Comments on: Obama’s Racist Friends?

By: Nigel Watkinson

Nigel Watkinson — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:22:45 +0000

Obama does not appear to be a racist, but his foreign policy adviser is Zbignew Breszinski, who hates Jews, and hates Israel, and also thinks we should allow Iran to have nukes, because we contained the Soviet Union for 20 plus years, and that worked, and therefore, we can contain Iran. That is how Zbignew thinks. This is the same man who was responsible for arming the mujahadeen in Afghanistan, in cahoots with the Saudi Arabians,
and also Zbig was the same National Security Adviser during the Carter Administration and the 400 plus days of the Iranian hostage crisis. This is the man, that Barak Obama has for a foreign affairs adviser.

By: abrisaham

abrisaham — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:36:38 +0000

admin: keep bashing Obama’s religion and you will get banned really quick admin: publicly arguing with the admins is not welcome

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:17:05 +0000

I know you cast doubt on it in the post itself, but the title should reflect some type of doubt too, especially coming from a source like this who is widely regarded as one of the least credible neo-con muckrackers around.

I edited the title but would emphasize that the credibility problem comes from the unsupported nature of the assertions and NOT from the assignment of the pejorative label "neo-con".

By: abrisaham

abrisaham — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:06:11 +0000

admin: keep bashing Obama’s religion and you will get banned really quick

By: abrisaham

abrisaham — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:33:25 +0000

admin: religious bigotry is not welcome here

By: Michael van der Galien

Michael van der Galien — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:09:42 +0000

Justin: I think that Jason is perfectly able to give titles to his post as he pleases. If you only read headlines, well, that’s your problem. We don’t tell you how to write headlines, do we? Perhaps you should focus a bit more on your own blog?

You can disagree with the title we give to posts, but "you should"this or that… That’s not your call. Clear?

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:00:56 +0000

Jason, you chided me for characterizing that all of PoliGazette was pushing a pro-Hillary blogger’s talking points instead of just Michael. You were right. So let me respectfully suggest that this title is very specifically saying that Schlussel’s accusations are true. I know you cast doubt on it in the post itself, but the title should reflect some type of doubt too, especially coming from a source like this who is widely regarded as one of the least credible neo-con muckrackers around.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:49:12 +0000

Oh and you might want to change the last bit of the post to "The critical report on Obama is rife with UNsupported assertions."

By: Claudia

Claudia — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:47:20 +0000

No Jason, the last rhetorical question was in no way directed at you, I’m sorry if I gave that impression. I’ve never seen anything of yours that would indicate that sort of attitude. It was more directed at people like Debbie.

As for Obama’s position on Israel, you can look here , here or here.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:32:29 +0000

I meant to question the credibility of the source myself, Claudia, and I have updated the post to do so.

I am strongly pro-Israel myself, but I am not one to equate all criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. If directed at me, I think your last rhetorical question is snide and unfair. I am nonetheless very concerned whenever a politician or analyst uses what I see as heavily biased standards that criticize Israel for everything they do while giving Palestinians a free pass on their leaders’ openly genocidal statements and actions. And I think it is clear from repeated statements that Nation of Islam does cross far over the line into outright anti-Semitism.

At a minimum, I would like Obama to clearly and unequivocally state his position on U.S. support for Israel in their continuing struggle against groups openly dedicated to Israel’s genocidal destruction. Once that has been established, I personally am prepared to accept all kinds of legitimate criticisms of Israeli policies and tactics. I believe we can legitimately criticize our friends as long as we make it clear that they remain our friends in this type of struggle.