Obama’s Wahhabi bling-bling
Isn’t it special?
President Obama was awarded Saudi Arabia’s highest honor yesterday — an elaborate gold necklace and medallion fit for a king or a rap mogul.
“Goodness gracious, that’s something there,” an awestruck Obama said when a royal aide approached him with the massive chain.
A beaming King Abdullah — who hosted Obama in an ornate meeting room decked out with opulent chandeliers, marble columns and engraved mirrors — presented the gift to the president…
…”Those are only given to the very few friends of the king, and you are certainly one of those,” Abdullah said.
(Via NYPost)
Make no mistake. Barack Obama is no Rudy Giuliani.
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In return, Obama gave him some dvds.
Our world would be a better place if neither of them were allowed to be ranked higher than dogcatchers.
What do you suppose they will give him when he actually, you know, does something?
I know. But taking a stand against Alaweed’s blood-stained bribe was one of the things Rudy did right.
#1 b-cat
Fiddler on the Roof and The Ten Commandments come to mind.
Did Boooosh ever receive such a thing from the House of Saud? After all, the left used to tell us how close they were.
Or is this a gift only fit for a friend of the same faith?
is there a big giant watch on the end of that thing?
I’d throw in Ben Hur and The King of Kings, maybe Lawrence of Arabia for historical context….
Ah but he has. In case you have not heard, Obama’s justice department is siding with the Saudi Royal family against the family of the 9/11 vicitims who are trying to sue the Saudi Royal family over 9/11.
This is incredible. Just when you think Obama’s presidency can’t get any crazier, can’t get any nuttier, can’t get any more surreal, something else happens. Wow!
He is bowing again…
obama is a good and faithfull servant. He deserves the award.
Saudi aide to the King: ” I don’t think we can buy them off by showering them with a few shiny baubles and cheap trinkets.”
Obama: “Yes you can!”
Maybe he can melt down all the gold and fill his pie hole.
Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed.
Ah, not exactly.
Compass – China 2nd Century
Printing – China 6th Century
Disease – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek in 1676, altho Aviccena knew something was going on.
Algebra – They invented the name. The math predates them.
So, is that a personal gift or a gift to the American people? Is it just me, or has the price of oil risen steadily since Inauguration Day? And people thought Bush was the friend of big oil.
I like the picture in this link – during the Weimar Republic it was cheaper to heat a home burning money rather than coal…Headed.That.Way.
Obama fits right in. Over there. He should just stay there.
Is their an inscription on this jewel-encrusted medallion? Is it “Death to Jews!”?
If Islam were responsible for all the advancements that Obama credits them for, they would have preceeded the Europeans to the Americas by centuries.
On June 4th, 2009 at 12:04 pm, ajmontana said:
Mow that would be a sight: Barack Obama with gold teeth!
MowNow that would be…More props to aj for the Flava Flav reference.
You can’t be a real dictator without a collection of medals.
the wife and I noticed that too…either he was bowing again or the chain was too heavy for him…lol…yep he was bowing like the good little servant he is…
A prayer rug.
How fitting, the Saudi King placing chains around the neck of our amateur president.
Kind of reminds me of Woodrow Wilson being completely enthralled with the Palace of Versailles before inking his signature on an agreement that doomed the world to another world war.
Focus, Barry, focus. (Wow! Shiny!)
My guess is that he’ll inevitably pawn it…
TRANSLATION: “Because of your outstanding and continued efforts to suppress the U.S. oil industry from expoiting the vast domestic oil and gas reserves it has available to it and achieving energy independence, we are presenting you with this little token of our appreciation.”
Bush got one too. BO won’t be able to keep it because it’s too expensive, so it will go the national archives.
the royal king should have given that medal to pres bush for attacking iraq instead of playing cowboys and saudis when they killed three thousand of our people. this is like japan attacks hawaii, we declare war on korea, kick korea’s butt, have an election where a japanese guy is elected president, and the emperor (still) of japan gives him a medal emphasizing his friendship. the last guy saved your kingly butt from just retribution pal, not this appeasing weasel.
The gold rope chain is a keepsake. He’ll be wearing it around his neck when hanging around at the corner with his Chicago buds after he leaves office (soon I hope). He may even get a false gold front tooth with a diamond in the middle of it to show off his smile.
I heard that he got on the web and ordered a gift platter of Jimmy Dean pork sausage for Abdullah in exchange.
That would be my recommendation, then use the proceeds to pay down the debt.
He also refused to accept the conventional wisdom that New York City was “ungovernable”, with filth and high crime rates just being the price you paid to live there.
Rudy’s not perfect by a long shot but he did a lot of good for a lot of people, even if most of them hate him for it.
Somebody had to.
It’s a palm tree with crossed swords, but the item dangling below might make a good sundial. It’s also a retread–Bush received it in 2008. It shows-unlike what The One or LGM would like to claim–that the Saudi king does not blame Bush for everything bad under the sun.
Wrong. It’s more like Japan attacks us, we declare war on Germany.
There’s a fair case to be made that we should be treating the Saudis with a lot more hostility than we are, but the war in Iraq has nothing to do with it. Iraq was invaded for valid reasons that had no direct connection with 9/11.
“Yeeeuhh! I got me some bling!”
Now he just needs the turban.
Beware of Saudi’s bearing gifts.
And he did it on the spur of the moment in front of the cameras. I don’t agree with him on a lot of issues, but that action was more telling about the character of the man than all the campaign ads put together.
Muslim Marxist sheds his plumage …
The great and powerful gives the tin man a heart…
I see a music video in the making with that kinda bling.
I thought it was against the law to accept gifts as President… I probably have that wrong or off, but what is he going to do with that gaudy monstrosity? My bet is it goes into the Musuem of the Annointed One…
I can’t wait to see whether he tries to Clinton this thing out of the White House along with the rest of the furniture when he leaves. If he leaves.
Has anyone listened to lines from this idiot’s speech to the Saudis? It’s incredible all of the BS that he is attributing to Islam and Muslims. You’d think that the Chinese, Hindus, Greeks, and Persians never existed until the advent of Muhammad. It makes one wonder why “the Muslim world” crashed so miserably over the past 300 years, when Islam supposedly inspired so many of humanity’s advances.
The fact is, Islam retarded and crushed human advance in the lands that they violently conquered. Brilliant advances came about in these lands during Muslim occupation, but the brilliance came by way of the enslaved Dhimmi population (in many cases who were the vast majority at the time), and NOT by illiterate Muslims who knew nothing but lines out of the Koran, and nothing else. Inevitably, Islam ground progress in Muslim conquered lands to a halt, and they went backward. That and nothing else stopped the Muslims from taking over the world, because the West’s progress shot far ahead of them.
Islam is the most regressive ideology (even more than communism and is on the same level as Nazism) that has ever been hatched in the mind of man. Obama’s speech to these barbarians wasn’t meant for THEM, but rather to spread misconceptions about Islam in America–that Universal Islam is peaceful and enriching toward humanity. In reality, Islam is a bacillus that threatens to destroy humanity. Muhammad declared war upon the non-Muslim world over 14 centuries ago, and that declaration has NEVER been canceled.
The Koran is the eternal truth to the Muslim, and it is a testament of bloodshed and war. That is the only thing one needs to understand about “the Muslim world.”
Last night Michael Savage said that bling is only given to Muslims.
Actually, there were scientific advances in Nazi Germany, often to the dismay of the Allies.
How far did the Great O have to bow to earn this honor? Or did he have to get on his knees?
I get the distinct feeling that this necklace giving was preceded by Obama giving the King some very juicy promises.
Did these advances have anything whatsoever to do with Nazism? Did they appear because the Nazis discovered them, or where they well in development when they took power?
To say that the Nazis had anything to do with scientific and technological advances is like saying that the Muslims had anything to do with human progress. Nazism would have inevitably fallen to the same sad state as the Muslims in the 19th and early 20th century, because it is based upon the consumption of natural resources and human beings.
OH look….he’s bowing again!
Utter Disgrace.
Sorry Carole, you’re wrong.
Abū Alī ibn Sīnā discovered the contagious nature of infectious diseases in the early 11th century.
The compass was invented in China, that is true, but the use of the compass for navigation originated in the Arab world.
Reed pens were used to write on papyrus in Egypt long before the 6th century.
And I’m curious as to your source on math of Algebra predating the Arabs.
Nice try though. Thanks for playing.
That’s not a medal, it’s a hubcap off the King’s old Cadillac.
Calling all trolls – those of you who denounced the Bushes as too close to Saudi Arabia – where are you, you hypocrites?
Don’t confuse pre-Arab with pre-Islam. Islam did not come about until around 622 AD. Higher mathematics including algebra has been around longer than that.
Unbelieveably so. Inferiority is a state of mind.
I wonder how long it will be before Obama finds out he can’t KEEP that stuff, that it goes to the Smithsonian or somewhere else after he leaves office, being considered a government-to-government gift. Hillary and Bill tried that little tactic of taking truckloads of stuff, and had to send most (if not all) of it back.
Maybe Jugears will change that law too. Law? What law?
Reaching for straws one more time.
Here’s something way more interesting:
“Former Vice President Dick Cheney says that former President George W. Bush did not want to be the one who “pulled the plug” on General Motors and instead decided to pass on the issue to President Barack Obama.
“I thought that, eventually, the right outcome was going to be bankruptcy,” Cheney said of the company during the second part of interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren that aired Tuesday night.”
At what point are you equating Egyptians and Muslims?
Nice confession. Next session we’ll work on admitting you have a problem.
That’s because bankruptcy is something a company does, not something the government forces them to do. Well at least in non-Marxist countries that believe in capitalism.
I love it when you come here though – you’re always good for a laugh.
At least you didn’t plagiarize this time … progress.
Ilovemycountry said:
Wasn’t it the Democraps that spewed out that Bankrupcy was not an option for GM?
They sure made a stink about Bush holding hands didn’t they?
The Nazi’s made the Fischer-Tropsch liquid fuels from coal process work on an industrial scale, because they had lots of coal, but not enough oil, which is why they invaded Romania and possibly even the USSR.
South Africa, during the apartheid era, also worked on advancing coal to liquids technology fearing a boycott. The South African company SASOL is still involved in making liquid fuels from coal.
They did, and they made a big deal of BIG OIL and Bush and Cheney and Halliburton and the Saudis and how evil they all were…but at least Bush looked like an adult of accomplishment entertaining a friend, rather than an unaccomplished rube in the city for the first time, wide-eyed over the sights and sounds and the bling. Even Biden must be embarrassed, and has probably retreated into his secure location…
And, the non-Muslim world embraced his work. Muslims inevitably rejected it because it contradicted the “truth” in their holy Koran.
A compass’ function is to navigate with, so your contention that Arabs discovered it’s function after the Chinese invented it is ridiculous. Moreover, your use of “Arab world” confuses the assertion that Muslims had anything to do with its development. If you look into it, the people responsible were NOT Arab.
Look it up in Wikipedia under “History of Algebra.”
Amazing the things you can find with Google and a rudimentary understanding of international politics. Nothing to see here, people.
Correct!
That’s the point made by debunking authors.
The preexisting and remaining Dhimmi peoples made whatever discoveries and advances were associated with the geographic extent of Islam until the Dhimmis were sucked dry and annihilated.
But, the Dhimmii troll is merely doing the only thing he knows how to do – appease the bully, hoping to be the last to be attacked and bent over.
You know, as Churchill said, like the fool who feeds the crocodile, hoping to be the last to be eaten.
Yup, and THIS is “change” coming from Obama–repeating the same actions as your predecessor…
Uh-oh, Michelle. Bling bling is a no no.
The PC thugs are looking hard to take down the right.
I personally, would have used the term muthizzle (short for muslim thug thizzle).
Today, Obama laid down his muthizzle…
“muthizzle” bHo’s new rap video title???
I do not know what point was to be made here, but Nazism had nothing to do with this. The individuals responsible for this advancement predated Nazi ideology (as it was). I mean, these technologies would have come about regardless of this evil system, because the people who developed them were in place to do so, and the vast majority of the technologies that came about during Hitler’s reign were in development when he took power.
Nazism did nothing to inspire this development. In fact, because Nazism is at its core a race-centered ideology, and it excluded thought from “non-Aryans,” that alone led to their downfall, because they destroyed millions of people and merely consumed their resources, rather than finding pragmatic ways to use EVERYONE in their realm in order to bring about Hitler’s aims.
Given time (well beyond Nazi Germany’s brief existence), it would have inevitably fallen into a dark age of ignorance and misery.
Just a side note, obama just invited hamas to talks. You know the people sworn to genocide?
Now back to the pretty shiney gold medal.
Serious, historians are going to look back on these days and wonder what the f%^k we were thinking.
b-cat: He is like that aunt who used to give you socks, sweaters and underwear for Christmas.
Is that our Mooslim president? You know the unAmerican one.
b-cat: I have no problem admitting IHateMyself has problems.
Muslims are talking about how nothing will be achieved until the “issue of Israel is resolved.”
TRANSLATION: Until Obama turn against Israel and joins the Muslim world towards its destruction, they aren’t listening to his insipid rhetoric.
No DVDs this time, but before he speaks with Ahmadinnerjacket, rumor has it he’ll add him as his Facebook friend.
King Fahd got an iPod with “Now That’s What I Call the Call to Prayer 7″ preloaded.
any talk of a ‘muslim golden age’ is nothing more than propoganda.
any technology they claim, they stole.
This reminds me of the nut-cake black studies professor who vociferously claimed that the Egyptians were actually Africans (i.e., black-skinned) and that they had engaged in powered flight around the pyramids as they were being built, but that the white-man (i.e., the Jews) stole it from them!
I guess we missed the heiroglyphics showing the blueprints of those early airplanes and that this technology was locked up in a temple in Jerusalem until they were shipped to America in the hold of the USS Lollypop — a slave ship — Oh, the irony!
too funny!
There is one thing to see: Obamachev bowing his head again to a foreign leader. I checked your link, and I already questioned that Boooosh might have received the same thing. Boooosh didn’t bow to the King.
Maybe that’s what you leftists hate about Booooosh: He didn’t bow to foreign kings.
Uh,when will Obama start to nationalize churches and convert them into mosques? I mean, we are one of the largest Muslim nations in the world and we aren’t a Christian nation any longer.
Frankly, the people in Rev. Wright’s church probably wouldn’t notice any difference…
Nothing says
“You better do what I tell you to do”
More than a big ole honkin’ gold chain.
Does this mean Obama is the King’s “girlfriend” now?
I see it was already brought up that President Bush received this same “honor” in 2008.
Comment to “Ilovemycountry” do you remember when Nancy Pelosi stated that bankruptcy was NOT an option with GM? Last December, as I remember. So, your comment on Dick Cheney’s interview is interesting, but not accurate.
I believe that’s known as a “Nice Grill”.
Gifts given to Presidents are actually given to the American People and are supposed to stay in the White House.
Course when Obama is gone the next President can send it back to King Saud just like Obama did with the bust of Churchill insulting Britian. Do we care if King Saud gets insulted???
Since they are such good buds, maybe Obambi can talk to the King about that equal rights for women thingy he was babbling about today.
Well if you won’t drill here, you end up bowing for oil…
Ah, but that’s a Constitutional issue (Emoluments Clause), and you KNOW that’s a living document, don’t you?
Good point.
See? Bow to the King, and he will give you bling.
Hey King, I’ll give you 10 bucks if you do it again…I want to see his ego explode.