Just before the election, I was invited to an Obama campaign event at a private home, with Gloria Steinem as the featured speaker. The theme was, "Why Obama Will Be Good For the Jews."
Now, Gloria's good - as in competent - on exactly one issue, abortion. That's it. Get her off that subject and it's all newspaper quotations and secondary sources, which is exactly what happened when someone in the crowd asked her about Obama and Israel. Later, a friend of Gloria's from California explained to me that all these friends of hers - people who had helped found the very liberal New Israel Fund - knew Obama and trusted him.
"They are fooling themselves," I replied.
With Obama now having appointed a Saudi asset - bought and paid for, but no less willing, for all that - to head the National Intelligence Council, a man who thinks that Tienanmen Square was a result of excessive patience on the part of the Chinese government, a man who things that US Jews who support Israel are disloyal to the US, I think it's safe to say those people are asking themselves what the hell just happened.
What just happened is that your fellow Obama just showed you what he really thinks of you.
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"knew Obama and trusted him". Now we can understand how Bernie Madoff happened. Most of our Jewish brethren has too much trust in people we perceive as good for us and not enough Ronald Reagan's "trust but verify".
Posted by: jblanter | February 27, 2009 8:29 AM