If Obama wins 61% of the Jewish vote, as a recent Gallup poll suggests, he will fall 20% short of what he needs to secure wins in New York, California, Pennsylvania and Illinois as well as have a shot at winning Ohio and Florida. That is why Obama pops up anywhere more than three Jews congregate.
He desperately needs the Jewish vote now, but his life story tells of a man who at best is indifferent to Jewish issues and most likely sympathizes with the enemies of Israel. His friends are his resume.
The mainstream media, in the tank for Obama, is doing its best to make the problem go away, blaming it on an email whisper campaign by the vast right wing conspiracy. Neil Macdonald, CBC News, asks Is Obama anti-Israel?
A couple of weeks ago, as families streamed out of Charlotte’s First Baptist Church into the warm fresh air of a North Carolina Sunday, a middle-aged parishioner wandered over and tapped me on the shoulder.
He had seen me interviewing others about presidential contender Barack Obama. As a devout Christian he had a question: “Did ya’ll know Obama’s a Muslim?”
“I think he’s hiding it,” said the man, who had just heard the Rev. Phil Hoskins preach that only Jesus, and not Muhammed or Allah, can guarantee admission to paradise.
The fact that Obama has belonged to a Chicago church for many years, that he was married by its minister, that he’d had his children baptized and had spoken from pulpits across the Bible Belt during this presidential primary season, mattered not.
This man had seen the e-mails, the ones that weave truth so cleverly with lies, the ones that say Obama’s father was a Muslim (true); his middle name is Hussein (also true); that he attended an Islamic school, a madrassa, in Indonesia (false); that he had asked to be sworn into the United States Senate on a Qur’an rather than a Bible (utterly false); that he refuses to recite the American oath of allegiance (false to the point of ridiculous).
Now, where these e-mails originated is unknown. But it is pretty obvious who stands to gain if they are believed: Obama’s opponents in the Republican party. The fact that the messages are aimed principally at American evangelical Christians and American Jews is no accident either.
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In Obama, Republicans see a chance to gain more of the Jewish vote while shoring up their evangelical constituency at the same time. Most evangelical Christians in this country see the establishment and expansion of the Jewish state as a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, and overwhelmingly support Israeli policies.
So, at every opportunity, politically militant conservatives portray Obama as beholden to Muslims and cold, even hostile, to Israel.
They have accused him of planning to collude with terrorists because he has said he would meet with the leadership of Syria or Iran to discuss peace in the Middle East.
Even President George W. Bush seemed to join the attack this past week when, in a speech to the Israeli Knesset, he tacitly compared Obama to Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister infamous for appeasing Adolf Hitler.
Conservatives also hold up Obama’s association with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former president Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser and an Obama confidant. (Brzezinski favours including Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that now forms the government, in peace negotiations and Carter has labeled Israel’s treatment of Palestinians akin to “apartheid.”)
Knowing the tensions that exist between American blacks and the Jewish community, they pounced when Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, damned America for supporting Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
And they could barely contain their glee when an adviser to the leadership of Hamas, Ahmed Yousuf, told a New York radio show “We hope he (Obama) will win the election.”
Instantly, that was translated into some sort of formal endorsement, as though Obama had sought out the support of radical Islamists.
The article goes on from here, but the above sample illustrates the construct of smoke and mirrors that liberals and the media are building around their man. The goal is to sufficiently confuse Jews so that, of shear force of habit, they will pull the Democrat lever in November.
What is wrong with Macdonald’s article? Where to start? How about the title? The question should be “Why does Obama have so many Antisemitic friends?” His friends and advisers include Jeremiah Wright, Luis Farrakhan, Bill Ayers, Edward Said, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter, Rob Malley, General McPeak, etc’. The friends a man accumulates over a lifetime tell more about his character than anything he says on the campaign trail in an effort to manufacture a few more votes.
Obama’s problem is that many Jews and evangelical Christians have figured out who and what he really is by learning who his friends are. To confuse them the media is pretending that the issues are his Muslim father (true), his middle name (Hussein) and his madrassa (public school that teaches the Qur’an) days in Indonesia (true). For good measure, Macdonald throws in some extra smoke, a couple of red herrings, like Obama asking to be sworn in on the Qur’an and refusing to recite the American oath of allegiance. Since everybody knows these last two to be false, ergo, everything else is also loony. Very clever “journalistic” technique, enough to deceive 61% of the Jews.
For twenty years Obama belonged to a racist and Antisemitic black supremacist “Church” run by Jeremiah Wright, a former Black Muslim and follower of Luis Farrakhan, a known Jew-hater. Macdonald reduces that to “Obama belonged to a Chicago Church for many years” and is therefore a Christian. Jews, of course, fear an Obama presidency mainly because many of his friends, advisers, financiers and spiritual leaders, regardless of their religion, are proven Antisemites.
Finally notice the “clever” slight of moral equivalence comparing politically militant conservatives with Hamas, the Palestinian militant group. Just two militant groups – Hamas and conservatives. Way to go Neil Macdonald! Amazingly, 11% of Canadians actually watch CBC programming.
