That awful, horrible Pamela Geller woman's book

[wookie72]

Because I'm a sick masochist, I had to take a peek at The Post-American President by everyone's favourite Islamophobe, sorry, "anti-Jihadist," Pamela Geller. I only managed to read the first few pages, but even if the rest of the book turned out to be a fascinating deconstructivist analysis of the complete works of Milton, it would still be a horrible book.

1. First, the very premise. Geller and cowriter Robert Spencer are reawwy, reawwy mad that Obama has decided that he should play fair with other nations and maybe not always pick first in the pwayground. They portray this as utterly evil appeasement, when to my mind it makes sense considering that the US is rapidly losing its economic place in the world.
2. Geller and Spencer go out of their way to call Obama by his full name. Yes, his name is Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Booga Booga! Clearly his parents knew that this would be the surname of a brutal dictator who would rise to power fifteen years after Obama was born. (But wait, Obama is a junior. So Barack Sr's Kenyan parents must have known that Saddam, a year younger than Barack Sr, would come to power in 43 years. Scary! They also carp about how Obama once went by Barry Soetoro. Wow! A guy who adopts his stepfather's last name! And I supposed Pam and Bobby have never gone by a nickname, then decided against it because it sounds better. (BTW, Hussein is an Arabic name meaning "handsome," just like Pamela means "all sweetness" and Robert means "fame-bright". Aren't names fun?)
3. They don't actually say that Obama wasn't born in the US, but they point out that Hawaii wasn't a state until five years before he was born (I smell a conspiracy), and they say that it's unfair that Birthers get a nickname similar to Truthers, because *those* people are really nuts.

I had to give up after that. The whole thing I have to say about this is that to the authors of this book, the Birthers and the "Secret Muslim" believers is... do you know you are really insulting? You're not just insulting the President, trying to say that he actually illegitimate (with all the connotations of that word). You're insulting a woman who has been dead for 15 years and can't defend herself, a single mother who wanted what was best for her child. Geller, Spencer, and the rest of them need to grow up.

*soapbox off*

[Blue Meany]

1. This woman has no place being given a platform in the MSM...

She has advocated:
Bombing Mecca and Medinah (in retaliation for 9/11 or in the event of future terrorist attacks)
Bombing Tehran (I can't remember the rationale for this one)
Razing the Dome of the Rock (becuase there is a Jewish temple beneath it)
Killing Muslims (because "they" kill "us")

[Dark]

2. What kills me is that she and other islamaphobes say "oh, not all muslims are terrorists"

and then they go and generalize all muslims as being terrorists.