Thursday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

The president just finished delivering his speech to the Muslim world, beginning his remarks with the traditional arab greeting: assalaamu alaykum.

The White House really wanted Muslims to see this speech. In addition to cable coverage, it was live streamed and aggressively pushed it via twitter and Facebook. I only caught the end of his remarks, which touched on all the hot-button issues while telling the story of Barack Hussein Obama.

Expect endless analysis from the American talking heads today. But, the speech wasn't aimed at them -- it was directed to Muslims around the world, many of whom have unfavorable views of our country. So, it'll be almost humorous to watch well-paid, usually clueless U.S. pundits tell us how Obama's speech played to Muslims.

That'll the shape the news today...