Even Obama Won't Last Forever
Friday, April 16, 2010
Cantcha Take a Joke?
THE Liberal National Party has kicked out a student member who called Barack Obama a monkey on Twitter, an action he defended as a political joke.
The tweets, from an account belonging to Griffith University medical student Nick Sowden, began just after 7.30pm (AEST) on Thursday, during Kerry O'Brien's interview with the US President on the ABC's 7.30 Report.
“I'm not sure why they paid kerry to fly to america (sic), if they wanted an interview with a monkey surely a ferry to Taronga would have sufficed,” one tweet said, referring to Taronga Zoo on Sydney Harbour.
“If I wanted to see a monkey on TV I'd watch Wildlife Rescue,” said another.
Queensland LNP state director Michael O'Dwyer told AAP the party did not tolerate such comments.
“I'm disappointed when anybody from the LNP makes comments that put the party into disrepute and of such a personal nature,” Mr O'Dwyer said.
For the record: This blog does not condone the racist statements about the President's race, merely to point out his lack of global popularity.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
And the "SS" Didn't Carry out "Nazi" Directives, Either!
The change is a significant shift in the National Security Strategy, a document that previously outlined the Bush Doctrine of preventative war.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's advisers will remove religious terms such as "Islamic extremism" from the central document outlining the U.S. national security strategy and will use the rewritten document to emphasize that the United States does not view Muslim nations through the lens of terror, counterterrorism officials said.
The revisions are part of a larger effort about which the White House talks openly, one that seeks to change not just how the United States talks to Muslim nations, but also what it talks to them about, from health care and science to business startups and education.
That shift away from terrorism has been building for a year, since Obama went to Cairo, Egypt, and promised a "new beginning" in the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. The White House believes the previous administration based that relationship entirely on fighting terror and winning the war of ideas.
And yet, the ISLAMIC-based attacks and attempts continue unabated! Nice work, O: fiddle while a skyscraper burns!