Hail Caesar, eh?

Ending it?

He should have mentioned that in his speech to the Muslims in Egypt.

Instead he focused on a minor conflict that cost very few lives over 60 years and gave hope to those in the middle east who persecute and kill minorities. The US now stand by the dictators, not their enemies any more.

If he truly wants to end the genocide in Darfur, he has to do something; not talk, do. And it will be something that will make him unpopular in the Arab world.

He has to choose between popularity and ending the genocide. He chose popularity.

I wonder if he has considered forbidding Africans from building "settlements" in land the Arabs consider theirs?

Would that help make peace in Darfur?

How many Czar's does Obama need? As many as it take to circumvent the vetting process, that insures checks and balances, in order to get your agenda pushed through.

I'm the first one to admit I am still ignorant to many of this countries Govt systems. I have yet to understand what a Czar is. To be honest this is the first time I have heard the use of this word. It makes even less sence as to why he has so many, maybe Obama is trying to avoid taking blame for things if they go wrong, like when Bush was blamed for everything that happpend around the country and the world.

There's one key word here that might be the biggest problem Obama has. "Ending", Obama is seen as the man who will resolve all the problems of this nation and the world in a single term. I don't know about you but we have not been able to resolve most of our issues is some many years with as many presidents as we have had already, Obama is not special.

George Bush managed to end the Sudanese Civil War (ended with autonomy and an option for independence for Christian southern Sudan), the Liberian civil war, and Saddam Hussein's war against the Kurds in northern Iraq.

Whether you are for or against George Bush's actions, he did get things done.

Only three times in my life did I see a politician really change things in ways that affected me directly.

The first was when a red-green government was elected in my home city and state of West-Berlin in 1988 and the public transport system was expanded and they introduced a more transparent ticket system.

The second was when Lech Walesa's work paid off and the Soviet Union collapsed and the wall came down.

And the third was when the US invaded Iraq and a few years later (I didn't have the money earlier) I was able to visit the ancient region of Kurdistan where Abraham's people came from and where before the invasion I would have been gassed like the natives by Saddam Hussein's Nazis if I had shown up and introduced myself.