Are terrorists ‘phone banking’ for Barack (Hussein Obama)?

The City Paper (Nashville) ^ | May 16, 2008 | Steve Gill

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The Obama campaign claimed to be "flattered" by the Hamas endorsement, and Obama himself told the Atlantic magazine that he understands why Hamas would support him.

So what have Barack's Hamas newfound supporters been up to lately? Well, on the very day President Bush arrived in Israel to mark the nation's 60th anniversary and to renew his push for a Palestinian state as part of elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace process, a rocket was fired into an Israeli shopping mall. The mall was devastated, and 14 innocent civilians were seriously injured. The Popular Resistance Committees, which has Hamas members, was one of two organizations that claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Hamas endorsement of Obama is even more interesting when viewed against the backdrop of the group's aggressive promotion of violence among young Palestinians in Gaza and in the context of a recent Al-Jazeera story about how young Palestinians in Gaza have banded together to call American voters at random asking them to vote for Obama! Rockets by night, Obama phone banks by day?

"It all started at the time of the U.S. primaries," says the pro-Obama Palestinian organizer, 23-year-old Ibrahim Abu Jayyab. "After studying Obama's electronic campaign manifesto I thought this is a man that's capable of change inside of America. As for potential change in the Middle East, he can also do that if he can bring peace to the area. At least this is what we hope."

The Al-Jazeera television report can be viewed at www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g.

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He actually used the term “flattered”????????. My god, his squealing today about Bush’s speech seems even stupider now.

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His campaign found it flattering — but Obama didn’t reject it either. From the article:

Obama himself told the Atlantic magazine that he understands why Hamas would support him.

“It’s conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, ‘This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he’s not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush.’” Obama concluded that the perception is “legitimate”.

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Well it is worrying enough that his campaign did. I assume these were the same people who hung up the che flag.

I wonder if there is a way we can trick all the Obama supporters into stepping onto a giant “yay for terror party boat” that is really a giant barge that will pull away and drop them off in Cuba where they belong.