I've listened to some persons trying to convince me to not vote for Barack Obama because he is anti-Jew, however, when I ask for specific examples of a time when he's acted against Jews, said a word against the Jewish people, or associated directly with a group that has an anti-Jew bias, all I get told is 'he sat in church when Rev. Jeremiah Wright preached against Jews."  Well, I have to tell you, if failing to get up and leave a service because in the middle of a sermon a preacher injects comments that are not socially acceptable or against a group means one necessarily suppports that comment, then I've been pro-abortion, pro-homosexual, pro-capital punishment, etc. 

 

Let's be honest:  practically nobody gets up and walks out of temple or chuch because of the preacher making comments with which they disagree. I'd like to hear anyone tell me they walked out of their house of worship and the reason why.  I've asked those same people who condemn Obama for not walking out if they ever did, and they demur and change the subject. One even said their preacher never said anything he didn't agree with. I submit that person needs to get a new house of worship, because if your preacher isn't making you think- even if it's to think of how wrong he or she is- then you might as well catch a few winks because you ain't missing much.

 

Of course, if the preacher often says disagreeable or unacceptable things, then sure, you change locales.  That, of course, might mean leaving a place to which you have strong personal connections, such as being brought into the faith at that house of G-d, or having many friends and neighbors who also attend, or merely believing this is where you have found strength, love, courage, and a feeling that here you are close to G-d.  As far as I've researched, Rev Wright did not always say anti-American or anti-Jew comments in his sermons.  In fact, out of almost 2000 sermons delivered over 40 years, those trying to find his negative comments could only come up with 7 examples.

 

That's less than what I've heard out of mine in just six years.

 

But, even if Obama heard Wright speak out of turn five or ten minutes twice a year, or even once a month, but the rest of the sermon that day, month or year was bringing him closer to G-d, one can see why he didn't opt to leave the place he claimed to have been baptized and 'born again'[something my Christian friends tell me is deeply moving and life-changing, & never forgotten.].  However, I have bigger concerns with the other side of the fence.  MUCH bigger concerns.

 

Before you vote for McCain-Palin (and you are actually voting for BOTH to be President, as, make no mistake, if elected, before a short time elapses, McCain will NOT be able to continue as President- look at how he's aged in just these few months of campaigning!) you'd better know Sarah and Todd Palin are both ANTI-JEW and ANTI AMERICAN.

What exactly does AIP do that's so bad? Let's see: They've burned the flag, denounced the American Government & say Alaska needs to hold Alaskan oil & gas hostage to sell to the highest bidder. AIP's been on the FBI list of US terrorist groups  for over 20 years. Here's what AIP claims [from their own website] their mission is:

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    The Alaskan Independence Party's goal is the vote we were entitled to in 1958, one choice from among the following four alternatives:

The call for this vote is in furtherance of the dream of the Alaskan Independence Party's founding father, Joe Vogler, which was for Alaskans to achieve independence under a minimal government, fully responsive to the people, promoting a peaceful and lawful means of resolving differences.

 

Figures released by the Alaska Division of Elections in July of 1998 show that the AIP has 17,639 registered voters, approximately 4% of the total. This represents more than a quadrupling since 1990, when the Party had just 4,086 members. The strongest areas of AIP registration are located in the rural northwestern and western regions, around such cities as Barrow, Bethel and Nome. Currently, in some districts, the AIP has as many as 10% of the registered voters.

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government. "

 

 
                                        "I'm an Alaskan, not an American. I've got no use for America or her damned institutions."
Joe Vogler

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Palin’s helped members of the John Birch Society (we all know how much those @($@*% love Jews) get ahead. She tried to bring in a man named Mark Stoll {his nickname in the Mat-Su valley area is "Black Helicopter Steve" d/t  his violent rhetoric}to fill a city council position despite his prominence in this party. During the 1990s, when AIP member Mark Chryson who recently declared "So long as Alaska remains under the boot of the federal government the AIP has to stand on guard to stymie a New World Order." directed the AIP. He and radical right-winger, Steve Stoll, played pivotal roles in electing Palin to the mayorship of Wasilla. They were extremely important when it came to shaping her political agenda thereafter. Public records show Stoll and Chryson contributed heavily to Palin's campaigns financially.  These men have played major behind-the-scenes roles for Palin for more than a decade. 

Palin firmly backed Chryson to advance many anti-tax, pro-gun initiatives, including one that eventually altered Alaska's Constitution to make it easier to form anti-government militias. She joined their personal vendettas against a number of officials with whom they had personal issues; she listened to their advice about whom to hire for her Cabinet and numerous state offices. Chyson was so sure of his access to the governor he was quoted as saying "Every time I showed up her door was open," said Chryson. "And that policy continued when she became governor."

Go to YouTube and watch her being exorcised (!)by self proclaimed witch hunter Thomas Muthee. She meekly stands there, hands clasped, while he screams to Jesus & the next county about keeping witches & spells from harming her. What does this say about her personal beliefs and ideology? Who in this day and age believes they are being haunted by witches?  How many [sane] public officials think they are so beset by spell-casters they need to find an exorcist and get themselves cleansed and protected? That the man who can accomplish this is one who decries those who killed his Savior? This man is said to be-not just a little - but vehemently ANTI-JEW; she supports him financially and vocally. You want HER as President??? G-d forbid she should be elected to anything!

 

I am personally furious over her hate speech. Talk about people needing to "get up and leave when your preacher says something reprehensible"! Americans need to get up and walk away from her when she spouts scurrilous charges. Her talk about Obama 'palling around' with a terrorist despite the fact Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was behaving as a terrorist, She continues her venom despite knowing Ayers was rehabilitated decades ago; she doesn't mention he's now a professor at a quiet Midwestern University, & has served on over a dozen bipartisan public-improvement committees (including the one Palin accuses Obama of sharing with Ayers). Palin makes broad inferences to the Obama being an Arab (not that that's a bad thing, considering technically Jews are also Arabs, having lived in the Middle East since the Dawn of Man. Even if Obama were an Arab (which he isn't: he's an American citizen born in Hawaii of a white mother and African-Kenyan father. His birth certificate is available for anyone to see online.) it is only logical to state and acknowledge not all 2 billion Arabs are bad; that only a tiny minority seek to destroy the United States. Why does she infer and imply this? For the same reason she does the same thing when she hints (wink wink) that he's a terrorist himself:  because he has a middle name of 'Hussein"(which is the equivalent of 'John' or 'Mike' in those whose parents or grandparents came from Northern Africa, Middle East.

 

What is especially infuriating is Palin NEVER has the courage to come out and state 'YES! Senator Obama is a terrorist!' or 'YES! Senator Obama has voted against Jews! He did so on Sen. bill number ____' or 'Senator Obama engaged in anti-American activities when he....'  She never says these things because she can't. Why? Not just because she'd be sued for slander, it's because there is NO.. such... proof... in existence.  What she claims to use as proof is as tenuous as dew on grass - it melts away in the light and heat of close examination. If anything, there is overwhelming proof just the opposite is true: Senator Obama is NOT a terrorist, he has never voted against funding Israel or supporting Jews. There happens to be a commandment about Bearing False Witness. Bear THIS in mind: if one supports a person who is openly breaking one of these non-negotioable laws,or repeats untruths they say, one take on oneself the same burden of punishment as the person who is, in actuality, lying while testifying about another.

 

Regarding her casting aspersions about Barack HUSSEIN Obama: he's got a middle name that wasn't an issue until 16 men  - mostly Saudis - under the tutelage of Osama Bin Laden bombed us on 9-11. Remember, though

               a)  Saddam Hussein  had NO part in the 9-11attacks

               b) nobody from Iraq EVER attacked the United States prior to GWB taking office 

               c)  Oh, sure, Saddam postured against our policies while privately wearing our clothing, drinking Tennessee bourbon, and -

                    best of all, like Bush -wearing cowboy hats.

              d) the first Iraq War he was attacking Kuwait - we went there to defend them against him. 

              e)  Obama was born and named long before Saddam. This isn't his fault - it's his mother's for not checking with a psychic before

                   she named him after his father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr.

 

 As a woman I am NOT fooled by her smiles, I am NOT fooled by her telling us what she thinks we want to hear. I am especially angry about her trying to rile up people into a near mob...this is AMERICA! We are NOT supposed to publicly demean anyone by racist terms and titles. Haven't we learned the hard way how quickly that kind of talk gets out of hand? We should be the FIRST to say ENOUGH! Haven’t Jews - and all people for that matter - learned how dangerous that kind of talk is? It’s a short hop from yelling ‘Kill him” to “kill THEM”. When one gets up and rants and raves about a person because of ethnicity, or hint, but never specify what group 'they' stand for, it means only one thing: they are promoting dangerous intolerance. I don't know about the rest of you, but when I listen to Sarah Palin I hear echoes of another person who targeted his opponents with innuendo and worked hard to infuse fear and thoughts of hate into his audience:  Adolph Hitler.

 

I'm frightened about the dangers of talk like hers resulting in an innocent man - if not Obama, some other black man or Obama supporter -being assasinated by a crackpot fired up by Mcain-Palin rhetoric. Haven't we had enough assassinations in this country?  Haven't we seen too many blacks lynched by mobs not to stand up and say 'ENOUGH!' We cannot wait until some evil act results from evil talk to put our foot down and say 'NO'! We have a MORAL duty to refute such talk and actions.  

 McCain? He's tired, he's old, he's actiing like he has Alzheimers. There is a high probability he cannot finish a  full four years.  If he had a decent VP I might---might---- still vote him in, but, at this stage of the game that's as likely as his stepping down himself. That being said,  I will NOT vote in someone like Palin, who, either in her job as advisor to the president or when she takes over for McCain, would almost certainly appoint people who share her narrow views, support the destruction of our government, allow Alaska to file for secession, cut funding to Israel...who knows? Considering her past, it could be anything and/or everything. We can't risk any of that.

 

If you think Sarah Palin has been a good governor, I suggest you check out the lengthy NY times article on her that came out detailing the many things she did as both mayor and governor that Alaskans are, now that she's been exposed, fuming over. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=palin&st=cse&oref=slogin] 

 

Anchorage papers ran bitter editorials last week and this over the onslaught of claims of Palin's misuse of office and her claims - despite and against all reality- the Troopergate investigation cleared her of any wrongdoing.  Further, minority groups, black, native Inuit and Indian amongst others are finally glad there is a spotlight being shown on this woman, having suffered losses under Palin's governorship (she booted minorities out of office and replaced them with cronies - such as high school girlfriend Franci Havemeister - to the Alaskan Dept. of Agriculture [$98,000/yr] who's only self-admitted qualification is "my childhood love of cows."  She'll be lucky if she still has her governor's job by Christmas at the rate all her misdeeds are being revealed.

 

Sen. McCain says "Americans have all gotten to know Sarah Palin." We sure have. Her own words condemn her.  He calls her a "role model for women everywhere." Not mine. Not in my house, not in my state, not in my country. He says she's a 'breath of fresh air'. No, she's not.  She's stale air.  Air we've smelled over and over throughout history as those seeking to destroy others choose words as their guns and lies and distortions as their bombs.

 

To sum up:

 

Regarding inciting crowds to shout racial epithets and threats because of inflammatory speech: Those of us whose families have been part of the historical suffering caused by hate-mongers, and who've had to put up with racial profiling must not be swayed by someone who smiles while slipping a knife into another person or ethnic group.  We must 'leave the room' so to speak. We must not sit quietly and let such behaviors be rewarded.

 

Regarding Bill Ayers: he has not, NOT ONCE in the past 20 years gotten so much as a speeding ticket.  He has worked to better himself and others, garnering awards from mainstream community and state groups for his efforts.  People can and do change their hearts; we all know people who, when they were young, made mistakes; they turned their lives around and now walk the straight and narrow.  These people need to be acknowledged and praised for doing so. To drag them through the dirt to score points or to get elected is despicable.

 

I, for one will NOT support a person who has proven she is out of step with everything I believe in.  I believe America is the greatest country on earth and it will survive such attacks: however, that being said, we still do not - EVER- tolerate such mean-spirited and wicked behaviors.

 

We certainly don't reward such persons with our votes.