Posted on 09/12/2008 2:12:01 AM PDT by markomalley
Immigration records show that Sen. Barack Obama’s grandfather, Baruch Heshy Obramowitz, was an Ethiopian “Falasha” Jew, who changed his surname when he moved to Kenya. The revelation has set off rumors that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is a secret Jew.
An e-mail sent to Muslim voters, from a group called The Truth About Jewbama, claims that while growing up in Hawaii, the future senator attended a radical Jewish school, called a “Yeshiva.” The e-mail also says that his campaign has several Jewish advisers, including Woody Allen.
Senator Obama issued a statement denying the charges. “I am not now, nor have I ever been Jewish,” the statement read. “We must not allow this smear campaign to distract the American people from the important issues of this campaign, such as Senator McCain’s age.”
Despite the denial, speculation that Sen. Obama is Jewish intensified after he was seen wearing an Israeli flag pin. According to a campaign spokesperson, the candidate was given the pin while attending a Greek Orthodox Easter celebration, and thought it represented the Greek flag. “It was an understandable mistake, since both the Israeli and Greek flags are blue and white,” the spokesperson said. The controversial flag pin has since been replaced by a red, white and blue one, causing Moveon.org to accuse Sen. Obama of being a secret American.
According to political analysts, questions about the senator’s religion could hurt his chances of winning Michigan, which has a significant Muslim population. At a recent meeting of Muslims For McCain, held in a Dearborn, Michigan mosque, a bearded man wearing a dashiki, who would only identify himself as Mohammed, said that both Sen. Obama and his wife were Jewish.
“Everyone knows they met on J-date,” Mohammed said, referring to the internet Jewish dating site.
Sen. Obama’s religion was also recently on the minds of Muslim callers to “The Savage Nation,” a radio talk show. “He says he’s a Christian, but I know he only joined that meshuggner church to advance his career,” said a caller named Khalid.
A woman calling herself Burka Jane also questioned Sen. Obama’s public embrace of Christianity. “ I heard that at Harvard he was a member of Hillel,” the caller said, repeating a much-circulated rumor that the senator once belonged to the Jewish student campus organization. Other callers railed against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for his pro-Israel voting record and his reported fondness for gifelte fish.
The Obama campaign has become wary of having the candidate seen with supporters wearing traditional Jewish clothing. When questioned about a Hasidic man who was sitting behind the senator at a recent rally, a campaign aide tried to mislead reporters by saying that the man was Amish. When the ruse was revealed, the campaign apologized to the Hasidic supporter and offered him a backstage pass to the Democratic convention.
Sen. John McCain has had little to say about his opponent’s religion. After visiting the third grade class of an Ann Arbor, Michigan Madrassa he told reporters, “Sen. Obama is not Jewish…as far as I know.”
While Jews and Muslims raise doubts about Sen. Obama’s religion, another ethnic group is quietly laying claim to the presidential candidate. A recent story in the newspaper Irish Times claims that Sen. Obama’s relatives immigrated to Kenya during the potato famine, where they changed their name from O’Brien.
An attempt to label anti-Hussein stuff as being anti-Semetic?????
It's only going to get more humorous the closer we get to Nov 4th...
Heck! Obama’s Irish.
aw hell, there goes the radical muslim terrorist vote, previosuly thought to be secure. Obama just can’t win these days.
LOL. It’s satire. :D
Oy Vey ;-)
I know it’s satire because look at the Beta Israeli last name.
“Obramowitz”. That’s more of a European last name than a Beta Israel last name.
Why doesn’t everyone just pick whatever ethnic, religious, gender, etc. that they hate, and assign it to Obama?
> The revelation has set off rumors that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee is a secret Jew.
So we have a Christian/muslim/Jew running for POTUS? I guess he’s got all bases covered then.
Shyeah, right.
The Buddhists, Sikhs and the Hindoos are going to be mighty ticked: he’s left them out!
Oh yes, so he’s a Jew now too.
He should stand up on the mount and say, ‘Let my people go!’
Well several dems have claimed he is Jesus and Jesus was a Jew so...
ah jaysus no dont say dat!!! LOL
thanks god he hasnt pulled that one out...its bad enough baring the genetic issues around ted kennedy...sorry there is only so much stuff we will accept as a race!!! HAHAHAHAHA
Technically under Jewish tradition, which goes by the ethnicity of the mother, Obama would be classified as an Irish-American. There actually are Ethiopian Jewish women in Israel married to Russians with Russian surnames, but there weren’t any back in the day.
Being called Jewish is a "smear?"
Resume of: B HUSSEIN OBAMA
1.) Certificate of Live Birth/Birth Certificate
Proven fake by more than one source
2.) Sketchy childhood
We know some details - Lots of gaps - muslim?
3.) College thesis has vanished
Was it anything like Michele’s?
4.) Overseas travel
Pakistan? Why? On what passport?
5.) Law records
What cases did he represent?
6.) Senate records disappeared
What was he trying to hide?
7.) Associations
Rev Wright, Ayers, Rezko, Michele etc.
8.) Senate voting record
That speaks for itself
9.) SCOTUS
Who would his choices be?
10.) Proven Liar
11.) Inexperience
12.) Racist, Sexist, Radical, Marxist views
His judgement in the people he associates with and his radical/marxist views scare the hell out of me.
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