Maybe, just maybe, Obama WAS awake during the 20 years of anti-Jewish spewing-of-hatred by his Reverend Wright?

Ya think?

Van Jones was not put in place by accident nor by incompetence. He is a perfect reflection of Obama's beliefs. Sickening.

Robert, I think you'll enjoy the video in this post - from American Thinker. Sgt. Friday gives BO a talking to ...

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/09/jack_webb_schools_obama_on_ame.html

Robert:

Van Jones was attacked as part of a dirty smear campaign by right wingers like Beck.

They kept playing his own words in context.

Just like they did with Wright.

How dare they stoop so low as to smear him with his own words. Next thing you know they will start reading parts of Dreams Of My Father.

Man, those right wing haters really know how to play dirty.

I'm between a rock and a hard place here. Fox News lies about everything; conservatives in America have lost their minds; pro-Israel supporters in the US have been forced into the arms of nut jobs (Huckabee, etc.). Man oh man. How do we support Israel against her detractors and how do we respond to anti-semitism without making a deal with the devil (American conservatives)? The idea that Obama is a intractable anti-semite is nonsense and yet it is becoming the coin of the realm among my Israeli friends. This distorts all dialogue on Israel and makes Israel's supporters in the US look like unreasonalbe (and anti-American) extremists. We can do better.

After Palin was picked last year, Omri's website posted an Alaska travel video interview with her. Recorded before most people could spell Palin, it subtly revealed her affection for Israel that neither Obama or Biden could match no matter how often they say they would never throw Israel under the bus.

David, why are conservatives that support Israel the devil when liberals like Van Jones or Michelle Goldberg would like to to see Israel forced to accept right of return? It seems to me the liberal angels would be happy to see Jews overrun in the only part of the world that is their historical homeland.

-Why aren't they in Iran, Congo, Libya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Syria, Saudi Arabia, where murder, torture and rape are sport?

Another Answer: Because these countries would never have allowed them to do it, and they wouldn't have dared to freely enter these countries the way they enter Israel. Israel like some other liberal countries actually allows criticism.

David:

Ad hominem attacks with zero supporting facts indicate intellectual collapse.

President Obama spent over 20 years as a faithful member of a racist Jew-hating church. We cannot judge people by what is in their thoughts, but only through their behavior.

The other day, in my post about “The Eternal Mystery of Goodness”, http://www.seraphicpress.com/archives/2009/09/the_eternal_mys.php commenter Jake related the story of a Polish prostitute who, though she admitted that she did not like Jews, nevertheless fed and rescued Jews during World war II.

Was she a Jew-hater?

In my accounting, most certainly not. She risked life and limb to save Jews. She was a righteous person.

In contrast, with President Obama, there is a huge gulf between what he says, and how he behaves.

Let's say he's not a Jew-hater. Fine. But he's clearly comfortable with Jew-haters and his entire political life has been spent nurturing their support and friendship.

Now, step outside your mind for a moment and imagine your reaction of John McCain or any Republican leader was revealed to be a member of a KKK church.

What would be your reaction?

The answer is obvious.

Hence, your acceptance of Obama's Jew-hating associates reveals a disturbing double standard, and a tolerance of the intolerant, namely Jew-hatred from the left.

Davo:

Nevertheless, Carter & Co. could, if they were so inclined, compile reports about these countries and raise international awareness. But they choose silence. The choose to enable tyrants. They choose to focus on Israel.

David:

Ad hominem attacks indicate intellectual collapse.

Davo:

Nevertheless, Carter & Co, could, if they wished, speak out about the horrors in these countries. The choose silence. Instead, they focus on Israel. That is one indication of Jew-hatred.

Maurice:

Obama said, many times, that Wright was his spiritual mentor. He performed Obama's wedding ceremony and baptized his children. To claim that Obama did not know what Wright was saying is, at the least, dumb, at best a bold lie.

Robert:

A lie! Even Obama is too smart not to know what Wright was saying.

Johnny:

Let's see, Gateway Pundit and Fox report a story that the MSM ignores. Van Jones resigns. Which means that the White House agreed with the criticism. Or they would have defended Van Jones.

In short, telling the truth is, in the progressive lexicon, a smear.

Makes perfect sense.

Robert:

The dishonesty continues even after Jones quit. Howard Dean on Fox yesterday said all Jones did was sign some paper that was waved in front of him without reading it (must make Yale Law School proud that their graduates would ever do that) and Politco implies that the petition was changed after Jones signed it.

And the same Wahington Post that ran dozens of front page stories about George Allen's macaca line can't find space to run one story about Jones before he resigned.

And the media wonder why papers are losing money.

David,

I understand your rock-and-hard place. But I do still believe their are allies on both the Left and Right as well as enemies. As a Jewish-American the stakes are too high to be put in a corner but I will say the Republicans will need to really screw up to have me vote for Obama again.

Of course Obama knew just exactly what he was getting with Van Jones. Okay, he resigned. Will he really stop serving his blessed leader? I doubt it.

Robert,

We had the same sense about Van Jones. Hey -- does that also apply to the Institute of Noetic Sciences? (http://www.noetic.org/)

Van Jones was a main speaker and member there.

--bvw