Posted on 07/09/2010 8:22:38 AM PDT by YankeeReb
WASHINGTON - President Obama suggested Thursday that his Muslim middle name - Hussein - makes a lot of Israelis nervous about his commitment to the Jewish state.
When asked by an Israeli interviewer why many Israelis are "anxious about you," and "feel like you don't have a special connection to Israel," Obama said, "Some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is 'Hussein,' and that creates suspicion."
Obama told Israel's Channel 2 TV that apprehension about his name among Israelis could be eased if they checked the roster of his top aides.
"Ironically, I've got a chief of staff named Rahm Israel Emmanuel," Obama said, and "my top political adviser (David Axelrod) is somebody who is a descendant of Holocaust survivors."
Obama's favorability ratings have consistently come in below 50% in Israeli polls, and some have been below 20%. But that could change for the better after Obama's White House meetings this week with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got a positive reception in Israel.
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Is he REALLY this stupid? Does he REALLY think that allowing the mullahs in Iran to get nukes, dissing Israel every chance he gets while kissing the butts of muslim despots has NOTHING to do with the way Israel sees him?
Obama and company do not scare, but the voters that elected him do scare the hell out of me.
Hey FUBO Hussain ... The Israelis aren’t the only ones “suspicious”
lol....the old "some of my best friends are Jews" line, eh Hussein?
In reality, most of his best friends ARE black nationalists and communists.
Incredible, as if actions don’t speak louder than words.
If Zippy doesn’t like his middle name he can always legally change it. I would support a national contest to come up with a new middle name for The One. I’ll start,...a*****e.
FMCDH(BITS)
Ohhhh, it’s his middle name that’s the problem. I’m such an idiot </slaps forehead>. Here, I thought it had something to do with Barry constantly criticizing and reprimanding Israel for building settlements in their own territory, for defending themselves when Muslims attack them, and for Barry constantly meeting with and getting all chummy with nations and groups that have made not bones about the fact that they want to destroy Israel and kill Jews. Thanks for clearing that up BO.
Everything about Obama should arouse suspicion.
Well, Hussein, your “muslim-ness” gives pause to anyone with a modicum of intelligence.
A rose by any other name? Seriously? No, you idiot, they are suspicious because of your asinine treatment of them. And frankly, I’m more than suspicious, I’m certain you despise Israel as much as you do America.
Your ACTIONS serve to validate the suspicion, asshat.
Poor, put-upon Obama.
Maybe it is all those commies in your cabinet Mr. President, that does it for me.
Walks like a duck and bows to the Saudi royals.
Makes the Israeli leader enter through a side entrance of the White House.
In the election, Obama didn’t even HAVE a middle name. Why was that?
Barry has never reprimanded Gaddafi for saying that Barack IS a muslim.
Why does he only single out the “teabaggers” (his homophobic term for patriotic americans) and Jews?
Wrong, Stroker.
You full name could be Alfred E. Newman and you would still be held in suspicion.
It’s not your nmae or the color of your skin.
It all has to do with your statements and the mob of Communist bastards that you surround yourself with. It is your obvious disdain for everything that is good and decent.
It is because you are not an American by any stretch of the imagination, and it matters not where you were born.
It has taken some people a little time to figure what the rest of us knew instinctively. You are a FRAUD, Stroker. Plain and simple.
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