Obama wailing wall prayer

Israeli Newspaper Publishes Obama Wailing Wall Prayer

While in Israel, Barack Obama, visited The Wailing Wall, which
is thought by Jews to be the most sacred of places, because the temple itself was thought to be the place where God resides on earth. Praying at the Wailing Wall signifies being in the presence of the Divine. Jews from all countries, and as well as tourists of other religious backgrounds, come to pray at the wall, where it is said one immediately has the “ear of god.” [snip]
[Written p]rayers sent in are placed into the cracks of the walls and are called tzetzels.Obama did so while on his visit, but now an Israeli newspaper is coming under fire for publishing the specifics of the prayer, as well it should.

The rabbi in charge of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitz, said publishing the note intruded in Obama’s relationship with God.
“The notes placed between the stones of the Western Wall are between a person and his maker. It is forbidden to read them or make any use of them,” he told Army Radio. The publication “damages the Western Wall and damages the personal, deep part of every one of us that we keep to ourselves,” he said.

Barack Obama's Speech in Berlin

"A World That Stands as One"

As Prepared For Delivery
Berlin, Germany
July 24th, 2008

Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.

I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.

I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya. His father – my grandfather – was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.

At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning – his dream – required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West. And so he wrote letter after letter to universities all across America until somebody, somewhere answered his prayer for a better life.

That is why I’m here. And you are here because you too know that yearning. This city, of all cities, knows the dream of freedom. And you know that the only reason we stand here tonight is because men and women from both of our nations came together to work, and struggle, and sacrifice for that better life..........

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Japan scandal

Public Betrayed': The Power of'A Japan's Scandal-Breaking Weeklies
In a new book, media ethics professor Takesato Watanabe and writer Adam Gamble explore the massive influence of Japan's controversial weekly newsmagazines, or shukanshi. This edited excerpt from the book is the first of two installments

Takesato watanabe posted ( Japan Media Review )

In many ways, the Japanese weekly newsmagazines constitute their own genre. As noted in part two, they are often described as bizarre blends of various types of U.S. magazines, such as Newsweek, the New Yorker, People, Penthouse, and the National Enquirer. They are similar to Newsweek or Time in that they often present more-detailed coverage of selected topics from each week's news than is offered on television or in most newspapers. They can be a bit like the New Yorker, however, in that they carry a fair amount of literary and cultural commentary, albeit usually less sophisticated than the New Yorker's best material.
In their fluffy celebrity gossip, they also resemble People, and yet, like Penthouse (and similar men's magazines), many feature pornography and target (with but a few exceptions) men. And like the U.S. "supermarket tabloids," such as the National Enquirer, they are widely acknowledged to be less reliable than more establishment-oriented news publications.

obama's green tshirt

Obama supporter selling these shirts, just fun some say..... what do you think ??

Obama Caricature

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President scandal

Green scandal..

The Goal: Admitting Failure, Without Being a

Failure

By DAVID GREENBERG

Published: January 14, 2007

PRESIDENT BUSH’S speech Wednesday night had to strike a perf

ect pitch. He had to defend the war that will define his leg

acy while admitting to enough error to regai

n credibility with the public. Consequently, commentators

are still trying to figure out whether he conceded mistakes, showed regret or intends to change course at all.

George Tames/The New York Times

KENNEDY ON THE BAY OF PIGS “Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. ... I am the responsible officer of the government.”

NIXON ON WATERGATE “I regret deeply any injuries that may have been done in the course of the events that led to this decision.”

Dennis Cook/Associated Press

REAGAN ON IRAN-CONTRA “A few months a

go I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”

Paul Hosefros/The New York Times

CLINTON ON THE MONICA LEWINSKY SCANDAL “I misled people, including even my wife. I deeply regret that.”

In this respect, Mr. Bush’s speech follows in that great American oratorical tradition: the presidential mea culpa.

Figuring out how to acknowledge failure without seeming like a failure is a time-honored occupational hazard of politics. But not until the 20th century did presidents govern mainly by mobilizing public opinion through rhetoric, and only with the rise of broadcasting did the celebrated “televised speech to the nation” become a staple of White House damage control.

While these confessions may work in the short term, they rarely work long-term magic. That typically requires a new course of action.