[SJackson]

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[ajodl]

...“exactly the kind of appalling attack that’s divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world.”

This nation will remain divided.

There's no way many Americans want to link up with these socialist (communist) America-hating traitors!

[omega4179]

Nobama never read shakespeare then. Methinks he protesteth too much.

[Mr. Mojo]

As Mark Steyn wrote earlier this week....”It says something for Democrat touchiness that the minute a guy makes a generalized observation about folks who appease terrorists and dictators the Dems assume: Hey, they’re talking about me.”

[50sDad]

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.

Ladies and gentlemen, the "H-Word" has now entered the areana. It is now open season for any Rupublican with the brass to bring it up.

[alloysteel]

This raises the question: Is there any way to break out the support that is given to John McCain (as the probable most likely intellectual heir to the George W. Bush doctrine), to Herself, still the Cold and Joyless, and to Barack, the Magic Negro, among first the religious and practicing Jews, and to the rather larger number of ethnic but non-practicing Jews?

This would be telling in two ways, first in the dedication that American Jews have for Israel, and more importantly, whether self-interest is a compelling motivation among various segments of this population.

This by itself would not change the outcome of the looming Presidential race, but it would be a good indicator to watch in future political moves.

[elhombrelibre]

Obama whines more than McCain did when McCain was a POW. And Obama is either narcissistic or a solipsist who cannot think that Bush had to be talking about him. After all, Bush’s speech about Israel’s 60th anniversary wasn’t about Israel’s history, or the history of the Jews and the West’s failure in the 20th Century, it was all about Obama.

[Cicero]

“Obama Takes It Personally”

If the shoe fits, wear it.

[chickpundit]

I was disappointed more of Bush’s speech wasn’t highlighted in the press. I had to seek out an online video to hear more than the single line that seemed to capture all the headlines. Although I cheered when he slapped down the appeasers among us, there was so much more to the speech. As a Christian and supporter of Israel, I was deeply touched. My feelings were bittersweet when Bush said this at the end:

“And you have built a mighty democracy that will endure forever and can always count on the United States of America to be at your side. God bless.”

I hope Israel can continue to count on the U.S. after the next election. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out Obama’s true feelings about Israel.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“Obama takes it personally....”

If this socialist gets elected there’s going to be a hell of a lot more he’s going to get to take personally!

[Christian4Bush]

mark

[Notary Sojac]

I would be interested to know if the Jewish Press is generally a “mainstream” Jewish publication, or are these writers already right-wing Jews to begin with....

[BubbaBasher]

Hizbullah and Hamas need to be compelled to understand that “they’re going down a blind alley with violence that weakens their legitimate claims.”

And which legitimate claims would those be? That we are Christians and Jews therefore we most be killed?

[PLD]

Obama is getting money from these terrorist like the Clinton's got money from the Chinese..I'll bet if this was checked into everyone would find out he is doing a Clinton only it is with terrorist not with the Chinese..If something isn't done about this demon we will see the end of the world..

The news media had better watch out because their days are numbered too if this Muslim gets into the white house..He and his terrorist friends will cut off all news from any place like they do in the other countries..Laugh if you like but I really believe this..He has ignorant people that do not know what is going on in this world voting for him..much like the Clinton's did but even worse..

[GreyFriar]

An excellent article.

[Amendment10]

This is off-topic, but concerns Obama.

Why don't we seize the opportunity provided by the MSM's deification of Obama to permanently de-claw the IRS and get God back into the public school classrooms?

This post (<-click), while addressing taxes, helps to explain why government "leaders" like Obama are actually in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics.

In fact, the article referenced below shows that Obama is the #1 federal spending proposer in the Senate for '08; Clinton is #2.

Obama, a big-shot federal spender

And this post (<-click) exposes how corrupt justices then began using FDR's politically correct license to ignore the 10th A. to unlawfully stifle traditional family values, including the USSC's scandalous legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade. Note that the post first references two non-abortion cases in order to show Roe v. Wade in a different, troubling perspective.

In fact, consider that the states have the constitutional power (10th A.) to authorize public schools to lead non-mandatory (14th A.) classroom discussions on the pros and cons of evolution, creationism and ID, as examples, regardless that atheists, separatists, pagan-minded judges and the MSM are misleading the people to think that doing such things in public schools is unconstitutional.

The people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state government powers. The people then need to wise up to the major problems that, since the days of FDR's dirty politics, Congress has not only not been operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution, particularly where constitutionally unauthorized federal spending is concerned, but the USSC has wrongly been ignoring the 10th A. protected power of the states to address religious issues.

The bottom line is that the people need to get in the faces of judges, demanding that judges uphold their oaths to defend the 10th A. protected powers of the states to address religious issues - or get off the bench. The people also need to send big-shot, Constitution-ignoring federal spenders like Obama home as opposed to trying to send people like him to the Oval Office. The people need to get in the faces of members of Congress, demanding a stop to constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes - or get out of DC.

Lincoln put it this way.

"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --Abraham Lincoln, Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 1858.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Headline? Obama offended by White House conference on illegal drugs
"Bush & McCain are trying to trick people into believing that I am a drug dealer."

Washington, D.C. "Leave Barack alone!" sobbed one supporter. . . .

[SupplySider]

"...adding that Hizbullah and Hamas need to be compelled to understand that “they’re going down a blind alley with violence that weakens their legitimate claims.”

Please tell us, Mr. Obama, what do you think are the legitimate claims of Hizbullah and Hamas?

[mrsmel]

It just goes to show that amongst his many other faults, Obama is not ready for prime time. There are important events occurring in the Middle East, the President of the United States makes a well-received speech before the Knesset regarding these events, and all Obama can get out of it is a possible, not even probable, reference to to a statement that he himself made, a word that he himself used. He's a small-time politician from the parochial Chicago machine pretending to be one of the big boys. He's getting by on a veneer of "style", but anyone looking deeper (and not many of his supporters seem to have the intelligence to do so)would see that there's no substance. He's a slick pretender, and in no way ready to be leader of the free world. The Democrats (the supporters and self-important pundits, not the ones with the real power, above Obama's pay grade) think this is a game.