Posted on 07/21/2006 7:46:08 AM PDT by Patrick1
Until this week I didn't believe the charge that Buchanan hates Jews. I was wrong. He does.
OK, I'll try. I wasn't trying to offend you, just making an observation.
1. Pat Buchanon is a nut. He is also (at the very least) a border-line anti-Semite who declared during his run at the presidency that "Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free."
2. I'm not Jew, but my very best friend in the world is. My friend (I'll call him Bob, because that's his name) can be very Christianophobic at times. We don't let it get between our friendship, but he's pissed me off with it more than once in the 36 years I've known him.
And it always puzzled me why Christians freaked him out so much. I know that at least part of it was due to a born-again evangelist boss that he had who couldn't leave the religion stuff outside the office.
But after much discussion, we both came to the realization that he was deeply afraid that radical Christians might try to impose a Christian theocracy, and to try to force Jews to convert to Christianity.
Needless to say, I was shocked, because I think that's silly. But he doesn't.
Now when we talked about it, he agreed that Muslims were far more likely to try something like that, and they hate Jews to begin with, so why was he so seemingly afraid of buffons like Jerry Falwell, et al... but then, the Muslim fundamentalists are over in the middle east for the most part, but these much-to-be-feared Christian fundamentalists are right here.
When Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" was released, Bob was beside himself. He was afraid it was going to cause an anti-semitic backlash, and my attitude was "well, sorry if your uncomfortable with the story of Jesus, but Jesus's suffering matters to a lot of people, and that's the story of it.
And then I learned about the pogroms in Europe that Jews suffered in the backlash of the Oberamergau Passion Play, and I understood his concerns a little better.
That's about the best way I can explain what I was talking about. I don't understand the phenomenon.
LOL! Seriously, he always looks bitter and has that constipated look. And his hand motion is always the same(the karate chop motion). I never take him seriously on TV. Comic relief or some sort.
Buchanan's editorial now being used to improve al-Queda morale (The headline, roughly translated, reads 'Good news from America'
http://tajdeed.org.uk/forums/showthread.php?s=8308aa3f28d601f7be8141ed5b41915e&threadid=42964
You don't have to understand Arabic to realize that this man is helping the enemy
I used to like Buchanan. Then jumped over a shark, down an abyss and took a commie for a running mate.
Somebody should check this guy's blood for toxins, drugs, etc.. Or his bank accounts. Something.
Pukeannan only seems a fool when he opens his yapper. Arianna Huffandpuffington w/o the charm.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Shalom Israel
I understand what you're saying. It's the phenomenon that I think has no logic. Here we have blood-thirsty arabs all over the world just itching for a chance to kill a jew, but they seem more concerned about Pat Robertson saying something they find anti-semitic. But I totally forgive it, I just don't understand it.
As it happened, I'd read the column of the 20th just yesterday, although I very rarely read Buchanan. So it was fresh in my mind when I visted FR and found that he'd been accused of using a term which I didn't recall from the column I'd read. That's why I made my post.
With enemies like Pat Buchanan, what does Israel need with Stephen Spielberg?
God bless Pat buchanan. God bless mel gibson. And god bless the USA.
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