Obama Fulfills Cairo Pledge With Entrepreneur Summit

[babylonsister]

Obama Fulfills Cairo Pledge With Entrepreneur Summit

By REUTERS
Published: April 26, 2010


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama launches a new effort on Monday to build business and social ties to the Muslim world, but analysts say the need for progress on big issues like Middle East peace will overshadow the initiative.

Obama hosts a two-day Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship that will bring together about 250 successful business and social entrepreneurs from more than 50 countries, most with large Muslim populations, fulfilling a pledge he made in his Cairo speech to the Islamic world last June.

The president will address the summit at the end of the first day to underscore his commitment to "deepening our engagement around the world with Muslim-majority communities," Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/04/26/news/news-us-usa-obama-entrepreneurs.html?_r=1&dbk

[Clio the Leo]

1. "MUSLINS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!! WHAT IS HE DOING!!!?"

:sarcasm:

[babylonsister]

2. You just know this is going to piss off 'a certain segment'.

I think it's a fine idea myself.

[Clio the Leo]

4. Well, actually, I wasn't thinking....

... that segment thinks a "muslin" LIVES in the White House already.

Given the email spam/BS they circulate, they probably wont be all that shocked.

[NJmaverick]

3. K & R!

[Cha]

5. Another important for the World pledge

fulfilled!

Thank you, President Obama.