We've had the prologue. Now comes the presidency.
You may not realise it, but today is the day when the Obama presidency begins.
We've had the election and inauguration and nearly five pell mell months of announcements and mission statements.
We've seen Barack Obama play the role of US president with ease and elan (and yes, he took the French in the same way he wooed the rest of Europe and South America and, most impressive of all, the Muslim world).
His style has been a success to exceed expectations.
As Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin learned the hard way last autumn, this is a politician who is good with words.
But the speechifyin' derided by the lady from Alasaka is only part of the job. For all his full marks for presentation, he cannot be properly assessed until he has followed through.
The challenges Mr Obama faces remain undiminished. Indeed they grow by the day. From Israel-Palestine to Af-Pak, from the nuclear ambitions of Iran to the nuclear capability of North Korea, this is a dangerous world.
But it is at home, where the economy languishes and 1.6m jobs have disappeared since February, that Mr Obama must now perform following "the eventful prologue of his presidency".
He has just announced 600,000 new jobs after repackaging his stimulus plan. You don't need to be Larry Summers or more than vaguely numerate to understand that this still leaves a shortfall of a million since the stimulus was introduced.
The president has to shore up and then rebuild America's financial base while simultaneously delivering on his promise for health care reform.
What would be a formidably difficult task in times of economic strength (ask Bill Clinton) now looks positively Sisyphean. But that campaign too begins afresh today.
And of course the world outside keeps on turning. The "Dear Leader's" North Korea has just opened another front in his campaign to try the patience of all - Chinese friend and US foe alike.
And a court in Pyongyang has sentenced two US journalists to 12 years' hard labour for illegally entering the country.
With his ongoing programme of nuclear tests, his eccentric and unpredictable un-diplomatic style and his apparent determination never to relinquish his post as The World's Most Dangerous Man, Kim Jong-il is shaping up to be Mr Obama's biggest problem of all.
Given what else is going on, that's some claim.
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Obama shouldn't worry about North Korea, the South Koreans can worry for both of them....
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THE WORLDS MOST DANGEROUS MAN !
(Netanyahu to Obama: Stop IranOr I Will)
In unusually blunt language, Netanyahu said of the Iranian leadership, You dont want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the entire world should start worrying, and that is what is happening in Iran. Since the dawn of the nuclear age, we have not had a fanatic regime that might put its zealotry above its self-interest. People say that theyll behave like any other nuclear power. Can you take the risk? Can you assume that? Neither Netanyahu nor his principal military advisers would suggest a deadline for American progress on the Iran nuclear program, though one aide said pointedly that (ISRAELI TIME LINES ARE NOW DRAWN IN MONTHS, NOT YEAR). These same military advisers told me that they believe Irans defenses remain penetrable, and that Israel would not necessarily need American approval to launch an attack. The problem is not military capability, the problem is whether you have the stomach, the political will, to take action, one of his advisers, who spoke on condition of anonymity (Source: RT, Russia Today).
(The Greater Good)
So, what was the Dangerous Illusion Tour about? It could have been no more than a way for the Imperial Media Messiah Empire President (West) West to provide himself with political cover, and avoid Impeachment the day when the American Israeli Empire (East), Israel begins its attack upon the Shi-ite Persian Republic of Iran. Duck and Cover, its not our fault we had nothing to do with this, letting the Jews of Israel know in effect that the American Israeli Empire West will not take political heat over the attack nor give political support for it, but will none the less provide military support of the American Israeli Empire (East) continued existence. This is what Non-Israeli-Jewish columnist has been warning about in print for some time, the backlash against Israeli Jews will only be harsh political ones, but the backlash against Non-Israeli-Jews, will be more direct, the only question is will it give Israeli-Jews pause or will it be one of, their loss is for the greater good of Israel. The North Korean President of the Land of the Morning Calms, Hermit Kingdom can be expected to preemptively attack whome with Nuclear Weapons? Were as the clock is ticking upon Shi-ite Persian Iran, as the target of a preemptive Nuclear Attack by Benyamin BiBi Netanyahu, with what consequences?
No! (THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IS BENYAMIN BIBI NETANYAHU)!!
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THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE
(THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE)
Obama left no room for doubt, wrote Attlia Somfalvi in Ynetnews.com. The United States supports Israel, yet the era of trickery, promises, and the gradual annexation in Judea and Samaria is over. The time has come for action; the time has come for moving towards a resolution of the Palestinian problem Obamas speech was meant to make it clear to Netanyahu who the master of the house is. (Source: RT, Russia Today).
Well, the real truth of the matter is the master of the Empire is Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin (BiBi) Netanyahu. After the Dangerous Illusion Tour, the entire failure in "diplomatic phrase making 101," was buried deeper than Jimmy Hoffa, the never found head of the United Teamsters Union, as the next step in the Kabuki Dance was turned over to the Master of the Empire and Reality, (BiBi), and the Two State Solution.
(THE TWO STATE SOLUTION)
Here is how the Two State Solution is going to go down, one will be The State of Israel a sovereign Independent State, the other will be and Unarmed Palestinian Reservation State. Now, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin (BiBi) Netanyahu, is not a novice student in geo-politics as is the Media Messiah Imperial President of the (AIE/W) American Israeli Empire-West; no (BiBi) has a (PhD.), in that subject. So, what do you do, throw the Native American Indiana solution back into the face of the Empire West White or Black Face, as the case maybe, due to the fact that the Red Faces are on the Reservations. The difference will be that there will be no Casinos, Slot Machines, high priced entertainment, free buffets, or Alcohol, and NO SECURITY WITH WEAPONS, but the promise will be the same, it is your land as long as the water flows, the grass is green, and the buffalo roam, then Israel will turn off the water, the grass will wither, and the buffalo will no longer roam, and the land of the West Bank will be opened to life giving settlement, and reasonable construction, for Israeli settlers.
(THE MISSING LINK)
To the extent that we can make peace with the Palestinians and the Israelis, Obama told Netanyahu in Washington, I actually think it strengthens our hand in dealing with a potential Iranian threat. To which no-nonsense Netanyahu responded: There is not a policy linkage, and thats what I hear the President saying, and thats what I am saying too. And I have always said there is not a policy linkage between Israel and the Palestinians and trying to deal with removing the threat of a nuclear bomb. (Source: RT, Russia Today).
So, what does all this mean, it means that the clock is ticking on the planned Israeli preemptive Nuclear Attack upon the Shi-ite Persian Republic of Iran by years end, and the political coverage is being laid down, in preparation for that attack. NETANYAHU TZU, is a veteran and super-hawk politician, the Arabs are under his command and control, and if not under his military thumb. But, the Persians are another chapter in the book of the Greater Middle East, and one which the Tip of the Spear into the Islamic Crescent is going to be thrust. Once the Persians have been dealt a death blow by Israel the entire Islamic World will bend to the will of Netanyahu Tzu, making Israel the Master of the New World Order Hierarchical Structure, The Empire will control the entire of the Islamic Crescent, the Straits of Hormuz and its oil flow, the Caspian Sea Basin, the China Sea, the (IMF) International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and International Markets, the Grand Game II over and won. And, the missing Link is the preemptive nuclear attack upon Shi-ite Persian Republic of Iran, cementing the ties between the two half of the Empire, and control of the Worlds Geo-Economic Structure, and so ends the Grand Game II.
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RIGHT-WING OBAMA AND ANTI-JEWISH BACKLASH !!
(WRIGHT SAYS "JEWS" KEEPING HIM FROM OBAMA)
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) -- President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is blaming "them Jews" for keeping him from speaking to the president. (Source: Associated Press)
(SOME ISRAELIS INSULTED BY OBAMA PICTURE)
Israeli TV newscasters Tuesday night interpreted a photo taken Monday in the Oval Office of President Obama talking on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an "insult" to Israel. . (Source: World Watch CBS)
(You Dont Want To Go There)
Sometimes the old saying YOU DONT WANT TO GO THERE should be listened to, The Article Some Israelis Insulted by Obama Picture, states that The Media Messiah Imperial President want to change the World, the problem is it is not his to change. We know that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin BiBi Netanyahu, is going to preemptively nuclear attack the Shi-ite Persian Iranian Republic by years end, so the question is what then, and between then and now what next?
The question is being asked across the (AIE/W) American Israeli Empire-West Empire, by those with Right-Wing Conservative Ideas; Who can any longer among other things believe in true equality regardless of race or ethnicity, when in contrast, the Left-Wing Liberal Illuminati and Jews, no longer secretly controlling of the government, openly confer special consideration and benefits based explicitly on race and ethnicity, burdening society, while destroying the worlds geo-political, economic, and social structure?
IS THERE A RIGHT-WING BACKLASH IN AMERICA YES !!
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INTERNET AND BIRTHERS TO BLAME!
(The Blame Game!)
Here we go with the Blame Game, and playing the victim, "History shows how effective demagogic ravings can be when a public is stressed economically." He warns that Jews, along with gays and blacks, could become victims of populist rage. (Source: Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration). redirecting the blame, from the root cause, it is the economy, the Internet for provoking demagogic ravings, it is the Right-wing, Neo-Nazi, Birthers, popular conspiracy theorist) And, now we have yet another joining the chorus of alarmist one, Paul Campos a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder, writing for the Daily Beast, is pointing the finger at the Internet and the Birthers, in an article entitled (Is the Web to Blame), which is much like asking if a bullet, or gun are to blame for the death of the guard shot at Holocaust Museum, or vehicle is to blame as yet another person is killed by or in an auto car caused death.
(THE BIRTHERS)
Who are the Birthers, Among other things, alleged Holocaust Museum killer James von Brunn is a birthersomeone who subscribes to one of the many elaborate conspiracy theories regarding how Barack Obama is constitutionally ineligible to be president, because supposedly he isnt a natural-born American citizen. Today police found a note in von Brunns car, reading in part, The Holocaust is a lie. Obama was created by Jews. (Source: Paul Campos).
The Birther Group, are the perfect version of Richard Hofstadters, (1964) essay statement the paranoid style in American politics. using the Internet and cyberspace as the beginnings of a new wave of political violence on such sights as (WWW.Stormfront.Org) and others, and are a confederacy of "losing dunces," closely aligned with the if not conservative, repressed, political Right-Wing, Neo-Nazi groups extremely frustrated at their political views being cast aside by the majority now wanting their way by force, screaming about freedom, their version of freedom quite willing to squash others who do not agree, with them, deranged bigoted psychopathic, delusional anti-government popular conspiracy theorist also believe that (9/11) was a (AIE) American Israeli Empire conspiracy, and that the Bushes among others are part of the Bilderberg Group/Trilateral/New World Order, subscribing to other popular conspiracy theories, of Obama "being a, Usurper, Radical Communist or Jewish Born Israeli Mossad Agent or not only identifies with Muslims, but may still be one himself seeking the destruction of Israel and not a citizen of the Empire, questioning the constitutional right and refusing to recognize the validity of the Media Messiah Imperial President, too hold the office.
(JOINING THE GAME)
Now, now wanting to be left out of The Blame Game, one feels a necessity to join in. So, were does one place the blame as many people the government of the Empire the Imperial President of the West, the Prime Minister of the East, the (544) Imperial Court, and on down the line, that all this may be used to give political cover too what (Napoleon I, in a letter to the King of Holland in (1807), once said about a ruler, A prince who gets a reputation for good nature in the first year of his reign, is laughed at in the second), while being able to bring up Right- Wing hate groups as a shield to protect the incompetence of the administration, hiding behind the threat that the museum shooting is not an isolated incident requiring more violations of individual freedoms, (THE MAIN STREAM PRESS).
(THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA)
The Main Stream Press and particularly the New York City, National News, across the board, the Left and Right which should not exist, but should be just the National Unbiased News, not providing political cover for one side or the other but working solely in behalf of the Public uncovering Graft, Greed, Corruption, and Political Hanky Panky, and wrong doing, one side is off the scale to the Right the other to the Left, leaving a wide open space in the middle, and guess what nature abhors a Vacuum, it gets filled quick, and this time it got filled by citizen activists on the Internet Cyberspace. But then again they also join the blame game as their ratings are on the bottom side a barrel, at the bottom of the deepest depths of the ocean, under the sediment. How do you stop conspiracy theories with a free unbiased press, conspiracy theories fail under the truth supported by the facts and supporting evidence to those facts, not just Trust Me, Dan Rather didnt check his fact and that was a bad move. So, Professor Paul Campos you blame the citizen journalist for filling the vacuum and we blame the professional journalist for creating the vacuum.
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Dear,Mr.Peter Marshall,
You have made me to read of all your writings for number of times.
Because all your articles shows real,modern outlook to all.
Mr.Obama,American President is trying level best to regain glory of American!s History.
His external trips to South American nations,and recent visits to Egypt are very encouraging results to America and rest of the world.
After reading of this article of many challenges are for Obama,shows that entire world especially,England,France,Germany,BRIC countries,Middle East nations have strated to watch his each move towards America!s interests.
We should not worry about North Korea!s nuclear tests.That is just for attention to big countries.
Whereas,Mr.Obama has to learn,adapt new stratigies for Irag,Iran,Israel,Palastenian states,Syria and to Jodan.
On economic fronts,he started learning of America!s financial frauds by big corporate houses,job losses by wider means and he should bring America!s economy back to major stream.
We will wait and see Mr.Obama!s progress by longer basis.
I think that Mr.Obama!s positive actions will give fruitful results.
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