The Vice-Presidential nominee should have no trouble remembering the name of Pakistan's president tonight.
Asif Ali Zardari last week told the world Sarah Palin is "gorgeous" and offered to "hug" her in a UN encounter that has landed him in hot water back home.
"Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you," Zardari told Palin. "You are so nice."
A radical Muslim leader has issued a fatwa condemning the president for shaming the nation with "indecent gestures, filthy remarks, and repeated praise of a non-Muslim lady wearing a short skirt" while Feminists charged Zardari with embarrassing the country with sexist remarks when "he should behave like a mourning widower" for his wife Benazir Bhutto, an icon for Pakistani women.
Nonetheless, if Obama and Biden win the election and want to improve relations with Pakistan, there is an obvious choice for a new ambassador.
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Thursday, October 02, 2008
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Forget Hillary: Obama's Musharraf Matchup
If Barack Obama thought running against the former First Lady was hard, he now finds himself in a tougher contest with the old pro, Pervez Musharraf.
The President of Pakistan, beleaguered to the point of negotiating a power-sharing arrangement with his arch rival, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, is hinting at declaring a state of emergency because of “internal and external threats” to his country.
Explaining the “external threats,” his Minister of Information claims that Obama’s statement last week about going after Al Qaeda "has started alarm bells ringing and has upset (the) Pakistani public."
Musharraf himself is so upset that he changed his mind about attending a meeting this week with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and tribal leaders to discuss ways of cleaning out extremist strongholds on both sides of their borders.
Today Senator Obama tried to reassure him: "President Musharraf has a very difficult job, and it is important that we are a constructive ally with them in dealing with al-Qaeda."
If Obama thought Hillary Clinton was playing hardball, he may not have been ready for Musharraf, who has played political games with the Bush Administration for years and managed to hold down his own militants, at least until now.
The President of Pakistan, beleaguered to the point of negotiating a power-sharing arrangement with his arch rival, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, is hinting at declaring a state of emergency because of “internal and external threats” to his country.
Explaining the “external threats,” his Minister of Information claims that Obama’s statement last week about going after Al Qaeda "has started alarm bells ringing and has upset (the) Pakistani public."
Musharraf himself is so upset that he changed his mind about attending a meeting this week with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and tribal leaders to discuss ways of cleaning out extremist strongholds on both sides of their borders.
Today Senator Obama tried to reassure him: "President Musharraf has a very difficult job, and it is important that we are a constructive ally with them in dealing with al-Qaeda."
If Obama thought Hillary Clinton was playing hardball, he may not have been ready for Musharraf, who has played political games with the Bush Administration for years and managed to hold down his own militants, at least until now.
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