Obama's Idotic Comment

Obama’s Idiotic Comment on Massacre

 

The Senator compared the mass murder of 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech with what he think as “the violence represented by outsourcing of American jobs”. According to Richard Baehr of Yahoo News, April 18, Obama Not Ready for Prime Time): “He actually made this comparison in his latest attempt at instant profundity.”

 

This comment is totally idiotic. While Americans jobs are being lost to outsourcing because of globalization, more jobs are being created in the same process. The unemployment rate is 4.4% and for college grads it is only 1.8%. Is Obama trying to imply he could have gotten jobs to 29 dead students and their two professors? How stupid one can get?

 

It simply shows Obama is not ready for prime time.   

Malaysia Will Treat Obama as Muslim

 

Those who may like to believe when Obama’s says he is a Christian, although his Kenyan father was a Muslim and his stepfather raised him as a Muslim child in Indonesia, should consider the following case in Malaysia where a woman born to Muslim parents but raised as Hindu by her grandmother is being forced to be “rehabilitated” as a Muslim by Malaysia’s Religious Department.  (Jerusalem Post, April 18^th, “Malaysia: Islam ‘rehabilitates’ members of other faiths”.)

 

Malaysian Islamic raw regards people born to Muslims as being Muslims themselves. Revathi Masoosai, an ethnic Indian, was born to Indian Muslim parents who gave her a Muslim name, Siti Fatimah. According to Revathi, her grandmother raised her as a Hindu and changed her name in 2001. Revathi married a Hindu, Suresh, in 2004 according to Hindu rites, but the marriage has not been legally registered because Suresh refused to convert to Islam. Islamic officials seized their 15-month old daughter and handed the child to Revathi’s Muslim mother. Revathi was sent to a religious rehabilitation center and her detention has been extended without any explanation to her husband.

 

The point is: in the eyes of most Muslims Obama is a Muslim and it would not be surprising if one fine morning he rediscovers Islam, say soon after he is elected president.

One could only guess the shock for the liberal-reform Jews who are now supporting and bank rolling his candidacy. He may even ask Americans to convert to Islam for amicable relations with a nuclear Iran and world peace. Yes, this scenario is off the wall, but is not as unrealistic as many may think.

Brewing Democratic Disaster?

 

One may think Democrats are a sure bet to win the White House in 2008. After all they won the Congressional elections and now control both the Senate and the House. Bush popularity remains at all time low and Americans are tired of the Iraq war.

 

Think again. In this setting one would expect polls to show leading Democratic presidential contenders defeating leading Republican contenders in the 2008 election. But that is not the case. Republican hopeful Rudi Giuliani had a 48% to 43% edge over Hillary Clinton and was even with Barak Obama at 45% in the April 4-9 Time poll. In all other established polls a similar trend was evident in February and March. Only in a recently started LA Times/Bloomberg poll Obama was ahead of Giuliani by 46% to 42% in the April 4-9 period. Even in the LA Times poll Giuliani defeated Clinton 48% to 42%.

 

The above results are before the do or die slugfest between Clinton and Obama for the Democratic nomination in coming months. Both Democratic contenders have amassed huge amounts of money in the first quarter and are going to go on a spending spree to undercut each other. Obama reduced Clinton lead to 8% (28% to 36%) in an April 10-12 CNN poll. Clinton’s margin reflects an 11-point edge over Obama with black voters, but Obama’s share of black vote shows a steady up trend and Clinton’s black voter edge is likely to diminish as the year unfolds. As the lead continues to narrow, Clinton will have to attack Obama’s soft underbelly of Islamic childhood, intention to send troops to Darfur and limited experience in foreign affairs. Islam will have to become a major issue to divert liberal-reform Jewish voters and money from Obama. The recently released details of fund raising activity shows rich liberal Jews from Hollywood and Chicago are poring money into Obama’s campaign and these funds could become a key factor in giving him the nomination.

 

Obama could win the nomination but has no chance of winning the election. His Muslim childhood will divert a large part of the religious black vote to Republicans and solidify their support among their traditional base of conservative Christians. Questions regarding his willingness to militarily defend Israel will split the Jewish vote. Normally, African Americans and Jews vote heavily Democratic. Democratic strength is on the Pacific coast and Northeast, but Obama will have a hard time making inroads in the Republican South and in Republican leaning conservative heartland.

 

If Clinton wins the nomination, she will face the national tiredness with Clintons. In a March 27^th Harris Interactive poll half of voting age Americans said they would not vote for her. More than one in five Democrats said they would not vote for her. Forty-eight percent of independent voters said they would choose another candidate over Clinton. Fifty-six percent of men said that they would not vote for Clinton, while 45% of women said that she would not be their pick. In addition, 69% of those 62 and older said that they would not vote for Clinton. Nearly half of the respondents said that they dislike Clinton as a person.

 

 

 

 

Pelosi of Arabia

Catastrophe Scenarios

Sliding Towards A Catastrophic Outcome

This is not fiction or a fairy tale. The “Catastrophe” scenario risk is more imminent than global warming because many forces are pushing us towards it and any one of the forces could push things over the edge and a disaster could unfold sooner than global warming.

Here are the broad outlines of these forces:

Religious Beliefs

The Iranian Shia believe that the Twelfth Imam (their Messiah) will reveal himself only after a catastrophic event destroys the world as we know, and then create a new harmonious Shia-world to replace the old-world. Within this framework of religious expectations, the Iranian regime could initiate or invite a catastrophic confrontation with Israel or the USA, soon after it succeeds in manufacturing an atomic bomb.

Once again, this is not a fairy tale: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad believes in it and countries in the Middle East consider it as a real possibility. Ms. Karen Elliot House detailed this risky scenario, as seen by the Saudis and others attending the recent Riyadh Islamic nations meeting in her April 4^th WSJ article titled Saudi Balancing Act.

According to the April 2^nd ABC Nightly News report, many respected analysts feel Iran could have an atomic bomb as early as 2009, which is much sooner than the US intelligence agency forecast of sometime after 2015. Iran is expected to install 1000 centrifuges soon and as many 3500 may be operational by the middle of next year, which could provide Tehran enough fuel to manufacture two or three bombs.

In the West, Christian Zionists are becoming influential factor in shaping US and Israel policies. In a speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, Rev. John Hagee a leading pro-Israel Christian Zionist said that “50 million evangelicals and 5 million Jews” would work to defend Israel. Rev. Hagee and others focus on a biblical mandate to love the Jewish people and stand up for Israel. Their focus is on biblical prophecy about new and horrific wars, death on an unimaginable scale and a peace that can come only with the Second Coming of Jesus. Rev. Hagee has called for preemptive attacks on Iran, and linked that to Bible prophecy, promising “the greatest war the world has ever seen will soon envelop Israel and Jerusalem.” (Source: Rapturous On Israel, Jewish Times, March 30, 2007.)

Islam has not modernized and is dominated by its 7^th Century dogma of killing Jews and other non-believers if they do not convert. We all hope the religion followed by nearly 1.3 billion people will modernize so that humanity could live in peace, but there are very few signs of meaningful progress in this direction. Recently the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) denounced “any notion of a Reformation as another attempt by the West to impose its history and philosophy on the Islamic world.” A small group of secular Muslims recently gathered in St. Petersburg, Florida, to advocate modernization of Islam, but individuals representing CAIR attacked the secular concepts advocated by this group. In a late-March article in the Washington Post, titled A More Islamic Islam, Geneive Abdo said: “The problem with this prescription is that …if Muslims are fed a steady diet of Western influence, they, too, will embrace modernity, secularism and everything else the West has to offer…What all this means is that Western hopes for full integration by Muslims in the West are unlikely to be realized and the future of the Islamic world will be much more Islamic than Western.”

A most disturbing aspect of the situation is that some liberals in the West are going overboard in appeasing 7^th century Islamic practices. In the US, recently a judge released a Muslim who was arrested for beating his wife by citing Qu’ran’s permission to do so. Fortunately, that judge was removed soon thereafter from the bench. In Minnesota, Muslim taxi drivers are refusing to carry passengers who carry liquor and the city considered accommodating them by installing two types of lights on the cabs to indicate Muslim and non-Muslim drivers. In Europe, many countries have setup separate schools for Muslims where Islam is taught as part of the curriculum. Some countries have considered permitting Muslim Sharia laws to govern marriages and other social behavior. Fortunately, we are beginning to see a reaction against these developments in Europe.

There is a fallacy in the West that Muslim extremist are a small group, who could be eliminated by force (i.e. killed) or through full integration of Muslims in western societies. This ignores the fact that the extremist can easily recruit and replenish their ranks from the general Muslim population who basically subscribes to their creed because of the fundamental teachings of Islam. Here is what Wafa Sultan, one of the participants in the St. Petersburg conference said: She doesn’t “see any difference between radical Islam and regular Islam”. Ayann Hirsi Ali, a critic of Islam as practiced today, has made similar comments in her recently published biography, the Infidel.

Iranian Economic Deterioration

The catastrophic war scenario probability is increasing because of deteriorating economic situation in Iran. Crude oil exports remain the primary source of revenues, but Iran has to import huge quantities of refined gasoline and new international sanctions will make it even more difficult to jump start industries, which could provide employment to growing number of youths. Furthermore, with increasing domestic oil consumption, crude exports will decline sharply in 20 to 25 years. This two-decade point when Iranian leverage to assert its hegemony over the Middle East will be sharply reduced increases the possibility of a drastic action by Iran in the next 10-15 years.

Nuclear War

The catastrophic war scenario should be taken seriously because of rapidly progressing Iranian nuclear program and the Bush administration and Israeli determination to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Israel has nuclear weapons and delivery systems to preemptively attack Iran. The US has a huge navel force in the area. But Iran may feel it will have the upper hand in a conflict because of US problems in Iraq, especially if the US leaves Iraq in a hurry.

It is said that former Iranian president Rafsanjani believes that an atomic bomb will wipe out Israel but the same bomb will merely make a dent in Iran. If Rafsanjani, who is considered a more pragmatic politician, can rationalize the nuclear war in that fashion, it is quite possible a zealot like Ahmadinejad, the current president, could plunge the nation in a nuclear war on the slightest hint of victory.

Pelosi’s Disastrous Visit to Syria

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on April 4^th over the objections of President Bush and announced that she had delivered a message from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that “Israel was ready to engage in peace talks” with Syria. The problem was that Mr. Olmert did not give her any message to deliver and immediately repudiated her assertion. As the Washington Post’s April 5^th editorial stated: “But Ms. Pelosi’s attempt to establish a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish.”

The comments from US Jews in response to the publication of Olmert statement repudiating Pelosi assertion in the April 5^th Jerusalem Post were even more discerning of growing rift between liberal led Democrats and conservative and pro-Israel Jews. Most of these comments chided Pelosi for her foolish actions and undermining Israel’s security.

Jews have traditionally voted Democratic but with Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Reid acting to undermine US in Iraq and the Middle East, a large proportion of Jews may end up voting Republican, especially if Democrats nominate Barak Hussein Obama.

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Could Obama Be An Islamic-Plant?

Recently available information suggests the probability of a scenario in which President Barak Hussein Obama acts to further the Islamic cause and undermine U.S. political and military foundations, is not zero, and although it may sound far fetched it should be considered a serious risk.

A major attack on the United States, one designed to undermine our political system and military capability, may not be launched by some Muslim youths from Saudi Arabia, as was the case in the 9/11 attack, but probably will be orchestrated by very sophisticated individuals and its planning and execution would easily surpass the Manchurian Candidate movie scenario.

Here are some highlights from the studies of European terrorist activities published in the Washington Post on March 12^th in an article by Craig Whitlock, titled Terrorists Proving Harder to Profile. “In Britain, three of the suspects arrested in last summer’s alleged transatlantic airline hijacking plot were religious converts who grew up in north London’s affluent suburbs. One was the well-to-do English son of a Conservative Party activist; he worked in a bar and loved the movie “Team America”.” In Belgium, a blond, white Catholic woman converted to Islam, traveled to Iraq and blew herself up. In Holland, a key figure of Islamic cell was teenage son of a U.S. soldier. “There are clear signs that al-Qaeda cells and affiliates are intentionally recruiting supporters from nontraditional background as a way to avoid detection.” Other reports have noted that many individuals arrested in London or are under surveillance come from affluent families, were studying at leading universities and some have advanced degrees. In Iraq, just the other day, two children were driven in the rear seat of the car so that U.S. security forces allow the car to pass a check point, and the vehicle was blown to pieces after the adult passengers disappeared in the crowd. The recently published details of terrorist plots planned or executed by al-Queda master plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed should remind Americans of the extent to which Islamists will go to hurt us.

Obama Enrolled As Muslim Student In Indonesia

In a detailed article on Obama’s religious status in Indonesia, Paul Watson reported in an article titled “Islam an unknown factor in Obama bid”, published in the March 16^th Baltimore Sun, that Obama was registered as Muslim in two schools. According to his childhood friend Zulfin Adi: “His mother often went to the church, but Barry [Obama’s nickname] was Muslim. He went to the mosque.” (Other sources tell us his mother was an atheist.) According to Adi, when the muezzin sounded the call to prayer, Lolo [Obama’s stepfather] and Barry would walk to the mosque together. His first grade teacher at St. Francis said: “He was registered as a Muslim because his father, Lolo Soetoro, was Muslim.”

Obama was registered as a Muslim when he enrolled in Model Primary School Menteng 1, and had to take two-hour classes in third and fourth grades to learn about Islam each week. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Islamic-majority country, and while his religious classes probably did not require him to recite Qu’ran several hours each day as required in a Pakistani Madrassa, their cannot be much difference in the basic content of Islam as taught in his classes and in the Madrassas. He was very young, 6 to 10 years, and in those formative years the fundamental idea of Islam that all aspects of life are governed by religion and that a good Muslim expects government to follow religious laws, must have been drummed into his brain. The secular concepts that we cherish, such as separation of church and state, would be anathema. But Obama has repeatedly claimed he was brought up in a secular household, which sounds very suspicious in view of these details about his early life.

What is also disturbing that Obama’s chief spokesman, Robert Gibbs, asserted on January 24th: “ To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.” But in a statement to The Los Angeles Times on March 14^th the campaign offered slightly different wording: “Obama has never been a practicing Muslim.” The new statement adds that as a child, Obama did spend time in the neighborhood’s Islamic center. Were they trying to hide something?

Then we have this observation in the very informative Ben Wallace-Wells’s Rolling Stone article, The Radical Roots of Barack Obama, Februrary 7, 2007: “His parents were atheists, an African bureaucrat and a white grad student, Jerry Falwell’s nightmare vision of secular liberals come to life. Obama could have picked any church….He could have picked a mosque, for that matter, or even a synagogue.” One has to ask: What is his true belief? Is adopting Christianity simply convenient for a brilliant individual to rise to the top of our society and then abandon that cover in favor of Islam at a suitable time? May be as President he will ask Americans to convert to save the world.

Obama on Iraq and Darfur

In a February 23^rd Chicago Tribune article, Obama’s Muddled View of Intervention, well known historian Niall Ferguson notes that while Obama has introduced legislation to remove U.S. troops from Iraq by March 31, 2008, in a December 2005 article Obama urged the deployment of “a UN- or NATO-led force” in Darfur. Ferguson comments: “Wait a second. Here are two civil wars, each likely to spiral out of control. But in (Sudan), Obama recommends intervention, while in the other (Iraq), he recommends military withdrawal. Am I missing something?”

He cites a study by Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollackpointed of Brookings Institution, a liberal philosophy oriented research center, which concludes that if the U.S. pulls out of Iraq, as Obama recommends, a humanitarian nightmare is likely in which “hundred of thousands (conceivably even millions) of people to die.”

Scary Scenario

In my view this would be a perfect scenario for an Islamist to destroy the will of Americans to fight again: Withdraw from Iraq in a disarray and leave Iraq and the Middle East in the hands of Islamic terrorists. Throw American forces in Africa’s Darfur nightmare, where not even African countries dare to intervene and let them be slaughtered by Sudanese Arab militias. Retreat is disarray again and handover Africa to Islam.

Of course, we may then choose to impeach or hang Obama, but that will not matter at all.

Does this establish Obama is an Islamic plant: No. Do the bits and pieces of new information we are getting raise enough suspicion regarding Obama: yes. And given these questions it may not be wise to handover the keys of the kingdom to him, especially when there are other highly qualified candidates without any doubts about their background and intentions.

Obama Risk

It is becoming clear that Democrats are betting on U.S. defeat in Iraq to win the White House in 2008. They most fear that the Bush troop surge may succeed, as recent reports suggest, and have introduced legislation that are designed to engineer a U.S. failure. The Los Angeles Times reported on March 12^th that American military planners have begun plotting a fallback strategy in case Congressional actions (and any other reasons) result in an Iraq disaster.

Politics is a dirty game but this is real dirty. The Democrats call their strategy the “slow bleed”, which allows them to blame Bush for everything that goes wrong, without assuming responsibility for conducting the war, and appearing as saviors of the nation from the Iraq crisis. They must have a very low opinion of American voters, consider them very naïve and hope to fool them easily.

In his March 11^th Washington Post article titled “The Surge is Succeeding”, Robert Kagan, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, summarized recent positive developments: the report by Fadhil brothers, who are independent Baghdad bloggers, that “early signs are encouraging” (see 3/5 WSJ for their full report); increased number of security tips; decline in number of insurgent attacks; and progress towards a national agreement on sharing oil revenues. Fadhils report that because of reduced violence and the new “clear and hold strategy” many “Baghdadis feel hopeful again about the future, and the fear of civil war is slowly being replaced by optimism.”

Kagan notes that even Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News (3/5 broadcast) reported a dramatic improvement in Ramadi, which is in the heart of Sunni insurgency, since his previous visit and thought “the war has changed”.

Reuters reported on March 14^th that key U.S. and Iraqi officials were cautiously optimistic. Maj. Gen. William B.Caldwell said the level of sectarian killings had dropped significantly in the month since the operation began. “If the high-profile car bombs can be stopped or brought down to a much lower level, we’ll just see an incredible difference in the city overall.”

Obama is the leading proponent of the emerging “cut-and-run” Democratic strategy for Iraq. He is loved by the left wing of the party, which includes Hollywood anti-war Jewish luminaries. He has surged in popularity among African-Americans and hopes to do the same among white women. Hillary Clinton’s lead over Obama has shrunk, which may have forced her to go along with the proposition of withdrawal by a date certain, i.e. March 2008, which she had previously rejected. The Democratic proposals incorporating the March 2008 withdrawal deadline was crafted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the help of John Murtha, but the left wing of the party is insisting on immediate withdrawal by withholding funds to finance the war.

Speaking of the Jewish vote, Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned at the March 13^th session of the pro-Israel AIPAC conference that “those who are concerned for Israel’s security, for the security of the gulf states, and for the stability of the entire Middle East should recognize the need for American success in Iraq, and responsible exit…” Many participants booed House Speaker Pelosi when she said the Iraq war was a failure because it did not make U.S. safer, U.S. military stronger and the region more stable. In sharp contrast, Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner received a rousing reception when he said U.S. had no choice but to win in Iraq and linked the outcome of the war with the future of Israel. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both supported Israel in their speeches but according to one blogger there was widespread skepticism regarding Obama’s true feelings among participants in the meeting.

The point is the support of a few Hollywood Jewish moguls and their raising of couple of million dollars for Obama is not necessarily a sign of broad based Jewish support for the cut-and-run Democratic Iraq agenda.

Will Democrats destroy themselves by nominating Sen. Barack Hussein Obama remains to be seen? Republicans are hoping they will.