Hmmmm. Okay....you raise a whole bunch of interesting possibilities there, Ichmael.

Where do I start? ;-)

Personally, I really don't care whether or not Obama was educated in some Muslim schools in his youth, and I don't care whether or not he is a Muslim either.

But most Americans care intensely, don't they?!!

And I don't care whether or not he's secretly bisexual. (he has produced 2 daughters, so he obviously must be at least partly heterosexual...but perhaps he is also interested in men? If he is....I simply don't care.)

But most Americans care intensely, don't they?!!!

And I don't even care if he wasn't born in the USA. I simply don't give a damn. Hell, it might even help him be a more responsible politician if he'd been born somewhere else, because he'd have a more international perspective, and that would be good.

Bust most American's care intensely about it, don't they?!!! And it's unconstitutional (like a lot of other stuff that gets done all the time in the USA).

I find it funny...and sad...that people attach so much importance to such trivial stuff as whether Obama might be Muslim (I know all kinds of wonderful and reliable people who are Muslim), whether he might've been born in Africa (so what?), whether he might be half-gay, etc.....

Yadda, yadda, yadda. Theatre of the absurd if you ask me. I wouldn't care about any of this stupid stuff in regards to a Canadian politician either. What I do care about, though, is: what are his actual policies and intentions and how is he carrying them out while in office?

Your comments about Obama and his foot-dragging on launching a war against Iran are very interesting, though. I think you might be right about some of that, and about the forces in America who are thirsting for a war with Iran ASAP. Yes, Obama may be interfering with their plans, and if he is, I think they will find a way to destroy his presidency...any way that's feasible. There are several different ways to do it, some more ruthless than others. The easiest way would be by scandal of some sort.

You said "For some reason he doesn't want to attack Iran."

Well, yeah!!! What sane and responsible person would want to attack Iran? That's the first question I would ask. ;-) I regard Iran as the next most likely victim of a series of imperial wars of outright aggression launched by America and the UK and their proxy, Israel, and yes, those wars are precisely for the purposes you suggested:

"to create a crescent of wars in the mid-east. Cut China off from the mid-east oil and also block them from getting natural resources out of Africa. Once that is done, China will have to turn on Russia as the nearest source of raw resources. Brzezinski's said forever that China and Russia need to be pitted against each other in order for America to become dominant."

Bingo.   That pretty well has to be the main Anglo-American plan in the present Great Game that is being waged in the world. In that game countries like Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, the Koreas...they're just minor pieces that get beaten up and gobbled up by the big players while the big players jockey for strategic position. Excuses are found to gobble them.

Obama doesn't need to be a secret Muslim to want to prevent a war with Iran. He just needs to be a reasonably rational, sane, and moral human being to want to prevent that.

But if he is trying to prevent it, he will be in very great danger, in my opinion, because the people who want to pursue that policy will seek the destruction of his presidency.

I think they picked him because:

1. they felt he was quite electable, and would appeal very powerfully to many people's hopes for change.
2. they felt he was controllable once elected.

If he proves not to be so controllable, well, then the shit will hit the fan...and Obama's presidency will suffer accordingly.


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No one else here is likely to talk with you seriously, Ichmael, because they're already having WAY too much fun just throwing verbal stones and ridicule at the village heretic. Every village needs one, right? You get to occupy that role here for a bit, and don't think it isn't enjoyed hugely by those who gather daily in response to your presence. You satisfy a powerful emotional need in certain people.