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Sarah Palin: Anti-Abortion, Anti-Environment, and. . . Anti-Semite?
By tahlraz / September 4, 2008
My future father-in-law, Mike, and I have gotten in the habit of using election fodder to playfully taunt each other over email. I’m for Obama and he’s for McCain.
 I get the crazy email forwards that make the rounds of the circuit I like to call Jews-over-40-who-are-secretly-afraid-of-black-people ("Fwd: Barack Obama’s Secret Muslim Origins Revealed!"). He, in turn, gets the crazy email forwards that make the rounds of the other circuit I like to call Jews-under-40-who-are-humorless-self-righteous-liberal-fascists. Those emails are almost always a litany of dry, bulleted policy points. His forwards are entertaining, if always a little scary. It does seem to prove out the observation that liberalism and comedy are incompatible. This morning Mike was understandably gushing over Sarah Palin’s speech. I was not.
From: Tahl Raz To: Mike Subject: Sarah Palin: Anti-Abortion, Anti-Environment, and. . . Anti-Semite?
I thought Palin was good last night. If she were running for PTA, I would vote for her. But she’s not. She’s running for second-in-command to the leader of the free world. And frankly, I don’t want my commanders to be ordinary or "just like me." Call me a snob but I want my leaders to be more Plato’s philosopher king than O’Reilly’s patriotic populist. I think they probably should be worldly, schooled, extraordinarily intelligent, and full of integrity. Palin seems to have the last one in spades. She’s a principled woman. But that’s another problem, Mike — her principles, her politics. She’s against abortion even in the case of incest or rape. She stinks on the environment. Like some ignorant hill-billy who "don’t trust no scientists," she’s on record as saying the climate crisis is overblown and has nothing to do with humans. She supports the death penalty. She doesn’t think gay people should be allowed to get married and is for a constitutional amendment to deny health benefits to same-sex couples. She has no foreign policy positions on record. I think it’s important for a vice presidential candidate, who is one 72-year-old heart attack away from the presidency, to have thought as much about the world outside of the U.S. as they have about whether to bring oranges or cookies to her son’s hockey game. She also thinks creationism should be taught in schools. If you’re for such positions, I can understand your excitement over Palin. If you’re a real populist, what with its noble origins in the call for the empowerment of ordinary people in all areas of life and its fight of the "unnumbered throng" against corporations, moneyed interests and the like, than Palin is a real inspiration (though I’m thinking your Upper East Side address probably means you’ll have your throng membership revoked). I, on the other hand, don’t agree with her positions. And I’m not much for today’s political populism either, as its become more about values than class, and populist values have been appropriated and molded by the Christian right. That’s the important stuff. But I know how you love the ancillary theatrics, how you passionately reveled in the impropriety of Obama’s connection to Jeremiah Wright, and so I have a theatrical tid bit for you that Ben Smith at Politico.com recently dug up on America’s girl. When Palin’s church, the Wasilla Bible Church, turned its pulpit over on Aug. 17 to David Brickner, the executive director of Jews for Jesus, the vice presidential candidate apparently listened intently as Brickner declared terrorist murders of Jews represent God’s judgment against them for not embracing Christianity. According to a transcript of the sermon found on the church’s website: "Judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television. It’s very real. When [Brickner's son] was in Jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment, some of that conflict, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars, killing numbers of people. Judgment — you can’t miss it." Oof! What’s next? Maybe McCain will be forced to balance his gentile populist everywoman VP with a Jewish version. Roseanne for Secretary of Defense?Â
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Jewish youth, it is surely a scanadal that there is even one Jew who is vowing to vote for the con man Obama, you seem like a perfectly nice young woman (I assume you are a woman, forgive me if you are not) and I would enjoy to talk you out of it. Posting comments on a blog is not ample to do this job but be assured I am hoping you will be a bit more fair-minded for the future.
Regarding your complaint that I have knocked the National Endowment for the Arts–I have not, although I do not support the Teachers Union which is interested in its own power at the expense of children. Regarding your contention that the Dems are a better fit for Jews and your allegation regarding "skinheads and Neo-Nazis"–I have not encountered in any part of the Republican party which is very senstive to the issue. By Contrast, the Dems run candidates which are openly antisemitic at the very top of their tickets and among those who have expressed hostile stands to Israel and Jews include, just to name a few: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Gravel, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton–all have run for President on the Democratic ticket.
Your problem with Republicans seems to stand primarily upon the existence of evangelical Christians who make up about 15-20% of the GOP vote. A Jewish quality is tolerance–why no tolerance for Christians? Your argument seems to come down to one central thing–they lobby you to become Christian and Ann Coulter said to a liberal Jew that he might be perfected under Christianity. First, I ask you: have you ever read an ad in a magazine, TV or radio? Do you feel pressured by any of these appeals? Second, I have never been asked to convert to Christianity but I am an Orthodox Jew so they don’t ask. My question to you is that if you are asked to look at Christianity by evangelicals–perhaps you have said or done something that gave them a clue you might be interested. If not, is there a big problem in simply saying no? True, I was once approached by a prostitute–I said no. I don’t hate Democrats because prostitutes support the Democratic party–I just say no. One might have some justification to whine that those strip clubs are everywhere, enticing good Republican men to become Democrats but this would be frivolous accusation. Evangelicals exist for their own agenda and Jews should be ONLY very pleased that their agenda is the absolute closest to our own regarding social issues, smaller government, fair taxes, support for the 1st amendment, etc. More to the point, they worship anything Jewish, they read Torah, they buy Jewish stuff, they go to the Chabad.org site, the Aish.com site, they send millions of dollars to Israel, they visit Israel and they hate the Islamicists mostly because jihad is aimed at Israel. They are Jew-wannebees. By contrast our enemies love Obama, see this link:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/why_islamists_cheer_for_obama.html
My time for the week is up, Good shabbos.
Jews should be more worried who the clowns in Hollyweird are peddling for Prez, who the left wing anti-Israel crowd is peddling for Prez. There is more to a person then sitting around discussing dead gay Greeks and their philosophies. Besides, Jews should be more interested in what the Torah says as opposed to anything else.
Personally that has been the problem with Jews for years now, we pick the wrong ideas, the wrong ways of life and the wrong path. Most will brag to converts how little they know of Judaism as if it’s a badge of honor to be absolutely ignorant of their own heritage. Abortion? We should spend more time reproducing than reading about dead gay Greeks in bed! The environment? Yeah, look around you at the environment and tell me how many Jew haters live within 50 miles of you! Some are extremely dangerous but like some teen-ager Jews believe if they ignore the problem it will go away. Yeah, that worked really well in Europe 60 plus years ago didn’t it?
 In other words, act like Jews and not pathetic fools with Gentile envy!
You aren’t going to survive if you put the oxygen mask on the person next to you first.
 Makabit
Sarah Palin, Bad GOP Punchline And Queen Esther Du Jour
But
seriously folks, why isn’t Palin’s membership in an Alaska separatist
group not on the front page? Where is the picture of a pregnant Sarah
Palin from 2007? We have all seen the pics of the preggo daughter from
back then…oh, wait, shall we believe you or our lying eyes, yet she
is a shameless advocate for abstinence only sex education…why isn’t
this stuff the only news story? Wife of a BP exec, but supposedly she
is a maverick who took on the oil companies? More like took on America
to steal Alaska for Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum.
This stuff is crazy outrageous, yet where is the reporting???
Ethnic
Jew Sarah Palin has certainly galvanized the American Zionist
controlled media’s support for the GOP ticket. All the frothy adoration
she has received for reading a speech written for her illustrates to
the American people the problem not just in Washington DC, but nation
wide, with the Zionist Jews monopoly of our news media.
Without the
help of folks like the likudniks at El WaPo, TIME, the NYT, Fox Jews
etc the lying Zionist scum who took over our nation in 2000 would never
have been able to trick the American people into war for Israe-oil.
We
need not only a loyal American federal government, which John McNasty
and Sarah Payola do not represent, we need to flush out Bolshevik Jew
propagandists in our news media.
David,
It has become clear that we are just on opposite ends of the spectrum here, so there is no point to clarifying or rebutting. Let’s agree to disagree, and instead find a more substantive way to solve issues in this country. Even if McCain does win, he will have to confront sizeable Democratic majorities in both houses. We, not meaning simply Democrats and Republicans, but YOU and ME, will have to learn to set our disagreements aside and find points on which we agree in order to move this country forward. One thing that has truly disappointed me about the past eight years was the inflexibility. Whoever wins, lets resolve to work through our disagreements, instead of working for them.
Yes, Mateo. The argument as you frame it there is much more fair, though no one other than Obama and Wright themselves can know the truth to the extent of their relationship. Just to clarify, when I said it was a media creation, I meant the term "spiritual advisor," which gives the false idea that Obama sought frequent, one-on-one advice. However, as I said, in your rebuttal, you are in fact making a fair judgment.
The point I was making about Wright vs the Rabbi is that Barack Obama didn’t attend Wright’s church because of Wright’s political views, he attended it because he felt it provided him with a connection to his heritage. I know well that Wright is nonetheless an inconvenient mark on Obama’s personal history, but I prefer to rely on his record, and Obama has never (barring those commonplace tumultuous teenage/college years) himself been unpatriotic, and has praised this country for giving him the opportunities he would never have had anywhere else.
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