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.