*In a "major concession to the Syrian regime," Obama uses a recess appointment to select Robert Ford as the new ambassador to [[Syria]]. <ref>[http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/12/republicans_denounce_obama_ove.html Republicans denounce Obama over his 'recess appointments', Cleveland.com, December 30, 2010]</ref>
*Obama possibly tells a senior [[United Nations|UN]] official that the United States would be a Muslim country by 2016, or by the end of his second term in office. <ref>http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/22844/Default.aspx,/</ref>