A year later
It has been about a year since the President’s speech in Cairo, with its odd and inaccurate revisions of history. And a year since he was photographed dissing Benjamin Netanyahu from the Oval Office. And a year since he said this: “if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Actually, the US is the largest Christian country in the world, the largest Jewish country in the world after Israel, and number 52 among countries with Muslim populations — well behind Germany and France.
Why would an American President say such a thing? For a fellow whose life has been so much about concealment and the indirect gesture, there is a certain consistency to the man that becomes clear over time. You don’t have to believe in conspiracies to get an understanding of where his sentiments lie. You can just ask the guys who work for him on terrorism or at NASA for that matter.
July 7th, 2010 at 2:08 am
It’s frightening that those stupid assertions are both unnoticed by most Americans and unchallenged by the media. Indonesia is mostly Muslim and has a huge population. There are plenty of Pakistanis as well. Even a modest knowledge of geography is beyond our leader. Facts are stubborn things.
We’ve moved beyond Edward Kennedy’s eulogy for his brother. Robert Kennedy might have seen the world as it could be and asked why not. Obama sees the world as it is not and goes golfing.