The Democratic race has fallen off the curb and into the gutter. Ynet News reports that an email making its way through the U.S. and Israel asserts that Barack Obama is a stealthy al Qaeda operative poised to topple the American government. Here’s perhaps the most distasteful aspect of this latest development: “One of the target audiences in the campaign is clearly the American Jewish community because the e-mail has also been sent out in Hebrew.”
In fact, this new smear is merely a Hebrew translation of the email that went around a month ago – the email that was actually penned by a (since jettisoned) Hillary Clinton Iowa county chair. With the non-stop identity carnival that is now the Obama and Clinton campaigns, this update on last month’s mini-scandal takes on the larger grotesqueness of the day.
This isn’t the first time the Obama-Muslim connection has come up. About a year ago, Daniel Pipes merely raised the question of Obama’s historical relationship to Islam, and the left-wing blogosphere went apoplectic. Where’s the outrage now that a Hillary supporter’s vulgar slander finds a second life through Jew-baiting?
If the casus belli of the Gaza incursion is increasing rocket attacks on the south of Israel and the goal of the Israelis is to eliminate weapons smuggling into Gaza, where does Egypt fit into this scenario? Don’t the new Gilad rockets have to pass through Egypt in order to enter a tunnel under Rafah? You probably couldn’t blow your nose without being observed by Egyptian authorities anywhere within 20 miles of the Gaza border, so how are missiles smuggled from an Egyptian port to a tunnel site in Egypt without the actual assistance of the Egyptian government?
Tax cutting is a dead idea, but tax increases are a good one? No, spending needs to be brought in line with the reality of at most 18% of GDP for tax revenues.
“The New York Times writers have it all wrong”
What?!
Say it isn’t so!
“The MSM figures out that “continuity” is the new “change”: “In style and substance, Barack Obama is looking like he could be a different president than the candidate voters got to know during the campaign. Barack Obama has taken on a more somber tone as he prepares to take office. His message of changing the country has been replaced by one of repairing the country as he inherits crises that demand immediate action. ‘I want to be realistic here,’ Obama said in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC’s This Week. ‘Not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace that we had hoped.’””
In other words, promise what you need to promise in order to get elected, and then immediately lower expectations so that you can later get re-elected. Sounds like your run-of-the-mill politician to me.
The more things Change, the more they stay the same.
Guys -Say it isnt so -you really spell sombre somber?
I guess it looks god in a poem that way with Bomber.