The Muslim World Apology Tour continues

Well, Obama is at it again. Spreading more inaccurate facts and apologizing for the United States being such a great country. And making our current allies mad at us.

Time magazine has posted the full text of his speech. But, here are some excerpts (with comments from moi, of course).

• The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco.
  

If his country is the United States, then he must be looking in one of those new textbooks, because it was Holland.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_first_country_to_recognize_the_US_as_a_nation

Even though several (Democratic) presidents say that it was Morocco, that doesn't make it true.

• In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims."

This was at the time that the US was fighting Barbary Pirates (um, can you say, "Muslims?"), and attempting to gain protection by paying them off. It didn't work. We finally gave up and sent warships over there to straighten them out. So, he might have wrote it, but he sure found out that he was wrong about the Muslim people! Having no enmity against the tranquility of the Muslims is great, but when they attack you, there is no tranquility in that.

• ... using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers — Thomas Jefferson — kept in his personal library.

You might ask, "Why would a Christian, Thomas Jefferson, keep a Koran in his library?" Was he a polytheist? Was he hedging his bets? No, he was studying his enemy. There are several places to find out what Jefferson thought about Muslims. The basic gist is that they thought themselves justified about making war on anyone who did not share the same religion; this war included killing, selling into slavery, and ransom.

So, true, not a factual error, but he's definitely making you think that Jefferson read it for pleasure or spiritual reasons.

Five Guys!

Wow, you think you know a guy and then this. Obama (The President) recently went on an outing, to none other than one of my favorite burger places, Five Guys. I remember when we found them near us, and were initially put off because they didn't have shakes. Then we actually TRIED a burger and fries ... wow. If you have never had fries made from fresh potatoes (versus frozen potato mash or whatever the other fast food places use), then you haven't really had french freedom fries.

Now, the President and I might disagree on a lot of things, but if that is the kind of food that he normally likes to eat, then he's all right in my book. Well, other than:

• his fiscal policies
• his stand on government meddling in private businesses
  
• his stand on stem cells (let's stick with what works)
• his choice of preachers
• letting his nominees who didn't pay taxes get hired anyway (really? Geithner? No, really?)
  
• flip-flopping on letting lobbyists into his posts
• saying that Iran "deserves" to have nuclear weapons
  

Ok, you get the idea. We probably agree on one thing ... that Five Guys is a great place to get a burger. Beyond that, well, we are probably about as far apart as we can get.