You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Contrast this Obama quote - that never did get real coverage before the election:

(In a rare slip, he told The Associated Press: “I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me.”)

...with what does seem to interest him besides spending trillions of government dollars. Forget that he already ducked the NY Times, or that his first interview should have been domestic simply as a formality given the times we are in, I could accept this if I felt he was going to tell the Middle-east to get its act together. But something tells me he'll be apologizing for America's "mistakes" if it becomes relevant and trying to start a chorus of Kumbaya.

It may play well with moderate Muslims. But they aren't our problem and American goodwill and dollars aren't going to change that. The extremists will play rope-a-dope with him if they do much of anything different at all. I guess Obama actually reads and believes The Washington Post.

As special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell heads off to the region to begin work on negotiating a cease fire between Israel and the Palestinians, President Obama has sat for his first formal TV interview with the Arabic cable TV network Al-Arabiya, ABC News has learned.

Comments

[Marie LeVeau]

There is NOT going to be any damn peace treaty.

[Todd]

So, that's the stuff that you can't make up? That Obama is doing an interview on Arab TV, to try to capitalize on the brief window of good will towards the U.S. in that region of the world as a result of his election? I'm shocked, shocked. Not like there's anything going on over there in the Middle East that we should be concerned about - like 2 wars, yet another very recent Israeli-Palestinian conflagration, not to mention an unstable nuclear-powered Pakistan.

So, his first interview isn't about domestic issues. Get over it. Not like he's ignoring the financial crisis. It must be pretty overwhelming trying to deal with all the crises Obama's inherited from the Bush Administration.

[Lala]

Paying homage to the brethren.

[mark l.]

It will be an unmitigated disaster...

The 'perfect interview' would have to straddle appearring reasonable to the middle east while appearring reasonable to the 'average' US citizen. I don't think such a middle ground exists.

Possible motive?

Al-Arabiya is owned by UAE finaical interests. With the Chinese reluctance to buy US debt, he has to suck up to the ME financial players, who own the media, and will make money off the interview.

wonder what kind of a 'filter' has been built to prevent a slip of the tongue, one way or the other. I have a funny feeling that Obama thinks he will get a hero's welcome if he gives them a little Arab lingo...

1st question:

You have, in the first week of your presdiency, bombed 'targets' in Pakistan and Afghnaistan, resulting in the deaths of civilians. Does this mean that you also condone the Israeli bombings of Palestinian civilians?

[WBestPresidentEver]

It must be pretty overwhelming trying to deal with all the crises Obama's inherited from the Bush Administration.
Posted by: Todd | Monday, January 26, 2009 at 09:01 PM
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Get a real life Todd. You are the one that needs to get over it and STOP THE DAMN BUSH BASHING YOU LIAR CREEP SCUMBAG IDIOT.

[mark l.]

"It must be pretty overwhelming trying to deal with all the crises Obama's inherited from the Bush Administration..."

when you have never been a leader before, have less than 4 years experience in the senate, have no executive experience, and have never run a business. My favorite talking point from his run, was that surely he had executive experience, 'since he ran his campaign'. Kinda diminshes the credit that is due to axelrod and plouffe...

[Lala]

1st official act - close Gitmo
1st call to a foreign leader - Abbas
1st formal TV interview - Arab TV
Eric Holder's law firm represents 17 Yemeni detainees
White House counsel Greg Craig represented John Hinckley, Cuban father of Elian Gonzalez, Kofi Annan - oil for food, Pedro Pinzon wanted for murder of US soldier, Bill Clinton - impeachment

[Dennis D]

What has gone under the bridge is the Obama Violation of International Law by attacking Pakistan with hellfire missiles from a predator drone. Don't get me wrong. I am a conservative and support protecting American life without running to the UN for approval but the left bashed President Bush for this. According the International Law you may not attack another nation unless there is imminent threat or the UN approves such action. There are no other circumtances. Pakistan never attacked the USA nor is there any imminent threat. Will the REAL liberals now stand up?

[Lala]

And things keep getting worse here at home - btw Pelosi may drop her condom plan

Monday, January 26, 2009
The Obama Market
Has anyone else noticed a curious correspondence? The date that Barack Hussein Obama clinched the Democrat party nomination for president (June 3, 2008), the stock market (S&P 500) was at about 1400. It is now at about 840, a horrifying 40% decline which has wiped out the retirement plans of a generation.

chart is at -

http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-market.html

[Lala]

1000 weapons a day being manufactured in the boondocks of Pakistan -
watch this film

http://www.vbs.tv/full_screen.php?s=DGFE2305DC&sc=1363196

[mark l.]

i wish I could tie him in with the dow, but I'm thinking it is back above 10k by years end. Blaming barry now, means I would have to give him his due in about 9 months.

The recent drop is 20% on bad jobs reports and earnings, and about 80% on the 4q 08 gdp. -5.5%, projected. It will be a bad day(and week) when it becomes official. The good news is that this is the sharpest decline we will see, with 1q09 falling between -2 to 4%, and 2q09 in the -1to2% range. We should hit positive between 3q and 4q 09.

The market tends to rally at the bottom of the recession, just as it leads us in, it leads us out.

other factors are going to play into the market...
the EU is at best 9months, but up to two years, behind where we are. For a good 9 months Us equities will be the only thing going, with an appreciating dollar to boot. I think obama is sitting on a tremendous run for the market and there is little even he could do, to stop it.

[Lala]

This is good - Illinois is not getting any stimulus money until they get rid of Blago -

Jonathan Adler, January 26, 2009 at 12:28pm] Trackbacks
No Stimulus for Blago:

The current text of the House stimulus bill includes the following interesting provision:

None of the funds provided by this Act may be made available to the State of Illinois, or any agency of the State, unless (1) the use of such funds by the State is approved in legislation enacted by the State after the date of the enactment of this Act, or (2) Rod R. Blagojevich no longer holds the office of Governor of the State of Illinois. The preceding sentence shall not apply to any funds provided directly to a unit of local government (1) by a Federal department or agency, or (2) by an established formula from the State.

http://volokh.com/posts/1232990884.shtml

[WBestPresidentEver]

CHANGE: Yes We Can!
Next in the line of succession of the globalist New World Order takeover came to Americans as a so-called agent of change. Barack Obama was elected in a historic landslide victory promising change. However, like Clinton and Bush before him, he is only a puppet for the same Socialist New World Order, bought and paid for by the same international banksters that have controlled and looted America since at least the early 1900’s, and the change he will bring to America is the next stage of their globalist one-world government agenda.

I suspect the next stage will be somehow related to our money. Given the looting of the American economy in recent months and years by the corporate banks along with Obama’s favorable Socialist view of transferring wealth, he will most likely be at the forefront of change in our banking system transferring more power and money to the International banksters and moneychangers. Hyper inflation, complete destruction of the dollar, and the introduction of a global currency are certainly all within the realm of possibility.

When it comes to civil liberties, freedom, and the Constitution, Barack Obama will not bring much change… but more of the same erosion of personal liberty, invasion of privacy, and dismantling of the Constitution begun by his predecessors. Hate crimes and other Orwellian thought crime will likely be high on his agenda as will be the suppression of dissent of those who oppose the New World Order agenda.
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Brown: Economic Crisis Represents Birth Pangs Of “New Global Order”
British Prime Minister repeats mantra to exploit financial meltdown in pursuit of centralization of power

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, January 26, 2009

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will today call for the economic crisis to be used to create a “new global order,” and a new form of internationalism, a mantra that is becoming all too familiar as globalists exploit the very problem they created to centralize power into fewer hands.

“In a speech, he will urge countries to avoid “muddling through as pessimists” and “make the necessary adjustment to a better future and setting the new rules for this new global order”, according to his office,” reports AFP.

Brown will argue against the risk that the crisis could “start a retreat from globalisation” and instead will urge that it be seen as nothing more than “difficult birth-pangs of a new global order”.

Bilderberg member Brown has previously called for a “a new financial architecture for the global age”, stating that the Bretton Woods system devised after the second world war was out of touch with the new world order.

Brown’s call for a new global order is one of countless similar statements he and many other top globalists have made in the past. The “solution” being proposed to fix the problem is merely a greater dose of what caused the catastrophe in the first place.

They created the problem of wildly irresponsible fractional reserve banking, the debt bubble and the credit crunch by ceaselessly inflating the money supply and promoting the debt culture. Now they are going to offer their solution to the crisis - the further centralization of global economic power into fewer hands.

Appointing the former CEO of Goldman Sachs to oversee the bailout and ensure the bankers divvy up the spoils of the greatest stick-up heist in history amongst themselves was not enough for these fascists - they want to go full board and exploit the crisis they caused to advance the stuttering agenda for world government that has been in the works for the best part of 100 years at least.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/brown-economic-crisis-represents-birth-pangs-of-new-global-order.html

Bankers Want World Economic Government To Solve Financial Crisis They Created
Brown: Use This Crisis To Create New Financial World Order
Baron David de Rothschild: Economic Crisis Will Bring New World Order, Global Governance
Gordon Brown calls for new world order to beat recession
Key Terms Agreed On Global Crisis
European Leaders Call For New Global Order
Calls For New Global Financial Order Increase
Obama urged to shape new economic order
G20 To Begin Implementation Of Global Financial Dictatorship
Global financial rescue package nears £3 TRILLION as the U.S. unveils Brown-style bail-out for struggling banks
Icelanders Protest Economic Crisis
Groups to call for new world order during G-20 summit

[Ending our Freedom ?]

Looks like daddy taught him well (before he left mommy to raise him).

[Jamil]

Obama has now realised that it does not help the American cause any good for its leadership to always use confrontational language. Bush has been confrontational in both terms of office and it absolutely led him nowhere in resolving world conflicts. I don't get it why some bloggers would like to make fun of an important issue like voicing a conciliatory tone to the muslim world. Most moderates find American confrontational policies disgusting. Go on Obama, be true to your self and your promises. The world shall reap the benefits and your sceptics will be forced to eat humble pie.

[Moneyrunner]

mark l appears to be in the prediction business. I'm always amazed by the certainty of the people who tell us where the market is going to be next week, next month and next year. I have never - in my 23 years on Wall Street - known anyone to be right, and be willing to give the money back when they're wrong.

Barry appears to be following the policies of the FDR administration who dealt us a depression that lasted 7 years until World War 2 pulled us out of it by sending several million men to war and having millions more making war machines.

Meanwhile the Jamils want us to conciliate people who cheered 9/11, who plant bombs in crowded market places and behead their prisoners while proclaiming that Hitler didn't finish the job. Maybe if we if we showed a little more "understanding" of the theology that proclaims the right to censor infidels who profane the prophet by drawing cartoon characters we can get them to stop killing people like Van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam.

There's a good video here of what the world's dictators and murderers really think http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2009/01/dictators-mock-obamas-ignorance.html

[Kevin]

Obama is a fool and so are the American people

[John Dough]

Actually, you are the idiot my friend. So I suppose your hero is Bush? Yeah well, he rearranged the law so that we can alllow torture....torture! He gives tax credits to rich people, makes billions with lobbyists and oil fiends, attacks a nation that did nothing to us and send our economy into a spiral of discomfort and illness. Pathetic that you people actually support such a cause and then turn around and call yourselves Christian when you voted for the most immoral thing possible. Nice try. Nice job, nice vote, nice everything. 90% of the things that conservatives are criticizing Obama for are fabrications of thr truth because your mad about how terrible Bush did. Grow up and accept the fact that your party is wrong, in every way.

[John Dough]

Oh, wait, after reading more thouroughly, I'm seeing that you actually don't support Bush, so you're an independent? I don't need to say anything else. Independents are'nt happy with ANYONE.

[double]

The suburbs bore me too. Let's start bombing there first

[goonxxi]

Why wouldn't Pres Soetoro give the figurative middle finger to America, he's got to install his ideology of "global justice"- and where better to begin than with the Arabs? The Arabs, a wonderful people who are devoted to the cause of converting the entire world to Islam and the brutal doctrines of sharia law; which, include nice things like lopping off body parts, beheadings, and stoning victims of rape. We resist this change, so it is right to kill us, according to the strict adherence of their religion - hence the blowing up of innocents while shopping or attending religious services as well the random firing of rocket propelled explosives at civilian population centers. Lets make nice, I'm sure they'll come around. Why would the President risk tricky questions in an American interview about things like his "economic stimulus" plan that is stuffed full of more pork than a redneck breakfast buffet - as if anyone in the sycophant American media has the cahones to confront him anyway. That legislation isn't "change we can believe in" - it's just a horrific increase of the fecal detrius we've come to accept as business as usual in Washington! Go Obama!

[SacTownMan]

Ah,

Every now and then a loser like JD shows up to prove that BDS is alive and well!!

Torture!! Damn it Torture!!

Bush Lied, Troops died!!!

Tower 7 was a controlled demolition!!!!

Is my aluminum hat too small, will it still be able to block out the evil Bushie's from reading my mind.

Help Me!!!! Help Me!!!

You did at least read the post didn't you troll!

[Todd]

Get a real life Todd. You are the one that needs to get over it and STOP THE DAMN BUSH BASHING YOU LIAR CREEP SCUMBAG IDIOT.

Posted by: WBestPresidentEver | Monday, January 26, 2009 at 11:11 PM
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He ruined the country. I'm not getting over it. Get used to people taking shots at Bush. His is the most failed presidency since Carter and will be criticized at least as long as Carter has been.

[mark l.]

"mark l appears to be in the prediction business. I'm always amazed by the certainty of the people who tell us where the market is going to be next week, next month and next year. I have never - in my 23 years on Wall Street - known anyone to be right, and be willing to give the money back when they're wrong."

"I have never - in my 23 years on Wall Street - known anyone to be right, and be willing to give the money back when they're wrong."

hmmm...

so you have been in speculative market for 23 years, but choose to ignore/consider predictions that don't match you own? the implication is that you have always been right. Why work for 23 years if your performance is without error?

since I'm not taking anyone's money, nor touting specific stocks, what is my financial obligation?

you have worked on wall street for 23 years, but you have never made an investment based on the belief about the future of the market? ie, you have never lost anyone's money?

your clearly have invested in the belief that the market will continue to plummet, so what are the implications and obligations if you are wrong? Are you going to mailing checks for the amount of money people lose if they pull their money now, only to have the market rebound 20% over the year, or, are you going to declare that since anyone who pulled their money, technically, did not lose anything on the markets rise?

my sins are no greater than yours...although I don't have a blog called 'moneyrunner' complete with an Obama presidency index. Seems you have already made an 'investment' based upon speculation.

[Moneyrunner]

mark I

Please don’t take my criticism so personally. I’m not saying you’re wrong, merely predicting that you will be. For all I know, the market may be up twice your prediction or may be down another 40%. I’m in the business of meeting my clients’ financial goals, not in the business of predicting the market. Many people confuse the two. Apparently you are among that group.

I am not predicting a continuation of the market meltdown, but it would be foolish to invest one’s portfolio in the expectation of a 20% gain. What happens if you are wrong and the market declines 20%? How will that affect your goals?

Keep in mind a basic investing formula: if you lose 50%, you have to make 100% to get even.

In an economy where the world’s largest banks are possibly insolvent (and one European country has gone broke) what guarantees do we have that you are right?

By the way, I sat in a meeting today with a money manager who predicted that the next three years would see 33% annual compound returns. Makes you look like a piker.