Political Punch

The real Semites in case everybody has forgotten are Arabs, Lebanese, Syrians, Jordanians and Palestinians. As far as the state of Israel goes it's a hybrid of many races just like the US. And as far as their religion goes, it is just that: `a' religion. Even taking all monotheists in bulk into consideration still leaves millions more people on the planet not convinced it is even a belief system they want to embrace.
Have fun ripping each other to shreds in the name of religion if you must but please keep it to yourselves, don't turn it unto un-realpolitik.

By the way, Elie Wiesel, Simon Wiesenthal, and Alan Dershowitz are not dumb enough to misinterpret this statement by Obama in the same way you have.

For the umpteenth time, I ask you: instead of deleting my comments only to see them reappear moments later, wouldn't it be a lot less work for both of us if you'd just ban me?

The path of least resistance would've been to just let my original comment stand, seeing as how there was nothing objectionable about it (save for the fact that it didn't agree with Tapper's post), but I guess it's to ABC's credit that their hacks aren't LAZY hacks.

Very good article and well written.

Well, what do you expect from someone who thinks his 3-week college trip to Pakistan more than 20 years ago gives him more knowledge of current foreign policy than Senators who interact and discuss policy with the policy-makers in more than 80 countries?

Of course, he thinks he's done more than ANYONE.

RS: Fine, we'll have to agree to disagree. Perhaps some day you'll conclude Obama is not as bad as you think right now. Perhaps not. In any cases, best wishes.

Morals and John McCain? A guy who cheated on his wife to have an affair with another guy's wife. Who left the wife he had while a POW because she had a car accident, lost bone structure and gained weight?

One more thing Danny, you say: "If you bother to read Obama's AIPAC speech of March 2, 2007". It's getting very tiresome that the only defense Obama supporters can make for Obama is "if you read his speech from blah, blah, blah, did you hear his speech on race, blah, blah, blah,". Obama is a puppet candidate that makes puppet speeches,at locations desired by his puppet masters and Obama does not take any actions that back up his claims for change, unity and hope which is his supposed message for this country. Michelle Obama is only now proud of her country, and it would be interesting to read her entire Princeton thesis that is under lock and key. Obama wants Hillary to release all her records, but the Obama's keep their sealed shut. Men and woman who sit silently while racism and anti-semitism are happening right under their noses, are condoning it by their INACTION. That is Obama's weakness, and it is a sorry state for this country that the media is not interested in exposing this about Obama.

Danny: Obama is not the man he claims to be, and get used to the "tirades" from lots of Americans if Obama becomes the democratic nominee. It's interesting that you bring up Obama's recent support of Israel - March 2007 - when he was getting to run for president. How convenient for Obama. Too bad Obama's connections to Wright, Farrakhan, Rezko, Ayers, Khalidi, Said and others that are sure to come out tell a different story. Obama's weekly church bulletins had anti-semitic statements in them, his church featured stories about Hamas in its church bulletin, and Obama claims he did not know this was going on in his church, or if it was, he disagreed but didn't do anything to stop it. Danny, you will find lots of other Americans who will go on a tirade when they realize the extent of racist, anti-semitic, anti-american connections within Obama's world. There is no forgiving or forgetting terrorists that kill innocent people and featuring the work of Hamas in Obama's church bulletin tells me that Obama is an anti-semite by staying in that church and not taking a stand against racism and anti-semitism and murder of innocent Israelis.

Two Words:

Zbigniew Brzezinski

and just a ps for RS--Obama has had absolutely no association with Farrakhan and the Black Panthers. Those accusations are ridiculous.

RS: That was quite a tirade...it's actually as factually inaccurate and extreme as some of the worst statements made by the very people you criticize Senator Obama for associating with.

Joe Lieberman was one of Obama's mentors in the Senate. One of Obama's first political jobs was workng for a Jewish activist. Obama is not an extremist, period.

If you bother to read Obama's AIPAC speech of March 2, 2007, you'll find details of his trip to Israel in which he flew over the West Bank in an IDF helicopter and visited the site where a Hezbollah rocket landed in Israel. He has been criticized by some on the left for being too pro-Israel!!!!

He is absolutely not the person you make him out to be. He's certainly not perfect, but he and his wife are very decent Americans. Calling Michelle anti-American is surely beneath your dignity.

Obama is all duck and no dinner.

WHY HASN'T THE MEDIA BEEN ALL OVER THIS? CHECK IT OUT! I would really like the Larry Sinclair matter to be looked into in MUCH more detail (check out Larry Sinclair on You Tube

THIS REALLY NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED - THE MEDIA IS IGNORING THE STORY.

This is my second attempt to post...

I think you're being unfair...speaking fears than what actually may be the truth. We need to hear/see what he's about--being a bridge between peoples--there are worse things than making peace a possibility.

Let's keep the discussion civil and to the point!

Thank you Jake for pointing that out. Obama often makes these kinds of statements without any substantiation, and the media lets him go unchallenged. It's absurd. Obama needs to prove that he is the most fiercely speaker against anti-Semitism, or this is just another exaggeration.
On second thought, it's hard to prove that one is the best at something. How about Obama proves what he has done to oppose anti-Semitism? What legislation has he passed or authored? When did he speak out against it and how many times? It's pretty to easy to show that you are strongly against something by the work you've done.

Obama had twenty years to challenge his congregation's leadership and he never did it until now.

I guess it depends on what your definition of Jewish is...if you repeatedly say, "I'm a Christian, I'm a Christian," maybe in BO's head that means you are speaking out against anti-Semitism.

This racist anti-Semitic man can not be allowed anywhere near the White House. I don't think he's even qualified to be a Senator -- since when do we allow members of racist and anti-Semitic organizations to continue their memberships and still be elected officials? He must have some dark dirt on all these pols that are backing him. We need you PA, IN, KY, SC, WV, MT, PR, etc...we need you to save us. Please. Vote Hillary as she will get us out of Iraq and keep our nation safe. She'll restore the messed up trickle down economic failure, too.

Seems every week even the adoring media can't ignore the lies that Obama gets caught in. Couple that with Hillary's shrill campaign of insanity, and I think we need to get used to two words: President McCain.

McCain is the ONLY candidate who has more than two years of proven efforts in reaching across the isle to resolve problems in a bipartisan manner.

Plus, he's a Cylon.

I really am amazed at Senator Obama's arrogance. No noe has been more outspoken on anti-semitism than he? Wow that must be a great surprise to his Rev. Wright -- do you think that Sen. Obama ever "guest lectured" from the pulpit of the TUCC about the wrongs of anti-semitism?

Doesn't he know that people record these silly remarks and will play his untrruths back to him over and over?
This is insulting hyperbole.