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Barack Obama 'understands' Hamas view [why they support him-he understands Muslims]
NY Daily News ^ | 5-13-08 | MICHAEL SAUL

Posted on 05/13/2008 5:41:21 AM PDT by SJackson

Barack Obama 'understands' Hamas view

BY MICHAEL SAUL
DAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

Tuesday, May 13th 2008, 4:00 AM

While maintaining an ironclad commitment to Israel's security, Barack Obama says he understood why a top Hamas adviser voiced support for his presidential bid.

"It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,'" Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic.

"That's a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they're not confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security," Obama said.

Last month, Ahmed Yousef, a political adviser to the militant Palestinian group, told an interviewer on WABC radio that "We like Mr. Obama" and "we hope that he will win the election."

Yousef's comments sparked intense criticism from John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, who recently vowed to be "Hamas' worst nightmare."

"If Sen. Obama is favored by Hamas, I think people can make judgments accordingly," McCain said.

In the magazine interview, Obama insisted his position on Hamas is "indistinguishable" from the positions McCain or Democratic rival Hillary Clinton have taken. He said Hamas is a terrorist organization and should be condemned.

Also in the interview, Obama rejected former President Jimmy Carter's suggestion that Israel resembles an apartheid state.

"I strongly reject that characterization," he said. "It's emotionally loaded, historically inaccurate and it's not what I believe."

Obama also said Israeli settlements on the West Bank "at this juncture are not helpful."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blueturban; israel
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1 posted on 05/13/2008 5:41:22 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,'" Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic.

"That's a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they're not confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security

Since he raises it as a political asset, Obama's time spent in the Muslim world, and his affection for Muslims, is now a campaign issue.

I understand why Hamas prefers him too.

2 posted on 05/13/2008 5:43:28 AM PDT by SJackson (It is impossible to build a peace process based on blood, Natan Sharansky)
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To: SJackson
Oh Yeah. Favorite of Hamas and probably Hezbollah. And The Weather Underground, Black Panthers, Fruit of Islam...

What else? Red Brigades? Sundera Luminoso?

3 posted on 05/13/2008 5:44:35 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: corkoman

And he has campaigned in the 57 (Islamic) States!


4 posted on 05/13/2008 5:45:52 AM PDT by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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To: SJackson
Barak is an apostate by Muslim definition. He is also racially inferior by common Arab standards. The first is the most serious and comes with a death sentence. Further, islam gives an auto get out of jail card to anyone who kills or helps to kill an apostate and condemns those that don't.

How exactly can Hamas be for him? It must either be the appeasement he offers and/or the propaganda coup of having an muslim apostate as POTUS.

5 posted on 05/13/2008 5:46:10 AM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: SJackson

It’s easy to understand muslims when you are one.


6 posted on 05/13/2008 5:51:02 AM PDT by Anonymous Rex ( For Rent)
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To: SJackson

Nobama will get the U.N. to smother’em with resolutions. And, if that doesn’t work, he’ll challenge’em to a purse fight.


7 posted on 05/13/2008 5:56:18 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: SJackson
It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world

One problem: Obama's talking about terrorists, so let me word this correctly:

It's conceivable that terrorists in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with all of our supporters, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush

That's a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they're not confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security

Oh Really!!!

8 posted on 05/13/2008 5:59:24 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: SubMareener
That misstep was no accident. The number 57 is very big in Muslim numerology. Barry the Closet Muslim was able to sit in Rev. Wright's pesthole for all those years because it's just a bunch of infidels anyway.

HOW IN THE HELL DID BARRY GET THIS FAR?

9 posted on 05/13/2008 6:03:12 AM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: SJackson

Barack Obama ‘understands’ Hamas view ....

All along, I thought they just wanted us dead.

Silly me.


10 posted on 05/13/2008 6:12:38 AM PDT by Hang'emAll (WE WILL NOT DISARM!!!)
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To: ishabibble
HOW IN THE HELL DID BARRY GET THIS FAR?

He's tall, thin, black, and talks real purty.

11 posted on 05/13/2008 6:16:13 AM PDT by Huck ("Real" conservatives support OBAMA in 08 (that's how you know Im not a real conservative))
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To: SJackson
'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein...'

Why is it okay for him to say this, but we can't mention it without being accused of being something-ist. (Can't say racist; Islam isn't a race.)

12 posted on 05/13/2008 6:33:45 AM PDT by Excellence (Daughter of the American Revolution, niece of the Civil War (North).)
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is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein

I thought Obama said that we were not allowed to use his middle name, that it was xenophobic to do so.

Obama Flip Flop

13 posted on 05/13/2008 6:40:17 AM PDT by weegee (Osama Obama claims to have visited 57 states now. Can you say Potatoe Head?)
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To: Excellence

As was said when this first became an issue, it’s like having the middle name “Hitler”. Jerry Hitler Thomas would want to supress the use of his middle name too. But Obama and others tell us that we were WRONG to go to war against Saddam HUSSEIN.

So doesn’t having the middle name HUSSEIN make Obama more of a victim than a “tyrant”?


14 posted on 05/13/2008 6:42:06 AM PDT by weegee (Osama Obama claims to have visited 57 states now. Can you say Potatoe Head?)
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To: Huck

His use of the term “cowboy diplomacy” is emblematic of a juvenile mind at work.


15 posted on 05/13/2008 6:50:35 AM PDT by Melchior
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His use of the term “cowboy diplomacy” is emblematic of a juvenile mind at work.

No it isn't. It's a DEM talking point, and political shorthand with a distinct meaning anyone who follows politics understands.

16 posted on 05/13/2008 6:52:04 AM PDT by Huck ("Real" conservatives support OBAMA in 08 (that's how you know Im not a real conservative))
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To: SJackson
"That's a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they're not confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security," Obama said. What do you think I think you'll SUPPORT Isreal, Barak Hussien? I don't think you will!! I bet you'd appoint Jimmah to be the ambassador to the PLA, and not recognize Isreal. Last month, Ahmed Yousef, a political adviser to the militant Palestinian group, told an interviewer on WABC radio that "We like Mr. Obama" and "we hope that he will win the election."

Thank you, now with Bob Barr in the race, He might win, so you can do TERRORIST activies around the GLOBE - not only in LEBANON!!

Yousef's comments sparked intense criticism from John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, who recently vowed to be "Hamas' worst nightmare."

Do you so-called CONSERVATIVE LP BobBarr supporters UNDERSTAND? McCain will keep us safe. Do you want to be worried about a bomb going off in a MALL? I sure don't!!

17 posted on 05/13/2008 6:55:40 AM PDT by EagleandLiberty (El Rushbo Tribal name -- RinoHunter Vote Conservatives '08)
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To: Huck

He’s also one ugly dude.


18 posted on 05/13/2008 7:08:24 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: Huck
"His use of the term “cowboy diplomacy” is emblematic of a juvenile mind at work." >p? No it isn't. It's a DEM talking point....

If it's Dem, then how cn you deny that it's a juvenile mind t work??

... and political shorthand with a distinct meaning anyone who follows politics understands.

Not to worry -- most of us can understand juvenile twaddle, regardless of its idiocy.

19 posted on 05/13/2008 7:16:47 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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To: SJackson

One argument is that Obama will be more hated than any other President - why? Because in Islam the crime for heresy/conversion to Christinity is worse than simply being a “dhimmi.” Obama’s father was a converted Muslim, and technically, from his time in Indonesia, Obama is also.


20 posted on 05/13/2008 7:21:46 AM PDT by PGR88
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