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June 3, 2009
Obama Travels

Today Obama visits Saudi Arabia, the biggest financier of breeding nests for radical Islamist, the world wide Wahhabi madrases network. He will beg for a few friendly Arab gestures towards Israel but none will be given as Israel is not willing to pay anything for those.

Tomorrow he will meet one of the most corrupt and vile dictators of this world, the 'president' of Egypt. He will shake the hands with Mubarak's son, endorsing him as Egypt's next dictator. To the Arab and Islamic world he will give a speech in beautiful rhetoric, with perfect diction and filled with promises he has neither the intend nor the means to keep.

After that Obama will travel to France to meet the hyperactive egomaniac boy Sarkozy. The visit to the invasion front shall remind the French that they shall forever be thankful to the U.S. and to do what it tells them to do.

A day later he will arrive in Germany to kiss the former communist youth activist turned Hayek acolyte Merkel.  His visit in Buchenwald shall remind the Germans of their eternal disgrace and duty of submission. The visit to Dresden of what again might happen should they ever forget that.

Besides that these photo-ops were timely planed to prop up Merkel's and Sarkosy's conservative parties a few days before the European parliament election. 

The U.S. media will closely follow the trip, express awe and declare it an overwhelming success. Obama will come home with renewed standing. This will give him the power to enact a health care reform that will turn out to bring additional profits to insurers and commercial health providers while still leaving many uninsured.

To enact 'entitlement reform', i.e. the social security screw, another big international trip will be needed. Suggestion of appropriate destination are welcome.

Posted by b on June 3, 2009 at 16:49 UTC | Permalink
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Reading your comments about the Saudi funding of terrorism, I was wondering if this is as true as ever? I am impressed with the Saudi’s camps/program to redeem terrorists with progressive Islam.
I really think this is an important program, we must appeal to the better angels and stories and make cases against the most repugnant interpretations of faith, mores, whatever. We need to appeal to that which is within each culture that endorses the Golden Rule.
Back to the point, is Saudi money or even are Saudi charities funding these, or perhaps have these “terrorists” metastasized into something that may now be getting funding from surprising sources, be it Iran, Russia, China or the Canadians?

Posted by: scott | Jun 3 2009 17:11 utc | 1

@scott – to redeem terrorists with progressive Islam
Uh – the Saudi ‘reprogramming’ effort has nothing to do with progressive Islam. It is still Wahhabism that gets indoctrinated into those. A women driving a car will still be abhorred.
Back to the point, is Saudi money or even are Saudi charities funding these, or perhaps have these “terrorists” metastasized into something that may now be getting funding from surprising sources, be it Iran, Russia, China or the Canadians?
Iran, Russia, China or the Canadians funding Wahhabi schools in the tribal areas in Pakistan or Wahhabi mosques in London?

Posted by: b | Jun 3 2009 18:02 utc | 2

I doubt that the Saudis (at least the ruling family) is spending money on ‘bad’ islamists. But they for sure spend a lot of money on ‘good’ islamists for example sunni fanatics in Lebanon to counter Hezbollah. Same applies on Iraq against the shiite government. Not sure about Pakistan. Some of the ‘talibans’ or whatever in some pakistani regions (Balochistan for example) seem to be actually supported by India, Israel … and/or the US.
Problem may be that for those ‘good’ islamists the distinction may not be so clear and money has that propierty of reaching ‘interesting’ places.
The only thing progressive about the ruling Saudi scheme Islam is how much it progresses to the most radical fundamentalism … as long at it complies with the ruling family desires. Whatever you are talking about can only be reeducation camps for enemies of the ruling family, or vacation camps for ex CIA and ex Saudi agents now retired from fighting the russians, perhaps just waiting to be reassigned to the fight against the shiite unbelievers.

Posted by: ThePaper | Jun 3 2009 18:10 utc | 3

On Obama’s visit to Saudi, you know it’s highly probable that some of Obama’s relatives were black slaves in Saudi Arabia or the Gulf. There are many of these black slaves left, freed formally now I suppose. I gave a lecture to the Amir’s harem in Abu Dhabi last year, and many of the servants were still blacks. All those black slaves came from East Africa, mainly Kenya and Tanzania.
In Iraq they were still called Zanj, from Zanzibar.

Posted by: alex_no | Jun 3 2009 18:39 utc | 4

As much as I hate to say this, Obama is still better than the alternative.
…which is why I have have high hopes that the US goes the way of (former) “Great” Britain, and soon!

Posted by: D. Mathews | Jun 3 2009 19:40 utc | 5

He should visit Asad Khyl rather than bomb it.

Posted by: Obamageddon | Jun 3 2009 19:57 utc | 6

He’s baaaaack! Osama on Obama

Message on Obama Attributed to Bin Laden
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
Published: June 3, 2009
CAIRO — Just as President Obama arrived in the Middle East, the Al Jazeera television news broadcast an audiotape on Wednesday that it said was Osama bin Laden condemning Mr. Obama for planting new seeds of “hatred and vengeance toward Americans.”
The message focused on President Obama’s decision to step up pressure on extremists in Pakistan. The speaker specifically blamed the president for the Pakistani military’s drive to retake an area in the Swat Valley that had recently come under the control of Taliban forces. He blamed Mr. Obama for the “one million Muslims” who have had to flee their homes because of the fighting. United Nations and Pakistani officials estimate that as many as three million people have been displaced by the conflict.
“Obama has followed the footsteps of his predecessor in increasing animosity towards Muslims and increasing enemy fighters and establishing long-term wars,” the recording said. “So the American people should get ready to reap the fruits of what the leaders of the White House have planted throughout the coming years and decades.”
The recording, if verified, is a signal that Mr. bin Laden, the fugitive leader of Al Qaeda, remains alive and in touch with current events, and that he retains effective channels of communication with the outside world. The message was released one day after Mr. bin Laden’s lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, issued his own audiotape condemning the president.

So, I ask again, does Obamma really maintain the Captains seat, or does the intelligence agencies run this country?
In other words, do the manipulating murderous spooks run America or shadow figures?

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jun 3 2009 20:22 utc | 7

Yes, I was being flippant… ;-p

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jun 3 2009 20:24 utc | 8

Excuse me, but can you possibly refrain from speaking of France in such a rude fashion. Thank you.

Posted by: James | Jun 3 2009 23:27 utc | 9

What part of B’s post was rude toward France? All I can see is that he seems to think France deserves better – something I would clearly agree with.

Posted by: CluelessJoe | Jun 4 2009 0:11 utc | 10

The Paper 3) Don’t be so linear in your thinking. Successful corporate capitalism requires almost a psychotic schizophrenia.
Remember this one factoid: The Saudis cannot pump oil any faster, it’s declining.
All they can do is sell heavy or sour crude to the few US refiners who are set up to refine that goo. The latest inventories show those refiners have shut down their heavy oil process lines. The only oil income Saudis are getting right now is light sweet crude, and the only way they can expand their profit is to *back terrorism*.
Price of crude falling to $12? Run Exxon Valdez onto the rocks. Price of crude falling to $15? Coax Saddam to invade Kuwait, “the US has no position on internecine rivalries”. Price of crude falling to $18? Fly a plane of Saudi terrorists into WTC. Price of crude crashing back to $15? “Start a small war.”
It’s ALWAYS about the money. ALWAYS. You ‘hedge’ both sides of the bet, by backing the Wahhabi terrorists, if you’re the Saudi emir. That way Defense kisses your ass.
A Saudi Emir cries,
When you drive 55.
Or as boingboing.net put it:
You lopped off my arms!
Thanks, now I can squeeze through your
Windows at night. Yum!
— Vekuum
Gray rain falling down
Neighbors becoming Zombies
in cold October.
— billstewart
Brains are like candy,
sweet grey matter slips through lips,
My arm just fell off.
— slida
The radio told
me that I would be safe here
Crowded Stadium
— apocalypticbeef
Budget for plastic
guns, pasta guts, Wilhelm scream,
is budget enough.
— bookninja
crunching through his brain
I realized I no longer cared
whether he loved me
— victriviaqueen
Within the coffin
the cry came from a dead man
reanimated
— BCJ
Groaning getting loud
Barricades won’t hold for long
Nice knowing you all
— necorium

Posted by: Shes Alive | Jun 4 2009 0:16 utc | 11

Obama should visit Japan and South Korea, to make some grandiloquent speech about how North Korea is an international menace that the “international community” (meaning the US mainly) has to do something about and mess things up more–even if it has no stake in it–and knuckle under the countries that actually do have a stake in keeping things peaceful (North Korea’s immediate neighbors)…
This is exactly what Obama is doing on this trip, no?

Posted by: kao_hsien_chih | Jun 4 2009 2:31 utc | 12

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