I found this exchange between Mark Steyn and Hugh Hewitt interesting: (Go here for the whole interview.)
HH: …a lot of people have missed the Obama appeal to Arabiya, and the fact that he didn’t bring up its gender apartheid, Christopher Hitchens calls it. It’s where gays are executed. And he made no rebuke to these societies. I found it astonishing, Mark Steyn. What did you think?
MS: Well, you don’t have to be gay, an oppressed homosexual about to be executed. You don’t have to be a woman who’s being sold to an arranged child marriage. You just have to be a moderate, centrist Arab intellectual in, say, Cairo or Amman, and you listen to Obama sucking up to these creeps, and there’s nothing for you in it. What he’s doing is he says, he’s saying to hell with the Bush freedom agenda. We just want to get back to schmoozing the feted Arab dictatorships and the mullahs in Tehran all over again. And so if you’re a gay or a woman, you’re out of there. And as I said, if you’re a moderate Arab who just would like to have a free society in Cairo or Amman or wherever, you’re out of it, too. You’re on the Obama horizon. It was a pathetic, disgraceful Jimmy Carter speech.
HH: I agree with this, and he did it on the day that the Iranians arrested those horrible criminals in Tehran who allowed the women soccer players to play with the men soccer players.
MS: Right.
HH: And this is, I guess it’s beyond his understanding yet that everything he does has many audiences. You know, George Bush once told a bunch of us in the Oval Office that everything he did had many audiences. The number most important to him was the American military abroad.
MS: Right.
HH: …but that these audiences, you’ve got to think through that. I don’t think he actually gets that yet.
MS: No, I don’t. I think in fact, on that al-Arabiya interview, he just sounded basically way out of his league. And I hope someone brings him up to speed soon, because going around giving those interviews, as I said, he was talking about getting us back to thirty years ago. Well, thirty years ago, they were taking Americans hostage in Tehran. Thirty years ago, Jimmy Carter was communicating weakness to the world, and the Ayatollah rightly concluded these Americans are pushovers. And Obama shouldn’t be doing that message all over again.
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“And Obama shouldn’t be doing that message all over again.”
But that is the essence of Obama and his minions. Googly, giggly, weak-kneed little mutts who need to be loved by everyone because no one loved them first – including little boy Obama who was abandoned by his daddy and now seeks the approval of everyone. He’s a psychiatrist’s dream patient – and we will suffer for it like we did with Carter.
Dems keep trying the “I’m so massively intelligent, can’t u see how sincere we are?” ploy against sociopaths who don’t give a hang that Obama is black, or a community organizer.
How smart is that?
Yeah massively intelligent. You know what a Harvard Degree is? A nice piece of framed stationary. Thats all it is. And as far as Obama kissing the asses of every third world tin pot dictator animal what did we expect? Now Castro wants GITMO back. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Wake me when it’s 2012.
On TCT’s comment: and after 4 years of Carter redux, the Dems STILL won’t get it! One day, after Jimmuh is dead and gone, the Nobel idiots will give B. Hussein a peace prize for some stupid reason as well, and those Dems will feel vindicated.
Wankette,
“Wake me when it’s 2012.”
I second that.
Or at the very least 2010.
Wait, I’m confused, who should have Obama rebuked?
I third that. It’s gonna be a looooooong two years.
Who is Fred? And where has Father Ron gone?
“…long time passing…” And I don’t know who Obama should have rebuked or the context of Fred’s question.
And in other news…
[Fill-in-the-Liberal Name] and [Fill-in-the-Liberal Name]‘s Excellent Adventure
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/29/senates-gang-poised-strike-stimulus/
You gotta’ love this! Watching the train wreck that is Pelosi, Reid and Obama. And they thought they were gonna’ skate through the first hun’ed days.
Sorry for the bold. Forgot the “slash”.
Preview would be my friend (if there was a Preview).
Principle — thy name is Peter.
Fred:
And he made no rebuke to these societies.
al-Jazeera
Steyn comments on Obama’s “peace in our time” interview with al-Arabiya, ostensibly the kinder, gentler al-Jazeera. Obama offered the usual pedestrian platitudes (hope, change, hate-Bush, now-no-hate) but did not rebuke the “gender apartheid” (Christopher Hitchens) that is the meme of the very societies that is al-Arabiya’s audience.
Steyn believes it is worth noting that Obama did not rebuke the practice of executing gays that is employed/condoned by the al-Arabiya’s listeners.
Clearly, it’s Bush’s fault.