Wow, wasn’t Mr. President so very CANDID with the Arabic World,.. not only was he showing “respect”..but also weakness, fright, and an eagerness to “hand over a nation” to avoid conflict! This sounds very sweet on the surface, ..but this will have a very scary ending.

And why NOW, that he’s President, is he Soooooo candid with his MUSLIM ROOTS??? When throughout the election process he was completely dismissive of these notions???!! He’s a chameleon.. when it’s convenient for him to save his own butt, he’s white, black, AND muslim!!

Sorry, but he has way too many “faces” to present to the world,.. and that coupled with his complete INEXPERIENCE to BE President makes me have little to NO trust in this man, and fear the safety of my home nation. But then again, I don’t “trust” any politians in my homeland. GREED is the blood of our government.

yes i have a problem with it, 1st comes the muslims, 2nd dogs, 3rd the americans. americans should come first, what the hell is going on?

Jan 27, 7:01 AM (ET)

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday chose an Arabic satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, delivering a message to the Muslim world that “Americans are not your enemy.”

The interview underscored Obama’s commitment to repair relations with the Muslim world that have suffered under the previous administration.

The president expressed an intention to engage the Middle East immediately and his new envoy to the region, former Sen. George J. Mitchell, was expected to arrived in Egypt on Tuesday for a visit that will also take him to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

“My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy,” Obama told the Saudi-owned, Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news channel.

Obama said the U.S. had made mistakes in the past but “that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there’s no reason why we can’t restore that.”

During his presidency, former President George W. Bush gave several interviews to Al-Arabiya but the wars he launched in Iraq and Afghanistan prompted a massive backlash against the U.S. in the Muslim world.

Al-Arabiya has scored interviews with top U.S. officials in the past, including Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The Saudi-owned channel is seen by some in Washington as more balanced in its coverage than its Qatar-funded rival Al-Jazeera, which the previous White House administration complained had an anti-American bias.

Obama called for a new partnership with the Muslim world “based on mutual respect and mutual interest.” He talked about growing up in Indonesia, the Muslim world’s most populous nation, and noted that he has Muslim relatives.

The new president said he felt it was important to “get engaged right away” in the Middle East and had directed Mitchell to talk to “all the major parties involved.” His administration would craft an approach after that, he said in the interview.

“What I told him is start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating,” Obama told the interviewer.

The president reiterated the U.S. commitment to Israel as an ally and to its right to defend itself. But he suggested that both Israel and the Palestinians have hard choices to make.

“I do believe that the moment is ripe for both sides to realize that the path that they are on is one that is not going to result in prosperity and security for their people,” he said, calling for a Palestinian state that is contiguous with internal freedom of movement and can trade with neighboring countries.

Obama also said that recent statements and messages issued by the al-Qaida terror network suggest they do not know how to deal with his new approach.

“They seem nervous,” he told the interviewer. “What that tells me is that their ideas are bankrupt.”

In his latest message on Jan. 14, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden said Obama had been left with a “heavy inheritance” of Bush’s wars.

Shortly after the election, the network’s number two, Ayman al-Zawahri used a demeaning racial term for a black American who does the bidding of whites to describe Obama.

The message suggested the terror network was worried Obama could undermine its rallying cry that the U.S. is an enemy oppressor. ————————————————————————————————————————————————MAYBE SOMETHING GOOD CAN COME OUT OF SOMETHING BAD, PRESIDENT DID SAY HE HAS MUSLIM RELATIVES. MAYBE THAT WILL BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN MUSLIMS AND AMERICANS???????????

the first problem with Obama is he is a celebrity!!! that is why he got elected!! if people would have went with better person to be the president, H.Clinton would have been elected.alot of people jumped on the “black band wagon” without knowing ANYTHING about this man!! he used his color and his side step talk to get what he wanted,and just like with bush the idiots of america elected him because we had to be “correct” about things!!

rock star like josh groban maybe totally agree…the celebrity president…true democrat closing military bases check …giving to those who don’t work out of choice…check
also, et never dissed certain stars like george,brad, angie for a few and gives stars like britney spears heck and takes up for alex baldwin who calls his daughter a pig? go figure

Hey catrina, when you say that Obama has done alot, what are the facts that you can tell us. “has done alot” is not going to cut the mustard with me. your comment is very vague and has no intelligence to it. Give us facts of what Obama has done. It seems to me that you are the ignorant fool, coming on this forum unprepared and you have diahrea of the mouth. either shut up or put up. WHERE ARE YOUR FACTS? you sound just like CALLITLIKEITIS.. I THINK YOU ARE THAT PERSON.

First of all get your facts straight before you start making accusations. Second, President Obama has done alot his first week in office by reversing and cleaning up some of the mess that Bush left behind. I have FAITH in President Obama that he will do an excellent job in office. Of course he cant please everyone but I’m sure he will satisfy the masses. Better yet…..anyone not named BUSH will do an excellent job!!!! Wipe your mouth Ignorant Fool!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m no fan of “entertainment weekly”.. it’s a trashy rumor filled, and VERY OPINIONATED magazine!

But they DID get this one right.. Obama is a “rock star”! He’s all CELEBRITY, and zero “president”!! He’s in fact the “celebrties president”. The wealthy must stick together ya know.

And a million hits on You Tube doesn’t make him “famous” “admired” or even “popular”.. it only means that people are interested in what he has to say because saying and doing are indeed two seperate things.

He has yet to do ANYTHING in office to be admired for..