What a Choice – Obama or Clinton!
March 26, 2008
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I would imagine that after the November election, if Hillary or Obama happen to become the next President, by the end of their first term, the nation will be lamenting their choice of a President much as the choice of a wife made by the singer of the old country and western song, “Good Night, Irene.” I hope I have the right song linked with the right lyrics, but as I recall, it went something like this: “Last Saturday night I got married – Me and my wife settled down – Now me and my wife are parted – ‘Gonna’ take another stroll downtown – Good night, Irene, Good night, Irene – Good Night, Irene, Good Night, Irene, I’ll see you in my dreams!
I might add that once either one of these two get into office, our dreams of them will be nightmares. However, in all fairness to both of them, no matter who is elected as our next President, his or her term will be the mother of all nightmares for America.
From a prophetic standpoint, my carnal man is dreading it, but my spiritual man is very anxious for it to begin. I would say during the term of our next president, the words of II Timothy would come to full fruition, just as they did in Isaiah’s day.
II Timothy 3:1-7 – This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. [6] For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, [7] Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Isaiah 5:20 – Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
The next two articles from YNet News are worth considering.
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Obama advisor: US Jews hinder peace
More trouble for presidential hopeful: Inquiry by conservative US media outlets reveals that Obama advisor Merrill ‘Tony’ McPeak is a longtime anti-Israel critic who slammed American Jews for acting against US interests
Yitzhak Benhorin
WASHINGTON – General Merrill “Tony” McPeak, Senator Barack Obama’s military advisor and co-chair of his presidential campaign is a longtime anti-Israeli critic who has slammed Israel harshly during his career, according to an inquiry by conservative American media outlets.
McPeak, who served as the chief of staff o the US Air Force before retiring in 1994, made headlines over the past week after accusing former President Bill Clinton of McCarthyism. Yet as it turns out, over the years he has criticized Israel for failing to withdraw to the 1967 borders and charged American Jews were preventing American pressure that would lead to a Mideast peace agreement.
The examination of McPeak’s career, undertaken by conservative magazine American Spectator among others, revealed that the general adopted a harsh anti-Israeli line in interviews he submitted to and articles he published. According to the magazine, beyond his affinity for alcohol, which saw him detained for drunk driving a year ago, McPeak also appears to take great pleasure in slamming Israel and pro-Israel Jews.
‘Large vote in favor of Israel’
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.
‘Disturbing canard’
Following the latest revelations, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) called on Obama to remove McPeak as his military advisor and national campaign co-chairman.
“By choosing to have a military advisor and national campaign co-chairman like General McPeak, serious questions and doubts are once again being raised about Senator Obama’s positions and judgment on Middle East issues,” said RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks.
“Rather than putting the blame where it belongs – on the Palestinian leadership and their continued reliance on terror, General McPeak finds it more convenient to blame American Jewry and their perceived influence,” said Brooks. “This is the same dangerous and disturbing canard being promoted by the likes of Jimmy Carter and authors Mearsheimer and Walt in their book, The Israel Lobby.”
“Senator Obama continues to surround himself with advisors holding troubling and disturbing anti-Israel bias,” Brooks said. “We call on Senator Obama to immediately remove General McPeak from his campaign leadership role and as a key advisor.”
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Obama and the Jews
Jewish intellectuals blinded by Obama-mania, fail to see his flaws
Sever Plocker
The paralysis that overcame American Jewry in the face of the Barack Obama phenomenon is pitiful and prompts sad thoughts. Obama himself is clear of any trace of anti-Semitism and has been voicing very pro-Israeli positions throughout his campaign. Yet he grew up, was educated, and internalized values in an environment that is hostile to the Jews and to Israel – and also to America, as it turns out.
About two months ago already, starting with political blogs, stories were published that detailed the hateful anti-Israel sermons delivered by Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor in Chicago. And he is not just a pastor: Wright is the closest person to Obama, as the candidate himself admitted in his books. He is his spiritual father, his guide, his model.
Wright’s extreme anti-Semitic words have been well documented, yet the vast majority of Jews preferred to ignore them. Obama supporters in the Jewish business community did not demand that he sever his ties with Wright. Here and there we saw
weak articles of reservations that were nonetheless filled with words of flattery.
American Jewish intellectuals continued to keep their sense of criticism paralyzed.
Then someone uploaded a video clip to YouTube that shows Pastor Wright cursing not only the Jews, but also America itself, calling on God to destroy it, and with a theatrical voice and hand gestures charging that the American government spread the AIDS virus in order to kill blacks and planned the September 11 attacks itself.
Obama rushed to respond only after these horrifying sermons became publicly available. In a lengthy speech that was already designated as one of history’s greatest speeches by some American journalists (mostly Jews,) Obama presented his defense of, or at least a sophisticated understanding to, Pastor Wright.
To that end, Obama used three infamous demagogical arguments, starting with the reasoning of victimization and discrimination.
Wright’s “comments were not only wrong but divisive” and “expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country “Obama said, yet at the same time they also reflected the honest fury of blacks in America, who have been the victims of discrimination for hundreds of years.
Authentic representative of black minority
The second line of reasoning was about character: Pastor Wright, Obama said, is a man of noble character, warm, embracing, and people-loving. He has some opinions that are wrong (Obama did not detail which opinions those are) yet Wright himself should not be disqualified. Actually, he is one of us.
In his third and decisive line of reasoning, Obama admitted that “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.
I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother…a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street.” That is, the grandmother who is secretly scared of black men was presented by Obama as the moral equivalent of the pastor who openly preaches hatred for Israel and America’s destruction, and both “these people are a part of me…they are a part of America, this country that I love.”
To Obama’ s credit, in hi
s speech he did not bluff or beat around the bush. He did not try to make things look pretty, but rather, he drew on his persuasion skills in order to respond to the question of why he did not disown and is not disowning Pastor Wright: Because he views the pastor as an au
thentic representative of the black minority in America and a moral pillar of fire. He’s a little flawed, a little wrong, a little extreme, yet he is still a model.
Barack Obama is a smart, deep man who understands the soul of his voters, and he may become a president who surprises us for the better, even though his political inexperience is very worrying. However, I am much more concerned about his enthused fans, ranging from screaming college girls to the self-depreciating Jewish intellectuals.
Their eyes have been blinded to see their new hero, the “sun of the nations,” as he is: Filled with stains.
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