How right you are Robert. Obama does not have traditional american values - of course -only now is he hightlighting his "muslim" heritage after the election. The jews that supported this idiot will rue the day that they drank the democratic koolaid - this man is a radical leftist, a muslim simpathizer, a hater of all that is american - and is on his way to destroying both this country and Israel. Good grief - Pravda marvels at our descent into Marxism, Chavez today calls him "comrade" - this is like an episode of the "Twilight Zone" - but its really happening. May hashem help us. We can only hope that America wakes up in time to stop this man.

Yonoson:

You write: The Jews that supported this idiot will rue the day that they drank the democratic koolaid.

I disagree.

The Jews who voted for Obama are happy with his radicalism, happy with his, ahem, tough love for Israel. Remember, being on the left means never having to say that you are sorry.

The Obama Jews still do not see a existential threat to Israel. Or, the Obama Jews don't care about an existential threat to Israel.

My wife and I cannot socialize with them anymore. We find it unnerving to be at Friday evening services with them or any other event. Explain to my wife and I how a refugee from the Holocaust, who came here as a boy in 1938, could still blindly support Obama? If we cannot prevent another holocaust, then what have we done with out lives? A waste. I feel an angry gulf separating me from the left wing Jews...who I suppose are always left wing first, then Jews.

The Obama Jews still do not see a existential threat to Israel. Or, the Obama Jews don't care about an existential threat to Israel.

That is not necessarily true. I don't trust any country to support Israel. Countries don't have friends, they have interests and interests change.

Many people found Palin to be exceptionally distasteful. She cost McCain the election.

In any case, that is in the past. Now we have the situation at hand. There are still two wars and a bad economy to deal with.

And we still have the opportunity to push the legislature. The opportunity to influence policy still exists.

Jack:

To argue that the Bush administration and the Obama administration exercise the same level of support for Israel is to deny reality.

If America only has interests then why were we in Somalia? Bosnia? Kosovo? Countries of no strategic interest to America whatsoever. We did it for humanitarian purposes.

In truth, America has interests and, unlike Europe, a moral conscience.

Until OBama came along.

Now, according to the Obama doctrine, America is just another country among many countries sharing the planet.

In fact, Sarah Palin saved McCain from a landslide defeat.

See Dick Morris, a man who knows something about voting patterns.

http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2008/11/11/sarah-palin-saved-gop-from-landslide-defeat/

Norman:

I work in Hollywood where most everyone lined up like lemmings for Obama—especially the Jews, whose real religion is the new Democrat/Socialist party and not Judaism.

Odd, when you consider that the Hollywood film industry is a magnet for talent from England, Australia and France whose film industries operate under the very heavy thumb of a central government.

To argue that the Bush administration and the Obama administration exercise the same level of support for Israel is to deny reality.

Robert,

I didn't say that. I said that I don't trust countries. Bush was the first POTUS to talk about a Pal state, but that is neither here nor there.

And I am not convinced that Dick Morris is right either. Palin was a polarizing figure that engendered a love/hate response.

When I conducted my own straw poll her inclusion on the ticket killed more than a dozen votes. Now that might not mean much overall, but it is hard to ignore.

The real point is that we do a disservice when we say that people voted without care or concern.

I am not convinced that things would be that much different under any admin.

We'll see what happens, I am not happy with a lot of things.

Jack:

Bush's famous speech about a Pali state was notable because he set benchmarks for the creation of s future Pali state: 1)an end to terrorism, 2) an end to incitement, 3)acceptance of Israel. In short, it was qualified support for a Pali state.

Obama has no such position. He just demands a Pali state. And demands that Israel make impossible concessions.

I can't play the what if game. All I know is that the deficit Obama is creating is unsustainable. Even Ben Bernake admitted as much today.

I am now proposing that we all call Obama, "President Neville."

Like Chamberlain, he keeps bowing down to this aggression. It will lead to disaster.

Of course, Neville Chamberlain had the decency to admit he screwed up and he even helped mobilize Britain's war effort right up until he died. I would never expect that from Obama, Reid, Pelosi et al.

"Explain to my wife and I how a refugee from the Holocaust, who came here as a boy in 1938, could still blindly support Obama?"

Many people..particularly those who have been educated beyond their inherent intelligence level...fail to understand the difference between a *label* and *the thing that the label represents*. In this case, they believe (correctly or not) that Democrats were the friends of Jews in the 1930s-1940s, and implicitly assume that the word "Democrat" still means today what it meant then.

David:

Always a pleasure to read your articulate comments.

I often tell my Democrat friends that I'm still a Democrat, it's the Democrat party that is no longer Democrat but race hustling, identity politics, multi-cultural leftists.

Robert:

Apologizing to muslims for what the US has done is bad enough. Combine it with Obama's genuflection to the European countries and we have this "most intelligent president ever" apologizing for saving the world from ll duce, der fuhrer, and Tojo.

When is Europe going to apologize for allowing a madman to walk all over them in 1939? When will they apologize for all those American graves in Normandy?

All countries make mistakes and history shows none are perfect. But there are NO muslim countries or European nations that have ever done as much for freedom in the world as the US. And the French, with the American revolution sitting there as a model, let their revolution descend into a mess that made the monarchy look benign.

And Obama wants us to accept a nuclear Iran while telling Israel what parts of the world Jews cannot live.

And without Palin on the ticket McCain would have been remembered as the Republican Mondale and McGovern. Instead she allowed him to be the 2008 version of Bob Dole.

My experience in the 2008 election is hardly scientific but until Palin was selected I was very disgusted with the choices. If I am not mistaken until the market crash around Sep, McCain was actually up a point or 2.

I suppose what astounds me the most today is seeing all of Obama's flip flops and the left is ....silent.

Amazing that the man who was going to be a "post racial" President nominates a woman for the Supreme Court who views everything through the racial prism.

Or drops charges of voter intimidation against the "New Black Panther Party" in Philadelphia dropped (they were standing in front of voter precinct buildings with clubs at the door) - the career DOJ lawyers were prosecuting them while the Obama people pulled the charge -

It is an amazing thing to watch

Just finished watched Obama's speech. My disgust turned to extreme sadness. This is a low point in not just American history, but the history of all Western Civilization. Ignorance has won.

I find it interesting that you keep characterizing and referring to the "Arab-Muslim World" as if they are all exactly the same. You, as a Jew, should know better than most that being typecast and stereotyped by what some leaders do is dehumanizing.

Gerry:

The Arab Muslim League in the U.N. have no trouble labeling themselves Arab Muslims. That's because they consider themselves part of the Arab Muslim umma. It's an accurate term, not in the least pejorative.

BTW, Obama spoke to the Muslim world. Was that dehumanizing?