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Obama’s popularity as anti-Bush is telling
Paul Richter
Los Angeles Times
Saturday, July 26, 2008
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s electoral rival is John McCain, but Obama’s overseas trip this week has given heartburn to another Republican — President Bush.
In stop after stop across the Middle East and Europe, Obama was embraced as the man whose promise of change meant a change from Bush: on Iraq, Mideast peace, the treatment of terrorism suspects, climate change, alliance relations and more.
The tour has brought into focus how world leaders already are positioning themselves for a new American president.
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Obama’s debut appearance on the international stage was the most vivid demonstration yet that the world is moving beyond the Bush era, even while the White House works frantically in its last six months to salvage what it can of its foreign policy agenda.
The trip had to come as a jolt for administration officials, said Wayne White, a senior State Department intelligence official in Bush’s first term. “I’m sure it was a bit rattling for the administration to see someone treated with such deference,” he said.
In Baghdad, Iraqi leaders who have appeared to be intimate allies of the White House suddenly were saying they wanted the kind of rough deadline for U.S. troop withdrawal that Obama has endorsed — and Bush has repeatedly rejected.
In Jerusalem, key leaders signaled that they could accept Obama’s proposal for high-level talks with Iran, an approach that Bush labeled “appeasement” in an appearance before the Israeli parliament this spring.
The Iraq visit brought to light frictions in the U.S.-Iraqi relationship and may have jeopardized the Bush’s administration’s chances of concluding negotiations over the U.S. military role in Iraq that the administration had hoped to wrap up by the end of the year.
Last weekend, in tense exchanges, administration officials succeeded in persuading Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki to partially take back his July 18 comment to the German magazine Der Spiegel that he favored Obama’s plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq in 16 months. Yet when Obama arrived in Baghdad on Monday, Maliki spokesman Ali Dabbagh said that withdrawing troops by the end of 2010, only a few months beyond the timetable suggested by Obama, sounded just about right.
The comments appeared to change the debate from whether the United States should draw down in Iraq to how to deal with a different challenge, the militant threat in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That’s the discussion Obama has been urging.
Israeli leaders have been steadfastly loyal to Bush, sometimes describing him as the strongest supporter of Israel ever to inhabit the Oval Office.
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July 26th, 2008 at 6:33 am
“The stongest supporter of Israel in the white house.” The mass murderer in the white house is the strongest supporter of the Iraelis, boy what a friend…I guess murderers like other murderers…birds of a feather. Why would you like a mass murderer? Why would you call him ‘friend’? These are the children of god? What sort of god? Ans: A MASS MURDERING SERIAL KILLER…read your bible it’s there, of course you need to read it with a brain, which many xians have given away.
July 26th, 2008 at 10:48 am
mar, you are a retard. So you think Jesus is a mass murderer and Mohammad isn’t? Just because they call themselves Christians doesn’t mean they are, moron.
YOU read the Bible with a BRAIN CELL.
July 26th, 2008 at 11:22 am
you are both obviously morons…remove head from ass before speaking.
July 26th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
americasucks i think you misunderstood,because he didnt mention islam doesnt mean he thinks they are clean of crime.
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com i respectfully ask you and anyone else reading to go to this site,watch and watch again.
all religion is guilty of crimes over the centuries ALL !
we need to look beyond religious institutions.
this documentary is a good start i think.
July 26th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
What I have found out recently is, MANY churches out there who actually support the ASS in the WhiteWash House. Case in point, a person who considers himself a devout Christian etc. etc. was pointing out to me how the Bosnian War was the worst war due to all the “Christians” who were killed. But when I mentioned the fact that many Muslims were killed also in the so called “ethnic cleansing of the days”, he was aghast as was many of those in “His” group. Hateful remarks flew out of their vile mouths.
I believe it was asked a few years ago by the MSM. Is this Iraq War considered by many to be a “Holy War” The consensus answer touted was “No”. I know BS when I see it. The fact is, many of these “Right Wing Christian Phonies” are going against all the principles of their own religion/s here in the US. So the only thing left that could go against and abate these principles, is their knowing deep inside that “We got our Holy War”.
However on that same note. The “Right Wing Fanatical Christian Right” are too damned chicken shit to openly admit it.
Coffeelover,,,,,,,,
July 26th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
If he’s so anti-bush how come he was in Berlin talking about global citizenship and all that, sounds like he wants the same thing. It’s just a new guy acting like he’s different moving the agenda forward.
Also for all the people who keep telling people to watch Zeitgeist, that documentary appears to me to be the same as Alex Jones’ research mixed in with a bunch of Pagan religious disinformation. The reason religions are so blood-guilty is because they get infiltrated by evil people, ie. the knights of templar doing the crusades as Christians when in actuality the leaders are Pagans who worship Baal and this goes on throughout history.
July 26th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Its a game like the police use,you know the one…”good cop bad cop” well in this case bush does everything he can to get us in an uproar,so naturally the american people want change right,well they put their change man in there,because they know we are ready for change…its a no lose situation…They still have their man in the whitehouse to continue with thier global dreams. I hope im wrong…i heard that nothing happens by accident in the Government.
July 26th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
bush got the christians backing on his anti abortion stance.He knew what he was doing.If that s.o.b is a christian, I’d like to now what kind so i can make sure i dont become that kind of Christian.I wonder how the churches feel about ONE MILLION INNOCENT IRAQI DEATHS SO FAR!yeah bush is a big Christian.I’ve never known Christians to lie so blatently in our faces as this man and his regime has.At first i really liked Bush,i thought he was exactly what our country needed.then i learned the truth.As they say the truth will set you free!!!
July 27th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Anyone familiar with Larry Sinclair, Donald Young, Larry Bland or Nate Spencer has a pretty good idea just what Obama is up to at the Blowhemian Grove cluster suck this year. This nation needs to flush Obama with the same McCain crap and realize that a candidate can only be measured by their credibility and record, not what they say or propose…as the policies of this nation are well outlined in the constiution. Both Odrama and McSlain are already bought and paid for, they have no intention of doing anything but following the status quo and bowing to the established powers that so need to be exposed for their criminality, and expunged.
There has been far too much change in this nation…i.e. racial discrimination and segregation was a “change”, and in breech of constitutional law; rectifying it was a resistance to change, or more importantly, commitment to progress. The Federal Reserve and reserve banking concept was a change and undermined the extremely stable gold standard. What is needed is a commitment to progress, which has no direction but rather, energy…positive or negative; both being necessary.
This is also not time for revolution, Neocons and Globalists are revolutionists…No, what is most necessary is an Awakening! This is time for a return to the principles outlined in the United States Constitution, and so long ago subverted and exhiled from this society. This is time to take responsibility for ourselves and our nation. This is time for righting the many wrongs perpetrated throughout history, and correcting the errant texts. This is time to stand up and fight for nothing more, and certainly nothing less, than retaining our birth right as human’s…Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…FOR ALL!
This is time for Freedom, and “no standing army can defeat an idea who’s time has come”. Arm yourselves America and be prepared to fight for the country you love and daily (accepting citizenry) swear to protect, because the current government is largely sworn to destroy it.
On the issue of attacking Iran, it seems January 3, 2009 will be an important date with the convening of the new Congress and the 20th being Inauguration day, it appears to me that one of the more strategic dates for attacking Iran would be in the third week, the friday preceding Inauguration…January 16, early morning. There are certain things that must first happen and the attack does not have proper strategic merit in Sept. or Oct. 2008. Just a bit of insight, and somewhat of a prediction, although I did have a bit of a suggestive tip from a person who’s pop plays ball with Rumsfeld.
REMEMBER THE BOYSCOUT MOTTO!