Did Obama Pick the Wrong Playmates?

Barack Obama is heading to Greenwich this weekend to raise money from well-known hedge-funders (i.e. Paul Tudor Jones), but a minimum $1,000-a-head reception at the home of retired Knick Allan Houston on Saturday is drawing heavy criticism from some Jewish anti-discrimination groups. "It's very unfortunate," says David Twersky, communications director at the American Jewish Congress. "It looks like Obama is doing pretty well. He doesn't need Allan Houston's money."

Back in 2001, Houston and fellow Knick guard and so-called "God squad" mate Charlie Ward were jeered by fans after making statements Jewish groups deemed anti-Semitic. Though Ward was the most criticized (he said Jews had Jesus's "blood on their hands" and were "stubborn" during a pre-game Bible study), Houston supported Ward's notion that Jews were responsible for Christ's death by whipping out his Palm Pilot to find the relevant scripture (Matthew 26:67) and said: "Then they spit in Jesus' face and hit him with their fists."

My additional commentary on this: http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=4742

Jen Psaki, an Obama spokeswoman, says the campaign has no plans to return or reject any of Houston's contributions.

Of course Obama is not going to reject the money; what self-respecting prostitute would? There is an old joke about a man who offered a high-class woman ten thousand dollars to sleep with him. "How about fifty dollars?" he asked after she agreed. "What do you think I am?" she demanded indignantly. "Madam, we have already established what you are; we are now negotiating the price." When Obama accepted five-figure donations from Soros and his family, he could at least claim to be a high-priced prostitute. Allan Houston's $1000 a head reception shows that Obama will turn tricks for $1000, and we have to wonder whether a $50 a plate fundraiser hosted by some other bigot or hate group would be enough to get him on his back (figuratively speaking).

Birds of a feather flock together, and Barack Obama has surrounded himself with far too many haters and hate groups to allow any conclusion other than that he is one himself.

Obama with prominent racist and anti-Semite Al Sharpton. The way Sharpton's tongue is hanging out, he is probably having a sexual fantasy about a burning white-owned and preferably Jewish-owned store in Harlem (Freddy's Fashion Mart). Sharpton's new campaign slogan: "A Molotov cocktail, the flash of a match/ and your whitey Jew store is a pile of ash!"

You and I might be interested, but not Sharpton. He is turned on by the sight of burning Jewish stores, and rampaging mobs yelling “Kill the Jews!” (Not funny, as a Sharptonite mob yelled “Kill the Jews!” while knifing Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights.) I bet he would prefer that over an intimate date with a Black supermodel or actress.

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