House Republican Leaders Twist Obama Statement on Israel

… of course, Obama HAS had conversations with Hamas….. which has the obliteration of Israel high on it;s list of “things to do in our free time”….

well, considering obama has twisted mccain’s words on the “100 years war,” he deserves this. you cant claim victim status when you’re dishing the same filth.

im jewish and ill vote for mccain before ill vote for a recent friend of israel like obama.

BO was complaining about Hillary going negative; imagine what the Repubs are going to dish out (they are already starting). We get to listen to him whine for the next six months about how people are mistreating him. Oh what fun that will be.

eyes wide open: I’m aligning with you to support Hillary. Just like you, my eyes are also wide open to see all kinds of BS in the democratic party. I’ve decided to be an independent and will not cast my vote for Obama in GE. They played unfair and nasty games on us, then we screw them up.

Ultimately we must all place our faith in each other to know enough of the truth to place our votes. We hear the lies we want in our hearts to believe so that it justifies our preconceived notions. It is much harder to listen with open ears and an open mind.
This year, if the Republican’s best arguments are things like this, they will lose. Doesn’t matter if McCain is a nice guy – my read on the sentiment is to clean house.

EyesWideOpen NO THANK YOU What do you expect from the republicans Hilly gave them plenty of amo and he lived thro that and now on to the other side.You think they are running to HIlly over this…THINK AGAIN

Get use to it, your playing with the big boys now.

Obama is the nominee/ millions of scorned women will flock to the polls for revenge/ Hillary’s gonna fuss and scream till eyes bleed/ McCain will be the big winner in the end/ Rush is gonna gloat and take credit for manipulating women/ Hannity’s gonna keep on telling us we’re all good Americans except McCain / Lou Dobbs is gonna keep on saying “what on earth were they thinking”/ Bill Clinton speech money will really start rolling in/ the Iraq war will never end/ more wars will be waged and authorized/ no more tax cuts or tax roll backs/ our poor US education will continue unfunded/ oil company execs will celebrate/ Bush-anomics will continue under McCain/ more conservative supreme court judges will be appointed for decades to come/ no health care reform in our lifetimes/ the economy goes down the tank./ what a country.

The Republican attack machine is grasping at straws. Liberman came out and suggested Obama was for Death to America and Death to Israel on CNN today.
I am afraid everyone of them will find themselves out of a job shortly unless they come around. The old politics of preying on fear are dead. The American people demonstrated they are smarter than any previous election. Proof of that is what we saw happen to Clinton with her gas tax holiday pander in Indiana and NC.
Stay tuned because I would suggest that we may have the first presidential election in history where the Presidential candidate for one party will have a VP from the other party in both parties tickets.

Wow, I can’t believe how dishonest and unethical, the Republican house leadership is. McCain and his future running mate Leiberman apparently are just as dishonest. I would not vote for these war-mongering Bush flunkies under any circumstances. This is not just a distortion on the republicans part, it is a total fabrication. Thankfully, no one is stupid enough to fall for these lies.

By BRAD DAVIS (AP)
Associated Press
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — Everyone who knows 11-year-old Dalton Hatfield sees it. There’s something special about the young man. His mother Vickie says all who come in contact with the Kentucky elementary student look at him and say “He’s going to be something” when he grows up.
Apparently that goes for former presidents, too.
When Hatfield presented former President Bill Clinton with a check for $440 after Friday’s rally at the Williamson Fire Station, the man who was once the leader of the free world seemed to nearly come to tears.
“You sold your bike to get this?” Clinton asked the McAndrews, Ky. native.
The reply was “yes” and a whole lot more.
Hatfield feels so strongly that Hillary Clinton should be the next president he not only sold his bicycle, but video games and anything else he could find that “I could make money with” to donate to the former first lady’s bid for the Democratic nomination.
“I was thinking one day how could I make money for the campaign,” he says. “And I just went through my closet and found things I didn’t need.”
“I though he was raising vacation money,” says Vickie Hatfield, who along with Dalton’s father, Bruce Hatfield, accompanied him to the event. “When I found out it was for Hillary, I told him to go for it.”
The result was a donation that for the most part left the former president, who is known as a great communicator, speechless.

Jake, I would not worry about this at all. Obama’s infinite support by the Crown family will cover him beautifully on this issue as it has done in the past. If anyone is unfamiliar with the Crown Family of Chicago, just google it. They are a very influential Jewish family who have generously backed Obama for years. This is the Crown Family as in General Dynamics.

Yes we can what? Pull another Jimmy Carter?
If you want socialism, redistribution of wealth, taxes up a president that is supported by Hammas, one who won’t salute the flag, say the pledge or wear a flag pin, then vote Obama. You deserve what you vote for.

I don’t always agree with Jake but he is absolutely correct on this one.
Because unlike many I actually read the article hours before Jakes post and it actually goes to the core of Obamas politics & support of Jewish leaders. As an Independent i always try to keep an open mind.
Blind support leads to voting against your own interest.

personally i would trust the democratically elected government of palestine ie hamas before i would trust anything the israeli government said. talk to each other.

You yell loud and clear when someone ‘twist’ Obama’s statments but totally ignore such statements that twist what Senator Clinton has said. I sure can recognize bias when I see it.
Why would Obama speak before a muslim group asking for assistance for Palestine in 1990? This concern about Israel by Obama is just so much political rhetric.

Reading the posts here is more mind-scrubbing than, well, than listening to HRC defend her gas tax holiday. Anyone who can’t bring him- or herself to acknowledge that Boehner & Cantor are guilty as charged (“House Republican Leaders Twist Obama Statement on Israel”) should, I don’t know, give the rest of us a holiday from your rants and come back when you actually have something to defend.

Why is everyone so mean and nasty? How can we spread democracy when we are so intolerant of others opinions? Charity begins at home and then spreadeth abroad! We fiddle while Rome burns. This country will end up becoming irrelevant in the world while we just continue to bicker.

man, there are as many bs artists on this thread as there are in congress. i look forward to the coming republican diaspora in november. i think the whole world will appreciate the breath of fresh air.

I checked out John Boehner and Eric Cantor on Wikipedia and there’s some pretty funny stuff there (funny as in questionalble ethics, not funny as in ha-ha), referencedto reliable sources.
The Republicans have finished scraping the bottom of the barrel and are now cutting into the wood. Their remake of the McCarthy witch hunts (aka Six Degrees of Separation) didn’t work, so now they’re trying anti-Semitism. Just when you think they couldn’t sink any lower….
Jake said: “Voters may conclude that Republicans think they have to make things up to beat Obama. Which they don’t.”
Actually, they do. They’ve strayed so far from their own Party principles they have zero grounds to criticize Obama on anything. Boehner/Cantor would denounce Eisenhower and Goldwater (if they were around today) as flaming liberals, if not communists. They’ve lost the plot.

What? Since when Republicans twist anything?
I think we should really question Obama’s candidacy if even Republicans are reported to twist his words. … Oh, yeah. Don’t blame me, I’ll vote Hillary.

They’ll do anything to create a ‘he said’ ‘she said’ moment which will in itself obfuscate the truth of what ‘he actually said.’ And is it just me, or is the litmus test of SionSymbiosis being given only to Obama…oh wait, the press still has barbecue stains on its hands. Reality bites. Ribs get bitten.

Jo, I’m not dreaming about anything with this election. It is what it is.

“Republicans think they have to make things up to beat Obama. Which they don’t.”
You do opinion journalism now?

hopesprings52;
PLEASE don’t say you believe him:
The only commitment to Israel I could believe B O to hold would be the commitment to hand it over to Hamas!
If you want to ruin our country by voting for him, that’s your perogative..
but don’t foist him on the teeny little ccountry of Israel!
That’s NOT your right!

There has been an active disinformation campaign for months geared to painting Obama as an anti-semite.
In South Florida, which has a fairly good-size Jewish population, there’s a constant stream of letters to the editor from Jewish writers who have apparently been so deluded.
The reason is obvious…if the Republicans can get the Jewish voters, who mainly vote for Democrats, to believe these lies, it gives them an edge.
It’s all a huge lie, but that never stopped the Republicans. Some straight talk.

How anyone can honestly believe Obama is a change from the same old political games is beyond me. He said his association with Rezko was a ‘dumb’ decision, that he didn’t know Wright was a rascist, that he wasn’t putting down small town workers, that he wants a bipartisan administration.He was voted “Most Liberal Senator” title last year, he wants gun controls, made a deal with Rezko even while knowing Rezko was under investigation for corruption,lied about not knowing Wright’s agenda, and told a liberal San Francisco audience what they wanted to hear about rural ‘hicks’. He told Judicial Watch he had no records from his term in the Illinois legislature and is using a Madison Avenue slogan ‘Change We Can believe In’ to try to get in the White House. He comes from a wealthy Hawaiian family even though he tries to portray himself as one of the downtrodden. 100 years ago he would have been called a snake oil salesman.

dema
Hillary already HAS this edge!

In his first interview since the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, the presumptive Democratic nominee Obama says that the most important thing he could achieve as president would be to deal with Iraq and the threat of al Qai’da in Afghanistan while improving “our influence around the world.”
“On Israel’s 60th anniversary his target audience were America’s Jewish voters, some of whom have been a bit cool to him, in comparison to Hillary or McCain. It was no surprise then to hear Obama tell CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that when he is president America will stay glued to Israel, “not just for 60 years but for 600 years.”
Israel is not a political ball to be pandered and batted about by the highest bidder.
On another site, I believe it was the New YOrk SuN)I think I saw Obama dressed in robes and a crown and calling himself the king of the bile….. naah; probably just imagined it.
But the Jewish citizenry of this country is very protective of Israel, and will not put up with stupid comments which are unable to be supported….as in: “when he’s president
Israel will stay glued to us for 600 years”>
What? Is he going to change his name to Jonah?
And as of now he has not won or earned the presidency… though he really doesn’t care if all our countrymen get to vote for their very own nominee….
And frankly, Israel might not like being associated with anyone except Hillary Clinton.
The point of this rant is that Obama comes off ultra weak when it comes to diplomacy!
Which is why I continue to support Hillary Clinton!

I don’t think he loves the Israelis at all;
I think his heart is for the inhabitants of the other side of the (gaza) strip.
I think this is a vaudeville show played for an anticipated blizzard of votes.
I think he’ll be disappointed.
Many Jewish people will be voting for Hillary.
One of them will be me!

So many are not feeling the Obama love.
His chickens are coming home to roooooooooooooost!!!!!

There are many reasons why Clinton is losing the nomination contest, some having to do with her strategic mistakes, others with the groundswell for “change.” But for all Clinton’s political blemishes, the darker stain that has been exposed is the hatred of women that is accepted as a part of our culture.

Obama’s church is anti israel
So of course his basic feelings are going to be for how his church feels about israel.
Israel has been a long time allie to the US and should always remain one.
Whether obama’s church and UCC likes it or not.

I do not buy the comedy between Wright and Obama, they are still pals, they think alike and Obama should not be the Democrat nominee, he does not have a chance in the General Election. Twenty years supporting sermons of hate and he thinks we believe that now he is offended, and enraged? He is a phony and a hypocrite, the worst kind of politician. He sure learns fast Only five years and he is involved with radicals, launderer money through the law firm he worked for, did favors for rezko in exchange for campaign money and a front lawn, Sinclair rumor and all this while he looks down on regular Americans. Obama is the kind of politician we can’t believe.

Senator Obama is running for President of the United States of America. He is not running for prime minister of Israel (even though Olmert may be indicted soon).
It is subservience to Israel as demonstrated by John Boehner that makes America vulnerable for another terrorist attack
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The 9-11 Report stated that the attack on the WTC and the Pentagon was to protest the presence of U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and our support for Israel. Bin Laden pressed Mohammad to stage the attacks as early as mid-2000 after Ariel Sharon offended many Muslims by visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. He tried to accelerate the operation again when he learned Sharon would be visiting the White House in June or July 2001. We have removed our U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia and it would be prudent to stop supporting Israel if that support encourages another terrorist attack on our country! To jeopardize our security by supporting Israel is un-American!
Bin Laden was not ambiguous about the reasons for the 9-11 attack. We addressed one of his stated reasons – ‘we removed our forces from Saudi Arabia.’ Instead of addressing the second stated reason – ‘our support for Israel,’ our freedoms have been diminished through the PATRIOT ACT, which is un-American and citizens are being murdered and abused at airports by security personnel, telephone companies are providing information on customers, i.e., warrantless eavesdropping program for which they are seeking immunity, etc. This is unacceptable! Most of those who are eroding our cherished freedoms didn’t fight nor sacrifice for those freedoms. Our freedoms are not theirs to squander.
Israel is an albatross around the neck of America. Senator Obama has America’s best interest at heart. Rep. Boehner has Israel’s best interest at heart!
Chagrined

The jewish voters of america and Isreal heavily favor Obama.

The atricle staes, “House Minority Leader, John Boehner . . . .”
Is that a reference to a moron in charge of minor stupidity?
If he was elected from my State, I’d move.
This guy is truly a poster child for old style corrupt politics. A “constant sore” oozing on the face of our Constitution. There is no place for vermin like him in public service. If he worked for me, I’d hand him severence today!

SAME SET OF PEOPLE CONDEMING BUSH FOR GOING TO WAR IN IRAQ AND CHINA’S HUMAN RIGHT ISSUES IN TIBET ARE NOW SHOUTING THAT TO BECOME PRESIDENT YOU GOT TO PROMISE TO KILL MORE PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THERE RACE

Eyes Wide Open this is about the 10th blog where you have quote Hillary’s accomplishments. All you have mentioned was the 6,000,000 children who have healthcare. Did this healthcare plan include all 50 states? If so my kids did not get covered. Oh, yeah it must have been for the “hard-working white Americans”. I’m black so my kids don’t count!

Eyes Wide Open: you need glasses for those eyes. Hillary (61% find her dishonest, 40% won’t vote for her under any circumstances) would lose the General Election. As for Boehner and Cantor, all they have are lies and distractions because they have no answers to the real problems that Americans face.

LOL Like anyone who was voting for Obama to begin with would not see through this. I have no doubt that Motel 6 Bill or McCain (can anyone tell them apart these days?) made a phone call and this is the result. Some peon that thinks this will get him somewhere choses to lie. The people that put him in office? Will know this little matter the next time he runs ….bet on it.

I think Obama’s bigger problem is that he chose a church that honors and respects Louis Farrakhan.
Obama didn’t have the backbone or decency to speak up or walk out of that church…for 20 years!
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior (Dr.Phil).
Go WEST VIRGINIA Go Hillary

You have to love all the Hillary supporters on here… read through these comments…
The lies have now taken on there own life.
That is all they have to argue with.
Do they realize what a black spot they put on America? All of these lies people type…and they are out and out lies out of the worst side of being human… they are not “misinterpretations” or “hidden truths” that just the Clinton campaigns have discovered.
obama is a GREAT American…everything he has stood for and has been fighting for proves that. Just because he has taken down the woman you all blindly fawned for does not mean you can go to making up stories and tearing this country apart all for the sake of your anger and spite…that you didn’t get what you wanted…
soldiers are dying and being ignored when they come home
our budget is being destroyed by the Republican foreign policy stance
our countries dependence on foreign oil and that same foreign policy is making us less safe and less economically viable each and every day…
women’s reproductive rights are being threatened
the world is in peril
and you all want to spread more libelous, angry fantasy to make yourselves feel better because you are angry…
I am sure your children and grandchildren (and the soldiers who as we speak are being denied education benefits they deserve by that other candidate) they will all thank you for that.

Why do so many blue collar whites hate blacks so much? Why? Where is this anger coming from? I can’t believe that the press waited until today to start reporting what seemed so rampant to be out there canvassing for Obama. I am even afraid to make calls to areas densely populated by blue collar whites because i know the types of racist insults i get.

John Boehner (lol) aka Gomer Pile/Ted Knight’s love child…has finally had his brain effected by a combination of those sun lamps, the tanning products, and the fertilizers from the golf courses that all the foreign international lobbyists take him to.

Jake, the 100 years thing is completely accurate. You’re simply wrong on that point. There is no path to get from here to a post-WWII European-style deterrent-only situation which does not involve at least ten more years of guerilla warfare. The McCain doctrine has us in Iraq forever. Sure, he meant 100 years of the natives throwing roses at our feet, but that isn’t going to happen, ever. Isn’t that obvious — even to non-DFH’s — by now?

Why is West Virginia bothering to vote —Obama doesn’t care about any more primaries or what the people think. He has his delegate lead and some powerful people backing him. Forget Kentucky too…what is the point. All of the networks were excited about the primaries and posted info about them, now nothing. It is like the US has been taken over already and we do not have to go through the process or even vote–as Michelle Obama said last week…not if we get to the White House, but “when”.

Kentucky and West Virginia, the two states with the most people per capita with no teeth. No wonder they’re supporting Clinton.
BTW, I live in Kentucky.

The reality is that the Republicans have nothing on Obama so they have to lie and make up stories to create a narrative that once again appeals to Americans’ fears. The Republicans have become a party of losers, with no new ideas, no plans for the future of ALL Americans, just more Rovian name calling, association politics to deflect the vast nothingness of their own candidates and agenda. What a pathetic party they have become.

Thank you for printing the facts of this matter. There’s no way at all that a person can read the portion of the interview having to do with Israel and Palestine and NOT understand that Obama mean “the conflict” was “the wound.” The twisting of his words is desperation or sheer boneheadedness.

McCain’s reference to 100 years in Iraq is entirely in bounds. The fact is that McCain hasn’t presented any viable path to an Iraq occupation that wouldn’t have our troops in constant fighting. He’s even said in interviews that the Iraq situation is not comparable to Japan, Germany, or Korea. Late last year he acknowledged that the political and religious realities of the region wouldn’t support a long term occupation. So, why can’t he be called on his 100 year statement when it’s obviously a direct contradiction of his earlier position? Honestly, the media needs to stop playing so soft with McCain. I know he’s very friendly with reporters, but they need to stop letting that cloud their judgment.
As for the Boehner thing, it’s just detestable. He needs to step up and formally apologize for the statement when he retracts it.

Wow… it’s up close and personal now. The hidden racism in this country is gradually coming to light the closer Obama gets to the nomination. The thing I find most interesting is the fact that blacks can no more claim Obama than can whites. I guess that 1 drop rule applies. Obama is a great American and will make a great President for all of us. What will be will be and it won’t matter how many of you hate him because of his skin.

I am not surprised about GOPs legislators lying about anything these days, this country has endured eight years of a lying idiot and his lackeys. This is simply more of the same. Look at the lying flip-flopper that they are propping up to run for president. McCain had a chance back in 2000 when he WAS a maverick, now in 2008 he is nothing more than a Bush puppet.

Of all of the posts condemning Obama here today, the common thread is not one attempts to affirm what is right about McCain and his undefined vision for America. Simply believing that McCain is the better candidate because he is not Obama is hardly a winning strategy, but it seems to be the tact that the republicans will use, as they seem to have no other strategy to sell McCain or what he allegedly represents.
When the best argument that the republicans position for the candidancy of McCain is that he isn’t Obama, shows that they are in a very weak state. McCain should have spent his time during the Obama v. Clinton fight, to finely tune his message but what instead we see is a campaign that chooses to run only on the message of fear the ‘other’ guy. Something that Hannity and Limbaugh seems to wallow in, but who can’t come up with any valid reasons to support their guy in the age when the majority of Americans are seeking answers, not another round of divisive politics meant to sift out the worse of two evils.
Its time for the republicans to tell us why we should buy McCain, and they are running out of time spending their energy speaking about Obama.

I think it would be wise to vote all the Republicans out of office. Ever since Bush became the president, this country has gone in the wrong direction. Hopefully it can be put on the right track ..The soon the better.
The only other thing i can say is that all those that voted to put Bush back in office for a second term are people that are affected by “scare” methods.
marty

GOP wishes they had a candidate 1/10 as qualified, intelligent, well-spoken and charismatic as Obama.
GOP is perfectly represented by McCain – old, out of touch, moral compass missing its needle, tired, stupid and marinated in religious hypocrisy. Oh, and loves money so much he married it twice.

McCain has a Farrakhan… called Hagee… and he hugs him!

way too smart to ever vote Republican – Interesting What do you say when your whole Democrat party are out there twisting and lying about what McCain says!!
The have an ad out totally taking McCain out of Context, The Dems are the most elitist corrupt group I have ever seen!!
By the way the old saying is the young vote Democrat because they know no better, the wiser people vote Republican because the do know better!!

It amazes me that people know what the Republicans are doing and have become so terrified of them that they allow them to have all this power. These kinds of Republican methods are WRONG and the people have to tell them so. We are all allowing the BULLIES to control us. Democrats keep saying we should not select a nominee who we like and believe is a good candidate and would make a good President because,….the BULLIES will do something. Let’s ALL SHUDDER and HIDE IN FEAR.
Just stop the Bully by calling him out for goodness sakes!!!

Who has the jelly? Hillary is toast!

DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS – TAKE NOTICE
———–ROE v. WADE———–
Two of the current justices of the United States Supreme Court will probably retire within the next four years. One is 75 and the other is 84. This will give the new president the ability to nominate two new justices. If McCain is elected you can be sure the new justices will be just like Roberts, Scalia and Thomas: willing to overturn ROE v. WADE. So think when you vote!!!

If Obama had insulted the Jewish State it would have been a big step towards peace (and won him a few friends in the Middle East)

To Come on now, boy, you Clinton supporters will come up with anything to defend your candidate. Nice to see her supporters are following the GOP lead by making things up. Doesn’t surprise me though, Clintons campaign has been more like the Republicans than the Democrats anyway.

The Repulicans are going to fall to the same fate as HRC, because the are using a dated play book and not seeing that there has been a paradigm shift. Obama gets it….and will be rewarded.

Whew!! I’m so glad that I don’t live in America. I’m a Canadian who’ve always admired America and what I thought it stood for, but I’ve had a change of heart. Americans can be incredibly gullible, fickle and downright stupid. I read the news everyday as well as research to learn the truth and I find it hard to believe that Americans just believe what some twisted person chooses to write. They are so blinded by racism that they can’t even see that BARACK OBAM IS THE BEST THING FOR AMERICA right now, to restore ‘America the Great’ in the eyes of the world. PEOPLE, WAKE UP AND SIEZE THE OPPORTUNITY. VOTE FOR OBAMA.

Thank you for your post. Hillary is a great leader, a strong leader, a confident leader, a smart leader, a compassionate leader, and would make a perfect president of the united states. Unfortunately, she is also a woman, and too many men are intimidated by all of the above, and react like 12 year old boys when they insult her. It’s too bad she’s a woman, in a country where women were the last to get the vote – behind blacks! That is the only reason she hasn’t won the nomination.

Bah. This after BHO and his surrogates twisted McCain’s statements on Iraq?
Pot, meet Kettle. You two have so much in common!