AP is making a big deal about President Obama’s interview last night on Al-Arabiya, the Arab news network, his first since his Inauguration. The headline is supposed to be big news;
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\nThe New York Times calls it a “new tone” in Mideast relations;
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\nWell, it’s such a simple solution to the Mideast problem, why didn’t Bush think of that? Actually he did. Although the Bush era speech has been scrubbed from the White House website (the speech is supposed to be at this URL; www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2001\/09\/20010920-8.html), through the magic of cached webpages<\/a>, I found the speech he made on Sept. 20, 2001 when he told the Arab world that Islam is not our enemy;
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\nSo what’s new? Obama juxtaposed a word or two, but it ends up having the same meaning. Is this what change is? Obama recycling Bush speeches only this time the media fawns over virtually the same words?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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