Obama’s latest campaign prop: Jerusalem’s Western Wall; Update: Protests/heckling mar photo-op
Update: 12:24am. Obama is heckled at the Western Wall. Photo-op ruined. But will the slavering American media report it? The Times of London has the story: “The US presidential nominee was heckled as he visited the Western Wall in the early hours of Thursday morning, bowing his head in prayer and observing traditional custom by placing a folded piece of paper into the crevice of the wall. Orthodox men interrupted their morning prayers to catch a glimpse of the Illinois senator, reaching out to shake his hand as he passed them by. But not all were taken by the Democrat. One yelled out: ‘Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale!’ before Mr Obama was whisked away to his waiting plane.”
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John McCain exploited the imagery of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico earlier this month. That crass move was nothing compared to Barack Obama’s religious prop. He’s visiting Jerusalem’s Western Wall late tonight with the slavering Obamedia in tow. Will he have his campaign staff leave a grafitti Obama ‘08 logo on the hallowed site?
Might as well. Looks like it’s working with some people:
Chairman of Republicans Abroad in Israel, Kory Bardash, thinks Senator Obama is doing a good job on the tour.
“I think if I was one of Barack Obama’s operators I would tell them to do the exact same thing,” he said.
“Take a picture by the Western Wall, go to Sderot and show that you identify with the citizens that have been living under a barrage of rockets for the last eight years, and hopefully those images, in lieu of a real record, will play well in the Jewish communities and the pro-Israel community in the US.”
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Jim Hoft wonders what Obama’s position on Jerusalem will be tomorrow.
Meanwhile, IBD looks at the Euro mosh pit that awaits The One.
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Then go pander to the Palastinians and help them launch a few rockets. Obama needs to cover all his bases.
“Verily, verily I say onto thee that these too shall have their reward”.
I can’t get too bent outa shape about this… the powers that be shall deal with it now that the line has bee crossed.
Obama’s Excellent Adventure, the reality show, premiering this fall on NBC…
it won’t matter - they will vote Dem anyway.
With the two Candidates we have, I hope It somebody comes out and says, “America, You’ve been Punked.”
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from Obamassiah.
Obama is not a friend of Isarel. From what I have been reading on other sites, many Jewish people are not falling for the Obama flip flop tour. They are paying attention to what Obama has been saying and then retracting and who his associates are. That is far more telling of the person Obama really is.
I can’t remember–
Which one is the democrat and which one is the socialist ?
We are soooo screwed ‘08
Maine Yankee–Obama is the communist; McCain is the socialist. And I completely agree with your conclusion.
We need to start praying hard now for the next four years to be not so bad as we fear.
Obama will say whatever he needs to in order to win votes, but he will say whatever to whoever. He will be cozying up to the Palestinians next. He can never be trusted.
Drudge reports a 12 minute Obamessiah visit, certainly only the photos he posed for will make the campaign commercials .
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What did the note say?
Perhaps
“Uuuummmmm, uuuhhhh.”,
“These pants inspected by number 19″ or
“I’m Ba-a-ack !!”
While I really don’t see what the big deal is with either Obama’s trip to the Western Wall or McCain’s to the Lady, I have to give MM credit for some consistency here.
Though I do think “Will he have his campaign staff leave a grafitti (sic) Obama ‘08 logo on the hallowed site?” was a bit unnecessary and over the top.
And Maine Yankee for making the exact same (admittedly funny) comment on the other thread.
Doesn’t look like the trip to the Western Wall went too well for Barack Hussein Obama, according to the Drudge headline.
As a Catholic, I didn’t think it was crass or exploitation at all. The Virgin of Guadalupe is a Catholic apparition site for the entire Americas. None of my Catholic coworkers or fellow grad students took office.
Why? Because John McCain is pro-life, and no Catholic in good conscience can vote for pro-abortion Barack Hussein Obama. The photo is not exploitation; it is the truth, and a sign to Hispanics that they cannot be going to mass, praising Jesus, while voting for the anti-Catholic Barack Hussein Obama.
John McCain is the candidate for true Catholics, just as Barack Hussein Obama is the candidate for true Muslims. That is why religious Jews are taking offense at the shameless exploitation of the Western Wall.
Pray all you want, but God helps those with the most powerful pressure group. That is the political version of Napoleonic reality and I see no escaping it.
The one ray of hope I have come across is a wonderful book, Here Comes Everybody, which describes the tools and strategies that can be used by conservatives (or anybody for that matter) to make our leaders and party really and truly feel our pain and mend their ways accordingly. I plan to write about it in the near future. In the meantime, get a copy yourself. The book is unreservedly recommended.
Obama World Tour 2008 - What a Putz!
The mumbling and stumbling tour.
Um… ah… err… durr… My plan will.
STFU
B. Hussein going to the Western Wall offends me deeply.
Maybe it is his 20 years at TUCC and ‘pastor’ wright, or maybe the selfish and racist Afro-Centric life barry so adores, or the fact that I just do not believe for a moment that BHO is a real Christian (bho said ‘anyone anyhow can get to heaven ‘), a Bible believing Christian and that the Word of God is THE TRUTH.
I bet he sneaks around the corner and goes to the Temple Mount, without press of course because he would call it the “dome on the rock”.
Should this bother me so much? BHO going to the Wall?
Well, it does,especially as a photo op.
Leave the cameras at the hotel barry, I might let that go.
Radical muslim sympathizer.
Let’s here it for the Obamassiah, I wonder if he will disappear and then “rise” after 3 days to keep the “followers” in tow?
Oooppps!
/sarc off
Amazing. A guy I wouldn’t hire for anything is one step away.
If the Reagan Dems aren’t wondering WTF happened to their party, there’s no hope.
We need some late night levity, this is a good one.
-comment on gatewaypundit, link above:
barry responds to Couric;
This happens to me all the time.
Today at lunch, I tried to ask someone to pass the salt, but it came out “I’m not wearing any pants.”
It was a poorly phrased statement, that’s all.
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G’night all.
Now be fair, Obama would make a decent Junior High teacher but the Ass’t Principal would have to watch his lesson plans like a hawk. Imagine Michelle O having to get a job also if she didn’t have his influence to sell. They would have to live on maybe $150K or less. Could you picture it?
It was a poorly phrased statement, that’s all.
What are we up to 1,999?
Lifeofthemind,
No more $100 a pound ham, or piano lessons for the lil’ media props er um kids.
My favorite so far…
JT,
If the big O implOdes we may learn if Mrs O can throw
- a lamp like Hillary.
I think the real story here is what he didn’t do in Jerusalem. He showed remarkable restraint by not riding into town on a donkey and colt.
Besides, its not as if staged and insincere religious pandering is at all new. Obama’s just taking it to a whole other level.
Folks, this is a glimmer of reality. I just received this News Alert from the Wall Street Journal:
Here’s the link:
Maybe, just maybe, some reality is starting to sink in with the populace. I’m thinking with all the harping about the groupie behavior of the anchors, the glowing (and unending) reviews, praises, etc., people are finally, taking a closer look. Could it be skepticism setting in?
Perhaps.
Nope.
Hey BO
http://tinyurl.com/noobama
Apparently, much of Germany didn’t learn from the past. The big BO’s popularity there, and the fact that hordes will flock to his feet to hear this egomaniac pontificate on how he will shape the world is frightening in its familiarity.
I see…go to The Wall and pretend to honor and respect the jewish people, but then hold open talks with the very people who have vowed to wipe them off the face of the earth…especially AchINeedAJob who has vowed to do that in a firey storm and bring about the New Caliphate before he leaves office.
Pretend to be on Israel’s side, then go and pander to Islam, work for the capitulation of America’s forces in Iraq, speak out against Israel when it retaliates against the missles and homicide bombers, and go against anything in Congress that would actually fight and destroy the Islamic War Against Freedom, Democracy and and Civilisation.
Yeah…I bet they are just sucking it up over there.
Seen in photo through high powered lens directed at slip of paper Obamessiah placed in Wall:
“Remember…it’s God DAMN America…please get it right this time!”
Considering the MSM will never delve into his past and will simply rely on the books he has written about himself, you will be hard pressed to get any info from the television or from news articles.
Let us just hope that McCain and his staff really are finally getting the hint and will begin to exploit all he gaping chasms in Obamessiah’s past, his statements and everything else.
The Empty Suit has given the McCain campaign the tools and information it needs to sink him and crush any hopes Obamessiah has of being present gift wrapped and on a silver platter. However, if they do not use what they have been given, and pound it into people’s brains relentlessly every day between now and November, he will never stand a chance. I cannot think of a Presidential Election in this country where a candidate was more blatantly inept or unqualified to be President, yet because of some imaginary sense of “fair play” known only to McCain…he has not even been scratched by it.
Just pathetic and unforgiveable on the part of the GOP that B. Hussein has made it this far, let alone is still so highly regarded in the polls.
True, jroberts, - and he did overcome the temptation to cay “See, I told you the Romans would wreak this place!”
Good thing Dolly has been downgraded to a tropical storm or we would have had to call The One back to the US to calm her down.
And blow their chance, should he be elected, at getting an official role in the Obama regime’s propaganda machine? No way! Andrea Mitchell, NBC’s own Eva Braun, is jockeying to have msnbc be the Obama potential regime’s disinformation mouthpiece to the our Armed Services.
But Millions are comfortable with Obama to one degree or another and that is scarier than Obama himself. Just how many of our people ARE willing to accept such a race/class baiter with obvious sympathies to islam? Why, what has happened? Are we to go down the path of the European fascist state?
I have met more than just a few people who absolutely swoon over the European model while fully acknowledging Europe’s high taxes. They think we can escape the high taxes and high unemployment by taxing the rich. I guess these are Obama’s people. Fools every one of them. We can blame the schools and MSM but how did we let them get that power?
If we are to take back our country we have to work harder and be a little more ruthless with the ‘moderates’. I do believe, and I am guilty too, that we conservatives have been a little to lax on the local and state offices such as school boards. This is when the Leftist plant their evil seeds.
If Obama’s numbers dropped to 41/40% it would still show a basic flaw in the American character. I know a lot of that is disgust with McCain and the Republican Party, but it is still too high.
Actually she’s not on The One’s “fave media sweeties” list these days, DBN.
He needs to go tour a clue factory.
Gee thanks see-dub, you move out of Cal where we need folks like you and BAM! Ten moonbats moved into your old house and were seen unloading boxes of code stink flyers…
Obambi’s note in the wall:
“Please, pretty-please, let me be president and savior of the world. I promise to lower seas, to promote world peace, and try to be humble–which you know is hard for me. Thanks, Dude. Oh,also, please let the photo-op in Berlin shatter the glass ceiling for me.”
Exactly! Don’t people realize what is going to happen to our economy, to employment, to local businesses and tax bases if Obama doubles the capital gains tax? It will be devastating!
I wondered why Obama had so much trouble saying that the surge in Iraq was working…
This morning, while jogging and thinking about Obama’s time in Israel, I compared Obama to the Jews of the Old Testament. Both identify with the feelings of that book. The Jews had it rough, they had great adversity but were the chosen ones the anointed the people hungering for change and the promised land. The coming of a Messiah is foretold in the Old Testament.
The Jews do not accept the New Testament because in that book they are no longer the suffering people who are promised great things. The Old Testament is THEIR book and they hold on to it with an iron fist; they celebrate all the pains and struggles over and over.
Obama too has his Old Testament; the failed start to the Iraq war. Things were bad and people began to hope for a Messiah that would save them. However, along came a New Testament in the form of a successful surge and Obama can’t let go of the old. The failure in Iraq is what allowed for the foretelling and accepting of a Messiah. He can’t let go.
New Testament about getting along, acceptance and salvation, while the Old is about pain, suffering, and the hope of a Messiah to lead the people out of the wilderness.
I know this is just rambling, but it was fun to think about while jogging…
Rob, you’re not one of those guys jogging with the sandwich board
“the end is near” are you?
A few years ago I was terrified that the Hildabeast might become POTUS. I thought she and her husband were two of the worst people ever to inhabit the earth.
I never imagined someone worse than them would show up and have a chance for winning in 2008. Not only that, but to see how the media fawns, slobbers, aids and abets his every move is Abominable.
How can anyone, let alone anyone with a drop of Jewish blood in them believe a word this lying manipulative jerk (stole the jerk moniker from Rush) says?
Rod Serling could not have written a story as bizarre as the story of B. Hussein Obama.
For a few paragraphs there I thought you were talking about McAmnesty.. lol
Off topic, but interesting:
- Robert F. Kennedy, Washington Post May 27, 1968
On whuch side of the board, AJ?
UMMMMMMM - he left the receipt right there in the wall.
mistressjustice said:
`In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has.’
If Bobby said that in 1968 in reference to JFK, he was incorrect - grammatically. Should’ve been “brother did” or “brother had”.
…Thursday morning, bowing his head in prayer and observing traditional custom by placing a folded piece of paper into the crevice of the wall. Orthodox men interrupted their morning prayers to catch a glimpse of the Illinois senator, reaching out to shake his hand as he passed them by. But not all were taken by the Democrat. One yelled out: ‘Obama, Jerusalem is not for sale!’
Naw, that was an IOU. He does own the media, though, so it all evens out.
Purplepeep:
I think Bobby Kennedy was a very inspirational leader, but I can’t vouch for his grammar.
Obama went to visit the Western Wall because he knows if he becomes president - it is as good as gone. All of Israel will disappear behind a mushroom cloud, courtesy of Obama’s Iranian chat-buddy.
OMG - When ABC reported that the obamessiah, in response to the heckling at the Western Wall said “People were sort of, like, holerin’. You know I was expecting more reverence” I burst out laughing.
“more reverence” for the light and savior?
The obamessiah has bought into his own propaganda!!
Reality check, Barry: You are NOT really the messiah. You are simply a sophomoronic empty suit.
PJ said:
After all of those years attending Trinity United, I would think Obama would feel more at home with a bunch of hollering rather than reverence…
At first, I actually (gullibly?) thought he meant more reverence for the place he was visiting…but on reflection, I think you’re right, pj.
“It’s all about the O.”
I found the conclusion of the IBD piece to be damningly on-point:
I was mentioning to a friend last night that this Berlin campaign stunt — rallying thousands of cheering, America-hating Germans, standing before a monument to German nationalism, militarism and conquest — has great potential to be Hopenchange’s “Paul Wellstone Memorial Moment.”
Remember Wellstone’s memorial service in 2002, which turned into a braying, over-the-top, shameless orgy of donkey self-congratulation and hubris? That equally revolting and clarifying scene was instrumental in dooming Walter Mondale’s campaign to replace Wellstone in the Senate.
Yes, I’m sure the domestic America-hating left here will be having multiple obasms watching the spectacle on TV, but for many more Americans the response will more likely be along the lines of, “What in the hell is this clown doing? When did Germans get the franchise here?”
And then come the natural, logical, follow-up questions:
“Why should we be currying favor with people whose loathing for America goes far beyond a personal hatred of George Bush?”
“If Europe is so wonderful, so much better than us, and we need to be more like them, then why did we need to save them from themselves twice in the last century?”
“What parts of European ’superiority’ should we emulate? It’s political and social contributions to civilization, like Marxism, Fascism, Nazism and Socialism? Its stagnant economies? Its bitterness and jealousy? Its growing totalitarian leanings, as evidenced by the actions of the EU? Its adolescent refusal to maintain the ability to defend itself? Its obsequiousness toward totalitarians all over the globe? What, exactly?”
“Why should we seek popularity with those who would be — indeed, who within 50 years will be — slaves?”
Yes, Hopenchange’s media sycophants and his lefty acolytes and minions will portray his “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” rally before anti-American Germans as some sort of political triumph … but as the saying goes:
“There are stupid Americans, but Americans are not stupid.”
Regulus, here’s another one:
“Why should Americans seek the endorsement of other countries to decide who should be our president?” It seems to me that our sovereignty and indeed, our future as a nation depends on us electing someone who is pro-America, not pro-Europe or pro-world.
Did the One take mamaObama with him? Did he bring her back?
Allah be Praised
Allie OOP OOP too.
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He lived way back a long time ago
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Probably for the same reason some of our more left tilting justices refer to European law for their decisions: the Europeans are just sooo sophisticated. Much more so than the great unwashed of this country. /sarc
Re #63, it’s taken 232 years, but I think we’re becoming a European territory again…time for another revolution!
They are becoming more enlightened on such international norms as shiria, jihad, burkas, beheadings, female mutilation, stonings, harems and all sorts of neat moon god things. That along with their once a week bathing and $10. a gallon gasoline and I guess our nimrods are envious.
I do remember the Euro trash TOLD us not to vote for Reagan. I imagine the nimrods didn’t.
We should have quit Europe three weeks after the Berlin Wall came down.
Allah be Praised
Allie OOP OOP too.
BHO’s world tour reminds me of a so-so rock band or a rap group,sometimes they are a little out of tune.
A German poll found 76 percent of Germans would vote for Obama. European bands and DJs will warm up the crowd before Obama takes the stage at about 1:15 p.m. Washington time. Signs and banners are not permitted, so Che will not make a bold appearance and the pre-revolution will not be televised.
Why doesn’t Obama run for a seat on the Knesset, or perhaps for the presidency of the EU? Good grief, he’s so popular (according to Brian Williams) he could single-handedly solve all the problems in the EU and the Middle East…then bring all that “experience” home to the US and save us all.
I have more foreign experience than this phony.
I haven’t heard much from Michelle Obama recently. Is she gagged and tied in the Obasement? She’s like Tim Matheson’s fat brother Chris Farley in “Black Sheep.”
Heh…
I’m a little embarrassed that all American Presidential candidates have to go to Israel and act like they care- what have those people ever done for us?
Since this is an open thread:
Isn’t this a little odd? Barack Hussein Obama took a three week tour of Pakistan while in college. Maybe it was like the trips the Muslim college students were taking to Afghanistan before we invaded?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/obamas-college.html
Barack Hussein Obama, scarier and scarier, the more we get to know him.
There was exactly one heckler.
Great editorial at IBD. Thanks for the link, Michelle.
Only one heckler, but he shouted the same thing over and over again. The crowd did not shout the heckler down, so they must have sympathized with his view. Obama was struck by the heckling, saying the scene was “rowdy,” and that he had expected “more reverence.” A picture is worth a thousand words, and you were not there to paint it.
Ever hear of a thing called “political science”?
Okay, dunderhead, I’ll give you a quick answer: Israel is the only true western style democracy in the Middle East. Seems reasonable to support those types of governments because they are stable. The ME is and always have been an unstable region, therefore, it behooves us to support and ally with those types of governents which are similar to our own. Similar interests make political bedfellows.
Now that’s the second stupid question you’ve asked today. You’re past your quota. Remove thumb from your mouth and pick up a book to read.
He looked uncomfortable and out of place at the sacred wall. Wish someone who’s good at Photoshop would add a propeller to that beanie cap. I know, it’s a yahmaka.