Obama and his radical associates - Anti-Semitic?

The New York Times just tried to white-wash the Obama-Bill Ayers connections the other day. World Net Daily has the story, along with the details they left out. Read the whole thing. And this is just the tip of the iceberg that we will be seeing in the next few weeks, as the left spin machine attempts to explain away Obama's associations with so many radicals, like his ex-pastor of twenty years, Jeremiah Wright; Louis Farrakan, head of the Nation of Islam; and Khalid al-Mansour, advisor to Saudi royalty and early backer of Barack Obama. Try looking these guys up on youtube and checking out some of their hateful, divisive, and especially anti-Semitic rhetoric. Obama's ex-church just gave a lifetime achievement award to Farrakan in 2007 (who described Judaism as a "gutter religion"), and al-Mansour helped recruit activists to write letters recommending Obama for Harvard Law School (more details on al-Mansour here). Jeremiah Wright is no fan of Israel (he describes Israel as a "dirty word"), and the church bulletin often featured commentary from Palestinian activists. As recently as two weeks ago, when Iranian president and noted Israel hater Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited New York to speak at the UN, he was hosted at a conference purportedly discussing religious contributions to peace at the Grand Hyatt in New York, a hotel chained owned by Obama campaign finance director Penny Pritzker, who, by the way, also helped create the sub-prime mortgage securities that have been at the root of our financial troubles (causing the bank she owned and ran to fail as well). Even his old advisor and long-time friend Samantha Power, the one fired for calling Hillary a "monster" earlier this year, openly advocates invading Israel in defense of the Palestinians, which "might mean alienating a domestic constituency of tremendous political and financial import." So all through his career, he openly associates with radicals and anti-Semites, but now we are supposed to believe they had no impact on his thinking because he disassociates from some of them come election time? I question the judgement of anyone who cares about the fate of Israel if they support Barack Obama. The man has consistently supported through his associations many who hold that nation in contempt. Why do so many Jews support him?

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