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The Tourist-in-Chief Finds an Ear-y Resemblance within the Great Pyramids
June 04, 2009 12:07 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports:
President Obama had ears on his mind as he visited one of Egypt’s most famous landmarks this afternoon, the Great Pyramids of Giza.
While looking at a hieroglyphic on a tomb, the President remarked that there was a certain resemblance, that he has in the past had a penchant for noticing.
“That looks like me!” the President exclaimed when he saw the image of a big-eared man on the tomb, “Look at those ears!”
Dragging over his Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Senior Advisors Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod and even personal assistant Reggie Love, the President pointed out the hieroglyphic to his staff.
“Look, that’s me,” he remarked yet again.
The President was led around by a guide who explained to him the history outside and inside the pyramids. While touring the Sphinx, the tourist-in chief, dressed in khaki pants, a polo shirt and tennis shoes, clearly appeared to be enjoying himself.
“This is the best,” Obama said to the pool, “Five guys was good…this is better,” Obama added, saying not even his trip to the burger joint, Five Guys last week in DC could best one of the seven wonders of the world.
After the tour the President commented was “awe-inspiring” and “beautiful,” Mr. Obama declared it was time to “go back to work” and headed to meet with US embassy staffers.
Earlier in the day – before his big speech at Cairo University – the President toured one of the largest mosques in the Islamic world, the Sultan Hassan Mosque with his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
--Sunlen Miller
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No Christian thinks it's okay to kill unborn children. Nope. If you call yourself Christian and think abortion is okay, you're kidding yourself. But you're not kidding Christ or our Father.
Posted by: tanarg
"Their children shall be dashed
to pieces before their eyes!
There houses spoiled, and their
wives raped...Dash the young men
to pieces...have no pity on the
fruit of the womb, the children
shall not be spared"
-- Isa 13:16-18
Posted by: Boogie Man | Jun 5, 2009 1:41:53 PM
It's great having a President represent me who I can be proud of again.
It was a l-o-n-g eight years.
Posted by: Ron D- | Jun 5, 2009 10:56:47 AM
It's obvious Obama is into all the new-age astrology crap, he also seems to think he's some kind of messiah. Very dangerous thinking from a public servant. He's not a king, he's supposed to work for the people.
Posted by: Mike | Jun 5, 2009 10:31:19 AM
The last undisputed world leader to become enthralled with Egypt was Emperor Napoleon.
Posted by: DontGet818OnMeNow | Jun 5, 2009 9:01:45 AM
SRD,
No Christian thinks it's okay to kill unborn children. Nope. If you call yourself Christian and think abortion is okay, you're kidding yourself. But you're not kidding Christ or our Father.
Posted by: tanarg | Jun 5, 2009 12:59:20 AM
He's always thinking of himself, just like all good narcissists do.
Posted by: tanarg | Jun 5, 2009 12:55:51 AM
I'd love to have his frequent flyer miles. Is he using a US passport?
Posted by: Charlie C | Jun 4, 2009 11:57:25 PM
Amazing Obama is vain? Oh really, he posed on a plane? Well how about Bush flying in ahem on a aircraft carrier to announce to the world "Mission Accomplished" in a flight suit (one who never fought in any wars) which cost taxpayers millions to fly over a navy ship on a war that Cheney concocted? Let's see Obama's vanity didn't cost innocent lives or treasure or the ever increasing Al queda sooooo get real here with your partisan lies! Jealousy is a bitch!
Posted by: kay | Jun 4, 2009 10:50:37 PM
"Cease looking for fault and find common ground...and judge people the exact way YOU yourself would want to be judged. Fairly and balanced with room for mistakes."
Ah, you mean treat President Obama with the same respect that the left treated President Bush. Got it.
I generally judge people by their actions, not their words.
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." ~John Locke
"When deeds speak, words are nothing." ~African Proverb
Assalaamu alaykum
Posted by: WhereWasThePress? | Jun 4, 2009 7:52:27 PM
Is this REALLY the time for jokes...
Posted by: Parallax View | Jun 4, 2009 7:04:57 PM
Can the man make a joke without it being dissected and picked apart. There are those that simply do not like him and make an issue out of anything he says. For the person that states they do not know what "religion" he is..because he does not go to church. I am a born again Christian. My relationship is with Christ and it is extremely intimate and personal. It exists with or without me attending a building called church for I recognize that Christ true church is not a particular building where people of faith gathers...the true church is a living organism that resides within the soul of the believer and where two or three people that has been supernaturally converted spiritual...meets...that is the real church...people...not buildings. So, Obama identifies himself as a Christian..so don't say you don't know what he believes when he told you already. He may be more Christians than a thousands that sits in pews week after week and walk around with hatred lodged in their hearts...as they espoused scriptures. Cease looking for fault and find common ground...and judge people the exact way YOU yourself would want to be judged. Fairly and balanced with room for mistakes.
Posted by: SRD | Jun 4, 2009 5:41:03 PM
Norm, you're no Egyptologist, either. The majority of ancient Egyptians were not black, with Negroid lips and noses, as you assert. This has been an argument advanced in recent decades by Afrocentric 'scholars' (see the "Black Athena" controversy of the 1990s) but debunked by mainstream Egyptologists.
Most true Egyptologists' first reaction to the flurry of interest in the ethnicity of ancient Egypt was bemusement-- as one said to me, "Black? White? Brown? They were Egyptians, for crying out loud. I never really thought about it that way." Then they saw that the questions were not going away and developed answers to them, but not answers that satisfy everyone, as your comment makes clear.
Posted by: moderate | Jun 4, 2009 5:35:43 PM
"Saying the 'Stars are aligned' is just a popular saying. It's not a pagan thing."
Would it be wrong if it were a "pagan thing"?
Posted by: WhereWasThePress? | Jun 4, 2009 5:29:21 PM
It is always about him...his dog is named 'BO' for cryin out loud
Go back and watch the video of him posing in the airplane during the campaign...and tell me he's not vain
Posted by: J House | Jun 4, 2009 4:49:35 PM
I believe that the pyramids are (were) aligned with the stars.
Posted by: DontGet818OnMeNow | Jun 4, 2009 4:34:20 PM
Saying the "Stars are aligned" is just a popular saying. It's not a pagan thing.
It refers to an older belief in astrology, but in America we use this phrase to say that the "time is right."
Posted by: borneo | Jun 4, 2009 4:13:36 PM
"Look, that’s me," (OBama) remarked yet again.
So, does he believe the pyramids foretold of his coming to Egypt or that he was here in a past life?
President Obama also proclaimed that "the stars are aligned" to pass his health care agenda this year.
His father was a non-practicing Muslim, his stepfather a practicing Muslim, his mother was an atheist, he and his wife belonged to Reverend Wright's church of black theology and now Obama doesn't really attend church though he professes to be a Christian. Louis Farrakhan says when Obama talks "the Messiah is absolutely speaking."
I don't really care (I'm agnostic) but it is very difficult to pinpoint what Obama really believes with regards to himself and religion.
Posted by: WhereWasThePress? | Jun 4, 2009 3:58:34 PM
On Hateair, they are pointing to this self-deprecating comment as evidence of Obama's narcissism.
Posted by: borneo | Jun 4, 2009 3:54:10 PM
Maybe he was picking out a large lot where we could start building his pyramid...
Posted by: DontGet818OnMeNow | Jun 4, 2009 2:47:00 PM
I went to the Pyramids. They were AMAZING.
I'm glad Obama didn't go inside it -- Secret Service probably wouldn't let him b/c its passages are so narrow and claustrophobic.
What's amazing though is that the king dude had it made so when you enter, you have to bend down b/c the ceiling is so low, and the implication is that you're bowing to the king dude and showing deference. Crazy.
And each stone of the Pyramid is HUGE. Poor slaves who died while building it.
Posted by: x | Jun 4, 2009 1:59:00 PM
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