Posted on 05/21/2008 8:21:21 AM PDT by SJackson
By any measure, President Bush’s speech to the Knesset last week on the occasion of Israel’s 60th birthday was nothing short of stunning. This paean to the bond between the United States and Israel, while personal in many ways, went beyond anything any U.S. president had previously said and expressed sentiments that all people of good faith and seekers of peace can relate to and embrace.
The president’s message was that when it comes to Israel, the U.S. would never accommodate terrorist pressure or political importuning from any source, and those who think otherwise had better reevaluate their position. He declared before one and all that “the fight against terror and extremism is the defining challenge of our time” and that America and Israel face a common enemy and are in this fight together.
“America,” he said, “is proud to be Israel’s closest ally and best friend in the world.” He spoke of Jews as “the chosen people” with a homeland promised by God. He praised Israel’s miraculous achievements in all areas of human endeavor and its leadership in several key ones. He referred to Israel as “Eretz Yisrael.”
The president’s speech was an opportunity for Senator Barack Obama to once and for all dispel the uneasiness in pro-Israel circles with his plans for the Middle East and the concern that his ambiguities will encourage those seeking to harm Israel. The venue of the president’s speech was, after all, the Israeli parliament on the occasion of a landmark anniversary for Israel. Was it too much to expect Sen. Obama to say something positive about the occasion?
Sadly, not only did he avoid any reference to Israel, he focused instead on one small portion of Mr. Bush’s speech. It was as if the president had not delivered the most unique speech of its kind in memory.
In his speech, President Bush, referring to the rants and threats of Hamas, Hizbullah, Ahmadinejad and Osama bin Laden, said:
There are good and decent people who cannot fathom the darkness in these men and try to explain their words away. This is natural. But it is deadly wrong. As witnesses to evil in the past, we carry a solemn responsibility to take these words seriously....Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: “Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.” We have an obligation to call this what it is–the comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.
Sen. Obama erupted in a high state of umbrage, saying that the reference to “appeasement” was dishonest and divisive” and “exactly the kind of appalling attack that’s divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world.” Not a word was uttered about anything else in the president’s speech.
It is ironic that it was Sen. Obama himself who put the issue in play. As we noted last week, when asked in an interview why it was that a high Hamas official publicly welcomed his election, he responded:
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. [Emphasis added]
So maybe the terrorists have a point and it is George W. Bush who is the cause of the world’s ills because he won’t listen to their grievances against the U.S. In fact, Sen. Obama recently told New York Times columnist David Brooks that the U.S. needs a foreign policy that “looks at the root causes of problems and dangers,” adding that Hizbullah and Hamas need to be compelled to understand that “they’re going down a blind alley with violence that weakens their legitimate claims.”
President Bush’s speech at the Knesset was repeatedly interrupted by standing ovations. What he said about Israel was given enhanced significance by the dramatic events in Lebanon as Hizbullah was busy demonstrating its effective control of the country. It was unquestionably an opportunity for Sen. Obama to support those parts of Mr. Bush’s comments about Israel with which he agreed.
Unfortunately, it seems he found little if anything in the speech with which he could agree. And maybe that’s the point he inadvertently made.
The news media had better watch out because their days are numbered too if this Muslim gets into the white house..He and his terrorist friends will cut off all news from any place like they do in the other countries..Laugh if you like but I really believe this..He has ignorant people that do not know what is going on in this world voting for him..much like the Clinton's did but even worse..
An excellent article.
Why don't we seize the opportunity provided by the MSM's deification of Obama to permanently de-claw the IRS and get God back into the public school classrooms?
This post (<-click), while addressing taxes, helps to explain why government "leaders" like Obama are actually in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics.
In fact, the article referenced below shows that Obama is the #1 federal spending proposer in the Senate for '08; Clinton is #2.
Obama, a big-shot federal spenderAnd this post (<-click) exposes how corrupt justices then began using FDR's politically correct license to ignore the 10th A. to unlawfully stifle traditional family values, including the USSC's scandalous legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade. Note that the post first references two non-abortion cases in order to show Roe v. Wade in a different, troubling perspective.
In fact, consider that the states have the constitutional power (10th A.) to authorize public schools to lead non-mandatory (14th A.) classroom discussions on the pros and cons of evolution, creationism and ID, as examples, regardless that atheists, separatists, pagan-minded judges and the MSM are misleading the people to think that doing such things in public schools is unconstitutional.
The people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state government powers. The people then need to wise up to the major problems that, since the days of FDR's dirty politics, Congress has not only not been operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution, particularly where constitutionally unauthorized federal spending is concerned, but the USSC has wrongly been ignoring the 10th A. protected power of the states to address religious issues.
The bottom line is that the people need to get in the faces of judges, demanding that judges uphold their oaths to defend the 10th A. protected powers of the states to address religious issues - or get off the bench. The people also need to send big-shot, Constitution-ignoring federal spenders like Obama home as opposed to trying to send people like him to the Oval Office. The people need to get in the faces of members of Congress, demanding a stop to constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes - or get out of DC.
Lincoln put it this way.
"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." --Abraham Lincoln, Political debates between Lincoln and Douglas, 1858.
The intersection between "Republican" and "brass" is the null set.
The press NEVER covers THIS President! I always GO HERE to read exactly what President Bush says, in it's entirety and watch the complete videos when available. The thunderous applause for President Bush speaks volumes.
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
Awesome video:
The same kind of terrorists who support Obama did this:
http://www.frugalsites.net/911/attack/
Never apologize for them.
Never appease them.
Never forget.
Wake up-America! Do you not wonder why the immature Obama gets so upset when He feels HE is attacked.
He is so inexperienced. Remember the little kid in school who thought he knew everything, yet he couldn’t pass the most simple test. Well, here is Obama.
God help us.
Wake up-America! Do you not wonder why the immature Obama gets so upset when He feels HE is attacked.
He is so inexperienced. Remember the little kid in school who thought he knew everything, yet he couldn’t pass the most simple test. Well, here is Obama.
God help us.
I’m glad to see somebody else remembers the Alinsky connection. We are underestimating Obama if we don’t realize that he is fully a master of this vicious, completely unscrupulous, leftist style of getting his way. He may know nothing about world affairs, nothing about government, but as far as the manipulation of crowds and public opinion, he trained with the best.
Don’t know what Obama’s idea of their “legitimate claims” are, but in Lebanon it’s that Shi’a are disenfranchised from Lebanese society.
Washington, D.C. "Leave Barack alone!" sobbed one supporter. . . .
He’ll find something to negotiate. Sheikh Yassin, before his well deserved death, stated that if the Jews returned to Europe that Hamas wouldn’t pursue them there. That could be Obama’s basis for negotiations. Where they’ll go once Europe falls can be dealt with at that time.
I'll throw another "off-topic" comment out there for Hillary and Obama, who thinks he's like Lincoln.
Like Obama, Seward was the clear favorite going into the convention. The unelected super-delegates chose Lincoln. And the Dems, as McCain suggested the other day, their first convention failed to name a nominee, though subsequent conventions named two, Douglas and Breckinridge. Perhaps Obama's emulation of Lincoln will prove true on the electorial side.
In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat--in all this he reminded me not just of my own struggles
Barak Obama
Thanks. This helps explain why the president’s speech shook up the anti-Israel leftists so thoroughly.
Obama’s first job, after graduating from Columbia was for the Gemaliel foundation, a group that trains community activists in the Saul Alinsky organizing methods. Obama has always been very good at it.
He is trying to completely control the campaign discussion by making everything personal and discussing to policy. He doesn’t even have a policy, other than that of the Black Liberation Theology.
This is an excerpt from an article by Stanley Kurtz on the Ethics and Public Policy web site. It gives you an idea of what Obama has in mind for this country.
The black intellectual’s goal, says Cone, is to “aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.” Such destruction requires both black anger and white guilt. The black-power theologian’s goal is to tell the story of American oppression so powerfully and precisely that white men will “tremble, curse, and go mad, because they will be drenched with the filth of their evil.” In the preface to his 1970 book, A Black Theology of Liberation, Wright wrote: “There will be no peace in America until whites begin to hate their whiteness, asking from the depths of their being: ‘How can we become black?’”
After our country was attacked on 9/11 the best candidate the dems could offer us was a terror appeasing fake christian muslim socialist.
“There’s no way many Americans want to link up with these socialist (communist) America-hating traitors!”
We don’t need to “link up” with them....we have enough already running the country.
Thanks for the ping. Obama took it personally because he knows it applies to him.
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