NY Sun: Obama’s Republicans Share One Key Trait – They Are Hostile to Israel
Bookworm at Bookworm Room on Aug 14 2008 at 1:37 pm | Filed under: Election 2008, Iran, Israel
Joe Lieberman has been persona non grata for pal-ing around with the Republicans, but the media was incredibly excited to discover that a few “leading” Republicans have moved over to the Obama side — as if nobody has ever heard of RINOs in the first place. Aside from the fact that these RINOs are leaders only if you’re on the Democratic side of the aisle, the New York Sun has discovered something else that binds these “leaders” together — they’re all hostile to Israel.
Webloggin Note: Key Findings From the Sun Article Include:
- The Obama campaign’s conference call yesterday on Republicans who back the presidential bid of the Democrat from Illinois showcased quite a crew. There was Rita Hauser, the PLO apologist whose law firm, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, racked up millions of dollars in legal fees over the years as a registered foreign agent of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority.
- Mr. Obama also is boasting of Lincoln Chafee, who, as a senator representing Rhode Island, was responsible for blocking Secretary Bolton from being confirmed as the American ambassador at the United Nations on the grounds that the Bush administration had been too pro-Israel.
- The third “Republican for Obama” after Ms. Hauser and Mr. Chafee — and the only other one who participated in the call — was a former congressman from Iowa, James Leach. Mr. Leach took to the House floor in 2004 to deliver a speech titled “The Case for Restraint in Iran,” warning against American or Israeli attacks on the mullahs’s nuclear facilities. [~snip] In 2006, when the House voted 397 to 21 to pass the Iran Freedom Support Act that toughened sanctions on Tehran, Mr. Leach was one of the 21 congressmen who opposed it.
Obama, with his “say anything and everything to anybody and everybody” approach to getting elected, has made the right noises about Israel (although those noises have been diluted by lies or abject, weaseling reversals). It’s become increasingly apparent, though, that just as one wolf can sniff out the other wolf hiding under the wool in the midst of the flock, the anti-Israel cadre is finding its own. How else to explain that this man is garnering increasingly vocal and visible support from every corner of the anti-Israel world?
If you’re a Jew and you care about Israel, don’t listen to what Obama says. Look at those who flock to his banner. Then start wondering what he and his advisers are saying to them, not in the blaze of the cameras, but in private.
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