It is easy to take a political opponents words out of context and make them seem to be saying something unpopular or even incorrect. Some conservatives are trying to assert that Sen. Obama called Israel a “constant sore” in an…

Obama parses around Israel like it is a problem, not a nation. If sound bites mean anything he is careful to place the bites where they sound like Israel is the problem.

In other words, there will be no Hamas – evil sore sound bite. Guaranteed.

imaginary interview:

Q: As for Hamas?

A: No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy. The lack of a resolution to this problem …

The famous buzz word of the anti Zionist is that Israel is the problem, not the war with Israel or the lack of a peaceful solution with Israel, but existence Israel is the problem

AP, I’ve long hoped you’d pull out of this trend of policing anti-Obama or anti-Glacier or anti-Dem political rhetoric with an almost obsessive fastidiousness. I’ve been seeing a younger me, when I was doing much the same thing inside the Beltway, obsessed that my side prevailed for the right reasons, with the absolutely unimpeachably correct rhetoric and themes.

But the act’s worn thin.

IceCold on May 13, 2008 at 2:51 AM

I think the most riled up we’ve seen Allah in this cycle — aside from the daily abuse dished out to the GOP — was when he realized that Obama was a lying douchebag, just like the rest of him. The sense of betrayal was palpable. I think AP really wanted Obama to be what he thought he was. Ah, what a letdown.

Now we’re back to the usual rearguard attacks on any GOPer who says something stupid. Oh, well. You can’t really expect Allah to let the MSM defend Obama all by themselves…can you?

I’m not going to blindly adhere to whatever the most hawkish position is just because that’s the safest ground politically.

Thank-you Barry, for telling us what you’re NOT gonna’ do.

Now,…………………………?

Without caveats, if you don’t mind.

Make no mistake about it folks, Israel can’t let Iran go nuclear. Israel will be forced to do the unthinkable and wipe out Iran if this situation continues on it’s current path. This situation is no joking matter, as millions in that region will surely die. All this talk about global warming, saving the planet, going green; well, the damage to our planet will be extreme when Israel is forced to unleash it’s weapons upon Iran. What has the Goracle to say about this carbon foot print a-coming…..

Obama has not the experience nor the courage to face problems of this nature. Obama will do nothing other than to continue to feed this thriving business these thugs have put together. Hamas has declared their backing & support for Obama; no shit, huge pay days lie ahead!

Actually, it does sound like he’s calling Israel a constant sore, now that I think about it. I fail to see what sort of ’solution’ would be palatable to the ‘anti-American militant jihadists’ other than the destruction of the Jewish state. And insofar as the ‘Palestinian’ v. Israeli conflict giving ‘excuse’ to these fanatics, I’d point Senator Obama to the cartoon controversy and the Newsweek lie about flushing the Koran.

These people need very little ‘excuse’ to riot and murder. If he wants to remove anything that might cause offense and give ‘excuse’ to ‘anti-American militant jihadists’, I’d say Israel and America are in serious trouble.

Does he have to tie every fricking thing into his experience as a black guy?

How the hell does this guy even have a chance at the Presidency? He is a completely unserious person.

And then that mixed with a great affinity for the idea of social justice that was embodied in the early Zionist movement and the kibbutz, and the notion that not only do you find a place but you also have this opportunity to start over and to repair the breaches of the past. I found this very appealing.

“You hear that white people??? I expect you to heal yourselves for me, Barry Obama.”

He’s not honest about anything, he has a Lordly quality about himself, and the Queen Michelle.

What a trainwreck.

It’s a distraction from me caring a lot more about Michelle’s children. I need to care about them.

Barry is an imbecile.

But this interview is very disturbing. When discussing the solution to the “constant sore,” Obama speaks only of what he would propose Israel do. His main worry seems to be “tensions that might arise” between him and the “more hawkish elements in the Jewish community in the United States.”

Mostly though Obama talks about himself, his wonderfulness, his life experiences, his friends. Sure, the interviewer prompts some of it, but Obama goes way too far in personalizing what should rationally be entirely external issues.

Fore example, when asked to talk about the Zionist idea, Obama talks about Obama plus a little bit about the usefulness of Zionism to Obama. Strangely narcissistic – think about it it, if a stranger asked you to discuss Zionism, would it immediately launch you into a “poor me” recitation of details of your childhood?

On the bright side though, he certainly has opened up the door to the discussion of his friends and associates as reflective of his character.

Obama will throw Israel under the bus by summer 2009.

So – YES, he did speak of Israel itself as a constant sore.

I dub this jewgate. let the games begin.

jharada on May 12, 2008 at 11:24 PM

How ’bout “Hebrewquiddick”?

But the act’s worn thin.

Obama couldn’t staff ME on foreign policy – or, frankly, anything else, aside perhaps from Chicago machine politics -yes, he’s even more innocent and ignorant and unsophisticated than Bill Clinton was.

Listen, AP, to this jaw-droppingly sophomoric line from Obama about giving an adversary “an excuse”. Obama says it all the time – it reflects his level of understanding of world affairs, and that of his fans and much of the Beltway establishment: it’s about 7th or 8th grade, in my personal growth timeline. Sovereign governments of thugs and dictators and zealots and others with adverse agendas need “excuses” to do what they do. Unbelievable that an adult could actually say or believe this.

But in their millions, they do. They think of the WaPo and the NYT as giving them a solid link to the world they live in. They can hear a line like the one about “excuses” and not do a double-take. They can read Friedman without laughing or shaking their heads. They can read Zakaria or Cohen or Dowd at all.

And I fear, dear AP, that you show quite a bit of this pattern yourself. Your analysis of foreign policy and especially Iraq doesn’t show anything outside the Beltway mindset. Your instincts and integrity and sympathies are impeccable. But some of the lightweight kool-aid is leaking into your cocktail, and it’s been showing for some time. Even when my experience was limited to the Beltway variety, I had a strong feeling I was subsisting on partial information and extremely limited wisdom.

Almost every word Obama speaks on foreign policy is cringe-worthy – he’s an embarrassment to any knowledgeable and sane person. So the possible distortion of a phrase or two is, to borrow one of his stupefyingly transparent dodges, a “distraction”. His general cluelessness and substantive emptiness are the issue.

Many’s the time I wish I could go to the old AP site to find fresh, hilarious, incredibly witty and intelligent satire of the first order. I was poised to buy some friends the “Six Days, B*tch” coffee mugs when your old site went into amber.

But you’ll want to think twice here about playing the punctilious pedant when it comes to defending the opposition from even the most glancing kidney-punch. We’ve got a rough patch to get through, and the odds are better with the unbearable McCain than the unthinkable Obama. The opposition has forever blackened their names by dumping poison into the system, injecting a level of bad faith not seen since the Civil Wsr (Bush lied, etc.), all while the nation confronts as vile an enemy as it’s ever seen. Even a cheap shot, if it helps further tarnish the twink from Chicago, will in the end have been for the best. And those who launch that cheap shot haven’t come within a light year, substantively or ethically speaking, of opposition folks up to and including the most senior public office-holders.

Excuse for inexcusable actions? Does such a thing exist? If so, where can I buy one?

i bet he and jimmuh get together and read “the protocols” together.

he scares me s**tless.

The “wound” is really the phony “Palestinians”, who could have accepted peace AND THEIR OWN STATE in 1948, but prefer to seethe and plot to subjugate and annihilate the Jews in order to fulfill the 7th century dogma “Islam must dominate” proclaimed by the bloodthirsty warlord Mohammad.

There is no criticism of this malignant, imperialistic, and intolerant ideology by Barry O, though.

If only the Jews would stop defending themselves against Islamofascistic terror, all would be marzipan and zam-zam water in the region.

Right Barack?

“Constant sore” / chop quote.

While it would make a great ad, it would be hypocritical and I’m inclined to agree with AP on this one. Although I’m sure some group will turn it into an ad, and then we’ll all get the extreme joy of watching Dean and McCain denounce it.

SNOBama’s “fathers”:
“Mentor” Frank Davis
“Reverend” Al Sharpton
“Reverend” James Meeks
“Reverend” Jeremiah Wright
“Reverend” Otis Moss III
“Minister” Louis Farrakhan
“Pastor” Michael Pfleger
“Reverend” James Bevel
“Reverend” Eric Lee
“Pastor” Mack King
SNOBama’s “money men”:
George Soros
Syrian Tony Rezko
Saddam Hussein’s gun-running bagman Nadhmi Auchi
SNOBama’s anti-Semitic “advisors”:
Samantha Power
Edward Said
Rashid Khalidi
Ali Abunimah
General Tony McPeak
Robert Malley
Susan Rice
Anthony Lake
William C. Ayers
Bernadine Dohrn
Raila Odinga
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Jodie Evans
The Black Panthers
Lawrence Lessig
Sam Graham-Felsen
Joseph Cirincione
Cornell West

Judging by the people he surrounds himself with, Barack Hussein Obama intends to “Wipe Israel Off the Map”.

It should be easy for you. Just offer it up. Spill out some hope upon the earth and change the ground.

We hunger for nourishment and ache for our sores to be healed. It’s so easy for you, and so hard for us.

Just tell us.

This Obambi fellow reminds me of someone you wouldn’t want to invite to a White House party, you never know who he would show up with, much less to live there.

“But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy. “

Barry is obviously incompetent.

Again, the Bushbashers are behind someone who actually embodies all the criticisms they leveled at Bush.

I wonder if he can pronounce the name of the leader of Pookeestan.

Or the Governor of Massatoosits.

Barry is unelectable.

What would happen if some idiot thought it was fun
to fire rockets into your backyard,knock over your
barbecue,and your miller light beer was ka-spilled!

Me thinks,someone would be a tad upset!

And the kicker is they repeat it the next day!

canopfor on May 12, 2008 at 10:10 PM

I would burn said idiot’s house down. But miller beer would never cross my lips. Beside their sponsorship of illegal immigrant rally’s, they sponsored this:

http://www.zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php