By Ross Balano, Midwest Voices Columnist 2008
If you felt that there was something fishy about that prayer Barack Obama left in the Western Wall while in Jerusalem being stolen and printed in the newspaper last week as I did, you might have been right.
Ma’ariv, the newspaper that printed the prayer, says that the prayer was approved for publication prior to Obama placing it in the wall.
Ma’ariv issued a statement: “Barack Obama's note was approved for publication in the international media even before he put in the Kotel, a short time after he wrote it at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem."
This statement is backed up by a statement from the most popular newspaper in Israel, Yediot Aharonot which says that they too had a copy of the note but decided not to print it.
If this is all true, and don’t bet against it, it is yet another example of just how disingenuous Obama really is. I believe it’s only a matter of time before the American people begin to see him through the un-tinted glasses of reality and reject him.
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That's a good comeback.
"Given that McCain, victim of torture, has compromised himself to the extent of kind of sort of signing off on torture, I don't think he's got any lessons to teach Obama on moral consistency."
Actually I'm about as mature
Actually I'm about as mature as I'll probably be able to get. What I found was that when your head first hits the sidewalk you get a new perspective: "hooray for me and f*** you" doesn't make as much sense with mortality staring you in the face as back when you thought the world would go on forever, the strongest will struggle to the top, etc. etc. Given that McCain, victim of torture, has compromised himself to the extent of kind of sort of signing off on torture, I don't think he's got any lessons to teach Obama on moral consistency.
Wooing is not the issue
Wooing is fundamental to politics.....I find no fault in the wooing.....he is disingenuous because he is not just wooing ......he is clearly now presenting himself as something he is not.....That is disingeuous.
I read both of his books....did you? If the answer to that question is yes then you have no choice but to agree. He is not a centrist.
I lost respect for the man when he chose to pretend that he is a moderate. I loved his passionate belief in his "ideals".....Unlike JFK and Bobby who sold the country on their ideals, Obama sold out his ideals to get elected......they did not compromise their intellectual integrity as Obama has
As you mature you will, no doubt moderate your passion for the proletariat position....I know that I did.
Twice. I hate that.
Chazzkc has been right, or almost right, twice. I'm grinding my teeth as I say that.
Of course, calling a presidential candidate "disingenuous" for wooing the center, unless they are actually solid centrists, is like calling them oxygen-breathing, carbon-dioxide exhaling mammals. What YOU should note is that things have changed around here. Given the total botch neo-cons made of having six years of uncontrolled power in this country, what used to work fine to stampede the proles isn't doing all that well anymore. Specifically, using "liberal" as an all-purpose rube-jerker doesn't work. Obama's liberal? 'Zat mean he doesn't spend, spend, spend without raising taxes? Uh...OK. He doesn't declare war on anybody who looks at him funny, without plan nor purpose nor funding nor troops? Uh...OK. He doesn't declare the rule of law a quaint artifact from times past, and claim an imperial executive right to do as he pleases without legislative review? Hey, I'll get me some o' THAT.
Seriously-tagging someone "liberal" may hurt a candidate in the eyes of the 6% of the population that listens to Rush Pilonidal, but I think I can live with that risk.
My contention stands
He is disingenuous. His voting record in the US senate is acknowledged as the most liberal of all 100 members.
To get elected he must convince the disengaged independent voters that he is a centrist......and you know it. If he succeeds he wins...if he does not, he loses.
Not really relevant ....but I am not fond of McCain either.....and to deny Obama's extreme left position is to be as disingenuous as your chosen candidate .....whther you accept the socialist postulation or not.
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The America we'd known for 224 years died when Clueless George took over. With any luck Obama can restore the rule of law and stop acting like the Martin Sheen president in Dead Zone.
"Socialist" - we should be so lucky. Maybe a socialist economy would bring the dollar back up from ground level against the euro.
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The America we'd known for 224 years died when Clueless George took over. With any luck Obama can restore the rule of law and stop acting like the Martin Sheen president in Dead Zone.
"Socialist" - we should be so lucky. Maybe a socialist economy would bring the dollar back up from ground level against the euro.
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Obama ain't a socialist -- it's a stupid claim that the McCain camp is drumming up, in its mudslinging effort.
Yep, Virginia, if you can't beat him by discussing the issues, let's sling mud right and left, 'cause God knows the American public prefers to vote based on caricatures rather than actual positions, right?
Looks like McCain learned a hard lesson in 2000 when the "Straight-Talk Express" was derailed by Karl Rove's tactics, eh? And Chazzy's brought into those tactics, hook, line and sinker, hasn't he?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/opinion/30wed1.html
comedy central....but irrelevant
The dialogue is hysterical......Got home and laughed for ten minutes reading the passionate discourse about a detail that is so, so not relevant.
Whether or not Obamas published wailing wall note was proferred to the press by a kid or by a staffer is singularly unimportant.
We already know that Obama is, at the very least, among the most disingenuous national politicians since tricky dick. What word better describes the acknowledged "most liberal rep in the Senate" posturing himself as a moderate centrist? NONE.
The truth that astute observers all agree on is that his electability is directly tied to his selling that moderate centrist tripe to the 50% of the voters who are actually independent voters. If he cannot, he loses. If he can, he wins. It's that simple. His opponent is almost as irrelevant as the arguments in the posting.
I personally believe that we are in deep doo doo if he succeeds. He is a classic socialist..... so far left that he is almost a Marxist. In combination with dumb and dumber (Reed and Pelosi) we would be screwed .....the country we have known for 232 years would be no more.
Barnacle Bill outdoes himself
This is pretty bloody amazing. Barnacle Bill gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar, ignores the apparent debunking of the Ma'ariv quote, puts up a link to the Jerusalem Post that says nothing whatsoever about his claim that they "have" a copy of the note, and immediately starts blowing smoke about side issues-no, munequita, Barack Obama's days as a community organizer have absolutely nothing to do with your posting one lie and one half-truth about a note left at the Wailing Wall.
Once again, the problem isn't that you're a conservative voice. It's that you're an idiot who's a perpetual embarrassment to actual conservatives. When you're done mangling an issue in print we do NOT know the conservative side of that issue, what we have are the ramblings of a fruit loop who thinks the Barbary pirates are a good proxy for modern Islamic fundamentalism. Damn that habeas corpus, jettison that liberal nonsense and you'll see us get so free and democratic it'll put yer eye out!
Marrone, what a putz.