tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post1291266870365993014..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: Obama's Ongoing Friendship with the Muslim BrotherhoodMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-41563112638999785722015-02-17T09:28:03.688-08:002015-02-17T09:28:03.688-08:00His tendency to kick friends while unceasingly try...His tendency to kick friends while unceasingly trying to hug his opponents / enemies seems to indicate that he's of the naive dreamer variety.<br /><br />Sar Shalom summed it up well, I think, in his post here on that a few weeks ago.<br /><br />Add the SuperDuperEgo necessary to advance to the heights he's achieved in politics (particularly considering all that he's managed to overcome in being elected president of the United States as a Black man) and there you go.<br /><br />Agreed that he's certainly not the smartest man in the room, but he's surely no dummy either.<br /><br />At his core I believe he's the type of person who desperately wants you to see how right he is, and wants (needs?) you to agree with him. This, of course, doesn't work when dealing with enemies of humanity like Islamist fascists.<br /><br />Our misfortune was ultimately having this man as our leader at the worst possible time.<br /><br />He's a peace-time president who would have been great dealing with more conventional, reasonable threats like the Soviet Union. In zero-sum games with Islamic State types, he's badly overmatched, to put it kindly.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-4877938664825714692015-02-17T08:29:37.648-08:002015-02-17T08:29:37.648-08:00I don't pretend to know what Obama thinks. All...I don't pretend to know what Obama thinks. All I can point to is the world in the shape it is in. When discussing Obama's relationship to al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn who's guiding principals are the following, and I quote from their English website:<br /><br />"Allah is our objective; the Qur'an is the Constitution; the Prophet is our leader; jihad is our way; death for the sake of Allah is our wish."<br /><br />unquote (Ikwanonline)<br /><br />One must, as lawyers say "take your clients as you find them". That is, you defend them as they are not as you would wish them to be where it's convenient. And I don't know any better way to state how they are than they do with their own words. And yes of course, those 5 pillars that form the Ikhwan principals don't overtly, as do the Hamas charter and the PLO charter explicitly call for the extermination of all Jews. So a literal minded almost childlike affinity for the black letter text in Ikhwan statements can always smugly say "Well those things don't say anything about Jews what are you complaining about." But the historical and philosophical underpinnings point to 1300 years of race hatred and violence. <br /><br />You would have to be clinically retarded to think that political Islam vis a vis the Jews and the west in general is all peace and jasmine. While I don't believe Obama's the 'smartest guy in the room' I don't think he's a stupid man either., So what's left is either he's as deluded as Stalinst fellow travelers Lillian Hellman or Paul Robeson in the 1930's and 40's or, he's their tool. <br /><br />Pick one. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-50180391623326826852015-02-16T21:00:37.251-08:002015-02-16T21:00:37.251-08:00President Obama is a Christian. There is no need ...President Obama is a Christian. There is no need to wonder.<br /><br />No matter what else one thinks of him, that much is clear.<br /><br />Nor should it matter, even if he wasn't.JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-37735855797563654242015-02-16T20:47:45.440-08:002015-02-16T20:47:45.440-08:00Okay, so...
Yes, their "fragile sense of sel...Okay, so...<br /><br />Yes, their "fragile sense of self-worth" as regards bigotry is precisely the point.<br /><br />As a liberal, I get the frustration of being constantly kicked in the head by those who purport to represent us. Despite what the right likes to claim, the Democrats hardly stand up for those of us on the lower end of the economic spectrum.<br /><br />That leaves a bunch of us with choices to make.<br /><br />Jews are the exception when it comes to bigotry because we're now in a particular time on the identity politics spectrum when every group you can imagine will (quite rightly) call you out on your shit when you spew it, with the notable exception of one.<br /><br />At <i>Daily Kos</i>, you can rely upon your idiotic, one-dimensional anti-Israel view to explain most of the problems in the world, and spew all the classic antisemitic tropes you'd like in service of same, and at worst have fourteen people recommend your comments and maybe one call you out, or at 'best' have a kapo like David Harris-Gershon or 'Tamar' grant you cover, free and clear.<br /><br />Mike and I and so many others have been banned for pointing this out. You are on your way to joining us. Welcome, btw! :)<br /><br />But this is where we veer -<br /><br />"<i>This is why they run circles to support people who hate LGBT community, Women, and people of other religions (except Judaism and Christianity - because in progressive's minds they deserve it)</i>"<br /><br />Sure, they run cover for those who hate these people, but they don't do it openly. If they came out and spit straight hatred towards gay folks, the way they do toward Jews in the guise of "criticism of Israeli policies," they'd get destroyed.<br /><br />Our task is to kick the so-called "anti-Zionists" (read: antisemites) out of the Left tent, in the same way as every other ethnic, religious and sexual minority has so far managed to also kick them out.<br /><br />Most often, largely with the support of Jews. Does anybody need a reminder of who stood on the front lines with African-Americans during the Civil Rights Movement? Or which group of folks is largely at, or near, the front in any such movement in all of our lifetimes?JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-66589050512420855932015-02-16T20:17:16.701-08:002015-02-16T20:17:16.701-08:00Let's not overstate it, tho.
dkos anti-Semiti...Let's not overstate it, tho.<br /><br />dkos anti-Semitism is mainly passive-aggressive.<br /><br />dhonig is right.<br /><br />Many of them look at Copenhagen and then reflexively look toward Jerusalem.<br /><br />None of them look at Chapel Hill and then reflexively look toward Riyadh.Mike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-63700035646642715532015-02-16T19:20:20.846-08:002015-02-16T19:20:20.846-08:00Yeah, that's a part of it, too.
I'm typin...Yeah, that's a part of it, too.<br /><br />I'm typing quickly during <i>Better Call Saul</i> commercial breaks. ;)<br /><br />Be back in 45 minutes or so, to expand upon what I see...JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-85254311256414547922015-02-16T19:00:23.014-08:002015-02-16T19:00:23.014-08:00The impotent anger of the Daily Kos antisemites is...The impotent anger of the <i>Daily Kos</i> antisemites is palpable.<br /><br />You get the feeling that they're just so generally beaten down at everything in life, that they'll be damned(!) if they're going to be told they have to give up their Jew-hatred, too.<br /><br />The reaction is completely predictable every time they're called out for it...JayinPhiladelphiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14556212008313470286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-45143364167032507382015-02-16T17:22:19.195-08:002015-02-16T17:22:19.195-08:00Well put, "As to Obama: I cannot say if his h...Well put, "As to Obama: I cannot say if his hatred for Jews is "koranical" nor do I know if he is a muslim, but it's becoming increasingly obvious that he whores for Islam. "<br /><br />I totally agree with this!PittPanthers90https://www.blogger.com/profile/16779632820956444985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-59231120340963759082015-02-16T17:08:12.576-08:002015-02-16T17:08:12.576-08:00There seems to be something good in the water of E...There seems to be something good in the water of Egypt e.g. Sadat and now Sissi. <br /><br />As to Obama: I cannot say if his hatred for Jews is "koranical" nor do I know if he is a muslim, but it's becoming increasingly obvious that he whores for Islam. Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01905667628853229999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-53016229787558430622015-02-16T13:21:09.253-08:002015-02-16T13:21:09.253-08:00Yeah, I read that too.
You see the dribble on the ...Yeah, I read that too.<br />You see the dribble on the rec list? The Jewish BoJangles (DHG) is of course on it "tapping" away happily announcing that Obama is cutting intel to Israel.<br />PittPanthers90https://www.blogger.com/profile/16779632820956444985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-70039108147680117862015-02-16T13:01:11.296-08:002015-02-16T13:01:11.296-08:00dhonig continues to try to teach the unteachable a...dhonig continues to try to teach the unteachable and reach the unreachable.<br /><br />He's a good man, but he is wasting his time.<br /><br />http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/16/1364773/-The-Jew-Rule-on-Daily-KosMike L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.com