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wait, are you saying Obama didnt make the Arabs love us?I think, that none of what has happened in Tunisia has to do with Obama.
The journalist portrays it like:
"Hey, Obama won't help us, so we make it on our own".
None of that demonstrators had Obama in their mind.
Foreignpolicy.com
Arab confidence in Obama collapsing | Marc Lynch
Positive view on President Obama
2009: 45 percent
2010: 20 percent
Negative view on President Obama
2009: 23 percent
2010: 62 percent
Favourable view of USA
Bush's last year: 15 percent
Obama: 12 percent
61 percent say Obama's failure on Palestine is reason for increasingly negative views.
There is no difference anymore between Bush and Obama.
Iran has right for its nuclear program:
2009: 53 %
2010: 77 %
Positive effect on region, if Iran gets nukes
2009: 29 %
2010: 57 %
Most popular countries in the region:
France, Turkey
Most popular leaders:
39 % Erdogan
19 % Ahmadinajad
12 % Nasrallah
wait, are you saying Obama didnt make the Arabs love us?
I'm SHOCKED, i tell ya, shocked
wait, are you saying Obama didnt make the Arabs love us?
I'm SHOCKED, i tell ya, shocked
No, he didn't.
When he came into office, he had good ratings in 2009, in 2010 they decreased to levels below Bush II's rating.
61% of Arabs say the reason for their rejection of Obama is his failure to deliver on the Palestine issue.
Obama, like every other American president, had to kowtow to AIPAC and kick Palestine to the curb in order to get elected.61% of Arabs say the reason for their rejection of Obama is his failure to deliver on the Palestine issue.
at least you had the opportunity to mess with some statements. you know, just like i did.
at least you had the opportunity to mess with some statements. you know, just like i did.
Not at all. I just removed all my posts after your admitted game. One I did not because it had been quoted.
The Tunisian uprising shows that, maybe, Barack Obama's pragmatic idealism was a good call
factually accurate, due to journalistic standards...
Life is full of unintended consequences. Barack Obama, on coming to power, turned away from Bush-era rhetoric about bringing freedom and democracy to the world. His idealism was pragmatic. When I saw him tell the Muslim world in Cairo in June 2009 that he wanted to be its friend, he shocked some people because he didn’t say it was conditional on reform.
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It’s too early to divine the full meaning of the revolution in Tunisia. But it does look like the people of that country, realising that Mr Obama wasn’t going to come to their rescue, decided to do it for themselves. That is a rare realisation in the the Arab world of how things ought to be: rather than complaining that other people haven’t brought change, do it yourself.
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Nevertheless, it may have been a good call, or at least a lucky break, on Mr Obama’s part.