Sometimes I wonder if our friends on the right haven’t come under the magic man’s spell. Note the reactions to his speech in Cairo:

See for yourself over at Memeorandum. Most interesting is Frum, trying to crawl back from the rock he climbed under a few months back.

“The president’s Cairo speech: worse than feared. Let’s itemize the ways.

President Obama likes to position himself as an intermediary, explaining two conflicting parties each to the other. He did so in his race speech in Philadelphia, he did so when he spoke about abortion at Notre Dame.

In Cairo, he took a similar position between the United States and the Islamic world. He urged Americans to take a positive view of Islam, and urged Muslims to take a positive view of the United States.”

Which is actually the way I took this, as an apologetic, kow-towing embarrassment to our nation. Let’s examine:

“We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world – tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.”

How this in any fooking way can be considered a “good speech” is beyond reason except to those who will say anything for a hit on their blog. The “recent tension” had little to do with any “colonialism” and everything to do with 9/11, just what planet is this clown on?

Again, over at Jihad Watch, Robert notes just how bad, pandering and dishonest this speech was.

UPDATE: A treat, Charles Krauthammer:

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