Barack Obama: The Most Anti-Israel President!

[Violet_Crumble]

Ken Blackwell
Fellow of The National Academy of Public Administration and the Family Research Council
Posted: November 12, 2010 09:14 AM

With his remarks in Jakarta, Indonesia, President Obama made history once again. Sadly, it's a most unenviable title. I believe he is the most anti-Israel President in U.S. history.

In going to Jakarta, Indonesia, to launch his latest attack, he literally went to the ends of the earth to give voice to his displeasure. He emphasized his opposition to the policies of the elected government of Israel.

He used his Jakarta platform to complain about Israel building apartments for her growing population. Where? In Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.

To make matters even worse, Jakarta is a city no Israeli is allowed to enter! The symbolism of saying what he said in the country and city where he said it is simply atrocious.

He was in Indonesia less than 24 hours. If he had to make such a one-sided and unfair pronouncement, couldn't he at least have waited until he got to South Korea? Touting Indonesia's great tolerance is offensive. Indonesians love everybody, except the Israelis, of course, and except Catholic school girls who get beheaded on their way to school.

What could he have been thinking in traveling to his boyhood home -- in what is widely described as the largest Muslim country in the world -- and sharply criticizing Israel? It's as if he is determined to take an unfriendly stance and to reinforce it with his own biography: This place was a second home to me, and I am telling you, Israel, to knock it off! Those were not his actual words, but how else can we interpret his bizarre sense of time and place?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com//ken-blackwell/barack-obama-the-most-ant_b_782627.html

I hope everyone at DU can spot the bullshit in this weak excuse for an article

[sakabatou]

1. "I hope everyone at DU can spot the bullshit in this weak excuse for an article."

It's from the FRC. What do you expect?

[Violet_Crumble]

5. I expect nothing less than wall-to-wall bullshit and ignorance from someone like that...

Though I've seen the 'don't shoot the messenger' argument used to defend people with equally ugly views in the past, Cinammon Stilwell is one that springs to mind...

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Barack Obama: The Most Even Handed President?

[OHdem10]

3. They must stay up night dreaming up ways to twist information

around in an effort to defame Obama.

[haifa lootin]

4. It's Ken Blackwell, not as if it's from an intelligent human...

:eyes:

[EmeraldCityGrl]

6. There are no actual quotes.

The author writes " Those were not his actual words, but how else can we interpret his bizarre sense of time and place?"

I think I'll wait for some "actual" quotes and decide for myself.

[haifa lootin]

7. The link has all his words verbatim...it's to his own piece.

You can read it first hand.

[azurnoir]

8. So Mr Blackwell are we to believe that Obama felt he had to travel all

the way to Indonesia home of his dare I say it, childhood Madrassa to criticize Israel?

[whosinpower]

9. It is a very sad state of affairs

When a man, who, won the presidency overwhelmingly because of "hope", has become a punching bag for it seems to be every single major issue that affects the world.

If President Obama is SO anti-Israel - then why oh why would there be sanctions against Iran?
Why would he even entertain that - nuclear proliferation of a muslim nation would be a good thing if this asshole who wrote the article actually believed his ranting.

If President Obama is SO anti-Israel - then why oh why did the US government come down against the Goldstone Report?

If President Obama is SO anti-Israel - then why oh why did his own 2010 budget specify that 50 percent - FIFTY percent of the allocated funds going to foreign military financing, military education, and peacekeeping operations was to be FOR ISRAEL.

If President Obama is SO anti-Israel - then why of why did he ask that Israel get an ADDITIONAL 3 BILLION dollars for the 2011 budget?

Or how about that generous offer of increased aid to encourage Netanyahu to stop building -which by the way - every single other US president has felt is contrary to a peace process. This is not a diversion from what Clinton stated, Bush stated or any other president.

If President Obama is anti-Israel - then he would PROVE it by giving all those billions in military aid to Abbas. Until then, Blackwell is talking out of his anus.

[LeftishBrit]

10. Rubbish.

I don't think Ken Blackwell cares tuppence about Israel anyway; this is just an excuse for anti-Obama innuendoes (oh nooo, he lived in a MUSLIM country!)

And the 'most anti-Israel president' - I doubt it!

Isn't Blackwell (a) far-right and (b) a crook who interfered with people's right to vote when he was in Ohio?

[Violet_Crumble]

11. He and others of his ilk seem to care deeply about Israel...

The extreme Right in the US care deeply about Israel, whether it's loving it or hating it, so I disagree that he doesn't care about Israel and is only using it to have a go at Obama. I think he gets to blabber on incoherently about two things he seems to care a lot about - Israel AND Obama...

Yes to (a). That's evident to me, who's never even heard of him before this article, and I don't know to (b)

[Donald Ian Rankin]

12. I would say either most or second-most, possibly after Bush, probably.

Although that's like talking about the second-most pro-diahorrea president.

Obama is less slavishly uncritical of Israel than many previous presidents, but he's made no move to attach any form of material consequence to any of his actions.

[oberliner]

13. What about Carter or Reagan?

Which Bush do you mean?