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June 08, 2008 Too bad this didn't come out BEFORE Obama spoke to AIPAC (updated)An Obama supporter belonging to a group called "Socialists for Obama" posted a long piece on "The Jewish Lobby" right on Obama's presidential campaign website.
![]() Hat tip: Israel Matzav To say that what this "Socialist for Obama" writes is anti-Semitic, hateful, inaccurate, insulting, idiotic, paranoid tripe is a given. But when you realize this is on Obama's website, you really have to start wondering about not just the candidate, but people's whose job it is to vet the site and make sure excrement like this doesn't appear. The fact that it is still there could mean that Obama campaign workers agree with what's written. A few choice excerpts:
Hey Kids! Let's play pretend... Let's pretend that this blog post appeared on John McCain's website. Let's pretend it was seen by lefty bloggers. Let's pretend that your average lefty blogger isn't a screaming meemie of an anti-semite but rather a rational human being. Can you imagine the hue, the cry, and the hue again that would be raised against McCain? The guy would be run out of the race on a rail. But the Annointed One can get away with this because 1) Lefty bloggers really don't care about this kind of hate speech; and 2) Obamamessiah can do no wrong. And here are some suggestions on how to battle the "Jewish Lobby:"
This has been on Obama's presidential campaign site since 9:13 Eastern time this morning. It is now after 1:30 and this offensive piece of trash is still up.* Cause for concern? Or are we going to hear the old refrain (and getting older every day) "These are not my values blah blah blah..." Simply, remarkably, unbelievable. * My mistake. This blog has been up since 9:13 PM last night -- and is still up as of 1:45 PM the next day. Ed Lasky adds: We hear a great deal about the Obama campaign's internet savvy and the campaign's vast warehouse of money. Why aren't some resources devoted to monitor this type of hate? Can't he care enough to spend some spare change on preventing this type of material? ![]() Update: Doug Ross spotted this first, and Little Green Footballs earlier today found "Jemaah Islamiya for Obama" on the Obama website, and has now updated with the web page we have above. It looks like we have an awful lot of insensitivity going around at the Obama website. I wonder if they have a Che poster on the wall? - Thomas Lifson Update: Noel Sheppard announces at Newsbusters that the article has officially been removed and ponders the chances the MSM will report it. |
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Well that didn't last long.
You can view a screen shot here.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30241_At_the_Official_Obama_Site-_How_the_Jewish_Lobby_Works
Posted by: dre | June 8, 2008 04:25 PM
The Article has been removed. I however, printed it out first. The Article contained a picture of Liberman with the notation, "Jew Senator". Another picture was of a man holding a sign that said "Jew are the AntiChrist". Truly disturbing.
Obama is not fit to be President, he is surrounded by, and has associated with, people who hold values far different from the values of mainstream America such as the author of that hate filled and racist blog article.
Posted by: Dcarflip | June 8, 2008 04:33 PM
Quick!
Someone call the media & alert 60 Minutes. The guardians of "liberal" freedom will get on it.
Posted by: Frank | June 8, 2008 04:50 PM
As shocking as the anti-Semitism is, it is even more shocking that a socialist would use the phrase "Lord Jesus Christ" and speak of the "power of His cross." This is obviously an evangelical mole masquerading as a leftist in order to infiltrate the Obama bunker.
Posted by: Ken Harris | June 8, 2008 04:59 PM
Thank you for bringing this to the attention of all of us who read AT. It is 2:15 pm pst and I immediately went to Obama's web site (ugh) to find this, but couldn't. I scrolled through everything in the "Blogs" section and it wasn't there. I don't know if it got removed or what. I'd love an update.
Either way, Obama is an empty suit, a gutless wonder, who sets the bar so low for a nominee for POTUS that it's disgusting.
Posted by: Rose | June 8, 2008 05:15 PM
Rick, buddy, you hit the nail on the head, the left doesn't care. Obama's cultivated the playing field so even if Osama Bin Laden endorsed him, it will be dismissed as a distraction. No wonder McCain declared himself to be the underdog.
Posted by: Ciscokid | June 8, 2008 06:29 PM
"Cause for concern? Or are we going to hear the old refrain (and getting older every day) "These are not my values blah blah blah...""
Or the increasingly popular retort from the Obama camp, "That's not the Juan Carlos that I knew." One wonders how many times that line will be trotted out during the next five months. I'm betting on lot's. Probably as often as those on the right will be labeled racist while the 90+% of blacks voting for Obama will be called members of a social vanguard.
Posted by: Geoff Gale | June 8, 2008 07:00 PM
What does it say about a Presidential candidate when voters can better predict his answer to another campaign screw-up better than we can predict how he will answer a question about his own foreign policy?
Posted by: EyesOpen | June 8, 2008 07:29 PM
If you go to Barack Obama::Change We Can Believe In/Socialists For Obama and click on the cached page you can read the whole article. When will the Jewish people wise up to what Obama will offer them!
Posted by: Michele Mitchell | June 8, 2008 07:44 PM
I really wonder what the fuss is about. First, the overwhelming majority of Jews in America are, politically/ideologically somewhere between solid left wing and complete Socialist. Second, the overwhelming majority of Jews in America would vote for the Democrat in the race, if the Democrat's name was Adolph Hitler. Third, the overwhelming majority of Jews in America will vote for Obama, no matter what he or his supporters say, write, or believe. If McCain can hold the Jewish vote for Obama to about two-thirds of the eligible Jewish voters, it will be considered a roaring success. Remember Mona Charen's column of the past week that asked whether American Jews loved Israel or Democrats most. When you combine that with the in excess of 90% of black voters that will vote for Obama, or any other Democrat, that is a very large hill to surmount. That should go well with the in excess of 60% of Hispanics that will vote for Obama. You see, my fellow right wingers, that is the entrenched cadre of Left wing and/or Socialist voters in our once great capitalistic society. Remember, the operative motto for American society today is, "I want it all, and I want it now."
Posted by: Caleb | June 8, 2008 08:01 PM
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/juancarloscruz/gG5BSr&ie=UTF-8
Here's the page. Pass it around.
Posted by: web crawler | June 8, 2008 08:04 PM
I guess there' s not much thought in "American Thinker." There must be hundreds of posts in the Obama web site. So they didn't filter this out. Does this mean that Obama's an anti-Semite? The idea is absurd. Does this mean that an Obama supporter is an anti-Semite? Yes, if an Obama supporter wrote this. For all I know, it could have been a McCain infiltrator. I condemn the anti-Semitic writer in any case, but he or she doesn't reflect Obama's beliefs. It reminds me of the nonsense regarding an Obama supporter who put up a Che poster. Does that mean that Obama's a Guevarista? Please. The fact is that the GOP has nothing to say about the issues: an unnecessary war, an economy in the tank, millions without health care, an energy policy adrift. The Republicans have been in power for two terms and they have a legacy of complete failure under the most disastrous presidency in modern history. It's no wonder that, out of desperation, they again turn to slime and defamation.
Posted by: Jeff | June 8, 2008 09:24 PM
too bad it was removed. I was going to spam the link to this article to every MSM I could think of.
Posted by: Pam L | June 8, 2008 09:25 PM
This is just another indication that B Hussein Obama is not his own man. He is the puppet of his masters the G Soros machine.
Whatever they decide is to be said will be said by the marionette or one of his minions. Deniability is the watchword.
PC is Thought Control
LEE
Posted by: Lee Hazel | June 8, 2008 10:05 PM
This is a great opportunity for everyone to see how a zealot works and how so many people are anxious to find dirt where there is none. The board where this garbage was posted is a community board and anyone can post there and it sometimes takes a while to police every single entry. Someone named Brother Nathanael Kapner who left his screed at the Senator's web community runs his own web site called Real Jew News - http://www.realjewnews.com/
Some of the stories over there include the following,
"McCain Bought By Jews Via Rothschilds!"
"OBAMA PANDERS TO THE JEWS
By Brother Nathanael Kapner - Copyright © 2008 "
"BIG BROTHER JEW is watching you my fellow Americans. And Big Brother Jew resides at US Homeland Security."
"JEWS DESPISE CHRISTIANS. Now that the Christian candidate, Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas, has won the Republican Iowa caucuses, the Jews have fired up their propaganda machine against him."
"THE JEWISH STRANGLEHOOD ON THE MEDIA HAS GOT TO STOP!" said Billy Graham in a 1972 conversation with President Nixon.
"Will Hilary Clinton Be The Next Jewish President"
If anyone cares about the truth you might want to visit this guys site. he is not exactly playing with a full deck. To blame Obama or anyone that runs a community board for everything a passing nut says is a little unfair don't you think.
Posted by: Winston Smith | June 8, 2008 10:59 PM
I love the doublethink. Your pretense for whining about what some person wrote on a open forum is the bare assertion that a "lefty blog" would do the same about John McCain. Good one, nostradamus, now the weather
Posted by: RR | June 8, 2008 11:56 PM
I was going to express some sort of outrage at this but all I can do here sitting in my chair is LOL,ROFL etc. I do wonder who left the keys to the asylum on the doorstep though,hehehehe
Posted by: rich k | June 9, 2008 04:17 AM
A little unfair, Winston? Thats quite the understatement.
Rick Moran either thinks we are all morons - we dont know how community blogs work and that anyone can post anything there and it cant get taken down within seconds - or, and this is more likely the truth - Mr. Moran is a thoroughly dishonest hack.
Posted by: Tano | June 9, 2008 09:06 AM
Tano - disingenuous as always my good man.
That posting wasn't taken down "in seconds." It was put up at 9:00 PM eastern and didn't come down until 2:30 PM the next day - and only after it was noticed by a few bloggers.
I submitted an "offensive post" alert on the website at around 10:00 edt so evidently they didn't care until it started to get widespread attention.
What does that tell you? It tells me that the Obama people could care less what kind of tripe is on their site unless someone pulls back the curtain on them.
Not very edifying, eh? But then the truth doesn't matter to you anyway. It never has and never will.
Posted by: Rick Moran | June 9, 2008 09:29 AM
Infiltrator??? Oh please, the website is run by Obama's staff and therefore every article is vetted. Would anyone of think an inflitrator would be posting a hate piece about Christians on the AT site? The editors are responsible to vet all articles. Don't think for one moment that only one person on Obama's staffed looked at the piece before it went on line. The operative questions should be? Who knew about it? When did they know about it? And what was going through these people's minds when they approved it?
I find it interesting that Obama is doing with Jews what the Clintons did with Blacks, baiting. This is an indirect stab at Lieberman and any Jewish supporter who does not give their unqualified support to the Dem Party no matter what, IMHO.
There has been a strong thread of anti-Jewish feeling in the Black community since the days of Civil Rights marches. One only needs to look at the Jew hating of Jesse Jackson (Hymietown comments). When people are given to strong emotions, they make equally strong declaritive statements indicating their internal thoughts. People given to emotionalism are inherently unstable. Don't think for one minute that Obama's distancing of himself from Rev. Wright meant he denied his own convictions anymore than Jesse Jackson's about Jewish people. Both of these people support Farrakhan. Birds of a feather flock together.
The use of victimhood to define your path of necessity requires a villian. As long as Jews buy into the victimhood nonsense, they in the end will end up being tagged as the villian. Learn from history or you are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately, Jews as a group sought to be liked or accepted by their generousity and support only to be viewed as rich and conscending. This is like battered child syndrome, you continually give and forgive to be liked as though earning love from such a person who disrepects you will ever be successful. The Dems have long used the strategy of victimhood to gain power, that power always has come at another's expense. The reason should be obvious, the worldview of victimhood is a false dichotomy, there are only villians and victims, if you are not the victim you must be the villian. Jews are not considered victims anymore, just as women now are not the first order victim either. That's what the Clinton v. Obama contest was about, the pecking order of victimization. All lessor groups must bow to the pecking order. Jews as a group are not only on the bottom of that pecking order, they are on the verge of being shoved out of the nest.
Posted by: dscott | June 9, 2008 10:55 AM
First, let me establish, I am very anti-Obama.
That said, while I have no sympathy for him, I do think that what you found may have been something a hacker put together. It is not that hard to cut and paste things to appear like a legitimate site, when it isn't. Obama's web site has never had any heading called "Community Blog", so I can't help but wonder if this was legit.
And, to the poster who suggested Jews are either so left (or I suppose you think, so dumb) that they'd vote for Hitler, your comment was unbelievably offensive. You can state what you want about whatever your peception is about any demographic group and their political leanings, but to suggest that a Jew would vote for Hitler is so utterly beyond offensive and written in such disregard for the millions who died at his hands that I'm shocked the moderator of this site permitted it. Your comment was truly regretable.
Posted by: Rose | June 9, 2008 02:19 PM
One way to break the power of the left on various issues, such as the gun issue, is for gun enthusiasts to promote their interests to hispanics and, blacks. The are lot's of folk from those groups that could be reached. The left would then loose some of their grip.
Posted by: Mr. Mike | June 9, 2008 09:26 PM