Shocker! Arabs Also Hate Obama

How's that whole Muslim outreach thing working out? Uh, not too well, it appears. With his approval ratings plummeting at a record pace here in the USA, it seems those in Arab nations also detest this pantywaist.

A new poll of Arab public opinion finds a significant drop in Arab world views of US President Barack Obama from a year ago. More than half of the respondents said they were displeased with Obama's policy.

The 2010 Arab Public Opinion poll will be released Thursday at the Brookings Institution by Shibley Telhami, of the University of Maryland and Brookings’ Saban Center for Middle East Policy. The annual survey, conducted in conjunction with Zogby International, polled 3,976 people in six countries — Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates — in June and July.

It appears that Obama's famous speech in Cairo, in which he called for a "new beginning between the United States and Muslims" did not make a lasting impression on the Arab world.

According to the POLITICO blog, the most striking finding is that while early in the Obama administration, in April and May 2009, some 51% of those polled expressed optimism about American policy in the Middle East; in the 2010 poll, only 16% were hopeful, while a majority, 64%, was discouraged.

"The data leaves little doubt that the deciding factor in the shift of opinion toward the Obama administration is disappointment on the Israeli-Palestinian issue," Telhami said.

No president has ever been more hostile toward Israel yet for all his pandering the Muslims still hate the guy.

What a surprise.