Obama adviser: War the fault of American Jews
posted at 7:51 am on March 26, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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The interview of Tony McPeak in the Oregonian has turned into a bigger headache for Barack Obama than first thought. Obama’s chief military adviser told the newspaper in a 2003 interview that the US should keep troops in Iraq for “a century … if we do [the war] right,” echoing exactly the same sentiments that Obama has ridiculed as “a hundred years of war” when John McCain made them. Now Obama has to explain why the former Air Force Chief of Staff blames the Jews for the Iraq war:
In an interview with The Oregonion about five years ago, McPeak argued that the influence exerted by American Jews is responsible for the lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. According to the general the problem was New York and Miami.
“We have a large vote here in favor of Israel. And no politician wants to run against it,” he said.In the same interview, McPeak spoke of his personal experience with Israel.
“I’ve spent a lot of time in Israel, worked at one time very closely with the Israeli Air Force as a junior officer,” he said, “but that’s maybe the more cosmopolitan, liberal version of the Israeli population.”
McPeak also charged that Jews and Christian Zionists manipulated American foreign policy in Iraq. “Let’s say that one of your abiding concerns is the security of Israel as opposed to a purely American self-interest, then it would make sense to build a dozen or so bases in Iraq,” he said.
McPeak’s formulation uses a little more subtlety than most of the Jewish-cabal conspiracy theorists, but the thrust is the same. Jews and “Christian Zionists” operate from a concern for the interests of Israel over America. It’s not that protecting the region’s only democracy and our strongest ally somehow doesn’t fall within our own interests, but that this group of Americans act against our national interests to manipulate American policy at the expense of our country.
Basically, Jews and Christian Zionists are traitors, according to McPeak.
How can Obama explain this away? Will this be yet another “crazy uncle” whose views on Israel Obama will disavow while not repudiating McPeak? The last one, Jeremiah Wright, included anti-Israel rants in newsletter from the church that Obama has attended for 20 years and to which Obama has contributed tens of thousands of dollars. The animus towards Israel among Obama advisers has begun to form a distinct pattern, one that shrugs and wan, partial denials cannot hide.
And it’s not just the animus towards Israel that Obama has to explain, either. Why does Obama associate with people who indulge in conspiracy theories to explain reality? Wright believes that the government created HIV to commit a genocide; his replacement believes that the CIA created crack cocaine to destroy African-American communities; and now his military adviser believes that Jews and Christian Zionists conspire to undermine America. Is this the kind of Cabinet we can expect to see in an Obama presidency?
Update: McPeak was Air Force, which I knew, not Army, which I wrote. I’ve fixed it now.
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Anything McPeak says should be taken with a grain of f’in nuts.
I am totally not surprised that he wound up advising one of the Democrat candidates.
James on March 26, 2008 at 7:56 AM
Hmm…that apostrophe didn’t come out visible with the italics.
James on March 26, 2008 at 7:59 AM
You getting the impression that virtually everyone out there in the Democratic Party is officially three French Fries shy of a Happy Meal?
pilamaye on March 26, 2008 at 7:59 AM
Don’t forget his foreign policy advisor - Zbigniew Brzezinski and his anti-Israel views. Obama is quoted as saying “nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people”. His church recently published in it’s newsletter a Hamas terror manifesto comparing the Hamas charter (which calls for Israel’s destruction) to the Declaration of Independence - oh wait, I forgot, Obama claims not to have observed any of this rhetoric coming from his church for the last 20 years (pull this leg and it plays Jingle Bells). Obama said he wouldn’t negotiate with Hamas because they don’t recognize Israel - but he would negotiate with Iran - who doesn’t recognize Israel and openly calls for Israel’s destruction. This schmuck makes Jimmy Carter look like a Rabbi.
gash on March 26, 2008 at 8:02 AM
Rev. Wright was this guys speech writer?
I will say it again, I love the Jews, they have suffered and overcame unbelievable obstacles (and still do), never met one that deep down feels they are a marked people (and justified)…but why, my God, why do they support the Dems., the group that cares the least about them…the group the from spawning the KKK, up to now, spews hatred for them…and if a Jew is a Republican, I can hardly think of more suffering they have to endure within their family and friends.
How can one of the great intellectual society’s be so stupid?
*
The Dems leadership, and powerful left (not only extreme, but left) wants the Jews to suffer more, to carry the burden of war, Jews are villians…it is noted and documented, this is not an opinion.
I don’t get it…
right2bright on March 26, 2008 at 8:02 AM
Only three?
The idea that the JOOOOS are responsible for the war in Iraq is beyond silly.
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on March 26, 2008 at 8:03 AM
A few notable truths about Obama:
Lionel Chetwynd, the writer/director of “Hanoi Hilton” and other films, wrote this open letter to Barack Obama in response to the Senator’s speech about race relations and Rev. Wright. Invoking his experience in moving beyond hatred towards Germans over the Holocaust, Chetwynd argues that “contextualizing” Rev. Wright’s hatred was a misuse of a “teaching moment.” The teaching opportunity consisted of “not explaining Wright’s outrage to me, but explaining his outrageousness to him.” That’s because “we’ll reach the post-racial era. . .by no longer justifying ourselves with what was, instead speaking to what now exists. Not deny the past, but recognize that’s what it is: past.”
Obama, of course, took the opposite view, citing Faulkner’s quote that “the past isn’t dead and buried; in fact, it isn’t even past.” Obama/Faulkner may be correct at some level; more likely there is no correct answer, it’s just a matter of outlook. But I think Chetwynd has the better of the argument when it comes to which outlook is more likely to yield a post-racial future. He may also have the better case when it comes to which outlook Americans are looking for in an African-American presidential candidate.
Chetwynd concludes his message to Obama this way:
You say you are devoted to Reverend Wright because he brought you to Christ. I can only imagine how powerful a relationship that forges. But, my imperfect understanding of the Christian Faith tells me you can do him an equally magnificent service: You can help bring him back to Christ. Show him redemption and salvation lie not in the satisfaction of doing little dances in a pulpit while you slander good and decent people. Teach him that great leadership and Christian love abjures the very filth – and I pick that word deliberately – that he spews on an apparently regular basis. After all, Senator, you know our government did not invent the HIV virus to kill African-Americans. You know, Senator, this is not the United States of KKK America. You know the truth of 9/11. At least you should. Both you and Michelle have benefited mightily from the new spirit that has come to America in the last two generations. I thought you were part of that. I thought you were post-racial.
But in your silence, in your justifications, in your facile instruction to contextualize, you seem just a more presentable version of those dreary self-promoters, Sharpton, Jackson, Bakewell and the rest. Surely this is not you. Please, Senator, be brave. Lead. From a position of honesty where context is our daily reality, not drawn from bitter memories, no matter how justified they once might have been. Deny Jeremiah Wright your comfort of “context”. Be Presidential. To all Americans. (powerline)
Keemo on March 26, 2008 at 8:04 AM
And this:
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12937
And this:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/03/another_obama_advisor_with_ant.html
Keemo on March 26, 2008 at 8:07 AM
I would love to know how people think that the Jewish
people are running the world,America,America’s Military.
How does one go about believing this stuff,this is a well
worn out theory that seems to get paraded about when other
groups of people seem to need a distraction!
I’am so tired of the never ending bashing of Israel
and the Jewish people,give it a break———-please!
canopfor on March 26, 2008 at 8:08 AM
The Chetwynd letter is here:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/open-letter-to-senator-obama/
It’s extraordinary.
MrLynn on March 26, 2008 at 8:12 AM
Messiah and now, Cosmologist, in search of the Grand Unifying Conspiracy Theory. And then, One Ring to Bind Them All.
shaken on March 26, 2008 at 8:12 AM
And just how much MSM attention is going to be spent on The Obamassiah’s advisors?
Not much.
rbj on March 26, 2008 at 8:16 AM
right2bright on March 26, 2008 at 8:02 AM
Same questions can (should) be asked of Black Americans. Why do they support a political party that has done so much damage to the development of their own people? It’s like “hurt me, hurt me some more, hurt me until I enjoy being hurt.” What’s wrong with these people…
Could this be a result of the Dems long term goals to dumb down all of America? Is this a subject that can even be discussed without the fear of being labeled with one (or more) of the labels created by the MSM to silence such speech?
Keemo on March 26, 2008 at 8:17 AM
Gen McPeak is yet another example of the influence of what I have called the new neo-Nazi influence on the Democratic Party. Anti-Semitism has become so intertwined into the fabric of the Democratic Party’s mainstream that they hardly notice it anymore.
jerryofva on March 26, 2008 at 8:20 AM
ZOMG TEH JOOOOOOZ!
fusionaddict on March 26, 2008 at 8:21 AM
DOH!!!
LtE126 on March 26, 2008 at 8:21 AM
Good analysis Ed, one correction, Gen McPeak was the Air Force Chief of Staff, not the Army. I was active duty AF during his tenure, what a loon. He tried to “transform” the AF by changing the uniforms (more than once), mandating all this Quality AF training (tried to run the AF like a multinational corporation). When Gen Fogelman took over, he reversed just about all McPeak’s directives. IMO, a RARE liberal senior military officer.
notashamed on March 26, 2008 at 8:29 AM
Or maybe just French.
srhoades on March 26, 2008 at 8:29 AM
I wonder how some of these guys are able to rise to such high ranks in the military. It’s a bit frightening actually. It seems like I see 10 McPeak/Clark types with 3 or 4 stars for every Petraeus I see. I hope I’m wrong.
TheBigOldDog on March 26, 2008 at 8:32 AM
Is it me,or are the distractions from the left
coming fast and furious!
By this time tonight,the Liberals should have
at least a couple more new distractions!
So the Jewish comment is meant to distract Rev.
Wright or one of Obama’s incompetent advisors!
canopfor on March 26, 2008 at 8:34 AM
What do you want to bet that because of this bold strain of anti-semitism being exposed within and throughout the Obama campaign, well that is going to draw a lot of former Ron Paul supporters to the Obama camp. And McPeak even looks a little like Ron Paul.
Its amazing to me how brazen and out-of-the-closet these anti semites/holocaust deniers have become as of late. Well at least they now have somewhere to go since RP dropped out of the race. DD
Darvin Dowdy on March 26, 2008 at 8:39 AM
Putting aside the distraction of religion, I have long held the conviction that Anti-Semitism is nothing more than jealousy. The Jews are the only semitic race to have succeeded, wherever they have settled.
OldEnglish on March 26, 2008 at 8:46 AM
Wow.
His reverend, now this loon.
Hussein Obama must really love the Jew bashing, because everyone around him seems to be doing it, including his supporters.
madmonkphotog on March 26, 2008 at 8:48 AM
From The American Spectator
McPeak on Display
By Robert M. Goldberg
Published 3/24/2008 12:07:43 AM
TheBigOldDog on March 26, 2008 at 8:52 AM
I was active USAF then, too. As if the uniform changes weren’t bad enough, there was the merge of SAC and TAC into ACC, and the inevitable watering down of SAC culture that (IMHO) led to that flight of live nukes last year.
McPeak is a wanker.
flipflop on March 26, 2008 at 8:57 AM
It seams like every day i learn of another anti-israel.
I can’t believe I am saying this but I hope hill wins and it is a clinton-mccain race…mccain winning! even the slimmest chance of obama is scary!
sko17 on March 26, 2008 at 8:59 AM
That is the $64,000 question.
funky chicken on March 26, 2008 at 9:10 AM
Then the question is…why do the Jews allow a party they so heavily support, continue siding with their sworn enemy’s, and enemy historically and accuratly who want to destroy them? It is mind boggling.
Absolutely, I have blogged on that many times. Starting in the 50’s when Eisenhower presented his race bill which was all but identical to the “famous” human rights bill in the 60’s, the 50’s rights bill was supported by Republicans, and blocked by every democrat…stopped in the tracks. And the 60’s bill was almost defeated by the Democrats, except for the fact the Republicans voted to counter-attack.
The humans rights bill that is such a proud standard of the Black community, would have been done a decade earlier if the Dems were not in power…again mind boggling. And let’s not get into the deal the Union power brokers made with the blacks, “support our movement (dems) and we will give you union leadership”, ha! not one black union leader was created, and the unions snubbed the blacks….don’t get me started, it’s a beautiful day out here in NC.
right2bright on March 26, 2008 at 9:12 AM
Don’t forget that Samantha Power advocated invading Israel and setting up our own pro-palestinian occupation there around this same time.
funky chicken on March 26, 2008 at 9:12 AM
Wow. I really hope they nominate Obama. If the Dems keep this up, NY will be in play
ConservativePartyNow on March 26, 2008 at 9:12 AM
Self-defense is so recherche.
mymanpotsandpans on March 26, 2008 at 9:17 AM
if someone from McCains camp said this, they would be painted as an extremist wacko who has a compound/bunker/fortress up in the woods in Montana and is ready to take on the Bilderburgs conspiracy..
DaveC on March 26, 2008 at 9:20 AM
I’m not surprised that this dope ended up in the Obama camp, after all doesn’t his position mirror that of the good reverend Wright?
Yes if Barry O’bama should win this contest we may see a cabinet to rival that of Jimma Carter’s, if so hold on to your yarmulke!
StuCon on March 26, 2008 at 9:20 AM
Well, he’s right about something, Fundamentalist Christians do support Israel and pray for the peace of Jerusalem, because has promised a special blessing to those who pray for the peace of Jerusalem, but also because of history. Any country that has turned it’s back on the Jews has suffered the consequences! Adolf Hitler was pretty popular when he started to spout the anti-semitic line and I think we know how that one turned out. What we need is maybe a history lesson for American Jews about who their true friends are and it’s not the Dems.
flytier on March 26, 2008 at 9:25 AM
Well, he’s right about something, Fundamentalist Christians do support Israel and pray for the peace of Jerusalem, because God has promised a special blessing to those who pray for the peace of Jerusalem, but also because of history. Any country that has turned it’s back on the Jews has suffered the consequences! Adolf Hitler was pretty popular when he started to spout the anti-semitic line and I think we know how that one turned out. What we need is maybe a history lesson for American Jews about who their true friends are and it’s not the Dems.
For some reason God didn’t come out when I typed it the first time.
flytier on March 26, 2008 at 9:26 AM
We see more and more of the real Barry…
I just wish some intrepid reporter would press himjust a little on Israel…
I bet we would find something Barry would like us not to have found out.
benrand on March 26, 2008 at 9:27 AM
I personally worked with McPeak in the mid 1990’s. I was a mid-level officer and sat in on many meetings with him. He was a pompous ass, who alienated just about everyone he worked with on a daily basis. His comments do not surprise me in the least.
liberty on March 26, 2008 at 9:29 AM
I quote Obama who quotes Lee who quotes X, “Bamboozled. Hoodwinked.”
May I submit: the history of the Democrat party in relation to african americans, the voting record of any civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s, not to mention the philosophy and origins of the KKK, just to name a few.
geckomon on March 26, 2008 at 9:30 AM
Heh. Those wacky joos. What can’t they do?
Also…Separated at birth?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
ronsfi on March 26, 2008 at 9:38 AM
Why do so many Jews consistently vote Democrat? It has never made much sense to me. You’ll find most virulent anti-semitism on the left. The left has little interest in defending Israel’s right to exist and often sides with Palestine, Iran, etc. against Israel. The left has far less interest than the right in defending traditional Judeo-Christian values (the “Judeo” part of that being *ahem* Jewish values). Jews are notoriously capitalistic in this country, and Republicans have a better record of preserving free-market policies than Democrats. So why are so many Jews Democrats? Riddle me that, Batman. I really don’t get it.
aero on March 26, 2008 at 9:39 AM
Sigh. Another McPeak thread. This is gonna cause my AF retired hubby to go on another trip down memory lane remembering what an as#hole that man was. He claims McPeak was one of the most hated men to wear the AF Blue. He is a maroon.
dish on March 26, 2008 at 9:40 AM
Ah, I see the question has already been asked today. R2B is as confused as I am about how Jews can vote for Democrats and apparently like it. Seriously, if anyone has any insight on this, I’d like to know.
aero on March 26, 2008 at 9:44 AM
Rest assured that the MSM will never ask Obama any tough questions about the fanatic antiIsrael views of McPeak ( a desk chair general. During the VietNam war guys like McPeak were known as RAMFs). Obama is never aksed about Wright calling Israel “a dirty word” or about Wright’s assertion that “Negros are afraid of the Jews” (Wright’s words). Chris Matthews, Nick Kristof, Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric and EJ Dionne are all guilt ridden White liberals. Dionne and Kristof and Maureen Dowd all wrote columns that said that they were free of racism but most other whites were racist and needed to learn from Obama and also from Wright. So these media guys and dolls will never ask a tough quetion to Obama. That would be racism.
Larraby on March 26, 2008 at 9:46 AM
A couple of Atlantic Monthly bloggers that I tend to find for the most part quite reasonable people with reasonable arguments are cherry picking tidbits from the Spectator piece and nearly entirely glossing over the very poor things McPeak has said.
Marc Ambinder
Ambinder is dead wrong here. The 67 borders are not the principal view of the Spectator piece.
James Fallows
What exactly is General McPeak talking about when he says “voters in New York City and Miami”? Fallows has to be smarter than this.
gabriel sutherland on March 26, 2008 at 9:54 AM
A nice, cold, beer and a soothing neck massage, mayhaps? :)
OldEnglish on March 26, 2008 at 9:57 AM
Between Wright and McPeak, it looks like Obama was looking to pick up Ron Paul supporters (paranoid theories, anti-semitism).
ynot4tony2 on March 26, 2008 at 9:58 AM
I’m Jewish and this question - how Jews can vote for Democrats - still puzzles me. I think that it comes down to tradition (not to be too “Fiddler on the Roof” about it). Jew’s parents and grandparents all voted for Dems since FDR and Truman, and we have always been very active and informed in politics and current events. For many Jews, voting for a Republican would be like turning their backs on their family tradition. Unfortunately, this is an emotional response devoid of reason. The good news is there has been some movement towards the right amongst Jews - logic will prevail it just takes time to break these traditions.
gash on March 26, 2008 at 9:59 AM
OldEnglish on March 26, 2008 at 9:57 AM
Yes, please.
Oh, you meant for him?
dish on March 26, 2008 at 10:02 AM
LOL. I guess I fell for that one, didn’t I? :)
OldEnglish on March 26, 2008 at 10:07 AM
People say the same thing about Wesley Clark.
Do we see a pattern? Former generals with a few balloons short of a happy birthday supporting Democrats? Hmm…
newton on March 26, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Hey, guys in the Jewish community: wake up and smell the anti-Semites!
Have you learned nothing from history? Just asking…
newton on March 26, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Proudly published in Obama’s church bulletin in 2007:
And how is it possible that Mr. Obama could belong to a church that would take such a letter seriously enough to publish it?
funky chicken on March 26, 2008 at 10:18 AM
“protecting the region’s only democracy…”
I thought Iraq was a democracy.
Oh, well.
alphie on March 26, 2008 at 10:20 AM
That statement implies that Blacks and Arabs are different to all others. Interesting - but stupid.
OldEnglish on March 26, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Democrats–The Anti-Semitic party. They’ve proven it over and over with their support of Iran, Louis Farrakhan, the New Black Panther Party, and hatred and ridicule of Israel. Cynthia McKinney even blamed “the J-E-W-S” for her 2002 defeat, and Jesse Jackson called NYC “haime town.” Both of these people are considered Democratic Party leaders!
Why, why, why do Jewish Americans vote overwhelmingly for Democrats?!?!
mojojojo on March 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Why do Jews vote for Democrats? I ask my self the same question all the time. As an orthodox Jew (you know, us right-wingers!!) I certainly have qualms about the Democrats b/c of their stance on every issue whether it be war, morality or otherwise.
BTW, I am a proud republican.
G-d Bless the United States
Yitzchokm on March 26, 2008 at 10:59 AM
Incredible chump…
Thank you for serving general McPeak, however, it’s time you retired 100%. Because, you’ve taken on a foolish role of supporting a hate America candidate, and are exposing yourself as being a certified, hypocritical idiot.
byteshredder on March 26, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Even the pro-Obama hacks at The New Republic have had enough of McPeak. A blog post there today is calling for the Messiah’s campaign to fire McPeak.
Vote Sauron 08 on March 26, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Same words that were heard rumbling through Germany in the late 1930’s and Third Reich in nature but from the left. Our country is in for some rough riding if the Dems get the White house. Sadly there are enough fringe, illegals, dead voters and more to make it happen.
wepeople on March 26, 2008 at 11:45 AM
I know that this may sound odd to many, but I believe the antagonism towards the Jewish people is spiritual in nature.
It’s like this: The Jews are set apart as God’s special possession by God. The Jews wouldn’t exist, wouldn’t be any different from the other peoples found in the region of the
‘Middle East’ thousands of years ago…except God set them apart. Jews, the sons of Abraham, are evidence of God’s existence.
In this darkened world which wants to reject and ignore God, all evidence of His existence, visible(physical)and invisible(spiritual)is anathema.
God in His Grace opened Salvation for Gentiles, made it possible for all who believe to be saved. Notice how Christians have a share in the ’spiritual antagonism’.
Christians wouldn’t be any different than anyone else, but for the fact of God saving them. So, Christians are also evidence of God’s existence. And as such, are also hated, reviled, rejected in this world.
If you have any ‘how abouts’ running through your head, I suggest you read the first few chapters of the book of Romans in the Bible. Every ‘how about’ is answered there.
Doug on March 26, 2008 at 12:09 PM
The Obama campaign would like to address a few silly rumors in the blogosphere. We assure Jews that, under our administration, you will not be resettled to the east, not at first anyway, and you will not be forced into ghettos in a few large cities, not until we have the fencing up, that is. We know how you Jews like to control things and make money so we will allow a select few of you to be the primary sellers of gold teeth and human hair when the time comes. Stay tuned to Obama08 for further announcements.
Sincerely,
Kwame Abdullah Jefferson
Liquidation Adjutant, Obama08
Django on March 26, 2008 at 12:23 PM
No…no thanks to him for serving himself instead of his country. He did incalculable damage to the Air Force…more than any enemy ever did to us in battle.
He was what Wesley Clark only dreamed he could be.
James on March 26, 2008 at 12:46 PM
McPeak is suffering from permanent brain damage which is the result of repeated incidents of High Altitude Hypoxia, these occurred when he kept forgetting to close the canopy of his aircraft.
dmann on March 26, 2008 at 12:50 PM
Did McPeak not get the memo? According to (fellow douchebag) Weaselly Clark, he’s supposed to call them “New York money people”.
ReubenJCogburn on March 26, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Damned straight that ignorant bigot wasn’t Army.
Virus-X on March 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM
The bankers? The ad wizards? The accountants? Maybe’s General Clark was talking about the insurance people. They won’t issue an insurance policy on any of the Democrat foreign policy initiatives?
I so wish Clark was running again. Maybe we could get Albanian terrorists introducing him on stage rather than just handing Clark campaign checks on video tape.
gabriel sutherland on March 26, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Opposing the Israeli policy of building more settlements in the West Bank and strangulating Gaza doesn’t necessarily make you anti-Israel or anti-Semitic.
Just FYI.
AJB on March 26, 2008 at 2:15 PM
I’m just waiting for a “Troofer” to reveal him/her self in Obama’s inner circle next. Stay tuned…
MarkM on March 26, 2008 at 2:50 PM
I can’t believe McPeak was the Chief of Staff of my Air Force. What an embarassment.
You have to be something of a genius to make general in the Air Force. However, aside from Ike, the top generals have not made very good politicians. MacArthur got shot down as a presidential candidate before he could take off. Curtis LeMay ran with George Wallace, the segregationist. Wesley Clark gets behind John “Genghis Khan” Kerry, slanderer of the GIs. Now, McPeak backs Obama, a smooth-talking far leftist.
I wonder if these generals get up there in that command bubble where nobody disagrees with them and they are always right, always deferred to, and these crazy politics detached from reality takes hold of their minds like mold in a building where the air is constantly recirculated with no fresh air brought in from outside.
Tantor on March 26, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Did anybody happen to explain what a Christian Zionist is? Is it a Christian who knows that God picked the Jews as His chosen people and still loves them?
Also, I would deny that Obaama gives generously to his church. He is a royal cheepskate. I think his giving amounts to one half of one percent of his net income. Wasn’t he in church on those days when his Pastor talked about a Tithe being 10 per cent???????
TimothyJ on March 26, 2008 at 5:20 PM
Me too. I have cousins who vote straight down the Dhimocratic ticket. I try to educate them that Israel’s best friend is the Conservative movement and the GOP. They just don’t get it. Invariably, they point to people like Pat Buchanan thinking that one person’s views are the same as the views of the entire Conservative movement. If I still talked to these relatives, I would point to “Reverand” Wright and McPeak. I’m sure these particular people are absolutely gushing about B. HUSSEIN Obama.
For some reason they can never remember it was Nixon who sent military hardware to Israel when she was under attack in October 1973 during the Yom Kippor War.
In college I became friendly with a number of Israelis and after a few minutes talking to one, she was so excited she met an American Jew who wasn’t a communist. She and her husband lived in Brookline, very liberal, and were tired of being lectured by their neighbors who had never been to Israel and never wore a uniform.
Is there any understanding why these ordinarily intelligent people can’t see straight when it comes to politics?
Mooseman on March 26, 2008 at 6:50 PM