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M June 3rd, 2009 12:27 pm ET

Man, you really need to tone down your hateful rhetoric…what would be the big deal if Barack was a Muslim?
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The big deal would be the denial! If he is Muslim, then don't you think the voters should have known prior to election day 08? Would voter rethink their votes, i believe most would but that is their right as an American voteor I am a Christian and not ashamed of it. The Ppresident also stated he is a Christian!

Adele June 3rd, 2009 12:26 pm ET
To Phil and "bowing". I was raised in Japan, We bow all the time, it's a sign of respect. Educate yourself with other people's traditions.
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Sorry ! Saudi Arabia is not in Japan! You can't even compare the two. The traditions are not the same. I too have lived in Asia!

Republicans are pure comedians!

I have to Just laugh and shake my head at the People like MATT FROM DETROIT, AND OBAMA VICTIM. I Laugh daily but then I shake my head and say how SAD Bush/Cheney BRAINWASHED Them fools, Just listen to them! I kinda of feel sorry for their unintelligence they spew and their hatred! Get Educated folks, Wake up from the Bush/Cheney lying night mare and for gods sake Quit with the Muslim Smearing of our President even if he was Muslim and hes Not SO WHAT!

People keep forgetting the last eight years, with Bush holding hands with, even kissing that same tyrant. We've been kissing up to the Saudis for dercades, or haven't you heard about Reagan's dealings with them either? It's core American policy.
If you want our government to stop kissing up to the Saudis, stop wasting oil with your gas-guzzlers, and maybe walk to the supermarket two hundred feet away instead of driving as if you have no legs.

Cassandra Washington

we were dancing in the streets when our bombs dropped in baghdad killing thousands of innocent civilians. im sure people in your household were happy about that! its easy to judge other people from the comfort of your living room. you talk about all the muslims with there bombs all over the world but you dont know anything about what your own country has done economically to these third world countries they thought would never come back to bite them. look at how the cia overthrew many DEMOCRATICALLY elected governments in favor of big business. how the UNITED STATES put dictators in power and even gave muslim radicals weapons to further their gains all over the world. take a look at what has actually happened in this world before you open your mouth and talk about things you dont know about!

I do not believe ANY President of the United States of America (this means YOU, Obama) should ever have to seek the advice of any other country's leader. EVER.

steve June 3rd, 2009 12:57 pm ET

A comment by Pukuna: "He has yet to prove he is a born citizen"
2 websites proving that McCain was not a natural born citizen
U.S. District court of New Hampshire case number 1-2008-cv-00099
which ruled he was a native born citizen of Panama and a naturalized citizen of the U.S. turned into around 4 million websites and cost McCain the election.
OBAMA NEEDS TO PROVE HE IS A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.
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McCain was born on a Navy base in Panama, which is considered US territory, so you don't have an arguement there.

As far as Obama goes, no he was not born here, but lets face it, we have bigger fish to fry.

Lynda / Minnesota quips,

"Perhaps you were too busy to keep up with President Obama during his presidental campaigning?"

Obama to Unions: END NAFTA
Obama to Canada: oh that was just campaign rhetoric

Obama to America: I can no more disown Rev Wright than I can disown the black community.
Obama (one month later): This is not the man I knew...

Obama to America: I will not appoint lobbyists to my administration!
After Election: Welcome William Lynn! (defense contractor lobbyist)

And on and on and on...

You're right Lynda. If I had blindly swallowed everything Obama was shoveling during the campaign like you good liberals – I wouldn't have had to "keep up" with Obama's ever-changing positions and promises.

Let us support our President as he seeks to break down stereotypes.
He is not always right , has made mistakes and will make more. But at least give the man credit for working hard, for promoting stron family and marital values, and for handling issues head on with intelligence, clarity and respect.
And he is teaching us a very important lesson in CIVILITY. Let us respect other human beings regardless of race, religion, socio-economic backrgound. Showing respect to a different culture is a sign of maturity. One does not need to be a buhdist to be frineds or respect a buhdust. I am a devoted Evangelical Christian and I have shared enriching life expreiences with friends that are Muslims, Buhdist, Catholics, Jews, white, black, Asian, Latin American etc.... Let us judge people on the "content of their character", not their race or religion. Terrorists come in all form or shapes. And not all of them are Arabs or Muslim, or was Dr TIller's murderer an Arab?

Peace,
CB

Moderate Democrat June 3rd, 2009 12:47 pm ET

Muslims are terrorists? But what is that guy that shot the doctor yesterday? Yea, that's right, a TERRORIST, Not Muslim. One of those right wing gutter trash freaks!

There goes the old "Muslims are terrorists' theory. Every time the GOP tries to make a point, one of their neo-con extremist freaks of nature goes and kills someone.

Muslims are not the terrorists, nor the biggest threat to americans. The GOP, aka "The American Taliban" are!
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What about the 23 year old Army Private who was shot outside the recruitement office in Little Rock on Monday? Who shot him? A Muslim.

Is that saying all Muslims are bad, of course not. But don't martry an abortion doctor and ignore a 23 year old man's cold blood murder.

Hey "Obama Victim",
How many courses did you have to complete to finally become such a complete and utter MORON!!

@ Phil

First of all SAUDI Arabia, not SAUDIA Arabia.
Secondly, Saudi Arabia actually is considered to be one of the very few allies that we have in the Middle East . . . right or wrong.
Thirdly, in some cultures a bow is considered to be the same as a handshake.

Man you people are so ignorant!

PaulMoATX writes,

"See, that's where you are wrong my friend, and that is the problem with many partisan Americans who blindly followed that kind of cowboy recklessness ways of the previous administration."

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REALLY?

So when Obama gives a speech to the UN – which dictators must he confere before delivering the speech so he isn't using "cowboy recklessness"??

You white-flag liberals think seeking the approval of others makes us stronger.

THINK FOR A MINUTE.... exactly how effective is the UN?

chris

what r u talking about? u waiting for another a few months after 9/11 and you think we prevented it? are you kidding? it was a coordinated hijacking not a military strike! it was done by 19 saudi arabians and we attacked afghanistan and iraq. god is definetely not on your side. there has been two terroist attacks in the last 20 yrs thats an average of 1 every 10 yrs you think there was gonna be another one after a few months? you must not read much at all. look at what happens when you fight terrorism with military action it usually doesnt work. you represent the republican base. uninformed, uneducated and unbelievable!!!

I hope our President have a wonderful trip and is able to accomplish his goals also return home safely.

Obama Victim

WE ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION. Our founding fathers made it absolutely clear. Maybe if you and others would read a little bit about when they discussed the bill of rights and the constitution you would learn a few things. Instead you just mouth off about Obama without a clue of the truth.

DBob18–from my calculations of this blog–80% of haters are on the liberal side–very few people on the right–the left makes accusations even when the blog id 100% liberal–or–someone moderates all the righties!?

Did the CBS guy catch his bow?

Proud DHS radical

the price of gas when bush was prez was 5 dollars a gallon!!! my god you people just dont give up on your idea that we didnty like bush only because he was a republican! he was a moron and he almost destroyed this country! THATS why we didnt like him! grow up

Obama Victim

do you still think that by calling obama "barack hussein obama" you are offending him in any way? hahha i love the comments made by people like you. america is NOT a christian nation. george washington even said that. thomas jefferson said it as well. religion is losing its grip on this country thankfully. look at this article. we are talking about how muslims view america. how other people with superstitions view people over here with superstitions. in the 20th century we are still trapped by our own minds!

Hillary STILL would have been a BETTER president.

Obama is bad news for the entire world, not just the US.

You know, no matter how many times you wing nuts post on here, you are still only 20% of the population, which won't win you anything. Keep this up, and that number will go lower. The old wing nuts have to go some time.

watched the president arrive in saudi live this morning. nice reception. lots of people. i noticed though...not a very popular place for the ladies. i saw 2. and they were both Americans!

As much as I agree with PaulMoATX about Obama's need to be respectful during this tour through the middle east, I do think it's time the White House adopted much sterner language with the Saudis. The uncomfortable truth is that a large amount of the insurgents and suicide bombers - perhaps a majority of them - that have been indiscriminately murdering soldiers and civilians in Iraq were militant Wahhabiists imported by Saudi Arabia, likely with the implicit blessing of the royal family.

Of course, we couldn't do anything about that for the past 6 years, could we? Because our president was merrily holding hands with King Abdullah, even as he sent his little militant Wahhabiist friends to murder our soldiers. Really, Bush's cronyistic relationship with the Saudi royal family was the biggest crack in his mideast policy. With that no longer a factor, I would love to see Obama finally get tough with them.

bowing???true colors????bin ladin remarks????some of you have shown your true colors...hate

"barking republican ankle biters" – You are delusional!
Adele – I don't care what they do in Japan...A sitting American President does not BOW to anyone.

@Fair is Fair who said:" ...As such, he should not have to "confer" with a despotic king about ANYTHING"

That bubble-headed king of the world mentality did us a world of good under the shrub; pretty much placing us in the predicament we're in today where no one wants to talk to us, nor much less listen. Have you not noticed that WE'VE been cut- off from the rest of the world?

Pres. Obama is a true gentleman. I am REALLY glad that Obama won the election...Prior to this election cycle, I falsely assumed that most Americans were at least marginally informed about the way our government works, its history and its place in world affairs. I assumed that most could spell correctly and were capable of critical thinking. I WAS WRONG! These blogs have revealed to me the level of ignorance, obstinence, selfishness and immaturity that exist in the American public. The "Me" culture is an understatement. Grow up America! Learn to have an intelligent debate w/o resorting to childish name-calling. Become gentlemen & ladies again instead of the ignorant, uncultured, uncouth, selfish, power-hungry babarians that the rest of the world is accusing us of being! ...and now I see why.

MUSLIMS AREN'T BAD PEOPLE. The biggest issue here is that there are certain SECTS of Muslim that are the trouble. The rest are living their lives like we are.

Just like over here in America: Christians aren't bad people either. But there are Christians over here that are so zealous that they never forgive, always judge, practice schadenfreude regularly, run their mouths on anyone who will listen, lie/misdirect to achieve their own ends, and even get blood thirsty to perform some kind of ethnic cleansing against the Muslims.

Get the plank out of your own eye before you look at the splinter in theirs, you losers. And if you can't do anything but bluster in response to this, then don't bother to post.

CNN, you've been letting quite a few of my comments go lately, so if you post anything, please post this one. Thanks.

While Obama is making the rounds kissing up to the Musilm world maybe he can drop by Osama's cave and apologize for the way he has been treated.
Now that Obama has hamstrung the American intelligence community and Pelosi has called them all liars we probably are not going to get much information as in the past.
Although we don't need much national security if we are going follow Obama's plan and lay down and roll over for every other country.

DBob 18....strong arm these countries? are you kidding? listen genius...you 'strong arm' the weak and the innocent. what we did was step up and kick the asses of the guilty. any of their nnocents that we may have killed (before alqaeda and the taliban got around to killing them thereselves) were THEIR fault. do we rally need to list all of the pre-9/11 terrorists acts again? you have no pride not does your president.

and would you like to meet a 'hater?' just talk to any liberal democrat after the 2000 election. the left gave new meaning to the word after that. the wars in iraq and afghanistan were brillantly politisized by your side. congrats! it simply made us look weak (which you are anyway) and buried some soldiers. nice job! must feel nice being so right.

I wonder if he'll bow again.

Or use a teleprompter.

Or ACORN.

Or be a muslim/christian

Or other talking point!

When he holds the King's hand and sticks his tongue down his ear, let me know.

I fully hope he will bow to the Saudi King, apologize to the Arab world, and highlight his "muslim" roots.

This way we can push Obama Victim over the edge. You would have never been a victim if not for Operation Chaos and the butter fingers of BUSH.

You should thank them at the next Klan get together you see them at.

pakuna June 3rd, 2009 12:22 pm ET wrote:

he more then likely crawled on all fours to the feet of the king and licked the kings feet. He will undoubtedly tell the Muslims that America will bow down to them before its all over. obama is a traitor, and he is not the president of the united states. he has yet to prove he is a born citizen.
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If he's not the President, then who is he. Who is that person that has been signing bills and bring this country back together. What planet are you living on?

Wow Fair is Fair all this time I thought you were a Man. Perhaps you are and you still have a Husband?

@steph ..."FYI – I am a Christian, and I believe strongly in the separation of church and state."

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What a breath of fresh air...too bad others don't share your vision. I'm an aethiest but respect other's beliefs and don't try to force it on others either. Freedom of/from Religion is what is supposed to be protected in this country.

I feel sorry for people like Steve and Matt on this board. Steve is saying that Obama has to prove he is a natural born citizen. Dude, when will people like you stop this ridiculous thinking. I bet if they brought a copy of his birth certificate to you and handed it to you on a silver platter you still wouldn't believe it. And what does your rant have to do with the subject matter anyway?

@ Matthew in Detroit....... You GOPers continue to spew the LIES that you started during the 2008 campaign. You still believe that President Obama is a Muslim!

So........ since you brand Obama a Muslim, you must hate Muslims.

And the GOP also hates women & Latinos...... since you brand one of us, a racist!

And you expect to win an election in 2010???

ed...what you said is perfect! Hit the nail on the head with that one!

There is so much hate coming from the Democrats on this board that you become blind to what is going on in the world! Obama needs to start being proud of America rather than trashing it on every trip he takes. He is giving the haters of America more power with his words. I hope that he realizes it because he is generating more division rather than healing. The extreme Muslims hate us and always will. He needs to put them on the defensive rather than always America and Israel!

@ Proud DHS Radical, who said "Maybe Obama can persuade the King to stop his country funding of the Taliban, since it was Saudis who who created the Taliban in the first place. "

And it was us who armed them. Your point?

Michelle touches the Queen: GOPers scream "the wife of the leader of the free world doesn't understand and can't follow protocol, what a disrespectful hussy!!"

Obama bows slightly to the Saudi King in a traditional show of respect to royalty (i.e., protocol): GOPers have an aneurism.

Honestly, I'm starting to think I'd like Obama to actually do something taht is a mess-up, instead of all these trumped up fake controversies created by the GOPers...it'll probably cause a good number of GOPers to have heart attacks and we can be rid of some of them.

Unfortunately because we Americans refuse to switch to alternative fuels and some of us continue to believe in the myth that we could drill our way to energy independence, our energy supply and, thus, our economy depends on our president (regardless of party) kissing up to dictators like Moammar Khaddafi, the king of Saudi Arabia (nameless since one Saudi king isn't any different from any other Saudi king) and Hosni Mubarak.

And kissing up to the dictators who own us is called "mending US-Muslim relations."

Quit bashing all Muslims. There are extremists in every religion. Look at the nut who killed the abortion doctor. He belongs to some fundamental "pro-life" sect of the Christian conservatives. Apparently pro-life doesn't always count, only when they decide.

And the Catholics have their pedofile priest and bishops (and I'm Catholic).

I have a Muslim friend who is the kindest, gentlest person on earth. His every action in life is based on his religion. He is a much better Muslim and person than I am a Catholic.

lol.... fear and ignorance . glad to know the republican base is hard at work being the stereotype the other 80% of our population deem them to be.

on the bright side, a dear friend who has been a STAUNCH republican for the 30 years I've known him told me this last weekend that he can't stomach the GOP these days. He's gone indy.

So BRAVO to the republicans! making sure they will be of no consequence for a very long time.

By the way, President Obama is doing an exceptional job with the mess he chose to tackle. I don't think there's a politician out there equiped with the world knowledge, intellect and calm demeanor he has. Makes this white southern professional proud to have him as my President.

@ Rob, who said "The man is selling the country up the river. "

Right, because the 10,000 nukes we have pointed all over the globe really have nothing to do with whether other countries fear and respect us...and they certainly have nothing to do with why Iran and NK want their own nuclear arsenal...we have to chest-thump like horny gorillas rather than act rational and diplomatic, otherwise the world will implode.

Apology Tour part 2. One thing we are unlikely to hear is Obama calling on all the so called moderate Muslims to step up and start confronting their radical brethren. Of course, it's a lost cause because we ARE AT WAR with Islam. The only difference is they know it and we don't. It's them or us, and Obama his picked his side, theirs.

This pretty much sums up a liberal.................

Light travel faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Paul MoATX:

No harm, no foul. My husband will get a kick out of it.

For starters Obama can beg the King to lower the price of oil since the prices at the pumps are climbing again, but I guess we only felt the pain at the pumps when Bush was President, where's the outcry from the media and leftist on this issue?

2. Maybe Obama can persuade the King to stop his country funding of the Taliban, since it was Saudis who who created the Taliban in the first place. When I was living in Riyadh, the Saudis were holding fund raisers to support not only the Taliban but the Chechen rebels, Kosov rebels and the Abu Sayyaf fighters to name a few.

A comment by Pukuna: "He has yet to prove he is a born citizen"
2 websites proving that McCain was not a natural born citizen
U.S. District court of New Hampshire case number 1-2008-cv-00099
which ruled he was a native born citizen of Panama and a naturalized citizen of the U.S. turned into around 4 million websites and cost McCain the election.
OBAMA NEEDS TO PROVE HE IS A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

Fair is Fair – Your "analysis" is faulty from the get-go. You even got my gender wrong.

Yeah, I should have left that paragraph out, as it really didn't have any relevance to our debate/discussion, my apologies (yes, I apologized and was accountable, how hard was that?). Hopefully you took note of my other solid comments.

For all you haters out there,

Where was all this hating when all of the business ties between the Bush's and the Saudi royal family came out? Do you really think neither the 41st or the 43rd president has never bowed to the Saudi Royalty.

8 years of hate and trying to strong arm these countries never got us anywhere. Believe me I'm in no way saying we should go abroad and bash our country but what I don't think you realize is the past administration did alot of things wrong and made many wrong decisions that need to be at least aknowledged.

Bin Ladden has issued a new warning blaming Obama for the killing of Muslims. Bin Ladden must be getting delusional. He must have meant Bush because everyone knows the world loves Obama and he is going to bring World peace. I am surprised all terrorism has not stopped now that Bush is out of office. From what I read on these boards, the World was a peace loving place before Bush took office.

Limbaughs paid "street teamers" are trying to distract us from the mission.Ignor them and post your massages.Dont waste your time responding to them,that is their goal and its all they have.

Muslims are terrorists? But what is that guy that shot the doctor yesterday? Yea, that's right, a TERRORIST, Not Muslim. One of those right wing gutter trash freaks!

There goes the old "Muslims are terrorists' theory. Every time the GOP tries to make a point, one of their neo-con extremist freaks of nature goes and kills someone.

Muslims are not the terrorists, nor the biggest threat to americans. The GOP, aka "The American Taliban" are!

cassandra washington is right. i still remember how i felt after 9/11. but almost as worse was what i saw on 9/12...jubilation that thousands of our countrymen and women, innocent that is, were dead. i also know how i felt for months after 9/11. waiting for the next attack. but they weren't ready to follow up...and our guys stepped up. they kicked their butts on their own soil, and kept them away from ours.

they'll eventually respect the west. when they finally go to far and provoke the real war. take a look very closely at each others cultural/religious beliefs. then ask yourself, whose corner do you really believe God is in? it will be very sad. but it will also be very right.

a new beginning with the muslim world Mr. Obama? try very hard not to be suckered!

@ phoenix86

My IQ is bigger than your fearless leader George Bush. Riddle me this then, why is it that people in your party can't have an honest debate on why the President has to mend our relations with the Muslim world? Is it because your cowboy leader has tarnished our name so badly? Why do Arab newspapers still post pictures of the abuses at Abu Ghraib on their front pages? But let me guess, you want more pictures released that will endanger our troops. What's wrong with righting or wrongs? Don't let the cat bite your tongue.

Paul MoATX:

"You're one of those guys who would request marriage to a woman by bypassing requesting her hand in marriage because you felt as though you were entitled to the woman. I suspect you have issues with control and women also, but I'll stop there with the analysis."
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Your "analysis" is faulty from the get-go. You even got my gender wrong.

phoenix86 go back to school to learn how to spell.

@Ray Ray who said: "Strange – when Obama was running for president he couldn't run fastest enough from his Muslim heritage. . ."
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Perhaps you were too busy to keep up with President Obama during his presidental campaigning?

Fair is Fair – Oh, believe me – I understand the word "respect". The fact is, Obama is the POTUS and defacto leader of the free world. As such, he should not have to "confer" with a despotic king about ANYTHING.

See, that's where you are wrong my friend, and that is the problem with many partisan Americans who blindly followed that kind of cowboy recklessness ways of the previous administration. You people think the US "owns" the world, but that is obviously not the case.

You're one of those guys who would request marriage to a woman by bypassing requesting her hand in marriage because you felt as though you were entitled to the woman. I suspect you have issues with control and women also, but I'll stop there with the analysis.

Again, you don't understand the word respect, but you have a good sense of what dictatorship is.

Some of us is some of us is not some of us ackonledge some dont for eight or nine hundred years no women say a lot about the mind of a human.

Yes, we do have a stake in the well-being of the muslim world –ESPECIALLY THE MUSLIM WOMEN WHO ARE BRUTALIZED AND OPPRESSED!! Let's not turn a blind eye to the unjust treatment of women and grils in Muslim culture, let's not ignore THEIR superiority complex about THEIR faith. I am a black woman who traveled in the Middle East for six months a dozen years ago. They are very adept at playing the martar. They do nothing wrong. I hope Obama isn't going to go so far as to appease them. Women are oppressed and brutalized in the Muslim world, that's a fact. The Wahabist, the religious police in Saudi Arabia will cane a woman for driving or walking on the street alone and execute her for having sex before or outside her marriage–KILL–end her life! I mean, why is this okay in any part of the world? The challenge isn't just ours and Israel's, IT"S THEIRS TOO!!

People forget that the goal since the Muslim religion started and is still their goal today and always will be their goal is to conquer the world for their God Allah.

Dutch,

I see your IQ hasn't improved since yesterday. Still no real arguements in defense of your leader, just the tired attack posture typical of liberal dems.

@Obama Victim...

I don't get it. We do have a large Muslim population in the United States (peaceful, patriotic, wonderful people who are contributing to our overall success as a nation in so many ways). We are NOT a Theocracy so we cannot be a Christian nation. I believe the followers of Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism (and many others) and non-believers would agree that we are not and should not be a Christian nation. FYI – I am a Christian, and I believe strongly in the separation of church and state.

Muslims aren't the enemy...extremists (of all kinds) are the problem.

How utterly boring you right wingers have become with your incessent talk of Barrack the Muslim, bowing, and other apologistic and nonsensical rhetoric. Perhaps your repetitiveness on such subjects stems from the continual need convince yourselves of your own narrow mindedness?

I loved it when Bush kissed the Saudi King on the lips then walked hand in hand with him around a flower garden for 20 mins. How soon the Rethugs forget, trying to rewrite history again, oh and remember when Bush Sr. was standing next to Bin Ladens brother when 9/11 happened and then the next day Bush allowed all of Bin Ladens family to fly out of the country without questioning them? Then did nothing to Saudi Arabia even though the attackers were mostly Saudi?? Are you people blind???

Although all of the information was not classified it should not have been released. Good job Obama.
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Some people are just retarded. If it's not classified, then that means someone ELSE released it, ya see, because it's not classified. But go right ahead and blame Obama for the moon not being the sun.

Maybe he can trade California for oil?? More likely, for nothing but an airkiss or two. The black Carter rides again!!

MatthewDetroit – It is nice that Barack a Kenyan Muslim will bow to the Saudi Arabian King.
Too bad people are still blind to his true colors.
He is selling our country away and will walk all over the constitution.
By his own words he thinks the Constitution is a bad document.

I feel sorry for people like you Matt, I really do. Any halfway decent educated human being knows that the President is not a Muslim. Though if he was, what is wrong with that? Working in IT, I have many Muslim friends and they are great people. Only people like you equate Muslims with terrorists, but you forget people like Timothy McVeigh and Eric Robert Rudolph, who were terrorists and not Muslim. Being a Muslim also wouldn't disqualify Barack Obama from being POTUS.

It's the continued use of fear tactics that people like you continue to try and use, but the problem is, those tactics only work on the uneducated and misinformed who don't know how to Google to research the real facts, which you of course fail to convey in your post. Oh, and good job on parsing facts, you right-wing nut jobs are really good at that.

@TCM.Your the tool.The men and woman fighting are just doing their jobs and Im proud of them.Its numbnuts like you that sent them there,moron.

It's amazing that all the Republicans are concerned about Obama bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia but had nothing to say about the Dim Son swapping spit with him and then holding hands as they walked down flirtation walk.

Obama Victim, America is not a Christian nation. Last time I checked we were a pluralistic democratic republic of sorts. If you want to live in a theocracy, move to Iran. Have a nice day!

@ wake-me-when-it's-over, who said "The winds of appeasement are beginning to blow. "

The only winds I'm feeling is the insipid flatulence emanating from the mouths of all the GOPers out there who are still so angry and bitter about losing in November 2008 that they are willing to say anything, no matter how irrational, to find something about Obama's Middle East strategy to criticize. You might want to try comparing what he's doing to Reagan's diplomatic overtures and interactions with the Big Bad Commy USSR in the 80's and then do a little thinking before you re-open your pie holes to retart your political farting.

I think the situation in the Arab countries is so tense that there is no room for any maneuver from the US to pressure the Arab leaders for more Democracy,any attempt would be translated wrong from Arab ppl it self,at this time.Any change thought would benefit 90 % of people.They live under dictatorship for so long,they don't know other then corrupt and controlling governments.The only "freedom" they have is the religion and blaming the West especially the US for their own problems/impotent leaders. All the Arab leaders are dictators from Morocco to S. Arabia,it's about time the Arab people take their future on their own hands and get rid of those dictators in power and clear the way for some young fresh brains to lead them.

You know even John Stewart is making fun of how during the election you were racist if you brought up Obama's muslim ties and now he is running around the globe touting those very ties.

He calls America is the largest muslim nation and yet says things like We aren't a Christian nation. Why can we be a muslim nation but not a Christian one?

MatthewDetroit,

It is nice that Barack a Kenyan Muslim will bow to the Saudi Arabian King.
Too bad people are still blind to his true colors.
He is selling our country away and will walk all over the constitution.
By his own words he thinks the Constitution is a bad document.
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Man, you really need to tone down your hateful rhetoric...what would be the big deal if Barack was a Muslim? Do you hate Muslims, or do you just disagree with the President's policies. If it is the former, Mr. MatthewDetroit, you are no better the the extreme fanatics (Muslims & Christians) that are just intent on hating, as opposed to healing...Man, you sound really sick, and I pray to your GOD and Allah that you are healed of this hatefullness.

Sincerely,

To Phil and "bowing". I was raised in Japan, We bow all the time, it's a sign of respect. Educate yourself with other people's traditions.

I think better relations is a two-way street. Muslims need to gain respect of the West. All of you people who think it is so bad that Muslims don't trust us have easily forgotten all the bombings all over the world committed by Muslims. These people were dancing in the streets after the 9/11 bombing!

Yeah I missed it, did he bow to the king? So on this 'Sorry' tour, he'll kiss butt with the Saudis, the Egyptians, and then he'll go to the D-Day ceremony and apologise to the Germans for Normandy.

I like the post by "katiec" who said he/she is proud of how Obama's representing the country. Typical lib obliviousness. The man is selling the country up the river. 3 years from now we'll have no US automakers, our country will have been attacked probably 2 or 3 more times, and while everyone who's smart will be counting down the days til this menace is out of office, people like you will still be singing his praises. Enjoy the koolaid.

Wow!. Look at all the extreme right wingers out in full force. It's about 20 of you guys on here. Is bowing to royalty and attacking a man's race the best you can come up with? I guess it is. That's what Boss Limbaugh and Newt the Grinch tells ya'll to do. Keep up the good work haters.

AndrewW,
How is me saying that our President should not bow to the king of a nation that treat women deplorably and treat its citizens equally as bad equivilant to killing or spitting on everyone who we don't see eye to eye with? Also, referring to me a "you people" seems pretty harsh. It sounds like you are the one with preconceived notions. And yes I have first hand experience of Saudi life, so I feel free to criticize it.

Obama tells Al Arabiya TV,

""I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim
countries."

Strange – when Obama was running for President he couldn't run FAST ENOUGH from his muslim heritage. NOW – he is fully embracing and bragging about it??

Must be quite hilarious – how Barack Hussein Obama duped many Americans into voting his socialist muslim-sympathizer into office!

@ Obama Victim
You are still one sick racist. You take statements out of content and believe anything others nut jobs tell you and you never verify anything you post.

If President Obama managed to bring peace to the world and fix the economy so that everyone became a millionaire, you would give the credit to someone else to keep you from admitting that he did something good.

You are a poor excuse for a human being. In fact you are a poor excuse for anything.

It will be interesting when BHO decides to address the Christians of the world. Maybe he will tell them that we have more in common with them than they think we do.

he more then likely crawled on all fours to the feet of the king and licked the kings feet. He will undoubtedly tell the Muslims that America will bow down to them before its all over. obama is a traitor, and he is not the president of the united states. he has yet to prove he is a born citizen.

nothing but an apologist loser.

This is a speach, right? Just a speach. Can we tone down the hyperbole, please.

I wish our President Godspeed. This is one instance where his middle name, Hussein, will work in his favor. Sotomayor had it right, even if it was taken out of context. It helps to have something in common where both parties can say "okay, you're more likely to understand where I'm coming from". And if it takes an acknowledegement by the President that we did not have the best relations with this part of the Middle East, then so be it. We're looking to change, not only the way we are perceived over there, but also the way we've dealt with them in the past. Without at least of modicum of mutual respect, further negotiations will be futile.

@ MatthewDetroit, who said "Too bad people are still blind to his true colors."

Indeed...and you, Captain Moron, appear to be the leader of that pack with your nonsensical claims that he's not american and not a christian. Keep it up tho...you and your ilk are like walkin political cartoons, and I suppose if I had a choice of characters to make the analogy, it would be good ole Wile E. Coyote, who proved for most children astute enough to understand that ill intentions destroy those who have them, not those they seek to destroy.

"King Saudi, lovely is he, meets with Obaaaahhmaaaaa...
Genuflect, show some respect, down on one kneeeeeee..."

TCM has to be the head writer for the Glenn Beck Show.

@ Paul MoATX:

Oh, believe me – I understand the word "respect". The fact is, Obama is the POTUS and defacto leader of the free world. As such, he should not have to "confer" with a despotic king about ANYTHING.

Did Obama give the king a kiss and hold his hand like the Crawford Cowboy did?

Bravo Mr. President. The time for a dialogue with Muslin nations is long overdue and I am proud to have you represent us on the world stage.

For all you GOPers who want to characterize Obama's actions as apologizing, you're not fooling anyone. We ALL (yes, even you too) know that what really bothers you is that making amends mainly represents accepting responsibility and holding ourselves accountable FOR THE ACTIONS OF A REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION OVER THE PAST 8 YEARS. As we ALL know (yes, even you too), the Republicans NEVER accept responsibility and avoid accountability at all costs...even at the expense of destroying themselves as they've been doing the past 6 months. Moreover, you simply don't want him to succeed because that would ruin you further...and your fear that he will is expressed as your hope that what he's doing will backfire through your nonsense about it making us less safe. When it comes down to brass tacks, you hate muslims...you really honestly do...and you're complete irrational about it, hoping that we will continue to have a boogeyman you can scare people with so the election issue can be all about who will keep us more safe. Reality is, most of us have woken up and realized that what you're really doing is proving you're the ones who will keep us most scared...and we're tired of being afraid.

It looks lie the conspiracy right wing nuts are out in force today using the usual mindless talking points.

Here is an idea, try supporting america and the president while he is abroad un-doing the years of fear driven and misguided foreign policy of the Bush years.........

and oh by the way what ever happened to bringing in OBL dead or alive. Republicans are a joke and mindless chicken hawks.

Fair is Fair-

There are so many things that you don't get. Just keep on second guessing, it becomes you.

I hope he convinces the saoudi's to keep the price of oil low until we don't need that oil no more.
I also hope his trip will help change the mind of some religion extremists who hide behind the religion to push their agenda or force people to believe the christians hate the muslims while they are making a lot of money on their back sending them to die for nothing.
Believe it or not it's a lucrative business for the muslim extremists to continue their war.

Fair is Fair – So why soes he have to confer with the Saudi king on a speech to be given in Egypt? To receive his blessing? I just don't get it.

That's because you don't understand the word respect.

It is nice that Barack a Kenyan Muslim will bow to the Saudi Arabian King.
Too bad people are still blind to his true colors.
He is selling our country away and will walk all over the constitution.
By his own words he thinks the Constitution is a bad document.

The winds of appeasement are beginning to blow. President Obama's
muslim exposure, scarcely qualifies him to be one of them. Though that is the approach he is known to use, whether he is being black, being white, or being what the moment requires. Some would say that
he is just well rounded. To me, he is still searching for his identity, and
expediency is what drives him. A chameleon? Yes, they too understand change.

It is very nice that we have Barack that bows down to a king.
The guy has no respect for his own country but defends the arab world.
You people have saddled yourself to a bad guy. You wont realize it for several years and then you will have regret.
Hopefully he doesnt give the country away.

Newsflash, Barack White House Wrongly released Nuclear weapon and sight information. Although all of the information was not classified it should not have been released. Good job Obama.

We're proud and pulling for you Mr. President. Continue to work hard and make us proud, as there is a lot of work to do to regain respect in the world that was lost over the past 8 years of failed foreign policy.

Obama Bin Laden.... Please just stay there, it is quite obvious that you are more for apologizing for the American people than trying to protect. For once stand up instead of bow!!! we are sick of you apologizing...Most of us are Proud Americans!!!

Hey Mr. President, while you're over there could you try and find Osama bin Laden? The Republicans couldn't do it. We'll leave to the real leaders such as yourself to do what they couldn't do for 8 long years. P.S. I'm sure the Saudi Prince will give President Obama the clothes that Bush left at his palace the last time him, Daddy Bush and Laura slept over.

So will begin the ignorant remarks from the right when in fact they know that no Republican would be able to do what the President is able to do. Imagine any Republican leader attempting to give a speech any where in the world.

The best the Republicans have are back sniping, Romney, talking points based on lies and going on a "listening tour" drawing 50 people to a strip mall pizza parlour.

I wish our President safety and applaud his courageous stand in trying to actually work for peace.

Well, since Mari trashed GWB for visting Saudia Arabia, lets see if she does the same for her hero.

Barack Hussein Obama looks very comfortable......well..........he is with his people..............hope he stops to see the family

Bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia? In his african heritage age has a very important place in human relationship.So it is normal for an african-american to bow to an ELDER!

Phil, you people will never understand. If we kill and spit on everyone who doesn't see eye to eye with us... how will that make us any different than our enemy?

Every person who were not rich in this country bowed and it were not a color thin it were the all mighty dollar there were no white or black just who had it and who did not. Said enough.

The article states, "These Egyptians feared Obama might not discuss with Mubarak long-sought problems like the need for democracy and political reform."

Why would he want to discuss that? Obama's regime is implementing Socialism here at home as quickly as he can. Either the liberals' hate for Bush and the GOP has blinded them to what Obama is up too, or they just don't care about this country retaining its freedom.

Newt Gingrich has as much credibility as Dick Cheney...dare I say None !

@barking republican ankle biters -

more like a barking idiot; why don't you just slap the faces of the miltary men and women fighting to keep your liberal punk-ass safe?

Obama's over there to try and establish some type of "world order,' to fulfill his ego...

So why soes he have to confer with the Saudi king on a speech to be given in Egypt? To receive his blessing? I just don't get it.

Barack Hussein Obama recently said,

"if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world".

Didn't he also recently say, "America is not a Christian nation"?

Didn't he just tell Israeli leader Nentanyahu to acquiesse to Palestinian & Arab demands?

Didn't he promise Palestine (hamas) $1 Billion??

Wasn't the VERY FIRST tv interviews he gave after winning in November with Al Arabia TV?

Obama is a disgrace and doesn't hesitate in trashing the US whenever and where ever possible. I fully expect he will bow to the Saudi King, apologize to the Arab world, and highlight his "muslim" roots.

Stay safe President Obama.
We are proud of you representing us and our country.

Gobama!

I think the Saudis are hiding Bin Laden.I dont think hes in a cave.Bush and Cheney let him get away so they could appease the family,keep the oil flowing,and use him as a boogyman when ever needed.

Will our President be bowing to the King again? Saudia Arabia stands for everything the U.S. is against in as far as equal rights amongst women and men, rights in general, etc., so I find it disgraceful that our leader would bow.