I'm noticing that some Jews are beginning to feel a little queasy about President Obama. Why was his first presidential phone call to a foreign leader made to the mayor of the rump state of Ramallah -- Abu Mazen? And why was his first official presidential interview with an Arab media outlet?
Hmmm, we can't imagine.
In case the MainstreamMedia ever gets interested in scrutinizing Obama's background - after all, these things are now of great national import and historical value - here are a couple of good leads, covered at the time by right-wing blogs and studiously ignored by the rest of the world.
(1) Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times interviewed Obama on Feb. 27, 2007 in his Senate office. During that interview, Obama recited the Islamic call to prayer "with a first rate accent" (Kristof's opinion) and called it "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."
Kristof's column on the interview was published in the the New York Times on March 7, 2007 under the title Obama: Man of the World.
In a blog post on the same subject [Obama on the Issues (and his Grandfather's Wives), March 5, 2007] Mr. Kristof includes some "excerpts from the transcript as a whole." If there is a transcript, then the material was transcribed from some source, no? If there is a transcript, then there is a tape.
That tape has been withheld from the American public, obviously because it could have damaged Obama's chances of getting elected if the American public had known -and actually heard- that he recites and praises the Islamic call to prayer. Had that been widely known, I daresay he might have gotten less than 78 percent of the Jewish vote.
At this point, Kristof's tape is part of the history of the First African American (and 44th) President of the United States of America. I have suggested that he release it to the Library of Congress (with a note about how it was censored -okay, withheld- from voters before the election.... just so our grandchildren, or someone's grandchildren, understand in the future).
(2) In March 2008, Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton explained how he had helped the Saudi royal family get Obama into Harvard Law School. Here is the video from the interview on New York cable channel NY1.
The Obama campaign denied it and an alleged representative of Sutton's family "retracted" it, saying that Mr. Sutton "misspoke."
These responses didn't come, however, until SIX MONTHS after the interview. Only when Mr. Sutton's tale started getting attention in the heat of the presidential campaign - in September 2008 - (see Kenneth Timmerman at NewsMax and Ben Smith at Politico) - did anyone see fit to deny or retract anything. Apparently, for at least those six months, no one was bothered by it.
We should all be bothered by these things, and right now.
Welcome to my nightmare: Obama wants to gut the military and establish a "civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded" [as the military]. What will this "civilian national security force" do?
I don't know, but I am deathly afraid that they might be used to put {Jews? infidels? opposition voices?} in these "national emergency centers on military installations" -or detention camps, as some are calling them - now being proposed in Congress:
Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, D-Fla., has introduced to the House of Representatives a new bill, H.R. 645, calling for the secretary of homeland security to establish no fewer than six national emergency centers for corralling civilians on military installations.
The proposed bill, which has received little mainstream media attention, appears designed to create the type of detention center that those concerned about use of the military in domestic affairs fear could be used as concentration camps for political dissidents, such as occurred in Nazi Germany.
The bill also appears to expand the president's emergency power, much as the executive order signed by President Bush on May 9, 2007, that – as WND reported – gave the president the authority to declare an emergency and take over the direction of all federal, state, local, territorial and tribal governments without even consulting Congress.
Close Gitmo and open these things? It doesn't make sense to me. I hope and pray that World Net Daily is being overly alarmist when they say this "raises worries about [a] military police state," but so much of what has happened in the last couple of years is so completely unbelievable, and my trust in the status quo is so deteriorated, that I cannot reject this notion out of hand.
Our dilemma seems to be that we should "wait and see," but if we wait too long or see too much, then what happens?
If I could put aside my natural cynicism and pessimism, I still think it's healthy for us to stay well-informed... and highly skeptical.
Plus, Jews should keep in mind that it was only a month ago that such anti-Israel pandemonium and sheer hatred broke out on the streets of Fort Lauderdale, FL that people - ostensibly Americans - were screaming there that Israel should be nuked and Jews should "go back to the ovens."
In his inaugural speech, Obama reached out to the "Muslim world." But not to American Jews.
Even if you don't believe the worst case scenario, that Obama is -knowingly or unknowingly- a Manchurian candidate or Islamic sleeper agent and an illegal president, I think there's enough here to keep you up nights.
Oh, and while you're up nights anyway, don't forget to worry about how your family will pay back the 10,000 or so dollars (plus interest) that each family will owe for economic "stimulus."
Boker tov, shavua tov. Good morning and have a good week.
Posted by: Houston | Tuesday, 03 February 2009 at 12:58 PM