Posted on 07/28/2008 9:27:38 AM PDT by bethtopaz
A Jerusalem lawyer petitioned the attorney general Sunday asking him to order a police investigation into the removal and subsequent publication of a personal note left in a crack of the Western Wall by U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama during his visit to Israel last week.
The presidential hopeful visited the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, at the end of a two-day visit to the region on Thursday. It is believed that requests written on notes and placed between the holy stones of the Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall, will be granted by God.
Attorney Shahar Alon asked attorney General Menachem Mazuz to launch an investigation against the editor of Israeli daily Ma'ariv, who published the content of the note last week. ...
(Next to last paragraph): Ma'ariv issued a response Sunday, saying that "Obama's note was published in Ma'ariv and other international publications following Obama's authorization to make the content of the note public. Obama submitted a copy of the note to media outlets when he left his hotel in Jerusalem. Moreover, since Obama is not Jewish, there is no violation of privacy as there would be for a Jewish person who places a note in the Western Wall."
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
So, does this mean it was not stolen from the wall?
And if so, does this mean that Obama let a week go by, with police doing an investigation, with doubts cast upon good people who visited the wall, while rumors abounded that someone had stolen the prayer out of the wall?
They even were working on new security measures to make sure nobody stole prayers out of the wall, because of this incident.
So, did Obama know all along that no theft had happened, and did he hide that because he was trying to keep people from knowing he had leaked his own prayer?
Reminds me of Clinton’s little art project on Normandy Beach.
I wonder if this was before or after he handed them a copy of what he wrote.
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I believe the article said he handed the note to the press BEFORE he went to the Wailing Wall.
I wonder if Obama would have skipped his meeting with G-d if he knew there was no photo-op and/or publicity?
a private conversation between him and God
otherwise known as ‘talking to Himself’.
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Hilarious! Somone needs to take that Soviet style poster of Obama and put the word, “JOKE” underneath it. I would put it up in my lawn.
LOL, and this is only being reported now??? There was a big deal bashing the outlets who printed the prayer when the media knew all along that it was a press release.
Matthew 6:5
5 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
What did his prayer say?
“Hey god,this is God—Allah Akbar!”
The correct article title is:
Lawyer seeks police probe into removal, publication of note Obama put in the Western Wall
“I wonder if Obama would have skipped his meeting with G-d if he knew there was no photo-op and/or publicity?”
It’s obvious to me that he regularly skips meetings with God.
Okay, since the note was "removed", does this mean Obama is absolved of being prideful and despairing? Now Obama doesn't have to act like he's an "instrument of" of His will?
Oh man.. this is just cringe-making.
This is Nothing!
The following was much harder: Wag the Dog
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Masterminding the con, Brean simultaneously supervises Motss's production of a foreign war while advising the President on the best course of action to maintain peace on the domestic front. When the CIA gets wind of Brean's deception, it soon becomes clear who has the power. Thus, although Brean believes that he convinces the CIA agent, Mr. Young (William H. Macy), that the war with Albania is real, the CIA suspects artifice. They quickly tip off the President's opponent, and as quickly as the war "started" it is over. But not for Motss. As producer of this "film," he convinces Brean that although Act Ithe heated battle- is over, the timing is perfect for Act II: the return of a captured war hero, Sgt. William Schumann (Woody Harrelson). In one of the film's funnier moments, Brean informs Motss that the President has criticized Schumann's speech, relating the events of his capture behind enemy lines, as corny. Countering the President's opinion with his own, Motss proposes to test Schumann's speech in front of a group of White House secretaries. Brean and Ames, waiting outside the door to the office in which the group has met, are shocked to see the women leaving the room in tears. Taking their cue from Schumann's name, Motss instructs musician Johnny Green (Willie Nelson) to compose an appropriate patriotic song entitled "Old Shoe," which Brean then files in the Library of Congress to foster the deception that this newly minted tune is a 1930s folk song.
Believing that they have saved the day, and effectively extended coverage of the "war" until the presidential election, Brean, Ames, and Motss await Schumann's arrival at a deserted airport in a drenching rainstorm. Hurrying to get out of the rain, the three do not take notice of MPs standing in the background. Likewise, when the officer in charge presents Ames with a release form, she quickly signs her name without reading it.Then, only after Ames signs the form, does the officer hand her a set of keys: Schumann, in chains, is a military prisoner, presumably one that the CIA has pawned off on the unwitting spin doctors and Hollywood producer. However, before the plane arrives at Edwards Air Force Base, it crashes. The characters find themselves stranded at a Ma and Pa store in quintessential Middle America. As Ames attempts to call Washington, the psychotic Schumann makes his moves on Ma and is shot and killed by Pa. Motss recovers to save his "picture" in a fitting Act III: what's better than the return of dead hero?
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Must have found it in a motel Bible.
Must have found it in a motel Bible.
When presented with two sides to any Obama story, beleiving the worse of the two is always the safest bet...
More likely "Allah Achbar"
Not only did Obama have a nice laugh over the sacrilege he pulled off with his fake prayer, but all of his personal Imans did also!!!!!!
Whatever note he put into the Wall himself is probably already gone, replaced with something more public-friendly.
I know this one. The punchline is, “God knows he’s not Barack Obama.”
You are being too kind in giving BO the benefit of the doubt. This from the story:
Ma’ariv issued a response Sunday, saying that “Obama’s note was published in Ma’ariv and other international publications following Obama’s authorization to make the content of the note public. Obama submitted a copy of the note to media outlets when he left his hotel in Jerusalem.
I don’t know if it was before or after - I think it was before he went to the Wall, but if the note had already been published, why give the media a copy of the prayer? And why did he makes copies of his prayer, anyway, for Pete’s sake? Did he plan on handing them out on the street? Yikes!!!
It was obviously a PR ploy. I wouldn’t doubt if he had the kid “steal” the note and then gave it to the media, just to make sure it was published.
BO did have his campaign staff holing up Obama 2008 signs (in Hebrew!) at the entrance to the sacred Jewish Wailing Wall.
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