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Oy Vey: Obama's Salute to Israeli Socialism
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 05/23/2008 7:14:46 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Barack Obama—kibbutznik?

Of all the ways the presidential candidate sought to connect with Jewish voters at Congregation B'nai Torah in Boca Raton yesterday, perhaps the most heartfelt seemed these lines:

BARACK OBAMA: As I learned more [about the Zionist movement], I found I had a deep affinity with the idea of social justice that was embodied in the Jewish faith. There was a notion–tikkun–that you could repair the breach of the past. There was a notion, embodied in the kibbutz, that we all had a responsibility to each other. That we're all in this together. That hope can persevere even against the longest odds.

View video here [link is to RCP clip; cited remarks from 0:30-2:50.]

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: israel; kibbutz; obama; socialism

1 posted on 05/23/2008 7:14:46 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Salute to socialism ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 05/23/2008 7:15:25 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Latest rasmussen national poll has 42% of the jewish vote going to McCain. Bush has 13% and still won, so do the math.

Obama will never be president.


3 posted on 05/23/2008 7:19:32 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

"The evening call to prayer is the most beautiful sound on earth".

4 posted on 05/23/2008 7:23:18 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
That we're all in this together.

Right. Let's not lose our heads over this.

5 posted on 05/23/2008 7:26:17 AM PDT by ajodl (If a taxpayer is alive, he's kicking!)
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To: Diogenesis

Except when it comes from a mosque!


6 posted on 05/23/2008 7:27:13 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The road to victory in Iraq is through Iran.)
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To: ajodl

Leftists think that the best vehicle for promoting “we’re all in this together” is to use FORCE to make it so.

Actually, they have a blind spot as to the difference between groups voluntarily banding together to help each other out, and using force to make it happen.

They really don’t understand the difference, probably because of their worldview and arrogance. They know better, and are entitled and obligated to force their greater wisdom on the rest of society.


7 posted on 05/23/2008 7:29:30 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Diogenesis
Wish I knew how to post that picture, but anyway- another one of Obambi's startling comments-"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction"..... "If you're black, it's hard to say what you truly think and not upset white folks" ...

I have no idea how any of the Jews anywhere can believe anything he says, all they have to do is read what he has said over the last 10 yrs. Oh, now he changed his mind? I hardly think so!

Pandering halfrican!

8 posted on 05/23/2008 7:32:21 AM PDT by oswegodeee (Dee) ( Born in the South and raised in a G_D centered home)
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To: Senator Goldwater
Don't count out the college vote with the "Che" T shirt wearers. They may show up this time instead of sleeping all day in their vomit. Otherwise I would agree with you.

I also would never rule out the "I hate my Jewish heritage" crowd showing up to shoot themselves in the foot once again. You would think the Hamas leader's endorsement would be enough, but never count out total brain damage. In Texas we have the " I hunt every year and own 32 guns but my dad always votes Democrat" crowd that still votes against God, guts and guns anyway.

9 posted on 05/23/2008 7:38:52 AM PDT by chuckles
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To: Senator Goldwater
Latest rasmussen national poll has 42% of the jewish vote going to McCain. Bush has 13% and still won, so do the math.

AFAIK Bush had 26% in 2004. But McCains numbers are of Reaganesque proportions. I think only Eisenhower got a few more.

10 posted on 05/23/2008 7:39:18 AM PDT by SolidWood (Refusal to vote for McCain is active support for Obama.)
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To: SolidWood

What blows my mind is that some of the Jewish vote still goes to the Dems...


12 posted on 05/23/2008 7:42:49 AM PDT by oust the louse (Terrorists are salivating over a Clinton or Obama White House.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

OUTSTANDING work, Mark! Informative, insightful, educational. Thank you, sir.


13 posted on 05/23/2008 8:09:45 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: PGalt

Many thanks, PG: glad you found it useful.


14 posted on 05/23/2008 8:16:20 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
There was a notion–tikkun–that you could repair the breach of the past.

Hussein thinks tikkun is Hebrew for reparations.

15 posted on 05/23/2008 8:22:06 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Odumbo to Jews: Gather your family and belongings and board the train...


16 posted on 05/23/2008 8:41:39 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: Eurale

That’s harsh.


17 posted on 05/23/2008 8:43:46 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Funny thing is that the Kibbutz is not your Grandfather’s Kibbutz. Most have become a capitalistic for profit corporation with with factories with employees. They have matured and have found that survival in a High Tech Israel soceity that they could no longer be the collective model. So Mr. Obama. Your behind the times again.

Should we grant him a pass on this Gaffe?


18 posted on 05/23/2008 9:45:11 AM PDT by ncfool (Savage said that Islam is a Peaceful religion. Your very peaceful after they slit your throat!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

the writer goes on to say why the Kibbutz has changed to the capitalism model:

“Since those days, the kibbutzim have been buffeted by heavy debts and soaring inflation in the 1980s, lost their ideological reference point with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and diversified their economic base from agriculture to industry, tourism and leisure. In many ways these developments are a microcosm of the forces that have shaped the wider Israeli economy, which has been pulled, often reluctantly, further from its highly centralized socialist roots toward a market-based economy. “

I bet Obama was to concerned about turing to Mecca to pay attention to the Modern Israeli Kibbutz.


19 posted on 05/23/2008 9:50:03 AM PDT by ncfool (Savage said that Islam is a Peaceful religion. Your very peaceful after they slit your throat!)
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To: ncfool

“Funny thing is that the Kibbutz is not your Grandfather’s Kibbutz. Most have become a capitalistic for profit corporation.”

I actually did provide two links to articles discussing those trends, and wrote: “Recent years have seen a crisis for the kibbutzim, in which they have been forced to embrace some market reforms in order to survive. But Obama clearly seemed to be referring to the original, romanticized version of the collectivist kibbutz in which ‘we’re all in this together.’”


20 posted on 05/23/2008 12:14:34 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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