Obama '08?

Obama Defends Rights Of American Muslims: 'We Don't Differentiate Between Them And Us -- It's Just Us'
Jillian Rayfield | September 10, 2010, 12:55PM

President Obama concluded his press conference today with a statement on the importance of protecting the rights of American Muslims. "We don't differentiate between them and us," he said. "It's just us. And that is a principle that I think is going to be very important for us to sustain."

Obama was asked about the controversial Park51 Islamic center, and said: "I think I've been pretty clear on my position here. And that is: This country stands for the proposition that all men and women are created equal, that they have certain inalienable rights, and one of those inalienable rights is to practice their religion freely."

"What that means," he continued, "is that if you could build a church on a site, you could build a synagogue on a site, if you could build a Hindu temple on a site, then you should be able to build a mosque on the site."

"We've got millions of Muslim Americans, our fellow citizens in this country," Obama said. "They're going to school with our kids. They're our neighbors. They're our friends. They're our coworkers. And when we start acting as if their religion is somehow offensive, what are we saying to them?"

He continued that there are also Muslims fighting in Afghanistan: "They're out there putting their lives on the line for us, and we've got to make sure that we are crystal clear for our sakes and their sakes -- they are Americans, and we honor their service."

I never thought I would see the day in America when people who consider themselves smart are praising the likes of Fidel Castro. this forum has gotten so bizarre as to be nothing short of amazing, and extremely disappointing as well to see fellow Americans express such anti-American and anti-liberty views.

The Miami Herald
October 8, 2000

Castro's Family

While they live comfortably, compared to the grinding
shortages faced by most Cubans, they are under
strict orders to avoid ostentatious behavior and live
austerely, far from the limelight, acquaintances say.

``They don't dress any better than anyone else,'' said
Castro's daughter, Alina Fernández, now living in
Spain. ``On the contrary, they are required to at least
project an image of austerity for the rest of the
Cubans.''

Added exile author Norberto Fuentes: ``The most
avaricious cabinet minister lives no better than the
average Cuban in Miami. He has one car, not two. An
air conditioner in the car? No air conditioner.''

Unlike other Latin dictators, he promotes no cult of
personality.

Most Latin American dictators have sought to glorify
themselves. The Dominican Republic's Rafaél Trujillo
renamed his nation's capital city and highest mountain
after himself, and Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner put
up huge posters of himself around Asunción streets.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/fidel/castro-family.htm

Look at how Castro lives. His manner of dress is hardly fancy. He doesn't doesn't flit around the globe spending his country's money on himself.

Quote:

The Miami Herald
October 8, 2000

Castro's Family

While they live comfortably, compared to the grinding
shortages faced by most Cubans, they are under
strict orders to avoid ostentatious behavior and live
austerely, far from the limelight, acquaintances say.

``They don't dress any better than anyone else,'' said
Castro's daughter, Alina Fernández, now living in
Spain. ``On the contrary, they are required to at least
project an image of austerity for the rest of the
Cubans.''

Added exile author Norberto Fuentes: ``The most
avaricious cabinet minister lives no better than the
average Cuban in Miami. He has one car, not two. An
air conditioner in the car? No air conditioner.''

Unlike other Latin dictators, he promotes no cult of
personality.

Most Latin American dictators have sought to glorify
themselves. The Dominican Republic's Rafaél Trujillo
renamed his nation's capital city and highest mountain
after himself, and Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner put
up huge posters of himself around Asunción streets.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/fidel/castro-family.htm

http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/rummel/com.tab1.gif
TABLE 1 {a}
COMMUNIST DEMOCIDE
REGIME..................................YEARS...............DEMOCIDE.......ANNUAL RATE %
...
Cuba........................................1959-87....................73,000..............0.028
...
SUBTOTALS ................................1900-87.........106,267,000...........0.477
...
{a} From R.J. Rummel, Death by Government Genocide and Mass Murder in the Twentieth Century, (Transaction Publishers, 1994)
...

IMPEACH OBAMA.

and that it makes it okay that thousands of Cubans have died from the actions of Castro, many of them as political prisoners executed by Castro.

After all, a lowly okie I am, as ignorant as they come, I still believe that communism is an evil system and I still believe in freedom and liberty and the Declaration of Independence, all outmoded ideas.

Thanks to whoever educated you to these wonderful revelations, I am guessing it might have been some really smart elitist professors at some university, probably not in Oklahoma? After all, all okies are ignorant hicks and rednecks, right?

I left the CIA, I decided that the American people needed to know what we'd done in Angola, what we'd done in Vietnam. I wrote my book. I was fortunate - I got it out. It was a best-seller. A lot of people read it. I was able to take my story to the American people. Got on 60 minutes, and lots and lots of other shows.

I testified to the Congress and then I began my education in earnest, after having been taught to fight communists all my life. I went to see what communists were all about. I went to Cuba to see if they do in fact eat babies for breakfast. And I found they don't. I went to Budapest, a country that even national geographic admits is working nicely. I went to Jamaica to talk to Michael Manley about his theories of social democracy.

I went to Grenada and established a dialogue with Maurice Bishop and Bernard Cord and Phyllis Cord, to see - these were all educated people, and experienced people - and they had a theory, they had something they wanted to do, they had rationales and explanations - and I went repeatedly to hear them. And then of course I saw the U.S., the CIA mounting a covert action against them, I saw us orchestrating our plan to invade the country. 19 days before he was killed, I was in Grenada talking to Maurice Bishop about these things, these indicators, the statements in the press by Ronald Reagan, and he and I were both acknowledging that it was almost certain that the U.S. would invade Grenada in the near future.

I read as many books as I could find on the subject - book after book after book. I've got several hundred books on the shelf over my desk on the subject of U.S. national security interests. And by the way, I urge you to read. In television you get capsules of news that someone else puts together what they want you to hear about the news. In newspapers you get what the editors select to put in the newspaper. If you want to know about the world and understand, to educate yourself, you have to get out and dig, dig up books and articles for yourself. Read, and find out for yourselves. As you'll see, the issues are very, very important.

I also was able to meet the players, the people who write, the people who have done studies, people who are leading different situations. I went to Nicaragua a total of 7 times. This was a major covert action. It lasted longer and evolved to be bigger than what we did in Angola. It gave me a chance, after running something from Washington, to go to a country that was under attack, to talk to the leadership, to talk to the people, to look and see what happens when you give white phosporous or grenades or bombs or bullets to people, and they go inside a country, to go and talk to the people, who have been shot, or hit, or blown up....

We're talking about 10 to 20 thousand covert actions [the CIA has performed since 1961]. What I found was that lots and lots of people have been killed in these things.... Some of them are very, very bloody.

I'm just curious when okie is going to apologize to me for saying I lied about him saying "impeach Obama".

http://able2know.org/topic/71145-1371#post-3715816

okie wrote:

IMPEACH OBAMA.

The radical is not a reformer of the system but its would-be destroyer;
The revolutionary’s purpose is to undermine the system;
The radical is building his own kingdom, a kingdom of heaven on earth;
The radical underrmines the system by taking from the haves and giving it to the have nots;
The most basic principle for radicals is lie to opponents;
The issue is never the issue;
The issue is always the revolution;
The radical organizer does not have a fixed truth—truth to him is relative and changing;
The stated cause is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause;
The real cause is the accumulation of power to make the revolution.

okies = rednecks; seems plausible.

Your disagreement and disdain is duly noted Cyclo.

How you feeling about our bet now?