Obama Served Up a Zionist Version of Mom and Apple Pie at AIPAC Conference

And Obama's lack of detail is different in what way from the other candidates? Your critique sounds like sour grapes for Hillary, you know, the one that embraced Mrs. Arafat...

Yes, at this stage of the campaign there will be few details. However, no democrat (an no republican either for that matter) can go very far from the AIPAC line. Most Jews support the Democrat candidate, even if those who are not particularly Zionists or have much emotional tie to Israel. Obama will need to count on this automatic support of the mass of Jewish voters in November so do not expect many variations from the usual.

Your analysis was almost dead on. What was missed was that Mr. Obama's speech on Israel was like virtually everything that the gentleman from Illinois has stated throughout his campaign, i.e. all fluff and no substance. Not once has Mr. Obama suggested how he intends to accomplish anything that he promises. Pearly speeches worked well in decades past. However, in today's era of intense scrutiny by media coverage, it would be much more comforting if he, or any of the other candidates, would actually tell us how they intend to accomplish something. Since none of them have actually done so, then we can only base the decision on past voting records, not empty promises.

Every word this man utters will also be data-mined by high speed computers and reviewed by analysts looking for ANY inconsistencies, and his opponent is already attacking him for the simple acknowlegment that he believes valid but forceful diswcussions and diplomacy (ala Truman, Kennedy and Reagan) is a lot better than Bush's alternative of ignoring our enemies and not talking with them and instead just waiting until our enemies do something drastic that warrants a military response.

He has said what is important He will defend Isreal and work toward peace so Isreal can survive, long term, Maybe you want him to make Isreal a state with Joseph Lieberman continuing as senator?

A terrific speech and a most welcomed start. I as well, expect more details to follow before the election. Too bad you're such a cynic!

How sad it is to see a respected Rabbi so cynical.

Where is Clara Peller when we need her??

Obama is "Bob the Builder" -- "Can we build it? Yes we can!!"

We would be fools to trust our security here and around the world to this factory of glib phrases, especially since we know that so many of his associates are quite tolerant of anti-Semitic language in so many contexts.

When I consider that he will probably be elected President, I feel a dark fear when I think of my friends who have made aliyah.

H.

I think you bring out great points. He offers ideals without substantive ways of getting there. He is everyone's ideal as he adapts his promises to every group he speaks to without ever committing to a stance. Change is a generality not a stand. Worse he does not make statements that may disagree with anyone and tries to remedy situations when he caught making contradictory statements. I don't think anyone knows what his game plan is. I prefer someone who has always said they will protect Israeli interests and who has a stand which I may even be against but who is not afraid to say what it is they are really about. That just isn't Obama.I think you are not cynic but see exactly what was presented. You were invited for a seven course dinner and got marshmallow fluff instead.

TO Joe Kupka:

I agree with you 100%. Obama is the anti-christ. I fear for our country, our children, our grand-children. Obama is too smooth, too glib, and way too smug.

Like everything in life, it's all a matter of expectations and framework. Was Obama's speech at the AIPAC supposed to be a policy speech, with a 10-point proposal and a 18-step program for implementation? Or was his speech at the AIPAC supposed to deliver his general feelings and views on Israel and on the US-Israeli relationship under a possible Obama administration? I expected the latter, and I got exactly what I expected. If one expected the former, then one would be disappointed.

At the end of the day, insofar as I am concerned, his promise to engage the US administration actively in the Middle East, and with Israel in particular, from the OUTSET of his administration was the core point he got across (as opposed to sitting on their hands, as the Bush administration did for 6.5 years). Whether he will deliver on this promise remains to be seen, and there no cerebral analysis can help.

Have a little faith. if anyone can actually believe that g.w. and his sick cronies were not "the antichrist" corp. , but obama is, well then you must be blind. bush proved to be a screwup as he has been his whole life and put our country firmly in the crapper...
obama brings people together and has for the most part a pure past. if you don't trust a man's instincts and intelligence , then you shouldn't vote for him. any smart man can be pres. and surround himself with other intelligent advisors and get the job done.
any stupid man can be insular, believe he is g-d and fail at his job... see last 8 yrs. of g.w.
have some faith in someone who will to hopefully do what he says, mean it and prove it... instead of promoting the usual american fear mongering and paranoia.
i'm tired of hearing of jews voting for israel and not the u.s. if the u.s. goes under, then israel and the u.s. are in the same boat..

I was extremely disappointed with Obama's speach on the Middle East. I wished he had talked more about the need for truth and reconcilliation in the Middle East. I wish he talked about the extreme economic disparity and inequality between the Palestineans and the Israelis. He needed to talk about how the economic dispair of the Palestineas causes hopelessness and powerlessness which then leads to violence. Both Isreal and the U.S. need to address this econimic disparity before there can be peace in the Middle East. Now that would be an Obama speach.

When one listens to Sen. Obama's speeches pertaining to many things, he does not lay out a plan. He seems to think all of us will just follow him...this is his arrogance and cleverness, which I felt when I met him before he was in the Presidential arena. I believe it is a way that he does not have to commit to any certain plan, and people seem to swallow it up, so to speak. At least he did more or less make a commitment to stand-by Israel, what he will do to further the peace within the region and maintain Israel's independence, we will be all anxiously awaiting to see the course he takes and what progress will come from it, if he is elected President. Hopefully, my negative feeling towards him as our President will prove me wrong.

NJDC.org says:"Obama has said that he would remove troops according to the situation and commanders on the ground."

From Obama's official site, http://www.barackobama.com/issues/foreignpolicy/#iraq :"Bring Our Troops Home: Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months. Obama will make it clear that we will not build any permanent bases in Iraq. He will keep some troops in Iraq to protect our embassy and diplomats; if al Qaeda attempts to build a base within Iraq, he will keep troops in Iraq or elsewhere in the region to carry out targeted strikes on al Qaeda."

Please note that on the Official Obama site there is absolutely no reference to "...the situation and commanders on the the ground."

With apologies to Ms. Wood, the NJDC site seems to be spin. If Obama's position has changed, he should have changed his web site. We know he has the funds to do that. One may infer his position hasn't changed on Iraq, no matter what the NJDC posts. I leave it to anyone interested in the truth about this candidate to not rely on "spin" sites, but to seek out his direct quotes.

People, wake up! Obviously some very good writers wrote the speech for the Omamanation, because, he cannot write (or think for that matter) for himself! He's giving you the 'icing on the cake' that he thinks you want to hear - appeasement - he first (about 10 days ago) said his 'uncle' (which he doesn't have) accomplished those feats....then revised it - Oh, my great uncle. The dud cannot even get his family line correct. (That is dud, not dude). He is the bitter, (& most likely illegitimate) offspring of a Marxist thinking white woman and a black African of means (who deserted him & his mother), and he indicates in his books that his mother formulated much of his thinking. He lies constantly (even more than Hellery), and has absolutely no experience to take with him into the negotiating zone. Look at his record in the Senate. Look at his record in Chicago. Take a good look at his wife - a very bitter and contemptuous woman eager to get her greedy hands on the 'First Lady' title. She as a First Lady will be an embarrassment we will never live down. The man will tax you to the brink of death, give it to support world aid and just like all monies before it, only the influential leaders will reap benefits. Read his books. This man could be the one to bring our country down! He's worse than Carter.

I don't trust obama at all. His wife was a declared racist in her college years. We are in trouble if we allow his LIES TO FOOL US FOR THE VOTE. BEWARE!

It is disappointing to read the commentary by Rabbi Hirshfield. He sounds like an elitist (like alot of rabbis) when he believes most Jews don't know the meaning of Tikkun Olam. Here in Chicago we know of Senator Obama's track record with the Jewish community. He did the Walk for Israel 3 years ago before he was considering running for office. The Jews in Chicago stand with him and Rabbi Hirshfield can invite boo-hoo Hilary over for coffee and dessert.

I am not impressed....Barack Hussein Obama was preaching to the "choir" so to speak. He said everything that the Jewish community wanted to hear. If he gives this same speech to a Muslim organization/audience then I might think he is acually telling the truth. To quote Rueven Koret of Israelinsider.com (March 27,2008) Barack "IS a changeling, a veritable chameleon, adapting his life story" (and in this case his ideology) "to fit the circumstances".

Hilary Sylvester

Rabbi Hirshfield is very wrong if he thinks most Jews don't know what Tikkun Olam is. That is one of the first things I learned when I committed to convert over 25 years ago. It is also one of the first things we teach in Hebrew school.

As for Obama, he will say whatever the audience he's currently speaking to, wants to hear. He's trying to be all things to everybody and that never works. He changes to suit whoevery he's talking to.

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SAYING WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND SIMPLY TELLING A GROUP WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR! SEN. OBAMA HAS ENOUGH LEFT LEANING ENTANGLEMENTS TO MAKE ME WONDER! IS HE SINCERE IN HIS SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AS A JEWISH STATE? OR IS THAT SIMPLY AN ATTEMPT TO SOOTHE THE JEWISH COMMUNITY INTO SUPPORT FOR HIS CANIDICY? AS A JEW AND SUPPORTER OF ISRAEL I HAVE TO WONDER. I STILL DO NOT FEEL SECURE THAT HIS "SUPPORT" IS NOTHING MORE THAN VERBIAGE. I AM GLAD THAT HE SEEMS TO HAVE AT LEAST READ TIKKUN MAGAZINE. NOW LET ME HERE MORE THA CLICHES AND PANDERING. CONVINCE ME THAT YOU RECOGNIZE THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE IN THE WORLD AND THE UNITED STATES. THE HOLOCAUST IS MORE THAN A MEMORIAL BUT THE LIVING MEMORY OF IRRATIONAL HATE AND OPPRESION A HATE AND OPPRESION THAT STILL LIVES IN MUCH OF THE MODERN ARAB WORLD. SENATOR OBAMA WILL HAVE TO DO MUCH MORE IF HE WANTS MY VOTE!

Unfortunately, Abraham's descendants must come together at some point in time. I am not sure that it will happen in our lifetime. Palestine must have the right to statehood somehow, and act as a sovereign nation, respecting the right of Israel to exist, even though they stayed at home while the Israelites were elsewhere off the African Continent. I think that is the crux of the issues. They hate America, the U.K., and other non-Moslem countries because they stand behind Israel in everything it does, as a matter of fact, helping to bear responsibility for Israel's re-establishment 60 years ago. How will you ever handle that to their satisfaction? Harvard graduates do not understand, comprehend or have a plan for everything.

Speaking of the Holocaust, it was a horrible thing, and should have never happened, but considering what happened to the Africans and the Middle Passage, their enslavement, and for us as a race to still be treated without having the same regard and respect as persons from other nationalities, my issue is that your story gets told, while we are encouraged to put that behind us. We want our time on the "stage," too. I guess our demands are not heard due to the lack of economic strength.

God bless you to find the right solution.

That Obama gave a speech to AIPAC long on rhetoric and short on specifics is no shock. All politicans who speak in these kinds of addresses are not in a position to go into details. In addition, a lot of the details are contingent on the state of affairs when he enters office. What is important is that he painted a broad picture of support for Israel. Short on details perhaps, but so was George Bush when he ran. As it turns out, Bush's pro Israel instincts, which I believe were sincere, did not lead to any policies that were any better than his predecessors of either party. Instincts can only take you so far. I give Obama credit for saying that his instincts are with Israel. Now we have to see if he is smart enough and tough enough to know how to thread the needle on some particularly thorny issues. I think he is. That's why I supported him.

Obama and McCain
By Thomas Sowell (one of America's greatest BLACK writers)
www.JewishWorldReview.com |

Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober— if not grim— assessment of where we are.

Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home.

This year, none of us has that luxury. While all sorts of gushing is going on in the media, and posturing is going on in politics, the biggest national sponsor of terrorism in the world— Iran— is moving step by step toward building a nuclear bomb.

The point when they get that bomb will be the point of no return. Iran's nuclear bomb will be the terrorists' nuclear bomb— and they can make 9/11 look like child's play.

All the options that are on the table right now will be swept off the table forever. Our choices will be to give in to whatever the terrorists demand— however outrageous those demands might be— or to risk seeing American cities start disappearing in radioactive mushroom clouds.

All the things we are preoccupied with today, from the price of gasoline to health care to global warming, will suddenly no longer matter.

Just as the Nazis did not find it enough to simply kill people in their concentration camps, but had to humiliate and dehumanize them first, so we can expect terrorists with nuclear weapons to both humiliate us and force us to humiliate ourselves, before they finally start killing us.

They have already telegraphed their punches with their sadistic beheadings of innocent civilians, and with the popularity of videotapes of those beheadings in the Middle East.

They have already telegraphed their intention to dictate to us with such things as Osama bin Laden's threats to target those places in America that did not vote the way he prescribed in the 2004 elections. He could not back up those threats then but he may be able to in a very few years.

The terrorists have given us as clear a picture of what they are all about as Adolf Hitler and the Nazis did during the 1930s— and our "leaders" and intelligentsia have ignored the warning signs as resolutely as the "leaders" and intelligentsia of the 1930s downplayed the dangers of Hitler.

We are much like people drifting down the Niagara River, oblivious to the waterfalls up ahead. Once we go over those falls, we cannot come back up again.

What does this have to do with today's presidential candidates? It has everything to do with them.

One of these candidates will determine what we are going to do to stop Iran from going nuclear— or whether we are going to do anything other than talk, as Western leaders talked in the 1930s.

There is one big difference between now and the 1930s. Although the West's lack of military preparedness and its political irresolution led to three solid years of devastating losses to Nazi Germany and imperial Japan, nevertheless when all the West's industrial and military forces were finally mobilized, the democracies were able to turn the tide and win decisively.

But you cannot lose a nuclear war for three years and then come back. You cannot even sustain the will to resist for three years when you are first broken down morally by threats and then devastated by nuclear bombs.

Our one window of opportunity to prevent this will occur within the term of whoever becomes President of the United States next January.

At a time like this, we do not have the luxury of waiting for our ideal candidate or of indulging our emotions by voting for some third party candidate to show our displeasure— at the cost of putting someone in the White House who is not up to the job.

Senator John McCain has been criticized in this column many times. But, when all is said and done, Senator McCain has not spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America.

On the contrary, he has paid a huge price for resisting our enemies, even when they held him prisoner and tortured him. The choice between him and Barack Obama should be a no-brainer.

I agree with Mr. Cohn above, how can we even entertain a vote for Obama when his affiliations speak volumes as to what he is really about!!! Who else who obviously has been positioning himself for a presidential run would keep a "very good friend" in the former leaders of the weather underground? How arrogant is this man? And to say that he cares about Israel would be nothing more than a lie, he intends to stop this war and bail out and never look back accept to invite the very people who would like to see us all die a slow painful death to dinner, just as he does with his good friend once a month from the weather underground. This man sat in a church like a potted plant and did not say a word while his preacher indoctrinated his children and family members with hate and paranoia. He has no backbone of his own if he didn't say anythnig against this and yet people think he will stand up for Israel? Yet McCain has fought for this country, he is current with the state of affairs in Israel and the Middle East, he understands what is involved in War and he appreciates the death tolls, his son is over there now fighting this fight, and it troubles me that this community would even entertain a vote for Obama when you know after listening to him and deep down that he will not and does not support Israel as an Independent Nation

It sounds to me as if Husein Obama has gotten himself a few new spin doctors to pass on his own version of bait and switch. Since he has distanced himself from the congregational views of his own pastor, I feel that he is hiding is own adgenda and attempting to appease all - a typical politician with no integrity.

Obama is not to be trusted. He has surrounded himself with anti-Semites, racists and anti-Americans for decades. He thinks that we are so stupid that we will believe that he never knew about Rev. Wright's opinions. Obama was correct about one thing; millions of Americans have proven to be that stupid. Obama joined that specific church and associated with other Chicago racists and anti-Semites because he thought it would help his career --- and it did.

Seventy years ago millions of us Jews said, "No One would be so foolish as to kill all of us. Many said that the Nazis would not murder Jews who were producing material for the war, that the Nazis would not divert effort away from the war in order to murder more Jews." Thus, before the war and during the war, many of us Jews did nothing. I am focusing on us Jews and not on Obama. I am focusing on our Jewish myopia and our Jewish naive wish that the world were different.

During the war with Hezbollah, how many Democrats spoke out to support Israel? Almost none! The silent ones include Sen. Finestein and Sen. Boxer of California. Even Rep Waxman was silent. I know as these were my Senators and Rep and I wrote to them asking for statements of support for Israel and I received NOTHING from any of them. I noticed a small handful of Jewish Democrats in New York speak out but they were from districts that were overwhelming Jewish.

Jews should wake up and realize that the Democrats have already abandoned Israel and Obama falls dead center in the Democrat Camp is that is most vehemently anti-Semitic. One-Third of world Jewry was lost the last time we chose to be naive. Now that we know that it can happened and events are linig up for another Holocaust, millions of American Jews are chosing to again be naive.

Hillary Clinton will make a formal announcement on Saturday of her plans and I do not believe that she plans to give up her delegates which means that she will go to the convention. She has recieved over 18 million votes which are more votes that any candidate ever in a Primary race and more votes than Obama recieved. I believe that she needs only two thirds of the delegate votes to go to the Convention which she has and she does not plan to give up and throw in the towel. The undecided delegates and Superdelegates can be swayed at the convention and history has proved that at previous Conventions. These delegates have the right to vote for who they believe is the best candidate for the country. Please contact her at HillaryClinton.com if you are interested in going on line at 12:00 noon EST on Sat to see her and/or supporting her in anyway. She most likely will hang on to her delegates which also will help her to get the V.P. candidacy.
Hillary is interested in keeping the Democratic Party together and Hillary Clinton voters are not willing to vote for Obama. It is possible that she could run on another ticket or that she will be the VP candidate or that she will drop out and go back to being a Senator. As she says, "My life is blessed." If she is not on the ticket, I believe that Obama will loose. Ralph Nader is a candidate that I am looking at because he has started the process of Impeachment of G. W. Bush as he has submitted enough signatures two weeks ago.

Hillary sent out the following message:

Dear Friend,

I wanted you to be one of the first to know: on Saturday, I will hold an event in Washington D.C. to thank everyone who has supported my campaign. Over the course of the last 16 months, I have been privileged and touched to witness the incredible dedication and sacrifice of so many people working for our campaign. Every minute you put into helping us win, every dollar you gave to keep up the fight meant more to me than I can ever possibly tell you.

On Saturday, I will extend my congratulations to Senator Obama and my support for his candidacy. This has been a long and hard-fought campaign, but as I have always said, my differences with Senator Obama are small compared to the differences we have with Senator McCain and the Republicans.

I have said throughout the campaign that I would strongly support Senator Obama if he were the Democratic Party's nominee, and I intend to deliver on that promise.

When I decided to run for president, I knew exactly why I was getting into this race: to work hard every day for the millions of Americans who need a voice in the White House.

I made you -- and everyone who supported me -- a promise: to stand up for our shared values and to never back down. I'm going to keep that promise today, tomorrow, and for the rest of my life.

I will be speaking on Saturday about how together we can rally the party behind Senator Obama. The stakes are too high and the task before us too important to do otherwise.

I know as I continue my lifelong work for a stronger America and a better world, I will turn to you for the support, the strength, and the commitment that you have shown me in the past 16 months. And I will always keep faith with the issues and causes that are important to you.

In the past few days, you have shown that support once again with hundreds of thousands of messages to the campaign, and again, I am touched by your thoughtfulness and kindness.

I can never possibly express my gratitude, so let me say simply, thank you.

Sincerely,

Hillary

Hillary Rodham Clinton

One of the specific things that Obama *did* say in his AIPAC speech was that he would do whatever is needed to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. That sounds specific enough for me. And maybe meeting Iran's little hitler face-to-face and letting him see the determination in America's eyes will get the message across, it certainly couldn't make matters worse. Remember how many of us (myself included) were upset that Columbia University allowed little hitler to come and speak there -- and how that developed into a public exposure of his moral and intellectual bankruptcy. Turn on the light, and the cockroaches turn and run.

Mr. Cohn, your nuclear terrorism scenario is very real. But your statement, in all but so many words, that Obama will allow Iran to get nuclear weapons is either ignorance or a deliberate falsehood. The politics of smear and fear is not what this country needs right now.

I find it incredible, that anyone does not yet understand that the U.S. presence in Iraq is the best recruiting poster for Hamas and Hizbollah and Al Qaida. There *was* no Al Qaida in Iraq before we invaded!!! The Pentagon itself has acknowledged that our ability to respond to crises elsewhere in the world has been gravely reduced because of the resources that are tied up there. McCain wants to continue that presence indefinitely. I absolutely agree that we must fight terrorism -- and I think that the stakes are too high for wasteful, if not counter-productive, strategies to be pursued as we are doing now. If we had sent half of the Iraq contingent to Afghanistan, isn't it likely that we would have been able to turn over enough rocks to find the one under which Bin Laden is hiding?

The "Big Lie" was a favorite tactic of the Nazis. I find it not only ironic but shameful, that Jews are using this tactic against Obama.

I have read a lot of the comments. I cannot believe how decisive each person believes himself to be. Also in all the years I have been voting I have never heard so much blatant rhetoric about the faults of the president. The reason we have primaries and voting is to elect a president. This campaigning is only to see what they would do if elected. It is a long drawn out job application. Settle down, relax, breathe deep and really look at what is happening. Obama came out of nowhere! He is able because of his public speaking skills to make you think that he will do wondrous miracles if elected. If you were interviewing a candidate for a job would you not want to know where they had been and why??? When he speaks the crowds go wild, applaud and jump up and down. When he is finished what has he really said??? If he didn't know what Mr. Wright (and I don't call him Rev.) was preaching, he didn't know who Farrakhan was, didn't know what the "terrorist" was up to, he thinks he can walk right up to Achmadinijad and say "no", paleeze people wake up!!!!! Now he "leaves" the church after listening to this tyrannical bully not because he disagrees but becuase it is the right thing to do? Think about what he will do in the white house, Ignore for 20 years the poor and middle class becuase it is the "right" thing to do?? Make us all pay for health care just so congress can say they did something. Take us out of Irag and let the world know we "cut and run" As for Hillary, well I am glad she lost, we didnt need a co-presidencey. Bill can't keep his mouth and other things shut so why would he if she was elected?? I am not so sure about McCain, however he is older and more experienced and perhaps will bring some Reagan calmness to the white house.

All I can say is, all of Abraham's descendants must come together. It might not be during our lifetime, but it must happen. What must happen is someone must be able to articulate to the Palestinians how they must learn to live in peace with their relatives who left Africa and stayed until 60 years ago. Then, with the assistance of England, the U.S. and the U.N., you all went back outside of the Gaza Strip. After the 6-day war, you all then had that land. The problem is, where you wanted to build was along the area where your relatives stayed and "mined the camp" for all of the years you were gone. You have cut off families from each other, and some of them live in poverty while you have an economy of plenty. There is a saying that no two things can occupy the same space at the same time - that is the situation.

The U.S. and others call the Palestinians terrorists, but when you consider the whole situation, they are angry because everyone seem to defend Israel's right to do whatever it wants to do. They do not have the might that you have with your military, so they do what they do, unfortunately.

Someone must speak up and try to balance the situation between the two brothers descendants, but it has pushed options into the corner unless Israel is willing to make a lot of concessions, too. A lot of forgiveness work must be done somehow. I know the issue about the "inheritence of the Birthright" story, so don't think I do not.

I have wondered why you did not challenge Persia (now Iran) for the Northern Kingdom if you wanted to go back; it would have been better than what exists now with them threatning Israel with Nuclear Bombs.
They seem to be very angry - they obviously never forgot the battle, and subsequent victory, which resulted in Israel not having a home until 60 years ago, anyway.

There are some things that even a Harvard educated lawyer do not have a plan nor equitable solution to effect, unless, like the Pope, he has a "direct line to God," where he receives directions. I think he would have to move beyond "motivation" and become a whole lot more spiritual to do that.

God bless you in "fixing" the problem so the world can live in some peace sooner than later.

Here is my question. Do we want a Republican picking the next Supreme Court Justices or do we want a Democrat?

I can't imagine any candidate revealing detailed plans to implement a sustainable peace in the Middle East at this moment in the campaign.
Why do you expect this now?

I think it is hilarious how the far left absolutely love Obama, a candidate who fervently talks about god and religion, who in so many states passes out fliers with him standing before a church with a huge cross in the background and the word God printed on them...Now looking back not so long ago these same "left wingers" criticized Huckabee for appearing before a bookcase that "looked like a cross" and demonized the Bush administration for 8 years for his strong christian beliefs. So if a republican believes in God he is a brainwashed, racist, bigot who oppresses gays and non-believers...but if a liberal believes in God then all is o.k.?

Just a reminder to all you liberals on double standards :)