Obama Armed With ‘Doves of Peace’

posted at 8:45 am on June 10, 2009 by dougpowers
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We already know the mainstream American press reaction to Obama’s Cairo speech (if you’re anywhere near the media when Obama walks into a room, you’d better cover yourself in a tarp like you’re in the front row at a Gallagher show or risk being covered with Chris Matthews and Brian Williams’ DNA), but what was the reaction in the Middle East?

Some Arab opinions are here.

This cartoon from Al-Watan in Saudi Arabia was particularly telling — the “New American Cowboy” armed with “Doves of Peace”:

Doves have a number of natural predators from both ground and air, so I feel safer already.

Kim Jong Il is shaking in his boots — but only because he’s got the DT’s.

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