Obama's Acceptance Speech and The Islamophobic Smear Campaign
Friday August 29, 2008
If Barack Obama were a doctor, he would get an A for diagnostic skill and a C for his ability to prescribe treatment. His acceptance speech last night was no different -- a grand expression of each of those traits....
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Author, radio and TV talk show host, and President of CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, Brad Hirschfield is the author of You Don’t Have To Be Wrong For Me To Be Right: Finding Faith Without Fanaticism. Listed as one of the nation’s 50 most influential rabbis in Newsweek, and a regular commentator on Court TV, he is the creator of the popular series, Building Bridges, airing on Bridges TV, and the co-host of the weekly radio show, Hirschfield and Kula. More About Brad
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you must a little sick in your not to understand the clear speach of obama,and very blind to see the truth,the world can`t move the way it should with people like bush and the team(republicans)or are you just a racist?can`t you see the mess bush has done around the world?
That he is part African is one strike against him, that his father is a Muslim, another. That he was raised in Hawaii (too paradisical?) and went to Harvard (too elite?) just add to the ire of xenophobes. But, with his visit to the Wailing Wall, do those idiots or others nearby think he is secretly Jewish too?
OY!
I hope America doesn't succumb to the idiots, bigots, xenophobes and similar ilk.
The first step is identifying the issues, without it we go nowhere. Most of us admit Obama did that flawlessly.
If he gets elected he will come to the crossroad where the realities of a limited budget will kick in. I believe if he will apply to that the same brain he applied to running his campaign and fund raising the US will do fine.
Talking about it as class warfare is sloppy journalism.
Investments that make it easier for small business owners and
middle class workers to prosper will create budget surpluses, just like when Bill Clinton was president. Obama was clear that it is not government's responsibility, it is our individual and collective responsibility.
either last night was pandering, which I do not believe, or it was a gentle pitch for the kind of class-warfare based redistributionist policy in which he genuinely believes
Class warfare? How many tax $ leave the country because the extremely rich and large corporations have the flexibility and money to hire clever accountants to hide money or make it in less-taxed ways? Hard to say for sure, but a journalist who likes to accuse others of "class warfare" ought to be able to come up with a well researched estimate (yes, call me lazy, but this sort of thing isn't my job - its yours, and you'll do it if you're intellectually honest about the "class warfare" tag). How does this sort of thing shift the tax burden? Straight onto the lower classes, of course. Close down the loopholes that allow the rich to hide their money from the IRS (yes, that is a tax increase of sorts), focus IRS resources primarily on prosecuting the greatest violaters of tax law (as was the case before Bush), and the budget situation would look a whole lot rosier. Maybe enough to pay for some of Obama's ideas. Get out of Iraq in a few yrs and maybe we can pay for all of them.
Raising taxes on bigger businesses will contribute to those businesses either going overseas or downsizing. This is just one of the flaws in O'Bama's way of thinking. O'Bama's goal is to have a socialistic society, in which wealth is unfairly redistributed. This is not how America was built. It is not the duty of responsible, hard-working and prosperous people to support those who are not willing to work, and/or who have less.
Rabbi Brad -
I commend you for one of the finest articles I have read on the subject. Thank You!
Jeremiah
"being a Muslim.. is a smear"
Is it?
Hmmmmm Ive been following Mr. Obama's comments one I found very interesting to say the least he said quote unquote that he would lower taxes by 95% then just last night I heard that he was going to lower it 75%,,,,,,WOW!! amazing that no other presidential elective has ever thought about that well what I would like to know is where does he think that the money is coming from???? HMMMMM prabably the ones who are struggling to make ends meet he sounds so glamorous like he reall knows what he is talking about it's one thing to have charisma and it's totally another that when the cameras go off hmmmm what other thing should I say to the american people now lets see 95% lower taxes or 75% lower taxes for the people there buying everything else I'm saying so I'm really gonna wow them and see if they take the bait!!!
Come on people wake up stop walking around in the valley of darkness and pray for a Saul experience !!!!
Have we forgotten as well that he put his HAND on the KARAN when he was sworn in as a senator now if people still beleive that he is not a muslim then they are truly blind (it was televised)if he is a christian he wouldve never swore allegance to the Karan I don't care what he says. zThe blind lead the blind then they all fall into the pit.
If people really want to know what to do find christ jesus seek a personal relationship with him he will place the leaders where they need to be placed for his purposes!
Repent for the kingdom of the Lordis at hand!!
2Joel 12-17
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