to smear Obama. No doubt they would rather have Clinton, or Guiliani as President. Then they would get the war with Iran they so desperately crave for.

Richard Nixon hates Jews so much that Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger and Benjamin J. Stein all worked for him.

Even hardcore anti-semites like Ben Wattenberg and William Safire supported Richard Nixon.

Seriously? Seriously? This is up for debate? Have you heard the Nixon tapes? Nixon and Graham talk about "Satanic Jews."

And Israel Shahak said "Jews pray to Satan".

oh, Christopeher Hitchens likes Israel Shahak

http://www.marxists.de/middleast/press/shahak.htm

How does that vindicate Nixon?

Oh, you can make mince meat out of Richard Cohen? BFD -- anyone can do that.

 Deal with this guy. 

 "Obama says he found religion and Jesus Christ through Wright, whom
he met in the mid-1980s. Obama has been attending Wright�s church
regularly since 1988. Wright warned Obama that getting involved with
Trinity, with its radical reputation, might turn off other black
clergy. But in 1991, Obama joined the church and walked down the aisle
in a formal commitment of faith. Wright later married Obama and
Michelle Robinson and baptized their two daughters.

 

The title of Obama�s bestseller �The Audacity of Hope� comes
from one of Wright�s sermons. Wright is one of the first people Obama
thanked after his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.

 

For a Jan. 21, 2007 story in the Chicago Tribune, Obama said
that Wright keeps his priorities straight and his moral compass
calibrated.

 

�What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day
political advice,� Obama told the paper. �He�s much more of a sounding
board for me to make sure that I am speaking truthfully about what I
believe is possible and that I�m not losing myself in some of the hype
and hoopla and stress that�s involved in national politics.�

 

However, Obama has said that in the fall of 2006, he broached
the subject of a run for the presidency with Wright, who encouraged him
to go ahead.

 

As noted in a Jan. 7 Newsmax article, �Barack Obama�s Racist
Church,� in sermons and interviews, Wright has equated Zionism with
racism and has compared Israel with South Africa under its previous
policy of apartheid. On the Sunday following 9/11, Wright characterized
the terrorist attacks as a consequence of violent American policies.
Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution
for America�s racism."

 

 

 

Just asking. 

http://jewschool.com/2008/01/15/im-not-saying-richard-cohen-is-a-douchebag-or-anything/ 

I might disagree with Wright, but if you're going to label someone an antisemite just because they have a relationship with another human being--that other human being ought to be pretty vilely, hatefully antisemitic--not just espousing political views against Israel.   

--Z

So I don't know what you are talking about.

 

The whole point of post was denying the fact that Obama is an anti-semite, as some would have us believe based on Obama's connection to Wright.  

You said Koffler dispatched Richard Cohen rather easily but then presented other information about Wright from another source that Koffler's supposed to "take on".  The obvious implication is that the other source you mention somehow presents better evidence against Wright that, somehow, is supposed to implicate his mentee Obama.  

 If that wasn't your point than I must have misinterpreted--but otherwise I can't see what your point was.

--Z

There are other issues besides "anti-Semitism." Wright's perspectives are not "anti-Semitic," but they are problematic, and not perspectives the Jewish community should approve of or endorse. That doesn't make him an anti-Semite, though.

I can't help if Koffler and others insist on only dealing with that which isn't the problem. But there are problems here. Deal with the real problems.

Let's turn not to Richard Cohen, but to Steve Sailer.

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-obamas-church-matters.html

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-lies.html

Barack Obama's cousin Raila Odinga is charged with ethnic cleansing by Kenyan officials

Given the documented views of J. Wright (Obama's preacher of 20 years +)  that have been broadcasted on tv and over the intenet,  you can't believe Obama is anti semite?  Wake up!

To view photo of Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan (rabidly anti semite) visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/brightamericaneyes

I dare you to post this on your article and blog.  If you don't maybe you are an anti semite and a communist who doesn't believe in the first amendment...