No, Obamarama
Being a born and bred Chicagoan, I seldom get scared. After all, we are the ones whose city has been synonymous with the mob for years, we are the ones who have lived through rugged winters, the Daley Dynasty, and we are the ones from the city where the dead once voted and often.
But now I am getting scared. It isn't the kind of fear you get from walking down the street at night, but the kind you get when you see a funnel cloud inching ahead in the distance.
It's the kind of fear over what will happen should Barack Obama become president. It's not because of his race because I am not a racist. It's because of his politics and the fact that he leans so far to the left that I am waiting for him to fall into the Pacific Ocean one fine day.
I am afraid of his affiliations and the paltry excuses he uses to cover them up. First there was the Reverend Jeremiah Wright debacle. It is almost impossible to believe that one person can associate with one another for twenty years and have no idea of his politics. Yet Obama said he knew nothing about it. What did they talk about all those years, carburetors and the weather?
As a Jewish person and the daughter, granddaughter and niece of Holocaust survivors, I am afraid of his politics as well. Earlier this year, he said that "Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people," which is hard to believe coming from a group that settles their grievances with others by blowing up and murdering civilians and children. I am afraid that even they want him to become president.
I am also afraid for the economy. Some may say that the housing market and all those forfeited loans, which nearly caused the world economy to collapse was because of the Republicans. What most people don't realize is that it was President Clinton who pressured the banks to give loans to those who could barely scrape together the month-to-month rent on an apartment let alone a mortgage.
Barack Obama's campaign slogan is "Change we need." With a Democratic Congress and a Democratic President with questionable affiliations and politics including a bill he sponsored making it illegal for a person to defend himself in his own home with a gun that is not registered, the concern is that they may be the wrong changes.
Really.
So you are not scared about the results from Bush who McCain voted with 90% of the time.
Thanks for the laught today.
Fear, fear, fear, fear. Is that all the right ever has to offer? Please, give us a reason TO vote for McCain... Face it, there really isn't any.
What the heck is the "Daily Dynasty?" I think you mean Daly.
Incidentially, you're really taking the Obama quote about the Palestinian people out of context. The point he was making is that the Palestinian people are the one's suffering for the choices made by their leaders. It's not like he was making some absolute ranking of the most suffering people in history. Your take is either silly or heavily motivated by a pre-existing ideology on other issues.
No Obamarama, "shout it to the world" he is the wrong man to be our president,for all the reasons you named and more! Save America McCain for President!
{WAKE UP VOTERS}
I have friends???
]You sound like Alan Dershowitz....who cries constantly about Jews and their suffering and no one elses... .
This truly disgusts me. The amount of racism and prejudice people like yourself exhibit at the expense of everyone else is absolutely despicable.
Before you start wailing the usual "anti-Semite" nonsense(like most Zionists do cover up their own agendas and racism) you should know that I'm not the only one who is appalled by this is fear-mongering tactic your group use to constant bash people down and keep them quiet. Norman Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, and dozens of other truly exceptional historians, theologists, and researchers.
You compare the Jewish suffering to the Palestinians? How dare you. Do you even know what Jewish settlers do to Palestinians? Or how the Israelis are living it up and large in their discos, cafes, and whatever else while Palestinian kids are treated to daily doses of home demolitions, homelessness, and no future?
Do you even have any idea? What do you think your people would do if they have rationed water by Israel? Rationed electricity by Israel? Rationed food by Israel? Rationed work by Israel? Treated like rats and subhumans? You think you'd even last for a single day?
You claim they commit suicide bombing. The ratio of Palestinians killed by Israeli ILLEGAL cluster bombs and other incursions into Gaza versus Jews killed by suicide bombing is 10 to 1. Is that fair to you? I'd imagine so because you're so "fearful" of what is going to happen to you. Just kill them right?
You claim their grievances by using such tactics as blowing themselves up. Well let's see who has what between the two:
Which group has the latest BANNED and ILLEGAL weapons?
ISRAEL
Which group destroys homes of families dozens a week?
ISRAEL
Which group resides on ILLEGAL land per the Geneva Convention (not that any rules and regulations matter to Israel...they are above the law right??)
ISRAEL
Which group has had nuclear weapons illegally for the past 40 years?
ISRAEL
On and on and on. So please...excuse me if my heart doesn't bleed for a group that has had preferential treatment and unbounded support by a bunch of lunatic fringe radical neo-con Christians who happen to have the same crazy idea that the Chosen People need to go back to some dinky area of the world so Christ can return.
And for all that Antisemitism in the world you all constantly claim, well..it sure hasn't stopped any of you from becoming the richest, most successful, and best paid group in the world. So much for that nonsense.
Stop your racism at the expense of others...enough is enough..it's sickening.
Okay, Armand. Break time is over. The floor nurse wants you to return your copy of "Mein Kampf" to the library.
In all seriousness, your post saddens me, and it sounds like you don’t do enough reading or read enough of the right kinds of things. If the Palestinians “suffer,” it’s because they put themselves in the victim’s position, and as a result have the longest running refugee gig going.
Good luck in this world. People who are filled with the misconceptions and stereotypes that you harbor tend to not get very far in the long run.
Honey, we are both wrong. It's Daley. Getting down to brass tacks, I don't think I took anything out of context on the quote. I also don't think I am taking anything out of context by being concerned about those with whom Obama associates, either. Things add up.
Armand, your comments are the opposite of accurate. You must be getting your information from Hamas. Most of what you claim is not so. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not everyone is entitled to his own facts. Facts are facts and can be checked.
Jews are justifiably concerned about Obama. Read Ben Shapiro's article, "The Jewish Case Against Obama" here: http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/a783e8ac-8179-496b-883f-3fd4bd9743ab
and, "Can Jews Afford to 'Roll the Dice' on Obama?" here:
http://beartotheright.blogspot.com/2008/10/can-jews-afford-to-roll-dice-on-obama.html