Obama Announces New Entrepreneurial Exchange Programs with Muslim-Majority Countries

Hope his entrepreneural plan doesn’t include any government stimulus funds because 1. it isn’t for entrepreneurals 2. it doesn’t work. According to a CNN Report, the National Association for Business Economics quarterly survey reports that economists think the government’s stimulus package and jobs bill had little to do with any job growth seen in recent weeks: “About 73% of those surveyed said employment at their company is neither higher nor lower as a result of the $787 billion Recovery Act”.

Women in technology fields will have the opportunity to come to the United States
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The way I understand it the Middle East is full of such women!
Social entrepreneurs? He’s given the term “community organizer” such a bad name he won’t even use it himself. He knows no one else wants to be tagged with it.
Let’s elect us another “community organizer”!

What a horrid idea. Create a program to import more Islamicists? Wonder how Barry’s going to explain it when a “social entrepreneur” (what the heck is that) blows up a club in New York.
And what’s with Barry’s comment about “the tolerance of Islam”. What does he know about the tolerance of Islam? Has he seen Islamic countries tolerating anything in his lifetime? What? Where?

muslim nations have nothing to offer but zealots, radicals, and murderers. Keep them as far away as possible.

“We will bring business and social entrepreneurs from Muslim-majority countries to the United States”
Wow, a new easy way to get terrorists into the USA.
Hey, 1 short of 540 am I supposed to be excited about this?
Seriously though, this may be a pretty positive thing but maybe not.
Anyway, it’s not something The President of the United States should be doing. It isn’t in his job description. In fact in kinda sounds more like something a community organizer would do.
Personally I don’t care either way about helping Muslims get the entrepreneurial spirit. It’s the same lack of enthusiasm I have for helping Jewish business wannabes. It’s something that ought to happen in the business world naturally from folks who want to make money and that’s it. Our government should stay away from trying to help any people of a certain religious belief sharpen their business skillz.

This seems like a good idea on many fronts.
There are a few people commenting here that appear to need to travel to open their eyes. People are really pretty much the same everywhere. I have a nephew who has traveled extensively and that is his biggest conclusion. That and moms everywhere love to push food. And yes, he has traveled to Muslim nations where the people welcomed him into their homes, making it very clear they didn’t like what the U.S. was doing(this was during the Bush years) but they loved the American people.
He did get robbed once… in Paris!

Also if people are pretty much the same everywhere then that’s a good thing because then eventually the Muslims will realize that the people in Iraq will have a better life with the ouster of Saddam thanks to the USA.
No one that I know wants to live life under a bloody dictator even if their mommies are pushing home cooked meals.

There was no need to add the Bush Years as if those days are all gone. Let me remind you that nothing has changed
Noz | Apr 27, 2010 8:14:21 AM
So, the Right wing attacks Obama’s diplomacy efforts as an “apology tour” with out of context quotes, paint him as an enemy of Israel for starting to take the smallest efforts to push them towards peace, and condemn as foolish his emphasis on placing deadlines on troop withdrawals that emphasize that we are not looking for permanent occupation. And then they turn around and claim “Nothing has changed” from the “Bring it on” Republican administration.
Amazing. I wonder if they are being deliberately Orwellian, or if Orwell just vividly documented a common strain of extremist thought.

My friend jhw539, the apology tour, shift towards the palestinians, and well the troop withdrawal was going to happen anyway are indeed changes in policy and may be viewed as positive or negative depending on which side of the pond you are on. We were talking about the “Major” policies, the ones most of the muslims judge us on. You probably missed that nuance but I’ll forgive you. Sometimes these threads are hard to follow.

Islam, a religion of tolerance???
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Ever read the old testament bible?

Don’t you know if we are nice and helpful to them, then they will like us. Look how they pandered to Major Hasan and overlooked all his radical actions and kept promoting him. That was the same idea. Play nice only makes them more aggressive. O is such a neophyte and has turned the office of prez into a social engineering and community organizing agency.

That’s infidels.

I would like to tell all people who commented passively on Islam and Muslims that they should read Quran well in order to discover the tolerance of Islam and Muslims. No need to follow our misconceptions and the things provided to us by the Media. Islam was hijacked by those who are not fully educated on behalf of others who miused them for worldly interests. All are required to review history of Islam from its very beginnings to know that Muslims are the most tolerant people and Islam is the purest religion. There should be differentiation between the Good and the Bad people and each country has its own passive and positive attitudes. Thereupon, all people should try to judge fairly and objectively on things they know and should not judge on a matter they are unaware of.

Hey Noz: The NABE conducted a survey which is of workers from all walks of life. (Go to the web site) It was not a survey of the economists. With deductions like that, one might think you work for a media outlet.