don't disagree? Save your comment. How's that terminology?

It's pretty much pointless to argue with J_Jammer.

Not becuase he's right(Which 99.9% of the time he isn't), but because he often opposes majority opinion on this site for the sake of being arguementative.

He's one of those black/white abosolutionists that believe things are either one way or another with no grey area, and thinks he is never wrong. Which means, 1) He's a Sith, or 2) He's kind of an idiot.

And when was the last time you were wrong?

His "connections?" You mean his family?

I also find it funny how when the election was going on anyone who said anything about his muslim heritage in the press was quickly eliminated and called a racist. But now its all cool that he's been elected.

I'm not talking about you bloggers in current of course you would elect a transvestite penguin if it served the liberal agenda.

Really? Because he has Muslims in his family?? That doesn't make him Muslim and was totally irrelevant during the election. The reason it isn't/wasn't discussed as much is because of comments like this. I have Muslims in my ancestry but do I discuss it?? It doesn't matter! Not because mentioning would be considered racist! It has little to do with a liberal agenda.. This is a step. A good one. Diplomacy. Eat it up.

seriously, what would there be to elaborate about?

You can't recommend responses to posts, so I'll just that was a brilliant Brendan. Hit the nail right on the damn head.

He should have spoken out more on their behalf while running for President. Instead he denied, denied, denied, the extent he was connected to Muslims. He had several opportunities to discuss his family and his Muslim experience while running. I think he didn't want to stick up for them while running for fear of backlash. That shows a weak backbone.

Fucking bullshit, he didn't defend or even deny ANYTHING.

THE ISSUE WAS NEVER BROUGHT UP BY ANYONE EXCEPT RACIST PRICKS.

He doesn't have to justify HIS FUCKING FAMILY in a political campaign NOR DOES HE NEED TO EMPHASIZE THEM.

No political candidate has ever or should ever have to do that.

You're just floundering because you have to invent flaws that don't exist to make up for the fact that you don't have any earnest criticism of him.

Typical Republican shit.

It's pretty obvious why he downplayed his Muslim Connections and even denied how deep they were. Of course it would not have played very well in America right now. Politically it was very smart. But still a politicians backbone nonetheless.

i'm really not pro-war either, but we're not just bombing muslims over there. we're rooting out the fundamentalists who actually are wanting to cause harm to their own countries as well as ours. i wouldn't so severely doubt our military intelligence. unfortunately, sometimes civilians are killed, but we can't just let these few but powerful militants thrive once we leave, just so they can forcefully take over iraq and/or other vulnerable countries. i think that a lot more of their civilians would die in that case.

i dunno. i want us to leave, too, but if we're on the brink of destroying these terrorist organizations, then lets finish it so we don't have to return in 5 years.

edbr,

Sounds exactly like what Bush was trying to do.

We don't need to be meddling in anyone's business.

End the war end the humanitarian work. End military support of Afganistan and the millitants that exist in Pakistan will flood accross the border and that will mean an increased diversion of Pakistani forces from the border with Afganistan to its nuke equiped neighbor India. We have a responsibility to wage this war against a resurgent Taliban that is willing to splash acid across inocent women just for seeking out an education. Our mistake was in the application of force and power and the types of both we utelized. If we follow Obama's plan and double non military aid to both Pakistan and Afganistan over the next two years, engage in active diplomacy, end our policy of rendition and the way we aproach human intel for capturing enemy combatants, as we have seen with Guantanamo where warlords turned in teenagers for 3,000 dollars in reward money. Reversing all of these things and aproaching these problems with a more humane aproach can create a more lasting peace to 40 million people and ease tensions between two nations with weapons of mass destruction, India and Pakistan. That is a worthy effort. The sad part is it all could have been accoplished five years ago and without a corupt man like Hamid Karzai in charge.

For obvious reasons?

Please tell us? Why did the President of the US not talk about his Muslim connection when America was choosing our next President?

+5 points for Brendan for cool use informed intellect over uninformed accusations...

You're so nit-picky. You don't even care what he said, you care about where he said it. Shows where your head is at, which is up your rump.

Yeah he went straight to the problem and started dealing with it.

Typical short sided and ignorant point of view. You should read before hurling baseless accusations. Still, this is be expected with B.Ob in office.

Sorry if he didn't want to get a passport to Hannity's America. After eight years of relative disengagement and our global credibility shot while our banks and government are overleveredged to overseas interests its important to be diplomatic and to inspirse confidence as well as to signal a departure from the tactics that allowed us to reach that point.

Yeah, but what are you doing to the flys once you've got em?

Not meant to offend any one, just pointing out that this news was already there. I am Google before posting so I encourage others to do the same. That is after all a Current Staff recommendation.

http://current.com/items/89741274/seeing_double_how_to_avoid_clipping_duplicate_...

A civil response! Not an "I'm right; you're wrong; fornicate you" response, but civil. Being civil, it is, in fact, a key principle on which civil communities are built--in cyber space as well as meat-space. Good on ya!

Scarabus, Your words of wisdom continue to amaze me. Your calmness and rational are so refreshing. Current is a better place with people like you. Thank you for your civility.

Yeah even if the rest of the people in America haven't quite made that evolutionary leap.

We'll see what happens when it comes down to the nitty gritty of having to press the Israelis to dismantle the illegally occupied territories, settlements, and outposts... Media, esp. TV coverage of the Gaza war in the US was not very encouraging b/c extremely one-sided.

Exactly what I thought. I can never imagine George W Bush giving an interview with Arab media the same way that Obama did.

True, the problem with Bush is that although he may have wanted to speak to the Middle East, what he was telling them was not what they wanted to hear.

Bush's admin kept dictating what the US would do with unilateral action. Hopefully, we will see in a Obama a new age of cooperation and multilateralism.

Hear ye, hear ye. Thank you for stating the obvious. Good bye Old Stupid George, Hello Intelligence!

Right on unimatrix0.

It's nice to have to get used to again hearing a president talking in clear sentences and making sense at the same time.
I will revel in that for a little while before I'll have to become critical of US imperialism again...