Posted on 09/29/2008 9:51:24 AM PDT by Jim W N
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was feted on Thursday night by left-wing U.S. religious leaders and self-styled pacifists at a gala reception at New Yorks Hyatt hotel which is owned by the family of the Obama campaigns national finance chairperson, Penny Pritzker.
Several thousand protesters gathered on 42nd street, directly across from the hotel, late Thursday afternoon, including Beth Gilinsky, president of the Jewish Action Alliance; Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy; and the Rev. Keith Roderick, the Episcopal canon to persecuted Christians.
Ahmadinejad arrived at 8:45 p.m., nearly three hours late, and was protected by the Secret Service and Iranian security guards, Newsmax correspondent Kenneth R. Timmerman reported.
Inside, the Iranian president was given a warm welcome by John Brademas, a former congressman from Indiana who rose to become Democratic whip in the House from 1977-1981.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague. Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 BC-43 BC
If I gave a speech and said......I am going to wipe out XYZ people.....I would be locked up!!! Meanwhile...this guy can galanvant around the world and make such statements and no one says a freakin thing....
To this end....I am still trying to figure out.... why many Jews are voting for Obama? I attended a Republican Jewish Coalition event last week with a great presentation given by Dr. Carl Goldberg on Islam. Afterward, I spoke to several members and posed that same question. The members all looked at me and basically said....We are still trying to figure that one out....
The Jews are “lost sheep” (Matthew 15:24). They’re lost and blind and don’t know who their friends are. They show a tendency to agree with their enemies out of guilt, fear, confusion, or all of the above. Their only hope has ever been and ever will be Jesus, the Messiah, their only real Friend. Someday soon Israel will be found of God and their Savior Jesus Christ.
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