Time to re-boot more than our image
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President-elect Barack Obama’s face and featured interview appeared prominently on the top front page of the Chicago Tribune today which was attention-grabbing……before the reader unfolded the full paper to see the disgraced governor’s story just below it.
However, the Tribune and Obama found it timely to do this interview, to change the subject from schemes to plans.
Barack Obama says his presidency is an opportunity for the U.S. to renovate its relations with the Muslim world, starting the day of his inauguration and continuing with a speech he plans to deliver in an Islamic capital.
And when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20, he plans to be sworn in like every other president, using his full name: Barack Hussein Obama.
“I think we’ve got a unique opportunity to reboot America’s image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular,” Obama said Tuesday, promising an “unrelenting” desire to “create a relationship of mutual respect and partnership in countries and with peoples of good will who want their citizens and ours to prosper together.”
The world, he said, “is ready for that message.”
And what will it take?
Obama said the country must take advantage of a unique chance to recalibrate relations around the globe, through a new diplomacy that emphasizes inclusiveness and tolerance
(what does that mean?)…
as well as an unflinching stand against terrorism.
“The message I want to send is that we will be unyielding in stamping out the terrorist extremism we saw in Mumbai,” Obama said, adding that he plans to give a major address in an Islamic capital as part of his global outreach.
That’s news. The world will certainly be watching that one.
Over the next several paragraphs, Obama artfully dodged most of the questions the Trib staff raised, from controversial appointments to race relations to religion. He hasn’t chosen a spiritual adviser in recent months. However…
“I’m reliant on the pastors who are friends of mine, and who I talk to for support, and my own prayer life at home,” he said.
It would serve us all well to pray for him, and those who are advising him.Â
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Obama said the country must take advantage of a unique chance to recalibrate relations around the globe, through a new diplomacy that emphasizes inclusiveness and tolerance
What the heck DOES that mean?!?!?!?
Still praying for the man, but not liking where this all seems to be going!
Unfortunately, Colleen, it means that the United States of America, under Obama’s direction, will be perceived by many Muslims as a pathetic and defeated “great Satan.” “Inclusiveness” and “tolerance” are not seen by them as gestures of magnanimity, but rather as signs of weakness and humiliation. It is already clear that some see Obama as a sell-out. The vanquished enemy is beneath contempt, ergo the mullahs will be all the more strengthend in their resolve to achieve world domination.
Yes, pray we must for the man and for our country, but that should in no way lessen our resolve to retake majorities in the congress two years from now. In a short 12 to 15 months we will have our chance to field strong pro-life and pro-family candidates that hold to values which are the backbone of what makes our country great.