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Tamara Cofman Wittes, Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy of the Brookings Institution, blogs about her positive experiences at the 5th U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Qatar: "Quite honestly, though, I don’t think the relative love-fest at this year’s meeting is all ascribable either to regional shifts or to the conference organizers’ choice of speakers. The most powerful explanation for the change is evident in the overwhelming fact that all anyone at this conference really wants to talk about is Barack Obama. A friend from the Gulf tells me her young relative was so excited about the Democratic candidate that he tried to donate money over the Internet, as he’d heard so many young Americans were doing. Then he found out he had to be a U.S. citizen to do so. Another young woman, visiting from next-door Saudi Arabia, said that all her friends in Riyadh are “for Obama.” The symbolism of a major American presidential candidate with the middle name of Hussein, who went to elementary school in Indonesia, certainly speaks to Muslims abroad. But more important is just the prospect of a refreshing shift in the the breeze off the Potomac. More than the changes in the region, it seems to be anticipated changes in Washington that are drawing the eyes of my Arab counterparts and giving the conference its unusually forward-looking tone."
AFP also reports from the Forum: "Obama... won overwhelming support in a mock election by more than 200 American and Muslim delegates at the US-Islamic World Forum in the Qatari capital. His Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and Republican candidates won only a handful of votes." The influential Egyptian Islamic television preacher Amr Khaled told AFP: "I would like to see Obama become president of America because he champions 'change and hope', which we Muslims need as much as the Americans do."
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Obama is the end result of a world who has fallen apart morally and intellectually. How do you feel so strongly and confident about a candidate who has such a thin resume and has such little experience and political accomplishments? If it was not the party Americans voted for they must have based their vote simply on rhetoric. Americans gambled with the presidency and in the final analysis the steaks will be costly. I dont know what else to say about a politically background that just got off the ground. There is nothing of substance in his record that you can cling to or be impressed with. However, Obama is a socialist who has done nothing but spend outrageous amounts of money, tripled the defecit since January and pandered to the enemy, Not to mention his constant apologizing for America when he goes abroad. In addition he has little American values. As far as much of the world wanting him to lead a coalation shows what desperate times we are living. There is something wrong when you know so little about someone and yet you have such high political praise for them. It makes no sense. No wonder we have had so many disasterous world leaders.
Cathy
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