Did Obama Confuse Hanukkah and Kwanzaa?

RushLimbaugh.com ^ | December 9, 2011 | Rush Limbaugh

[Kaslin]

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RUSH: Yesterday Obama celebrated Hanukkah. That means tomorrow is Christmas Eve, and next Wednesday is New Year's Eve in Obamaville. Hanukkah is not for two weeks, and he lit every candle in the menorah! You're supposed to do it over an eight-day period. He did it all at once just to be done with it. As he says: This is to show my devotion to Israel.

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RUSH: Snerdley, what do you think the odds are that Obama confused Hanukkah and Kwanzaa? When was Kwanzaa invented? (interruption) No, '66. I looked it up. Kwanzaa was invented 1966. It was invented by a guy named Ron Karenga. Yeah. Yeah. His name was Ron Karenga but he had an alias, Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga. (laughing)

So he was a doctor. And he invented Kwanzaa, which is a seven-day feast, runs December 26 to January 1st. In 1966 he branded it a black alternative to Christmas. The idea was to celebrate the end of what Ron Karenga considered the Christmas season exploitation of African-Americans. Now, what was that? What was the Christmas season exploitation of African Americans? Was it all the black Santa Clauses that were out there in the department stores? What was it then? What was the exploitation of African-Americans at Christmastime? According to the official Kwanzaa website, as opposed to the Hallmark Cards Kwanzaa site, the celebration was designed to foster conditions that would enhance the revolutionary social change for the -- anyway it also has a candelabra. It was seven days, seven candles instead of eight for Hanukkah, and you light 'em all at once. So Obama had a menorah there and he lit 'em all. I'm sure he thought it was Kwanzaa while talking about loyalty to Israel.

What a day, folks. Now we have Jon Corzine testified yesterday, "I don't know where" -- (interruption) What? He did. He lit all the candles on the menorah. He lit them all. Lit them all. Well, let me tell you something. The White House Christmas party for the media was December 6th. That's about eight or nine days earlier than usual. See, everything is based on Obama getting out of town on December 16th to head over to Hawaii. So that's why he lit all the candles. He didn't have time to wait for Hanukkah to actually play out, he's gotta leave. He can't wait. He doesn't have time to hang around for Kwanzaa. I mean that doesn't start 'til December 26th. He's gotta do that now. He has to get outta here by December 16th, December 17th. That's when vacation starts. So just go ahead and light all the candles on the menorah and talk about how you love Israel and be done with it. (interruption) I know, I know, if Bush had tried that... (laughing) If anybody else had tried that, I know, I understand.

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[Slings and Arrows]

Yes.

[Verginius Rufus]

We’ll have to wait and see if he plays with a dreidel during Kwanzaa.

[jonrick46]

When life becomes endless rounds of golf and luxury vacations, the mind goes soft. In Zer0’s mind, keep things simple: to make peace with Israel, just light up some menorah candles and call it Kwanzaa. I can just imagine these words: “Hey, Michelle! Is it true we’re having lobster tonight? I just read it on the teleprompter that we’re having lobster.”

[jonrick46]

LOL! Lucky I just finished my coffee.

[Barb4Bush]

I know where he should put the pole.

[StonyBurk]

In Obama’s world every traditional holiday must be thought of in a new way —thus Christmas, and Hanukkah Must be thought of in their relationship to Kwanzaaaaaa-that made up holiday for black revolutionaries. Much as our First Amendment must be thought of as including separation of church and state,and school from church much as the Soviet Communist had in their Constitution.Much like Obama thinks Christianity equates to
Black Liberation theology and the Jesus of Christianity equates to the Islamic version.In Obamavill all things are made relative to the State chooses it to mean at the moment.

[BenLurkin]

Hussein is a strange person. He has always lived in an isolated fantasy world.

[Karliner]

He should invite Adam Sandler for an edumacation!

[Karliner]

Wait WAIT there's more, we can ALL send this beautiful "How to" to Mr smarty pantsso he can always know how to like the menorrah candles of Chamukah:

Lighting the Candles traditional manner

He just showed the world again how to disrespect Israel as he disrespects alll Americans, all Jews and all our allies. He has no respect a ritual that has such depth of meaning, a way of life( Judaism) that has given us so much morality. Wahts his name( what is his true name??) screws the goose once again( poor goose). He has disrespected a whole people, a whole culture and a REAL LIVING G!D of Hope and Change of heart.

I pray G-D sees he is like the pharoah, the evil pharoah from another country in which Hashem battled with Moses until all of Egypt fell in to the dung heap of scarab worship. Please O Lord pass over our home when your wrath falls upon the evil ones who are tearing America and Israel down to its very core, I stand with Israel.I will die for the God of Israel should it be His will.

[reg45]

A Chanukah (Hanukkah) menorah has nine branches, not seven.

[Kaslin]

It does? I did a search and all I find are seven

[reg45]

The nine-branched menorah is used at Hanukkah. The older, seven-branched, menorah is used in the Jewish Temple. Some rabbis teach that the use of the seven-branched menorah is inappropriate except in the Temple in Jerusalem. This temple was destroyed by the Romans in the first century C. E. Unfortunately, it cannot be rebuilt until the squatters are evicted.