His Jewish ‘Problem’: A Myth?

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  • Posted By: ravitchn@bellsouth.net @ 06/11/2008 8:51:54 AM

    Obama's Jewish Problem has been manufactured by Clintonites and McCainites. Democratic operatives are saying there is no way they can win Florida. This is in order to sink Barack' s hope. Barack's problem is that he is black, this is a problem for all white people, Jews and gentiles alike. He has a race problem, not a Jewish problem.

    • Posted By: pramono @ 06/11/2008 2:21:46 PM

      Did any one notice that Obama mother NEVER showed up in any event to support Obama.
      IO don't know what is the reason for it, but if I read his first book, it might explain the distance between him and his mother.

      Obama does not want the rest of the world know that he is not a Muslim. He is 50% white and 49% Arab. An Arab is a Muslim whose origin is from soud arabia.

      He has done an excellent snow job on the black community (my hat is off to Axelrod), they believe that he is black, but he is 1percent black the rest is white and Arab. It is amazing how he was able to sell himself as Black.

      Obama does not have a Jewish problem. He has an Arab problem.

      • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/11/2008 7:00:31 PM

        Obama's mother has been dead for years. You are right, her ghost didn't show up to any of the Obama rallies.

    • Posted By: teodoro @ 06/11/2008 2:24:37 PM

      Are you kidding me?! What hole did you crawl out of? You have no factual evidence to make a claim like that. Obama did very well with white voters, especially, in the caucas states. I think you want racism to be an answer because your a racist.

    • Posted By: teodoro @ 06/11/2008 2:16:29 PM

      Are you kidding me?! What hole did you crawl out of? Obama did very well with white voters, especially, the caucas states. You have no factual evidence for making a claim like that. I think your looking for racism because your a racist.

  • Posted By: Quenn @ 06/11/2008 9:25:59 AM

    Can someone at Newsweek please delete Obama's paid bloggers comments and stop them from stealing other blogger's names to post offensive comments? It is getting tiresome. Everyone knows who is behind it since todays telegraph.co.uk story saying Obama's campaign has formed an online attack unit for just this purpose. The man must think we are idiots to fall for such a cheap trick.

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 06/11/2008 3:52:55 PM

      paranoiah is rampant...most of the people I have seen have posted what they want to post. I see the same names over and over again...it is very easy to go into denial and say I never said that in a blog and start the rumors flying. Easy to deny a posting and say I never said that...start there first...prove it or stop being paranoid

      • Posted By: Quenn @ 06/11/2008 4:58:45 PM

        Check out http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2109538/Barack-Obama-recruits-staff-to-fight-web-smears.html Also note that in the past few days Wikipedia has had to block whole sections of IP addresses traced to Obama bloggers that are being used incessantly to post endless pro-Obama comments in the articles and sub-articles on Obama and McCain. They are exactly like your comments...relentlessly upbeat assessments of Obama that ignore everyone's facts, alternating with calling anyone you perceive as anti-Obama as a liar or buying into an urban legend about Obama. Even the wording in Obama's cyber thugs posts are always the same, down to the same misspellings and grammatical errors. It's a sad day when a campaign pays people to troll blogs and get into fights in an attempt to stop criticism, but in the end this will fail, just like your attempts to attack everyone here you disagree with.

        • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 06/11/2008 5:45:32 PM

          One final thought even if you did not have to have a subscription, I think every website when you sign in for the first time asks for a name and password to create a new account. I thought it would be impossible for a duplicate name be taken...another example is email, you wouldn't be able to have to people with the same name share the same email name, one would have to put some modification...I know if your a hacker all the rules are gone,..

        • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 06/11/2008 5:32:57 PM

          yeah, I know, but I thought with Newsweek that you had to be a paid subscriber...If I am wrong so be it. If you do not, then I can see where people would start worrying about stealing another one's idenity and pretend that you are someone who is not really you....And it's not right for Obama's staff to do that if that is the case on a blogging area....I would think they would be watching more for websites that would spew misinformation....And I totally agree it is a sad day....

  • Posted By: theheyjudeblog @ 06/10/2008 3:32:22 PM

    I find it very insightful to the media bias on this site that Senator Lieberman was not sought out for his comments on this article. I would think that Americans are owed more respect for our intelligence than to blindly believe what a campaign thug says off the record. But, it seems that the MSM is taking it's lead from the blogs, and truth no longer matters Oh that's right, you are a part of NBC - 'nuff said.

    • Posted By: partridge @ 06/11/2008 3:55:26 PM

      If I learned nothing else this political season it is that the mainstream media is completely IN LOVE with Obama. You can't trust a thing the press says. I don't know if it is just this way for Obama or if they have always been this biased and I never noticed. They are building him up soooo high as the historic black candidate that they are putting a unfair bias against anyone who doesn't plan to vote for Obama by stigmatizing them as racist or non-progressive. In the press all of the other candidates are old fashioned, old hat, and negative in every way.Thank goodness for the Internet! Not everything you read there is factual and correct, but I would trust them more than the known liars of the mainstream press. All the mainstream news agencies are corporate owned and do what makes the corporations happy. Scary, very scary. Much scarier than Obama and the Muslim rumor.

  • Posted By: Ignoramus @ 06/11/2008 11:25:36 AM

    The American Zionists Jews are railing against Obama not only because he is Black which is bad enough but also because they suspect he is a Moslem. That is the most heinous of crimes in the eyes of the American Zionists..This is coming from the American Zionist Jews who are always whining about the holocost and see antisemitism under every bush.

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 06/11/2008 3:55:04 PM

      I have heard many bigots in my lifetime, you are on my top 10 list...you almost sound like Getzel, intelligence analyst...the two of you share the prize

  • Posted By: partridge @ 06/11/2008 3:39:38 PM

    If I was a Jew I would be terribly torn about Obama. Jews have been discriminated against for an eternity and their must be a great sense of pride that an "outsider" could actually have a chance to become President (Remember their great contribution to Civil Rights), but every enemy of the state of Israel has declared Obama as there own personal hero of the future and I can't think of a single Jew who would not worry about the country of Israel under these circumstances. Bad endorsers are not Obama's fault, but to ease worry in the Jewish community it would be wise for Obama to tell these foreign leaders (state, religious, etc.) that he is under no obligation to help them. Obama needs to act more like a rational human being than a would be Messiah. People are expecting too much of Obama and that spells major trouble! For Obama's sake he and all that care for him needs to keep it real.

  • Posted By: sclisrael@gmail.com @ 06/10/2008 2:56:22 PM

    Obama must be given credit, he did a 180 on the issue of an Undivided Jerusalem after 48 hours. At least it was not after he was elected. I personally hope he never is.

    • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 06/10/2008 3:15:41 PM

      No backtracking. Here's the real story:
      Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla. -- an Orthodox Jew, a strong supporter of Israel and Obama's point man on many of these issues -- who told ABC News, "that is not backtracking."

      "His position has been the same for the past 16 months," Wexler said. "He believes Jerusalem should be an undivided city and must be the capital of a Jewish state of Israel. He has also said -- and it's the same position as President Bush, former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Prime Minister Ehud Ohlmert -- that Jerusalem is of course a 'final status' issue," meaning it would be one of the key and final points of negotiation for a Palestinian state. "And Sen. Obama as president would not dictate final status issues. He will permit the Palestinians and Israel to negotiate, and he would respect any conclusion they reach."

      Wexler concluded, "the articles are not picking up this position. They're not contradictions -- they're the same position."

      The record seems to back Wexler's argument that Obama has said both that Jerusalem should be Israel's undivided capital, and that its status is ultimately up to Israel. Obama's adviser for the Middle East, former Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer, recently said that "It will be impossible to make progress on serious peace talks without putting the future of Jerusalem on the table."

      And in these answers to questions from the American Jewish Committee, Obama wrote that the U.S. "cannot dictate the terms of a final status agreement. We should support the parties as they negotiate these difficult issues, but they will have to reach agreements that they can live with. In general terms, clearly Israel must emerge in a final status agreement with secure borders. Jerusalem will remain Israel's capital, and no one should want or expect it to be redivided."

      • Posted By: pramono @ 06/11/2008 2:37:00 PM

        Did any one notice that Obama mother NEVER showed up in any event to support Obama.
        IO don't know what is the reason for it, but if I read his first book, it might explain the distance between him and his mother.

        Obama does not want the rest of the world know that he is not a Muslim. He is 50% white and 49% Arab. An Arab is a Muslim whose origin is from soud arabia.

        He has done an excellent snow job on the black community (my hat is off to Axelrod), they believe that he is black, but he is 1percent black the rest is white and Arab. It is amazing how he was able to sell himself as Black.

        Obama does not have a Jewish problem. He has an Arab problem.

      • Posted By: edpifo @ 06/10/2008 6:01:20 PM

        To say Jerusalem should an undivided city of Israel on one day and then your advisor would say Jerusalem should be on the table for negotiation on another day? If this is not flip-flip, what is? How many times do I have to quote before we can call Obama a flip-flopper?

        • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 06/10/2008 9:05:47 PM

          "The record SEEMS TO BACK Wexler's argument that Obama has said both that Jerusalem should be Israel's undivided capital, and that its status is ultimately up to Israel. Obama's adviser for the Middle East, former Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer, recently said that "It will be impossible to make progress on serious peace talks without putting the future of Jerusalem on the table."

          "And in these answers to questions from the American Jewish Committee, Obama wrote that the U.S. "cannot dictate the terms of a final status agreement. We should support the parties as they negotiate these difficult issues, but they will have to reach agreements that they can live with. In general terms, clearly Israel must emerge in a final status agreement with secure borders. Jerusalem will remain Israel's capital, and no one should want or expect it to be redivided.""

          Obama said that he believes that Jeruselem should be undivided, but that the decision must ultimately be made by Israel and the Palastinians without U.S. interferance. It's very simple if you read the article.

  • Posted By: Ignoramus @ 06/10/2008 4:03:37 PM

    Politicians are the Prostitutes of History"s Bordello. Liebermann is its Madam.

    • Posted By: pramono @ 06/11/2008 2:31:32 PM

      Did any one notice that Obama mother NEVER showed up in any event to support Obama.
      IO don't know what is the reason for it, but if I read his first book, it might explain the distance between him and his mother.

      Obama does not want the rest of the world know that he is not a Muslim. He is 50% white and 49% Arab. An Arab is a Muslim whose origin is from soud arabia.

      He has done an excellent snow job on the black community (my hat is off to Axelrod), they believe that he is black, but he is 1percent black the rest is white and Arab. It is amazing how he was able to sell himself as Black.

      Obama does not have a Jewish problem. He has an Arab problem.

  • Posted By: Sister Bluebird @ 06/10/2008 6:20:55 PM

    Why do quotation marks & apostrophies come out as ??? on this page?

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 06/11/2008 1:03:06 AM

      Are you using either an Apple system or Linux? I am trying to use logical guesswork...it is either your operating system or keyboard is creating your issue. I use all the differnt operating systems that Microsoft has offered since 95, through Vista, and not have any problems posting quotes or apostrophies....just a thought...hope that helps

      • Posted By: pramono @ 06/11/2008 2:27:29 PM

        Did any one notice that Obama mother NEVER showed up in any event to support Obama.
        IO don't know what is the reason for it, but if I read his first book, it might explain the distance between him and his mother.

        Obama does not want the rest of the world know that he is not a Muslim. He is 50% white and 49% Arab. An Arab is a Muslim whose origin is from soud arabia.

        He has done an excellent snow job on the black community (my hat is off to Axelrod), they believe that he is black, but he is 1percent black the rest is white and Arab. It is amazing how he was able to sell himself as Black.

        Obama does not have a Jewish problem. He has an Arab problem.

  • Posted By: Connecticut @ 06/10/2008 6:30:23 PM

    I think his campaign's work to deny Florida voters full votes in the primary was a direct blow to Jewish voters. If he was willing to see them disenfranchised again, he has no business asking them for their votes.

    • Posted By: marnette73 @ 06/10/2008 10:50:07 PM

      So the fact that Florida violated rules AGAIN I might add, had no play in the decision of the DNC (who actually controls the process) Florida now has a reputation for cheating and all people can do is attempt to Blame Obama as if Florida officials had absolutely no fault in it. Get off the BLAME OBAMA wagon and direct your anger toward the people who deserve it (Florida), How quickly people forget the meaning of honesty when they are the ones to blame,

      • Posted By: pramono @ 06/11/2008 2:27:03 PM

        Did any one notice that Obama mother NEVER showed up in any event to support Obama.
        IO don't know what is the reason for it, but if I read his first book, it might explain the distance between him and his mother.

        Obama does not want the rest of the world know that he is not a Muslim. He is 50% white and 49% Arab. An Arab is a Muslim whose origin is from soud arabia.

        He has done an excellent snow job on the black community (my hat is off to Axelrod), they believe that he is black, but he is 1percent black the rest is white and Arab. It is amazing how he was able to sell himself as Black.

        Obama does not have a Jewish problem. He has an Arab problem.

  • Posted By: choward2 @ 06/10/2008 6:32:37 PM

    BO first did not show up to the vote naming the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Then he criticized Clinton for voting in favor of the legislation. Now he says that he would have voted for it. Here lies the problem. When it comes down to it OB voted with the Iranian interest in mind. Now he is backing off for fear of losing Jewish voters. He is also releasing info about Senator Lieberman that is anti-Semitic and just plain mean. Perhaps Newsweek could get off of its anti Zionism slant and at least contact someones office when accusations are mounted against them. I am canceling my subscription to Newsweek Sorry!

    • Posted By: pramono @ 06/11/2008 2:26:22 PM

      Did any one notice that Obama mother NEVER showed up in any event to support Obama.
      IO don't know what is the reason for it, but if I read his first book, it might explain the distance between him and his mother.

      Obama does not want the rest of the world know that he is not a Muslim. He is 50% white and 49% Arab. An Arab is a Muslim whose origin is from soud arabia.

      He has done an excellent snow job on the black community (my hat is off to Axelrod), they believe that he is black, but he is 1percent black the rest is white and Arab. It is amazing how he was able to sell himself as Black.

      Obama does not have a Jewish problem. He has an Arab problem.

  • Posted By: Zombiehero @ 06/10/2008 10:47:42 PM

    Yay Blame Clinton for everything. Certainly fits with his message of unity and change.

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 06/11/2008 3:40:17 AM

      LOL

      • Posted By: pramono @ 06/11/2008 2:25:43 PM

        Did any one notice that Obama mother NEVER showed up in any event to support Obama.
        IO don't know what is the reason for it, but if I read his first book, it might explain the distance between him and his mother.

        Obama does not want the rest of the world know that he is not a Muslim. He is 50% white and 49% Arab. An Arab is a Muslim whose origin is from soud arabia.

        He has done an excellent snow job on the black community (my hat is off to Axelrod), they believe that he is black, but he is 1percent black the rest is white and Arab. It is amazing how he was able to sell himself as Black.

        Obama does not have a Jewish problem. He has an Arab problem.

  • Posted By: kelsweet @ 06/11/2008 12:17:26 PM

    Ignoramus...... Whining about the holocaust???????? Do you also apply this warped point of view to black as well? Do they "whine" about slavery? Good grief

  • Posted By: kelsweet @ 06/11/2008 12:16:03 PM

    Ignoramus........... whining? WTH.. do you assume that blacks whine about slavery as well?

  • Posted By: pms551021 @ 06/11/2008 10:35:16 AM

    That's what is politic all about. Those who can stand tactical attact through character assessination will surely win the race. However, no one in this world can escape from such trial as long as campaining tactic is a solution to political gains by each candidate. The listners, the bystanders, the people stand at a loss at the end of the day is any of those candidates is being elected. So be prepared!

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 06/11/2008 7:18:09 AM

    Posted By: sharenews @ 06/11/2008 6:46:41 AM
    Comment: IMPORTANT BULLETIN FOR ALL BLOGGERS ON THIS SITE:

    TO NEWSWEEK STAFF:

    This is to report that there is a FRAUD going on, on this site, in which bloggers are using the names of various bloggers (Obama supporters are most likely the culprits) who are fraudulently writing blogs that are deplorable and tagging them under other bloggers names (non-Obama supporters names). I officially reported such a fraudulent abusive use of fake postings that I just viewed on this site today that affected me personally. This is what it said in which the blogger fraudulently used my name as the poster:

    IT SAID THIS. I NEVER WROTE THIS. SO ALL OTHER POSTERS, ESPECIALLY FORMER HILLARY SUPPORTERS, BEWARE:

    Posted By: sharenews @ 06/11/2008 03:05:43

    Comment: I agree. So why do so many Obama supporters make him out to be a Messiah?

    I NEVER wrote the above comment or ANY mention of Obama being a Messiah. At this point I am ready to bring this abusive process that you are using on your site to FOX NEWS as I have done this before and they are very responsive. I have copied this report to send onto the media if I dont see a stop to the smearing of my name or others on this site moving forward!

  • Posted By: liberalguy @ 06/11/2008 4:23:19 AM

    theobamafile.com has whole history of obama, like maureen dowd of the new york times has said!!!

  • Posted By: liberalguy @ 06/11/2008 4:20:48 AM

    please some body come out with the tape of michelle obama and her rant about whitey, before the convention!!

  • Posted By: liberalguy @ 06/11/2008 3:53:41 AM

    Elite Jewish Democratic Donors Are Flocking to John McCain
    By SusanUnPCcloseAuthor: SusanUnPC Name:
    Email: susanunpc@gmail.com
    Site: http://noquarterusa.net/
    About: See Authors Posts (1038) on June 11, 2008 at 1:04 AM in Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Israel, Jewish voters, John McCain


    SOMEBODY in the DNC needs to wake up and smell the coffee, before we hit August and the national convention, and it???s too damn late to fix this mess

  • Posted By: ogle @ 06/10/2008 10:08:15 PM

    All the American Jewish Zionists are good for is badmouthing. A bunch of traitors, ingratiates and spies. They have no loyalty to America, their fellow citizens or anything other than Israel.

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 06/11/2008 3:45:10 AM

      All the bigots come marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah....OMG and don't forget Jews have horns too....this is the 21st century... Sister Blubird expressed things well...in my own words though, get the f out of Dodge moron

    • Posted By: Sister Bluebird @ 06/10/2008 11:03:30 PM

      Boy all the Jew haters are crawling out from under their rocks. You say nothing but lies. American Jews love this country. They happen to love Israel too. What's wrong with that? I have English & Welsh heritage. I love USA but I love UK too. I have many family members there as I know many Jews have family members in Israel. Leave the Jews alone!!!!

  • Posted By: The_epoch_point @ 06/10/2008 10:53:12 PM

    I think McCain will make a great president, now here's an excerpt from THE EPOCH POINT by Spencer Zimmerman, available on amazon.com:

    Chapter 16 Nehemiah
    The burning sun beats down on the harsh Arabian Desert, heating the sand until it is searing to the touch. An old man of 49 sits astride a camel, dressed in layers of flowing white cloth and wearing a turbine, his body weak and aching in pain from the year of sorrows he has chosen to embark upon. His name is Muhammad; he proclaims himself a prophet and he is on his way to the city of Mecca during the sixth century after Christ.
    During this year of sorrows he has encouraged his followers to endure persecution, beatings, poverty and hunger, in order to become stoic and indifferent to pleasure and pain. He himself jettisoned from his own clan, alone in the desert without protection, so he too may become detached from distracting emotions.
    As Muhammad rides on he mutters to himself, ???Release thyself from emotions, become indifferent to pleasure and pain, do not feel compassion or sympathy.???
    Death has been no stranger to Muhammad, and neither has the devil, which killed his father six months before he was born in order to raise young Muhammad himself. The spirit of Satan has dwelled in Muhammad from conception, yet he strives to conceal it, shunning the evil force. It lies in his left hand, yet he fights it with his right, for there is a bit of goodness in this human being. Just as the earth is a battle ground between good and evil, so is his body.
    Now, as Muhammad travels toward the city of Mecca, Satan rides with him, tempting and enticing the prophet with schemes to make the Islamic conversion of Mecca simpler and swifter. He promises the prophet lust with three goddesses in return for a few words in the Koran.
    "Muhammad," Satan prods, "Have you not heard of Allat, Al-Uzza, and Manat? The three beautiful goddesses of Mecca?"
    "Leave me Satan!"
    "You surely have heard of the three fairest goddesses in all of Arabia!" laughs the devil, ???For their legs are long and their waists thin and their bosoms bulging, and yes, their faces are as fair as angels!"
    "Be gone you demon!"

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 06/11/2008 3:14:46 AM

      wtf?

    • Posted By: Sister Bluebird @ 06/10/2008 11:00:43 PM

      U r deluded. What's yr point? Besides Nehemiah has only 13 chapters. Say something relevant.

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