Posted on 07/29/2008 4:25:20 AM PDT by vietvet67
What initially seemed to be a journalistic scoop of dubious moral propriety now seems to be a case of an Israeli paper being played by the Barack Obama campaign. Maariv, the second most popular newspaper in Israel, was roundly criticized for publishing the note Obama left in the Kotel. But now a Maariv spokesperson says that publication of the note was pre-approved for international publication by the Obama campaign, leading to the conclusion that the "private" prayer was intentionally leaked for public consumption.
At around 5am last Thursday, Obama arrived at the Kotel, or Western Wall, abutting the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount. Accompanied by the Rabbi in charge of the site, Shmuel Rabinovich, he reportedly heard Psalm 122, which contains a prayer for the peace of Jerusalem, touched the wall briefly and then deposited a note of prayer into a crack between the ancient stones, in keeping with the tradition of visitors to the site. On his way out, he was briefly heckled, with one man calling out that "Jerusalem is not for sale" and "Remember what you see here." Trying to drown out the critics, a few supporters chanted his name.
Subsequently, it was reported that a yeshiva student filched the note that Obama placed in the wall and then Maariv published it in the next day's newspaper.
For that "scoop" the paper has come under fire. Yediot Aharonot, the country's most popular daily, published an article Friday saying it had also obtained the note but decided not to publish it, to respect Obama's privacy. Other Israeli media outlets initially ignored the story, or picked it up only after the initial publication had triggered a controversy.
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Everything about the Muslim Messiah is a lie perpetrated by the media and his handlers including Soros. Liberals consider the masses mindless prey and use staged propaganda such as this outrageous lie. Using Holy sites for their campaign lies is reprehensible.
This note with its “for media eyes only” message smells a kilometer away as a cheap publicity stunt. A member of his staff must have thought this one up and it boomeranged because the stunt was so obvious. Obama is a calculating student of hate-mongerer Jeremiah Wright. His note is theatrics pure and simple.
Barry,
Dad is mad!
JC
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“I don’t find the contents of the prayer inappropriate”
When you pray, do you use the terms “please” or “thank you”?
Obama apparently saw no need for either. Humility seems to be a trait that is very much in short supply in this candidate.
Too much to hope for! Such hubris!
The lying POS should go back to the hood, sell crack and play basketball. He is as phony as a three dollar bill.
But we’re too stupid to know the difference. Just ask the smart alecks who run barack mcgovern’s campaign, they’ll tell you. Does ANYONE thing this moron can fool Americans into electing him president? We weren’t fool enough to give clinocchio more than 49%. We weren’t fooled enough to elect algore or frenchie and all of them are White and presumably male. None of them had problems with Jews or women or Hispanics or rural people. clinocchio and algore had no problems with Catholics. frenchie had a problem with Catholics and lost Catholics by 6 points. barack mcgovern won’t come close to just a 6 point loss with Catholics.
The way Obama made it that he was played by the gushing girl reporter in the gym confirmed to me that that was a set up ‘scoop’ as well.
“We refuse to worship a God who doesn't participate in the destruction of the white enemy.”
;)
Obama may be the first to take a prayer-leak on the Wall.
I knew it all along. Of course it was planned by obama campaign. Cheap trick and shameful display of arrogance, using a sacred place.
You're probably right, but it will not play well among the American Jewish community.
"If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear (my prayer)" - Psalm 66:18
The scary part is that a large part of the population is falling for this flim-flam man.
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Say friggin what? OF COURSE Obama planted that note for public consumption....
Is somebody kidding here?
How stupid would you have to be to think anything else from the very beginning?
His hand writing reveals a ‘high and mighty’
attitude,extravagent and possibly, molested as a child.
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