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The Spectacle Blog
For years now it has been clear that Barack Obama is unusually hostile to the state of Israel and unusually sympathetic to or admiring of anti-Semites such as Rashid Khalidi. Indeed, Obama’s numerous associations with people of anti-Jewish or radically anti-Zionist bent are beyond worrisome; they are an affont. One would think that a president wanting to dispel an impression of hostility toward Jews and Israel would be sure not to appoint as Secretary of Defense or Secretary of State a person with a long public record of insulting Jews, belittling Israel, and even refusing to condemn or act against anti-Semitic terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah or against anti-Semitic terrorist states such as Iran.
For such a president, then, to nominate such a man, in this case former U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, to be Secretary of Defense, is for the president to shout from the rooftops that he cares not a whit for the concerns that his own actions and attitudes have raised.
Chuck Hagel is a despicable choice for the Pentagon post. Barack Obama is despicable for having made such a choice.
Does that prove that Obama himself is anti-Zionist or, worse, anti-Semitic? No.
But, combined with Obama’s long record, it certainly makes it legitimate to raise the question.
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Mike W| 1.7.13 @ 1:25PM
You post irrational, senseless trash and you slander a real American combat vet.
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 1:27PM
McCain was a Vietnam combat vet, too, and his campaign sucked.
Hagel did great service to our country in uniform. Out of uniform, he's worthless.
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 1:28PM
Mike W: explainALL the reasons why it would be good for the guys who illegally occupied our embassy in 1979 and who have killed thousands of Americans since to have a nuke, please. Hagel supports that.
Jack in Wi| 1.7.13 @ 7:04PM
Occam: No American hostage died in the 1979 embassy flap. How many Americans died and were wounded in the criminal and dastardly attack on the USS Liberty? The place to bomb is Tel Aviv, not Tehren if we go by body count. It is time to make peace with Iran. It is too bad Obama will get the credit if it happens. The Packers rule, as usual. The Queens go down yet again.
Bob Grant| 1.8.13 @ 12:18PM
Jack,
It's time to make peace with the mullahs?
For empty slogans, it sounds great but could I bother you with specifics on how that would be accomplished?
Jack in Wi| 1.7.13 @ 4:56PM
Baloney Occam: Hagel is just a realist. He will grovel enough to the Israeli lobby and the homosexual lobby to get the job. Obama wants to cut the defense budget and Hagel will be the point man. As for Obama being anti semite, phooey. He has been in their pocket ever since he got into politics. They have made him a rich man and will make him far richer in the future. This whole scenario, was plotted out and approved by Obama's Jewish advisors and supporters. It's pretty smart politics. It has the Republicans looking like warmongers again. I missed the Viqueen Packer game yesterday. Who won?
rubbersole| 1.7.13 @ 5:16PM
"As for Obama being anti semite, phooey. He has been in their pocket ever since he got into politics."
Quite a difference between American Jews and Israeli Jews. See the column by Ben Stein on this site, under "Latest Headlines".
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:00AM
Jack: the day I want your opinion on what constitutes antisemitism, the Fighting Irish will beat Alabama.You are an idiot, not fit to be around children.
You haven't been paying attention to who is supplying the guys killing our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, Jack. But I expect that of you.
Jack in Wi| 1.8.13 @ 1:09AM
Most of the stuff killing our troops in Afganistan comes from our allies, the Afgan government troops. It also comes from our allies in Pakistan. the Russians are giving some as well. It is payback for our helping the Afgani's against them in the 80's.
TSIndiana| 2.4.13 @ 10:46AM
I guess the US re-opening poppy farming in Afganistan so heroin can go into Russia has nothing to do with it.
Teflon93 | 1.7.13 @ 2:40PM
Hagel slanders himself with his hatred of Jews.
He is a scumbag.
TSIndiana| 2.4.13 @ 10:47AM
Your shit may not stick "teflon", but it does stink.
Crassus| 1.7.13 @ 2:58PM
John Murtha was a combat vet too. Hell, even Ted Kennedy did a hitch in the Army. Get off your high horse, Junior.
CJW| 1.7.13 @ 3:16PM
Jean Kerry did a couple of months in Vietnam, with a camera crew following him, then came home to defame the military, accusing them of war crimes. And he pretended to throw away his medals.
Aljazeera Gore was a photographer in Vietnam, but lied and said he fought in the "tall grass". Now he sold his cable company to Jihadi News. Another Tokyo Rose?
Al Adab| 1.8.13 @ 11:19AM
Hagel and Brennan? Obama is rubbing our nose in the filth of his electoral victory. No traitor too vile to pass over.
Quartermaster| 1.8.13 @ 5:40PM
Gore was the only enlisted man in Vietnam with a body guard. Francois Kerry went in so he could maintain his political viability as did Teddy Kennedy and a number of others. Most did soft time with little chance of getting killed or seriously wounded.
JP| 1.7.13 @ 3:12PM
Since when do you people like you care about combat vets. John Francois Kerry was a "combat" vet too. And look how he turned out. Timothy McVeigh was a combat vet.
Dai Alanye | 1.7.13 @ 11:23PM
Lest we forget, Benedict Arnold was a combat vet, too. As was Hitler, Mussolini, Genghis Khan and any number of other fine gentlemen.
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 1:26PM
Let's see: pals with PLO scum? Check. Pastor flagrant antisemite? Check. Constantly pushing on Israel to go to "Auschwitz" borders? Check.Thinks he knows more about Judaism than any previous President, including Thomas Jefferson? Check. Doing everything he can to see that Hamas stays in power? Check. Letting Iran get the bomb? Check.
Smells pretty bad to me. He will be a good bookend to Jimmy Carter when he leaves office.
Oh, and to the William Rs of this world---Quin ain't Jewish. A "Righteous Gentile" yes, but no Jew. The kind of guy we wish WAS Jewish, like Jon Voight, but unfortunately for us, NOT Jewish.
R Martin| 1.8.13 @ 8:41AM
I would add "Farrakhan sympathy" to your list. That old saying about resemblence to certain web-footed fowl being reality applies here. Obama is a flaming antisemite, and he cares little about concealing it.
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 1:42PM
Finally, Mike: The Iranian Official Press has come out in favor of Hagel's nomination, as has Michael Moore.
Are you feeling the fleas yet, Mike? Your bedfellows sure are some mangy dogs.
Maxwell| 1.7.13 @ 2:12PM
Darn Occam, you gave me the afternoon energy pick-me-up. If there was a TLP award for good daily comments, you got it today.
And by the way, I really do not like flees, much prefer metal.
Occam's Tool| 1.7.13 @ 3:26PM
Thank you so much, sir. You do beautiful work, Maxwell.
C Bowen | 1.7.13 @ 5:48PM
Occam;
Anyone who doesn't want, in your words, to:
"Without pity, remorse, or mercy. At minimal cost in American dollars and lives. Leave them poisoned, deformed, crying, and broken in spirit, soul, and mind. Make their survivors build the Mexican wall for us, without pay, under the lash. Let their future be a boot crashing down on a human face, forever."
...is an anti-Semite right?
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:06AM
Cross my country, you die, Bowen. Kill 3000 innocent American lives, and by the ratio they set themselves, they are owed at least 1,000 to one. (Palestinian Terrorists in exchange for Private Shalit.)
We've already paid for the nukes and the delivery platforms. I assume you are not protesting the financial cost. But anyone who would behead a child of mine and pass out candy should die slain.
C Bowen | 1.8.13 @ 8:24PM
You are a sick person, Occam. Typical of the "doctors" who get licensed under Obama.
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 9:22PM
Didn't get licensed under Obama. Licensed long, long before.
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:11AM
You keep on defending those who would butcher American civilians whithout warning in the most cowardly way imaginable, Bowen. I keep on saying let's kill them. I will never apologize for wanting to see the enemies of my country dead.
TSIndiana| 2.4.13 @ 10:50AM
I came across this:
Shalom,
It is time for all Non-Zionist Jews to cleanse the world free of Zionism or this suicide machine called Zionism will destroy all Jews.
There is an old saying by the sages, if there is smoke there is fire. First they tried to say Zionism is a lie and yet we are seeing it's results. Second they tried to bully and intimidate those who tried to expose them for what they are while carefully censoring the fact that not all jews are zionists and many jews are in fact against zionism. Third they manipulate other nations to do their bidding while falsely saying it is being done in our name which makes us vomit at their abhorrent behaviour and claim. Fourth they tried all tricks in the book to manipulate the media to spread false news, disinformation, misinformation, divertionary decoys at the expense of others.
And now they want to repeat the same mistakes that took millions of innoccent jewish lives in World War II. How many times does it take to tell these Zionist to stop adding and feeding more jewish lives into their sacrificial suicide machine called Zionism for political gain?
To all Non-Zionist Jews, save your lives by cleansing the world of Zionism before it provokes the world again against all innoccent jews. We have lost so many of our fellow Jews in World War II, we must stop them from adding our jewish and christian and muslim, etc, lives into their death machine called Zionism.
Shalom!
William R| 1.7.13 @ 3:43PM
You're pathetic Hillyer. People like you are destroying conservatism. Hagel has no record of hostility towards Israel. None, Zilch. Nothing. I wish he did, because President Regan sure did.
If Obama Treated Israel like Reagan did he would be impeached
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/w.....d-1.400542
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:09AM
Ha'aretz is Lefty to the extreme.
Reagan stood for Freedom. He would have done better not protecting Yasser Arafat, and his view of the Osirak takeout was wrong. But he stood for Freedom, and that overrode much.
Frog in Uniform | 1.7.13 @ 4:49PM
I don't think Haaretz got it right. Reagan was a friend of Israel's. His record speaks for itself.
Your current president would never have arrested Leo Klinghoffer's killers, or bombed Tripoli. He had to walk a tightrope with Middle East nations while bleeding the Evil Empire to death.
William R| 1.7.13 @ 5:56PM
Reagan tolerated Israel, but he had repeated clashes with its leaders. In fact in his memoirs Reagan wrote that the best policy for the United States in the Middle East is neutrality.
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:06AM
My favorite amphibian gets it right again!
Frog in Uniform | 1.7.13 @ 4:55PM
And speaking of antizionism, I consider it as an avatar of antisemitism. You never have to scratch an antiZ for too long before revealing the antiS lying underneath. An antiZ is not only anybody opposed to Israel, but anybody opposed to the very presence of Jews outside Patagonia. I see that everyday in Frogland: Every opponent to the existence of Israel would be opposed to have Israeli refugees looking for shelter in Frogland.
Quartermaster| 1.8.13 @ 5:46PM
How ignorant. I suppose those Orthodox Jews who are anti-Zionist, which they overwhelmingly are, are anti-Semitic. Sometime, read the Old Testament. God gets as anti-Semitic as you can get.
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 9:24PM
Minority of Orthodox are antizionist. WHY DO YOU THINK THE ISRAELI ARMY SERVES ONLY KOSHER FOOD, QM? FOR A QM, YOU DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT LOGISTICS. AND YES, I'M YELLING AT YOU. Majority of Orthodox are Conservative and Zionist.
C Bowen | 1.7.13 @ 5:45PM
"Chuck Hagel is a despicable choice for the Pentagon post"
Coming from Quin who thinks Iraq really did have WMDs (LOL) and sites a Saddam done 9/11 conspiracy theorist as his source, the comment on Hagel means nothing.
Teflon93 | 1.7.13 @ 7:10PM
Hey genius---we found WMDs in Iraq. Learn how to Google.
Teflon93 | 1.7.13 @ 7:14PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....00530.html
http://www.wnd.com/2006/06/36714/
Teflon93 | 1.7.13 @ 7:15PM
http://www.khouse.org/enews_article/2006/1083/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81935,00.html
Teflon93 | 1.7.13 @ 7:15PM
http://www.wnd.com/2004/04/24352/
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/i.....7AZ3RO9qnM
C Bowen | 1.8.13 @ 4:37PM
LOL--Ken Timmerman? The JINSA guy? Too funny. Cuckoo-cuckoo.
C Bowen | 1.8.13 @ 4:35PM
Tinfoil hat conspiracy theories does not make it so.
You soccermoms wet the bed over Saddam and can't deal with your shame.
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 12:03AM
And the WMDs that are in Syria, including the chemical weapons---where do you think they came from, Bowen? I bet you put money on the Fighting Irish.
I look so forward to Aaron Rodgers getting sacked into retirement, Jack. Packers suck, as you do Jihadis.
C Bowen | 1.8.13 @ 4:36PM
You'd call a sling shot a WMD if it helped one of your genocidal rants.
Occam's Tool| 1.8.13 @ 9:26PM
Chemical weaponry our guys in Congress are worried will be used on the rebels.
Bowen, when do you come up for air from your joint male jihadist prostitute business with Jack?
C Bowen | 1.9.13 @ 4:46PM
Congress is concerned that Syria will use chemical weapons on Al Qaeda?
You keep defending the radical jihadists, Occam, and spreading tinfoil hat theories.
C Bowen | 1.9.13 @ 4:57PM
Quin, Occam and the Gay Lobby don't like Hagel--it's a Cheney family reunion of freaks and liars.
RAM| 1.8.13 @ 11:16AM
It really doesn't matter what names we call Obama in any policy context. Whatever the situation, he will try to create the greatest chaos and damage for America and its allies. I think even some Democrats in Congress are onto his game, not that they'd stick their necks out to do much.
Oldefarte| 1.9.13 @ 5:22PM
Which would be worse, Hagel or possibly Gore for Secretary of Defense? :
http://www.newsmax.com/FrankGa...../id/470632
Larry Johnston| 2.25.13 @ 5:46PM
How about now?
Barack Obama to receive Israel's presidential medal of distinction
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....istinction