Posted on 07/15/2008 10:06:34 AM PDT by Winged Hussar
Contrary to the disclaimer “Content on blogs in My.BarackObama represents the opinions of community members and in no way should be interpreted as endorsed or approved by the campaign,” Barack Obama’s campaign can and does exercise editorial control over MyBO by removing content that it deems “objectionable” or “disrespectful.” The following outrage du jour pretty much speaks for itself.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/theodoreziolkowski/gG55NG
Off His Axis. (Comments by Ted-Zee-Man)Opinion Watch Joe Klein blogs for Time: “The notion that we could just waltz in and inject democracy into an extremely complicated, devout and ancient culture smacked–still smacks–of neocolonialist legerdemain. The fact that a great many Jewish neoconservatives–people like Joe Lieberman and the crowd over at Commentary–plumped for this war, and now for an even more foolish assault on Iran, raised the question of divided loyalties: using U.S. military power, U.S. lives and money, to make the world safe for Israel. And then there is the question–made manifest by the no-bid contracts offered U.S. oil companies by the Iraqis–of two oil executives, Bush and Cheney, securing a new source of business for their Texas buddies.
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ALWAYS USE THE PHRASE "EXERCISE OF EDITORIAL CONTROL" TO SHOW THAT THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN IS INDEED MORALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HATE SPEECH AND OUTRIGHT LIBEL THAT PERVADES ITS WEB SITE.
[The linked article has two more examples]
Here is another one, again from a Web site under the Obama campaign’s editorial control
Iran and a changing America http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/shaherzad/gGCV8zThere is nothing about my country that I do not love except when it begins to deviate from it’s original premise, which it seems to have been doing a great deal of recently. I read on Yahoo! that Presidential candidate hopeful Hillary Clinton said that she planned to “obliterate” Iran if they planned any attack on Israel. Strange to read such strong words in defense of a country which has been committing countless atrocities in Palastine and Lebanon. I wondered for a moment whether she was unaware of Israeli policies until I discovered that much of her campaign has been paid for by the Israeli Zionists. Irsraeli Zionists who have no tolerance for Palestine, Lebanon, or, recently, Iran.
Maybe the fact that Iran’s leader says he will wipe Israel off the map has something to do with Israel’s dislike of Iran (or, more precisely, its government).
Next we have “Obama’s Allegiance to Israel” This is apparently not “offensive” or “disrespectful,” even though it is not particularly complimentary to Obama either.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/gr8pop/CqbsUp until recently, I have been excited about the prospect of Barack Obama as our next president. I shouldn’t have to, but I will preface my comment here by stating that I’m an American Jew, veteran and patriot. One thing that is disgustingly apparent in America is that very few public figures (celebrities, heads of business, civic and religious leaders, politicians, etc.) have the courage to speak out against Israel’s policies of racism and apartheid, occupation, dehumanization, targeted assassinations, deception and espionage on our own country. Well, duh … “Of course!” … people (including politicians) are very afraid. They’ve seen that criticism of Israel can result in swift career suicide. But they be more concerned about America than about their own asses?
Yesterday’s article (Chicago Tribune, March 2, 2007) “Obama calls Iran threat to U.S., Israel” has turned me “OFF” Obama. In the article, Obama criticizes this present adminstration’s Middle East policies, but he should also be aware of … and address … the fact that Israel has greatly influenced those policies. Obama should not be sucking-up to a racist state (Israel), and especially a state (Israel) which is arguably greatly responsible for us being in Iraq in the first place. Many of the neocons who drew up the plans to attack Iraq (before 9-11) were Jews with known allegiance to Israel … some of whom held/hold dual (Israeli/American) citizenship. Israel is not held to account over its nuclear arsenal. It is not held to account for its violations of UN Resolutions.
While it’s easy to understand Israel’s fears and insecurities, I don’t feel it’s up to Americans to foot the bill in terms of tax dollars and human lives to keep Israel secure. Israel has the 4th largets military in the world … let them fight their own battles. Jews make up no more than 2.3 percent of our U.S. population, yet AIPAC is one of the most powerful lobbies in America, and truly dictates our foreign policy. Most American Jews would not set foot in Israel, let alone want to live there … yet most American Jews blindly support Israel.
It’s sad …. hell, it’s tragic that Barack Obama must patronize AIPAC. We deserve a president whose primary allegiance is to America …. not Israel.
Please see the following YouTube videos:
AIPAC and NeoCon Policy
AIPAC is pushing us to war with Iran for Israel
What motivated the 9/11 hijackers? See testimony most didn’t
Wolf Blitzer is a Zionist
Fox News - 911 The Israeli Connection
Please do your own research on Israel’s influence on American foreign policy, and let Barack Obama know that Israel’s policies (including racism and human rights violations) are not policies that an American president should support.
Marxists complaining about divided loyalties.
Oh, the irony.
It amazes me what stuff gets up there and stays. We have monitoring on my Cubs site that is better!
Who’s loyalties are more divided than Obama’s?
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