Words — meaningless words
Alan J. Lerner said it best: “Words, words, words! I’m so sick of words. I get words all day through, first from him now from you. Is that all you blighters can do?”
When it comes to Jews, Ed Lasky shows just how hollow Obama’s words of love are:
Barack Obama has also said that “…nobody has spoken out more fiercely on the issue of anti-Semitism than I have”. To which, ABC News journalist Jake Tapper asked “Really? No one? Elie Wiesel? Simon Wiesenthal? Alan Dershowitz? No one? Wow.”
Hmmm..do we find any evidence of this in Barack Obama’s past? Did he try to dissuade Pastor Wright from bestowing an award on Louis Farrakhan, one of the most notorious anti-Semites in America? Has he shown any movement in the Senate to deal with the issue of foreign aid to the Palestinians, whose texbooks and media regularly espouse anti-Semitism? The Muslim world is rife with anti-Semitism and petrocrats and theocrats are using billions of dollars to promote and spread that virus.
Yet Barack Obama has also made promises to them. To convene a summit, to listen to their “grievances”. Apparently, one of their grievances is not just the existence of Israel, but also the existence of Jews (and Christians and Hindus). He wants to, to use the vernacualr, hear them out. He has also indicated that he has served as a bridge to reconcile the Jewish and African-American communities and that he hopes, as President, he can facilitate such a rapprochement, that he has been the foxholes with his Jewish friends, presumably fighting anti-Semitism.
Have we seen any evidence that he has ever attempted to do so in his past 20 years of activism? There are myriad organizations that have attempted to heal the wounds, to abolish the friction, to close the chasm that has too long existed between the African-American and Jewish communities. Has he been a member of any such organizations, an active member? URLs, please-not just assertions from Chicago campaign supporters. Conversely, there has been an abundance of news item highlighting his ties to the Pro-palestinian, and anti-Israel, community over the years.
It’s true. The media blithely reported — nay, chided the Jews for not accepting — Obama’s love letter to the American Jewish community. But so far as I know, with the apparent exception of Jake Tapper in his own little ABC blog, not one single MSM outlet has asked the questions Lasky is asking: Aside from professing endless love today, Sen. Obama, what precisely have you done to bridge the chasm between Jews and Blacks? What precisely have you done to fight antisemitism? What precisely have you done to ensure that Israel is not utterly destroyed by the 250 million Arabs surrounding her? And if you can give an answer to each of the preceding “what” questions, Mr. Obama, please go on to explain the whens, wheres, and hows.
As I indicated above, reporters used to be taught as a fundamental of journalism that every journalist, in reporting on a story, should ask and answer several compelling questions: What? When? Why? How? Where? When it comes to Obama, however, reporters have reduced their whole profession to just one question. When Obama says jump, they ask “How high?”
