ZAKARIA: How Obama Sees the World

re: ZAKARIA: How Obama Sees the World

chuckhasker@yahoo.com — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:05:04 GMT

This was a very well thought out article even if Andrew did not write it. However Obama is still the new boy on the block. He talks a good game but he lacks substance from experience. He can give grand speaches and speak kindly of and mention names like Dean Acheson, George Kennan and Reinhold Niebuhr till the chicken cries, " the sky has fallen." Because words without deeds are just idealistic words. But I enjoyed your thoughts. Chuck Hasker

re: ZAKARIA: How Obama Sees the World

ApostasyUSA — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:52:21 GMT

Obama gets my vote, period.

MCain is a tool who has shown me he will protect the failed Republican policies of the last 8 years.

Any number of stories I've read describe in detail how cursory McCain's economic/energy policy is and that McCain will lie right to your face with no fear of retribution from the media.

McCain's Small-Business Bunk

He claims 23 million small-business owners would pay higher tax rates under Obama. He's wrong. The vast majority would see no change, and many would get a cut.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/146210

Will the Real Tax-and-Spender Please ’Fess Up?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/politics/13check.html

McCain's Power Outage

Contradictions and misstatements short-circuit McCain's energy policy pronouncements.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/142500

About those 300 McCain-loving economists?

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16138.html

John McCain has ramped up his fake-populist rhetoric recently, saying that helping the people who are struggling to pay their mortgages, fill their gas tanks, and put food on the table will be his "first priority in setting the economic policies of this nation." [johnmccain.com, accessed 4/17/08]

Yet at the same time, McCain has said that some of the problems families are facing are "psychological." In fact, according to McCain himself, his proposal to suspend the gas tax this summer--one of the main focal points of his new economic plan--is nothing more than "a little psychological boost." [CNN Debate, 1/30/08; Your World with Neil Cavuto, 4/16/08]

RUSSERT: The fact is you are different than George Bush.

SEN. McCAIN: No. No. The fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.

Here. Listen to McCain and decide for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c&NR=1

Do you think John McCain has a little problem with women?

John McCain made this odious joke about Chelsea Clinton back in 98.

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."

Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.

Or how about this gem from his 1986 race for US Senate, as quoted in the Tucson Citizen:

"Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?’"

I find rape jokes are always a sign of class, don’t you?

Personally.....I'm voting with the Democrats in Nov, but I have yet to find ONE reason that McCain would deserve my vote.

re: ZAKARIA: How Obama Sees the World

Gaias Child — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:00:37 GMT

This means a lot coming from Fareed Zakaria, whose work just aches for a global perspective, whose intelligence is stunning and whose thoughtfulness plenty deep. I support Obama for many of these reasons. And so glad to have Zakaria notice how Obama lets so many opportunities for clever comebacks and cheap shots go by. For a man who can confront when he needs to, Obama is clearly not interested in quarreling just to serve his ego. We have a chance at some exemplary leadership and I think we'll get it. This time. So many factors have converged to make it so.

re: ZAKARIA: How Obama Sees the World

javedanand — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:11:05 GMT

In this otherwise excellent piece by him, Fareed Zakaria, himself a Muslim, contributes to the defamation of Islam and its over billion followers by his thoughtless use of the term "Islamic extremism". That there exist Muslims -- Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda included -- who kill innocent people in the name of Islam is a fact that none can deny. To refer to "Muslim extremists", extremists among Muslims" is one thing. But to talk of "Islamic extremism" is as false and defamatory as it would be to talk of "Chrstian extremism", "Jewish extremism", "Hindu extremism" etc. This is particularly questionable considering that post 9/11 there have been fatwas against terrorism issued individually and collectively by Muftis (Muslim religious readers qualified to issue a fatwa, meaning opinion) in the US, UK, Spain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India, to name a few. In the last week of May, the Darul-uloom Deoband, India considered by many to be the second most important centre of Islamic learning in the word after Al Azhar, Cairo, issued a fatwa against terrorism. The fatwa was signed by the Grand Mufti of Deoband and ratified by three other Muftis, simply to put an institutional stamp on it. Moreover, in an unprecedented, historic move, the Jamiatul-ulema-e-Hind, that claims 10 million Muslim clerics as its membership base, assmebled 500,000 Muslims in New Delhi, India's capital, to take an "Oath of Allegiance" to Deoband's fatwa and to commit themselves to fighting terrorism in all its forms. ("In Islam, creating social discord or disorder, breach of peace, rioting, bloodshed, pillage or plunder and killing of innocent persons ANYWHERE in the world are ALL considered most inhuman crimes", the fatwa read. It added that the Quran strictly forbids acts of terrorism even as a self-defence tactic).

I view of the above, it is factually incorrect and unfair to talk about "islamic extremism" or "islamic terrorism". The mass media in general and infulential commentators such as Fareed Zakaria should be more circumspect in their use of words.

Javed Anand, general secretary, Muslims for Secular Democracy, India

re: ZAKARIA: How Obama Sees the World

doktor — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:48:43 GMT

I would suggesting to scan these essays..

22 Jul 2008 - Historical Changes In False Flag TerrorismThe old phase was centered on exerting social and political control through mass fear of bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Islamofascism, and Islamic fundamentalism in ...

rense.com/general82/ff.htm

23 Jul 2008 - Massive Brzezinski Control Of ObamaBrzezinski's grandiose schemes of world transformation caused a renewal of the Cold War and gave birth to Al-Qaeda, and without Soviet restraint the results ...

www.rense.com/general82/dedfy.htm

22 Jul 2008 - What To Do? What To Do?Another factor is that Zbigniew Brzezinski has his "entire professional reputation" on the line since he both invented Al Qaeda and authored the lunatic ...

rense.com/general82/whattodo.htm

27 Jul 2008 - The Grand Chessboard:About Oil & Natural Gas... lode of oil and natural gas if they created Al Qaeda to destabilize those Islamic areas (except for Christian Georgia) and turn them against Russia. ...

www.rense.com/general82/grand.htm

25 Jul 2008 - Roberts - Facing The Facts About Israel... by the American military as part of the Bush Regime's propaganda onslaught to convince Americans that Iraq was overflowing with al Qaeda terrorists. ...

www.rense.com/general82/fcts.htm

25 Jul 2008 - 'F' For America - No Strategic Vision, No Strategic Plancreate Al Qaeda; 2.) plan The Grand Chessboard, aka: fraudulent Global War on Terror; and 3.) lie and scheme to take over trillions of dollars in oil and ...