The following is an email I recieved from a friend of mine visiting Dubai … It’s very interesting what you read in the newspapers outside of this country … pay particular attention to the last bit regarding Russia

The Watch Dog

Good-morning from Dubai:

I was having coffee and reading the Gulf News here at the J.W. Marriott when on page 9 in the opinion section appeared the headline: “OBAMA IS NOW WORLD’S LEADING SPOKESMAN.”

 In another piece by Maureen Dowd titled: “If only Gandhi had won it” [yes the Arabs like Dowd because she hates George W. Bush] makes the point that in the Oval office will hang Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize as he sends more troops to Afghanistan.  Dowd jokes that Obama should have gotten the Nobel in chemistry, because chemistry is all he’s got.

 She goes on to say: “The only peace Obama has made is bringing together the Taliban, Rush Limbaugh, the Palestinians and the Israelis to agree the guy is undeserving.”

 I read another article by Abdullah Al Shayyi who said: “It will be a travesty if the Obama administration squanders the goodwill it has been handed by the Arabs and Muslims.”  YIKES !

 Finally…in the business section, there was in interesting piece on the Russian economy where there unemployment rate is 7.5%.  At an investment forum in Moscow, PM Putin vowed to reduce the government’s role in the economy. But here at home our president, the congress and yes, even some republicans want to increase the government’s role in the US economy. So, is President Obama now governing to the left of Vladimir Putin?

 I REALLY MISS REAGAN !!!