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Wailing Wall Row Over Obama's note (Note Obama put in wall published)
Sky News ^ | July 25, 2008 | Dominic Waghorn

Posted on 07/25/2008 7:29:07 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77

....In the private note, handwritten on the headed letter paper of the hotel where he was staying, the presidential hopeful asks God to: "Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just" and "protect my family".

Predictably, the publication has ignited an unholy row.

The wailing or western wall, as it is also known, is the holiest place Jews can visit, because it is the remains of the foundations of the Second Jewish Temple, destroyed by Romans two thousand years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: holyland; note; obama; obamasbigadventure; obamavisit
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1 posted on 07/25/2008 7:29:07 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Fox_Mulder77

This was published because team Obama wanted it published. It is not a prayer so much as an appeal to US evangelical voters


2 posted on 07/25/2008 7:31:57 AM PDT by The Lumster (paranoia strikes deep...into your heart it will creep.....)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Good grief the man gets scarier by the day.
God have mercy on us if he is elected.


3 posted on 07/25/2008 7:32:21 AM PDT by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: The Lumster

Obama and his campaign people knew that his note would be read.


4 posted on 07/25/2008 7:33:46 AM PDT by BlueAngel
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To: BlueAngel

I think the note was written for him by an aide.


5 posted on 07/25/2008 7:36:59 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Fox_Mulder77
This could also be damage control for the Obama campaign putting up banners in front of the wailing wall.


6 posted on 07/25/2008 7:37:42 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Now all he has to do is arrange some rocks in the shape of a cross on Omaha beach when he goes to France


7 posted on 07/25/2008 7:40:28 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Election '08, the year McCain defined the word "dilemma")
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Seems he didn’t receive the wisdom since he displayed a campaign sign there at the Wall.

What a farce this guy is.


8 posted on 07/25/2008 7:40:44 AM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Did he need a teleprompter to write the note?


9 posted on 07/25/2008 7:42:01 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I zot, therefore I am.)
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To: The Lumster
This was published because team Obama wanted it published.

Yep, it looks that way. It's a very convenient way to try to address the issue of people's suspicion that he's a fake.

The Bible goes into this kind of fakery. That's why it says instead of praying on the streets for all to see, to go discretely into your room to pray. That way your act of prayer is a humble one between God and you, and not just and arrogant matter of showing off.

10 posted on 07/25/2008 7:48:23 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

This should not have been published, but I smell a rat here. This little prayer seems a bit self serving.


11 posted on 07/25/2008 7:51:59 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Fox_Mulder77
In keeping with the theme of the trip, the real note read:

"Prophet Mohamed - Tear Down This Wall!!!!!!!!!!!!
12 posted on 07/25/2008 7:55:35 AM PDT by horse_doc (Visualize a world where a tactical nuke went off at Max Yasgur's farm in 1969.)
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To: reagan_fanatic
There was a reply scrawled on the bottom of the hotel stationery:

Dear Barry: I have no idea where you are coming from. Do you worship Me in spirit and in truth and are you still dabbling with Islam? If you believe, you know all prayers and all redemption comes to me by passing through the narrow gate known as my Son. Now, go forth and stop acting like a Messiah, and get thy feces together.

Yours truly, GOD (O.S.B)

13 posted on 07/25/2008 7:56:20 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: The Lumster

As always its all about barack,what an ego.


14 posted on 07/25/2008 7:56:39 AM PDT by omega4179 (B.Hussein Keep the change!)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
Fixed your typo:

Now all he has to do is arrange some rocks in the shape of a cross on Omaha Obama beach when he goes to France

15 posted on 07/25/2008 7:58:03 AM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: Fox_Mulder77
Was this before or after he fed all those folks on the mountainside?
16 posted on 07/25/2008 7:58:13 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

Not only did he feed them, he got change...


17 posted on 07/25/2008 8:00:18 AM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: null and void

Good catch, lol


18 posted on 07/25/2008 8:03:39 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Election '08, the year McCain defined the word "dilemma")
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To: Las Vegas Ron

;^)


19 posted on 07/25/2008 8:05:20 AM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: SERKIT

Major LOL! What does OSB mean (outside of the lumber biz, of course)?


20 posted on 07/25/2008 8:07:38 AM PDT by blu (Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
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To: blu
Major LOL! What does OSB mean (outside of the lumber biz, of course)? Order of Saint Benedict - I guess you have to be Catholic to know that the "orders" are always in competition (Jesuits, Franciscans, Benedictines, etc.).
21 posted on 07/25/2008 8:11:44 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

And here I thought it would say...

“We refuse to worship a God that doesn’t participate in the destruction of the white enemy.”


22 posted on 07/25/2008 8:16:38 AM PDT by allmendream (If "the New Yorker" makes a joke, and liberals don't get it, is it still funny?)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

I wonder if one of his flacks retrieved the prayer as they were leaving? For the Obama (peas be upon him) presidential library, of course.


23 posted on 07/25/2008 8:19:04 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains...)
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To: The Lumster

Of course they did. Good Grief, why can’t people see through this BS.

I feel like a unwilling participant in a hollywood movie, and a bad one at that.

Heaven Help Us.


24 posted on 07/25/2008 8:26:14 AM PDT by waxer1 (What exactly is meant by "we are going to take our country back")
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

High volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel, WOT

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A despicable act irrespective of who did it. The source would be interesting to find out, but I doubt Maariv is going to be forthcoming. Nice of them to print it though

25 posted on 07/25/2008 8:26:32 AM PDT by SJackson (Barack Obama will not be coming to us, I don't know why, Spokesperson US military hospital Landstuhl)
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To: SERKIT

Well, I am a Catholic, and knew the nuns always had letters after their names, and Father, too. I just didn’t think God belonged to any one order....but I think he might be Franciscian! (okay, let’s go hide under the trees till the lightening bolts subside!)


26 posted on 07/25/2008 8:29:12 AM PDT by blu (Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Dear God: Is killing babies okay?


27 posted on 07/25/2008 8:30:37 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

I heard that the note was written with a crayon.


28 posted on 07/25/2008 8:33:18 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (I'm voting for McCain because he's white - credit Jeff Chandler)
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To: waxer1
a hollywood movie, and a bad one at that

That was rather redundant.

29 posted on 07/25/2008 8:50:19 AM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: Fox_Mulder77
The wailing or western wall, as it is also known, is the holiest place Jews can visit, because it is the remains of the foundations of the Second Jewish Temple, destroyed by Romans two thousand years ago.

Actually, it was known as the "Wailing" Wall when Jerusalem was under Islamic domination and the area was used as a garbage dump, and Jews were only permitted to visit the site on the Ninth day of the month of Av, to mourn the destruction of the Temple on that date in the Year 70 by the Romans, and on that date in the year 586 BC by the Babylonians.

Referring to the Western Wall as the "Wailing Wall" is a gentile coining, is not the least bit appropriate for anyone who holds the least bit of respect and courtesy towards Jews, and is not used at all in Hebrew - instead the wall is referred to as the "Kotel".

The actual "most holy place Jews could visit" is presently occupied by a mosque, the Dome of Rock, sitting on the former site of the Second Temple in Jerusalem - the Temple Mount - and Muslims in the region tend to fly into a murderous rage if a Jew sets foot there, let alone tries to pray.

30 posted on 07/25/2008 9:25:38 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

AND, when the note was flipped over, it read, “Return to Sender”.


31 posted on 07/25/2008 9:27:28 AM PDT by Gator113 (Drill here, drill now...... or die.)
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To: SERKIT

Excellent!


32 posted on 07/25/2008 10:16:58 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("When I was a boy, America was a better place" - Dennis Prager)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

This like everything he does was staged. His trip is taking a page out of Pallywood. No banners in Germany lest they be anti-US. Banners at the Kotel (Western Wall) so that Israelis appear pro Obama when they are not. He should run for stager in chief.


33 posted on 07/25/2008 10:26:06 AM PDT by dervish (After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief)
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To: SERKIT; Salem; SJackson; Alouette; F15Eagle; 444Flyer; T.L.Sink; mkjessup; Yehuda; Nachum; ...

SERKIT had a great comment, and I decided to do my own variation:

Beside snobama-messiah’s presumptive and pompous note was a note placed by St. Michael the Archangel which read: “Dear Hussein, Lawsa but you are such a nudzhe! Strutting around like a peacock who thinks his bleep doesn’t stink! Stop the shuck and jive, you carpetbagger! And stop turning the holiest site of my First Covenant people into a campaign/media circus for your own gain. Oh, and Barry HUSSEIN, I’ve got a big news flash for you: contrary to what you, your Jezebel wife, and the pagan media think, you ain’t the Messiah. Not by a long shot! Don’t make me have to send St. Michael the Archangel down a second time, ‘cause if I do, he’ll be delivering something to you personally, and trust me, it won’t be a note! Now stop wearing out my one last nerve! Signed, The Lord God Almighty!”


34 posted on 07/25/2008 10:28:13 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("When I was a boy, America was a better place" - Dennis Prager)
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To: The Lumster; Convert from ECUSA; AdmSmith; Berosus; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Well said, The Lumster!

Thanks Convert from ECUSA for the pings (this topic and the following):

Ouch! Israel National News Asks Obama to “Just Go Home”
Israel National News.com | 7/22/08 | David Ha’ivri
Posted on 07/24/2008 10:32:57 PM PDT by no dems
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051005/posts

and, from a FReeper who joined late in June:

Exclusive! Obama’s Fake Birth Certificate: How the forgery was made.
The Greater Evil | 07/23/08 | Polarik
Posted on 07/23/2008 12:40:56 PM PDT by Polarik
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050103/posts


35 posted on 07/25/2008 7:08:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

The note should not have been retrieved or published:

This is not right.

Prayers are sacred and personal between the individual and God.

STE=Q


36 posted on 07/25/2008 7:35:54 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
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To: null and void

What is that supposed to mean?


37 posted on 07/25/2008 8:01:50 PM PDT by waxer1 (What exactly is meant by "we are going to take our country back")
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To: waxer1

How many good hollywood movies have been made in the last decade?

Before you answer, consider if your choices would be too gory or profane or sacrilegious, or anti-American or all of the above for any audience in, say, 1960...


38 posted on 07/25/2008 8:09:35 PM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: Fox_Mulder77; SJackson

The bigger outrage is that “Osama” Obama’s campaign handlers desecrated the holy site by putting up very conspicuous campaign banners.


39 posted on 07/25/2008 10:15:09 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: Convert from ECUSA

Great variation! By the way, according to Rush when Obama was visiting that most holy site he was accompanied by shills who were carrying campaign-like signs with pro-Obama slogans and pictures. Naturally, this caused great offense to the Jews. B. Hussein Obama is a class act!


40 posted on 07/25/2008 11:01:20 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
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To: null and void

Sheesh, I was just making a general statement. A “bad” movie in ones opinion is in the eye of the beholder is it not?


41 posted on 07/26/2008 6:24:44 AM PDT by waxer1 (What exactly is meant by "we are going to take our country back")
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To: waxer1

*shrug* You did ask what I meant, that was what I meant.

Frankly, I was hoping you would be able to name one.

There have been a number of movies I’ve enjoyed recently, tremendously great special effects, rockin’ action, a few even attempted to have a plot line. But great, or even merely good? Nah.

Yes, “bad” and “good” are in the eye of the beholder.

I find it odd that you took offense when I asked you to name one good recent movie, but sadly, I don’t find it odd that you couldn’t...


42 posted on 07/26/2008 8:23:19 AM PDT by null and void (Barack Obama - International Man of Mystery...)
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To: The Lumster

I am sorry folks—there is no way that someone reached up and pulled ah’s note from the wall (btw it is the Kotel, not the Hotel.) There are always at leat 75 people on the wall that are watching..and then there was more than 2 newspapers that had the notes—Obama wrote that prayer to be discovered—he was depositing his vitae for kingship—make no mistake, that prayer was written for him, he worships the moon god, the god of obsidian (stone.)


43 posted on 07/26/2008 5:48:25 PM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
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To: null and void
Omaha Beach = Obama Beach.

That's a hoot! Still chuckling.

See my tagline.

Leni

44 posted on 07/26/2008 5:56:34 PM PDT by MinuteGal (A Hottie Contest In Progress on Freepathon Thread. See #'s 665 &668. Enter and be a WINNER for FR!)
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To: potlatch; Fox_Mulder77


45 posted on 07/26/2008 8:19:42 PM PDT by devolve ( "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." - Elect a cokehead *08 !)
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To: devolve

Very nice devolve.
There is another thread about this and I was reading it earlier. Showed a picture of him inserting his note and a man beside him watching.


46 posted on 07/26/2008 8:23:47 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: potlatch

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The message sounded like a setup

Like his wife’s comment about Obama could get shot going to a gas station


47 posted on 07/26/2008 8:28:31 PM PDT by devolve ( "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." - Elect a cokehead *08 !)
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To: reagan_fanatic

He used a telescripter.


48 posted on 07/26/2008 8:29:30 PM PDT by lonestar
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To: devolve

Well, that second statement is not out of line. I often run to convenience stores late in the evening and always look around to see who’s there. They are a prime target for robberies.


49 posted on 07/26/2008 8:32:23 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: theDentist

Need to get a handwriting expert to take a look at it.


50 posted on 07/26/2008 8:35:12 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter
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