Day: May 19, 2011

The Cairo Promises

Well sports fans…the Pres will make another “major” Middle East speech….but will it make a difference or will it be just another speech?

Remember back some 17 months ago….Pres. Obama was in Cairo making an unforgettable speech….one of his best according to some sources….he talked about AQ and extreme Islam, Palestinians and a array of subjects…,.basically, saying that the US was going to do better in the Middle East over the last administration……after such a moving address…..how has he done in keeping his promises….an opinion piece in the Post of Pakistan touches on this subject……

President Barack Obama’s pledge on Wednesday to strive for better relations with the Muslim world drew skepticism in Cairo, where last year he called for a new beginning in the Middle East after years of mistrust. In a visit to Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, Obama acknowledged morSeventeen months after Obama’s Cairo University speech, al Qaeda is still threatening the West, peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians remain stalled over the issue of West Bank settlements and US troops remain in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many in the Middle East believe that Washington’s tight alliance with Israel makes it impossible to end the suffering of the Palestinians, breeding cynicism among Arab Muslims toward US intentions in the region. “It’s all speeches — in the end the same American politics, and Jewish politics, continues,” said Cairo retiree Mohamed Abdel.e needed to be done to repair ties with the Muslim world.

There you have it….seems that moving and inspirational speech made 17 months ago has done little to solve the problems of the US in the Middle East….like they say….it was nothing but a speech and no one in the area really consider for a moment that anything would change….SURPRISE!  Nothing has changed!

And yet Obama will try again….and once again NOTHING will change….he will make a good speech and that is about it…there will be NO change in Yemen or Syria or Bahrain or the Israeli/Palestinian conflict…..so I say again…NOTHING will change!

The Ever Present….”US”!

Holy crap!  Is it just me or is the use of the word “us” getting to be a bit much and awfully irritating?  The media is full of people that know what the “us” want or need…..they are full of the compassion for the middle class and the working “man”….if all that is true and I doubt that any of it is genuine, then why is the middle class disappearing and the bloat politicians in Washington are aiding in the destruction of the middle class?

You know where I am coming from on this….you all have heard the excessive use of “us” and “the people” and “Main Street America” and that is a good thing if they get off their collective butts and actually do something about the deterioration….but they DO NOTHING!  They stroll up to the nearest microphone and make their day’s talking points issued by which ever party they pretend to represent…..it is all so much double speak….yes Irene….they LIE…..if they were telling the truth more would be done to control the events that are eating up the middle class and turning them basically into “indentured servants”.

We as a collective body keep voting for the richest, most insincere individuals…that say whatever it takes to get you to the polls and vote….they blow smoke up the butts of the electorate knowing good damn well that they have NO intention of changing things…..their sole purpose is to make enough noise so that the media fixates on them which in turn heightens their street cred back home….and all the while homes are lost, jobs are lost and people go hungry……and then we cannot understand why Washington is so dysfunctional…..

YOU……I say that again….YOU….are responsible for the condition of American politics and the condition of the economy that is nibbling at your ass….that is right…YOU are responsible….makes NO difference if you think you are a Repub or a Dem….they both are humping you…..and humping HARD….and what do you do?  Smile and vote for the con men over and over….why?  YOU are afraid of real change!  You listen to the spam bots that keep you shivering under your kitchen table….you allow them to tell you what you want to hear and NEVER demand information that you NEED to hear……

And yes….I know this is falling on deaf ears…..but someone had to say it!  If want the country to improve then find a way to remove the bloated, self-absorbed people that you now have representing you….you CANNOT win the battle of life with these people at the command positions…..it is that SIMPLE!

And please…you Dems STOP calling yourselves Progressive…you are NOT!