Message to the world.

Wow! I guess this is the first time I am hearing something positive about this man, on this forum. Most of the time its all about how he’s about to turn America into his own socialist kingdom and today it took the cake about his Cairo speech. I have not heard the speech but I have been following his overtures to the Islamic world from the beginning. While my heart says the gestures are in the right direction, my brain says he will not be able to pull it off. Too much is at stake…years of western policy (not only USA) towards the middle-east, Christian views against the Islamic world, the survival of Israel, billions of dollars worth of arms market, the brains in the Islamic world whose survival depend on expanding terrorism, rackets of black money, oil, natural gas…oh, I am sure you have an idea of what I am talking about. I don’t think Obama will succeed though the need of the hour is definitely a visionary like him, at least where relations with the Islamic world is concerned.

President Obama speak in Cairo University

So, the rest of the world is happy that Obama is our president? I voted for Obama because I did not want to see another Bush, which is what I believe McCain would have been. Obama is far different from any other president that the U.S. has ever elected.

Hello pose123,as a fellow Canadian,I to have been watching what he has been up to. While he has done a number of things to try and help the economy of the U.S.,I am reminded of another politition that was great at the speaches,but was a confirmed communist. And if we go farther back,there was a certain German that had a special manner of speaking. I will not,at this moment say he is right or wrong in his ideas,but I am very fearfull of the path he is taking. from the very beginning,the people of islam have tried to be the only religious beleif and race on earth,and as unfortunate as this is,and as much as we would all love to see world peace,it is not going to happen. I will,like you,keep watching and hoping,something good will come out of his talks. But I would prefer him to rule another country than anywhere in North America.

So when was he telling the truth; when he said that there would be US bases in Iraq for decades, or in this speech when he said all US troops would be out of Iraq by 2012? He said that the aspirations of both the Palistinians and Israel can be attained, and both are equally legitimate. Yet the aspirations of Israel is to maintain the nation of Israel and the aspirations of Palistians is to reclaim it as their own. How can both attain their aspirations? I also found it interesting that Obama recognizes the right of all nations to use nuclear power... except the US. He delivered the speech well, and it was a pretty good speach... but you can't deny the contradictions in it.

Nobody is perfect. I understand the negative posts earlier about this man. We can't blame them however as maybe what are coming out from this president does not meet the expectations of some of his people. There are however goodness or greatness of a man that others can see and appreciate. Some of his constituents, however won't understand his concern for the whole world when his own country, the U.S. have not fully recovered. I admire your post, however, of giving his great peace initiative a chance.

I am a Canadian like yourself and watched Obama's talk in Cairo with great interst. Certainly his "salem aleikum" was pulled off flawlessly. In any case I do believe that with Obama there will be a change in American politics. I believe he is a man of vision but it remains to be seen how much he can accomplish. I also hope that this is the beginning of an era of peace in the Middle East. Israel has the right to exist, all Palestinians must acknowledge this. Israel also has the obligation to stop expansion and work vey hard to make a Palestinian state possible. This way they can live in peace, side by side and there will be a mutual benefit. As a Canadian, so close to the USA I am a bit nervous about the consequences of economic policies in the new America under Obama, since the USA is our biggest trading partner. If the USA follows the policy "buy locally first" what will happen to our exports? As for Canadian politics I would say I am very thankful I live in a democracy and can influence the election results with my vote. So if we are not happy with our present leader we should all cast our votes in the next election to bring about change.

I wish he were the President of another country, not my own. While a kind man, and certainly a leader of some sort, there are many things about his agenda that I fear the consequences.

Well, it seems a lot of people feel as you and I do, just not that many here at myLot! I respect everyone's right to their own opinion but MY opinion is we've been made to be so fearful for so long now that for some people the idea of peace and of actually engaging with our adversaries instead of threatening and fighting is the most scary thing of all. I'm joining you in your prayer and I thank you for praying for the U.S. President and the USA as a nation as well as the rest of the world. Those who don't like President Obama can mock the idea of "hope" all they want but what's so bad about having some hope for a better world? Annie

I totally agree with you ,and my family voted for him. I like the fact that he is young and full of fresh ideas. I believe that everything is going to start getting better ,but it just takes time to fix the big mess that we have right now.

This Man is a Saint! I felt it early in his run for President! Every time I hear him speak my heart goes out to him. He is here to save America, and the world. God Bless President Obama, and Keep him safe!

Thank you for being so positive, I agree with you and am happy to hear what you have said.

I think it was the best for him to try at least to reach out and make peace with the Muslim Community. I don't think the Muslim community will ever apologized to the U.s. because they are some what annoyed with the free world. most specially to those misguided extremist who wanted more than to create bombs and use women as a bomb carrier.. and his affiliations with the Muslim community had give him the edge to reach them out.

Nice message for peace. I like also he said in other talks about on Global Warming awareness. If the people are going to plant trees, we're going to save out habitat the Planet Earth. If you have no piece of land just put in a piece of empty can and donate to school, government life Department of Natural Resources for Reforestation. Let save the Earth.

Great, Pose! It is so nice to hear some people speaking nice about Obama! A lot of ppl seem to believe that he is going to drive the country into the ground. To get out of The Great Depression, lots of money had to be spent, before things got better. So, with the mess Bush left, including the $250Billion at the end of Bush's term, Obama's going to have to spend a lot of money, to fix things.

I hope the hate-mongers in this country give him a chance to do the job he was elected to do. We have always had people who disagree with any given President, but no time in my lifetime can I think of an angrier sounding group of opponents to a President. I don't know how much of it is reaching out to the Arab world, how much is tax & spend domestic policy and how much is the man himself, but we seem to have a very angry bunch of Anti-Obama-ites floating around right now. We can only hope that they stick to political opposition and avoid violence.

Hello dear Pose. Thank you for sharing with us the latest message to the world by Obama. I think that he is a great leader who loves peace does his best to make the world a peaceful one, as can be seen from his policy to the world.

no thanks. Otard's sucking up to the Muslim world is shameful.