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...populist superstar of Fox News has made a refrain of predicting that government policies are leading to disaster - dark, ruinous, blood-in-the-streets kind of disaster. Pausing for a 17-minute speech rebutting his critics for calling him "dangerous" and "crazy," he took out the block-tower game. On opposite sides of the tower were written the words solution and problem, taxpayer and children. Then he spent much of the hour critiquing the plan, all the while pulling pieces from the wobbling tower and stacking them on top. (Read an interview with Glenn Beck...
...During the speech itself, Obama charmed the crowd with an ease that should no longer surprise anyone. There is a reason he was elected president with flying colors, a reason he has a 66-percent approval rating while the party of his opponents, the GOP, polled its lowest approval rating this week in the 25-year period the question has been asked. Obama spoke at length of the Czech Republic’s history and road to independence, flawlessly pronouncing the Czech phrase for “Velvet Revolution,” the movement that ousted Communism from the country...
Imagine walking into a room of expectant dignitaries you have never met to give a speech moderated by hosts known to have been critical of you. A daunting situation, to be sure—unless you are the president of the world’s most high-profile nation. Unless you are Barack Obama...
...Obama also used his first visit to a Muslim country to send a message of reconciliation to the greater Islamic world. "America is not, and will never be, at war with Islam," he declared in his address to Turkish MPs. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Obama's speech "reflects a clear attention toward the two-state solution" for Israel and the Palestinians and described Obama's words as "important" and "positive...
...have helped that Obama introduced a personal tone to his appeal. Introduced as "Barack Hussein Obama" before his parliamentary speech, he referred to his own identity as the son of a Kenyan Muslim and his upbringing in Indonesia. "The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans," he told the Turkish deputies. "Many other Americans have Muslims in their family or have lived in a Muslim-majority country." (See pictures of Obama's family tree...