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Obama: “I am the Closest Thing to a Jew that Has Ever Sat in this Office”
Frontpagemagazine ^ | June 2, 2015 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 06/02/2015 1:28:14 PM PDT by SJackson

Obama: “I am the Closest Thing to a Jew that Has Ever Sat in this Office”

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On June 2, 2015 @ 12:21 pm In The Point | 19 Comments

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(Insert long string of Yiddish curse words here)

David Axelrod recalled Obama venting in a moment of contemplation, telling him, ‘You know, I think I am the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office. For people to say that I am anti-Israel, or, even worse,  anti-Semitic, it hurts.’

Either this quote is real [2] or it was made up by David Axelrod. I’m not sure which is worse.

Since Axelrod is a leftist and a compulsive liar, that would be more of the same bizarre narrative put out by some of Obama’s Jewish toadies. It’s understandable in a perverse sort of way. Jewish leftists have cut themselves off from Jewish values and traditions, and the future of the Jewish people. They retain some sort of vestigial tribalism expressed in Woody Allen movies, jokes about eating Chinese food and pretending that their leftist pals are their soul brothers.

This is coming out in a major push by leftists in the Israeli media to promote Obama’s Iran nuke sellout so it should be viewed as more propaganda orchestrated by leftist idiots out of tune with Israel.

But if Obama actually said this, then he may have actually spent so much time around Jewish leftists that he thinks that the two are one and the same. That having a radical leftist in office is the closest thing to having a Jewish president.

We already had Obama recently telling someone that he is Jewish [3] in his soul. That comment could have been read as merely philosemitic, but the Axelrod one reveals entitlement and appropriation.

Obama is playing the “I am everything to everyone” game.

And on that note, one of his most effective tricks has been mimicking the cultural signals of various groups. As a Third Culture immigrant, Obama is very good at picking up on cultural signals and reflecting them back with the message, “I am one of you. I share your values.”

He can come to a Christian event and talk about his religious faith and then flip over to a pop culture photo op and give out cultural signals to Millenials and Generation Xers that he likes their favorite shows and bands. He’ll hit up liberal Baby Boomers with 60s Civil Rights references and then give a talk in the Midwest filled with references to “Folks”.

It is all very transparent, but Obama is better at it than most politicians are because he is both insecure and egotistical, and absolutely shameless. Hillary’s southern accent has nothing on Obama’s tricks.

Obama’s speeches build imaginary connections. They con those on the receiving end into believing that Obama is one of them.

The interesting question is what does Obama believe.

In a more in depth interview with Martin Indyk, U.S. Special Envoy for the Israeli–Palestinian Negotiations from 2013 to 2014, the latter claimed that “Israelis are ungrateful to this president.”

Remember that string of Yiddish curse words? Throw in a few in here too.



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To: scooby321
Liberation Theology and the KGB

Jay Richards | February 2, 2010

The presence of Marxism in liberation theology is well-known, at least to seminarians who are critical readers. Practically every seminarian reads Gustavo Gutierrez’s Theology of Liberation at some point, but most laypeople find it hard to believe that there could have been (and continues to be) a widespread attempt to hybridize Christian theology and Marxism.

Marxist regimes obviously benefitted from the spread of liberation theology in the churches. Still, I was not aware of any connections between liberation theology and communist clandestine organizations until now.

A new article by Robert D. Chapman in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence begins to connect some dots. In “The Church in Revolution,” Chapman, “a retired operations officer in the Clandestine Services Division of the Central Intelligence Agency,” argues that the KGB infiltrated the Russian Orthodox Church through Metropolitan Nikodim, the Russian Orthodoxy’s second-ranking prelate. Nikodim was a proponent of liberation theology. Nikodim was active in the otherwise-Protestant World Council of Churches. And the WCC, of course, became an actively left-wing organization during the last half of the 20th century.

Chapman also details the growth of liberation theology in Latin America—and the Vatican’s struggles with it—and the growth of black liberation theology in the United States. Prominent proponents of the latter include James Cone and Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The arguments of liberation theologians should be challenged on their merits. The source of an argument, after all, doesn’t establish its truth or falsity. Still, it’s interesting to learn that liberation theology may have been, at least in part, a project of the KGB.

Unfortunately, this isn’t just history. Chapman concludes ominously:

"the Theology of Liberation doctrine is one of the most enduring and powerful to emerge from the KGB’s headquarters. The doctrine asks the poor and downtrodden to revolt and form a Communist government, not in the name of Marx or Lenin, but in continuing the work of Jesus Christ, a revolutionary who opposed economic and social discrimination.

A friend of mine, a head of Catholic social services in my area and formerly a priest, is a liberation theologian. He has made a number of humanitarian trips to Central America and told me, ‘‘liberation theology is alive and well.’’ The same can be said of its sibling in the United States [ie, Black Liberation Theology]."

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2010/02/liberation-theology-and-the-kgb/


41 posted on 06/02/2015 2:03:47 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: MAKOTHEDOG

what like the country is more respected, or we are safer today, or the Iran deal?

He is delusional for sure and yet he stands there with a straight face saying this utter garbage/


42 posted on 06/02/2015 2:04:09 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: scooby321

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

["(Jose) Diaz-Balart is the son of Rafael Diaz-Balart y Guitierrez (a former Cuban politician). He has three bothers, Rafael Diaz-Balart (a banker), Mario Diaz-Balart (a US Congressman) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (also a US Congressman). His aunt, Mirta Diaz-Balart, was Fidel Castro's first wife."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Diaz-Balart]

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html


43 posted on 06/02/2015 2:04:20 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: scooby321
Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

44 posted on 06/02/2015 2:04:49 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: SJackson

...he’s just toying with the public now.....


45 posted on 06/02/2015 2:07:01 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: SJackson
I guess he means not rural and not WASP, that is not like almost all the other presidents (and not Catholic either).

Early on, there were people who thought the Dunhams must have been Jewish, but then the whole Muslim thing overwhelmed that.

His half-brother Mark Obama (whom he never sees) is or considers himself Jewish.

46 posted on 06/02/2015 2:08:39 PM PDT by x
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To: SJackson

The emperors of Rome declared themselves Gods. Go ahead Obama, do it..


47 posted on 06/02/2015 2:09:46 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: MaxMax
The emperors of Rome declared themselves Gods. Go ahead Obama, do it..

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Oh, shucks...should I David?

48 posted on 06/02/2015 2:20:33 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: SJackson

Gee, he is just saying anything so see if it sticks on the wall.

Recently, the US has the highest respect in decades, and now he is pro- Israel.

Either he is totally delusional, or he is desperate.


49 posted on 06/02/2015 2:23:58 PM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: MaxMax
The emperors of Rome declared themselves Gods. Go ahead Obama, do it..

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50 posted on 06/02/2015 2:25:22 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: x
Mark's mom was Jewish, don't think he's particularly religious, but is Jewish and BHO has little to do with him.

Michelle's first cousin is Rabbi Capers Funnye, chief Rabbi at Ethiopian synagogue in Chicago which is about a century old. You'll occasionally see them referred to as "Black Hebrews", but it's not an odd denomination, he's an ordained Rabbi and they're probably somewhere around Modern Orthodox. They did have him to the White House in 2009, but what can you do with a prominent Jewish cousin GWB had to the White House. I've read they have little to do with him, and have the impression he's not a democrat. Which is the real issue.

51 posted on 06/02/2015 2:26:11 PM PDT by SJackson (an emotional nation, not a rational nation. You work from your gut and not your mind, BHO on Israel)
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To: SJackson

Who is that Jew he’s closest to?


52 posted on 06/02/2015 2:29:42 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: ETL
No need to Photoshop, he's been there.


53 posted on 06/02/2015 2:34:14 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: MrB
Maybe Obola found out he had a Jewish ancestor, and his liberalism commanded self-loathing?

JF'nK's Jewish grandfather committed suicide, and it's pretty clear Kerry would like the Israelis to do the same.

54 posted on 06/02/2015 2:35:55 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: SJackson

I’m pretty close to being a Jew, but on my dad’s side, so no cigar.

I think I’m one up on the Obamanation.


55 posted on 06/02/2015 2:36:36 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: SJackson

Axelrod.

Nuff said.


56 posted on 06/02/2015 2:36:42 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: SJackson

“tell a lie big enough”


57 posted on 06/02/2015 2:37:28 PM PDT by varyouga
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To: Real Cynic No More
Who is that Jew he’s closest to?

Commie David Axlerod.

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58 posted on 06/02/2015 2:39:10 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: SJackson

‘’I think I am the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in this office’’

One thing certain, he is the looniest guy that ever sat in it.


59 posted on 06/02/2015 2:43:44 PM PDT by Rock N Jones
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To: SJackson

This guy is out of control.


60 posted on 06/02/2015 2:45:45 PM PDT by rrrod (Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
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