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President Obama and Islam

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I just saw the movie “2016 Obama’s America,” and there are references to actions Mr. Obama has taken to make people wonder how close he is to the Muslim religion. Snopes says Mr. Obama said during his Presidential campaign “…it is just wonderful to be back in Oregon, and over the last 15 months we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in fifty….seven states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii…”  Mr. Obama and his staff explained that he was tired and “It’s a sign that my numeracy is getting a little, uh…” His defenders note the long pause between “fifty” and “seven.” Skeptics note that there are 57 member states of the Islamic Conference.

Mark Steyn notes in his book “After America:  Get ready for Armageddon,” that the NASA administrator Charles Bolden said in a conversation with Al Jazeera on June 30, 2010 that President Obama had given him some priorities. “One was he wanted me to re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with the dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science and math and engineering.”

I watched the entire video, which is over twenty-one minutes long, and Mr. Bolden articulately described much about what President Obama had done to change NASA. The curious comments about the priorities (mentioned in the movie “2016”) President Obama gave him came just after the one minute mark on the video. Mr. Bolden also mentions that the Al Jazeera appearance had been scheduled to commemorate the one year anniversary of the policy speech President Obama had given in Egypt.

Toby Harnden points out in an article in The Telegraph dated June 3, 2009 there were other curious comment made by President Obama during his Mideast visit to Riyadh and Cairo in 2009. Obama had resisted even using his middle name when he was a candidate for President After his election he said he wanted to “…create a better dialogue so that the Muslim world understands more effectively how the United States but also how the West thinks about many of these difficult issues like terrorism, like democracy…what’s happened in Iraq and Afghanistan and our outreach to Iran…” He also said, “And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Debbie Schussel provided an update that a reputable survey puts the number of Muslims in the U.S at 1.8 million, which means there are 47 countries with more Muslims Indonesia has more than a hundred times more Muslims than the U.S.

Just another curious set of information about a man the media seems unwilling to vet.

Obama’s Challenge, America’s Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative President

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The most remarkable aspect of the book by Robert Kutner (available new from Amazon for $1.96 at the link), and to the credit of the author, is that it was published well before the 2008 election. It was written with certainty that Mr. Obama was going to win. I agreed with that prediction, but wouldn’t have written a book depending on that outcome. The author writes of his admiration of Presidents Lincoln, FDR, and Johnson, and discusses how Mr. Obama could also become a transformative president. The roadmap presented is to solve the economic crisis by overcoming deregulation and reckless use of military power. I appreciated that he didn’t take the simple approach of blaming Bush for everything. In fact he writes, “Three decades of economic negligence by…elites…weakened the United States…” He even blames Clinton, saying that the economy thrived on his watch “…though some of the prosperity was built on unsustainable bubbles.”

The author presents his ideas of using Progressive approaches to governing, believing that regulation and government involvement results in a stronger economy. He also advocates that all workers should be unionized. I didn’t agree with any of that, but I do agree his assessment that senior citizens are reaping the benefits from Social Security and Medicare (apparently not considered Progressive government programs) at the detriment of the young and middle-aged. I was surprised that the book counseled Mr. Obama to go slow on implementing universal health care, and that he should put his early energies into the economy. Mr. Obama apparently did not read the book. Continue reading →