Obama adviser assailed by GOP Jewish group

So what happened to freedom of speech.I think he is right about this issue and should receive a medal.

Senator Obama continues to surround himself with anti-Americans. How can he be elected President of the United States with his background. What is wrong with the people of this country are they blinded by his charisma?

#2: I find it amazing that you would call a General who served this country 30 yrs with honor anti-American while sitting on your couch probably eating bon bons.

This is the same guy who made the blue dress comment. It's only a matter of time before he is gone. I really question Obama's judgment.

republican echo chamber at work - distortion - not news

I understand if GOP Jews have an issue with anyone who doesn't take the line of 'Israel can do whatever it likes, without question or criticism' but I ultimately think that supporting such a view is not in the best interests of Israel. There needs to be tolerance both within Israel and without it.

I understand hyper-sensitivity, given the events of WWII, but it is no more responsible or right to treat muslims or arabs as less than human, turning an eye away from genocidal acts towards them than it was to treat Jewish people this way. We all have to share this planet and reach down into our better natures when doing so.

McPeak served his country for 30 years - big deal. He was a crack-pot. Everything he did as the Chief of Staff of the Air Force was for himself; he was self-serving. Ask any Air Force Officer at the time of his reign, he was a Clinton yes man that did nothing to support the troops. Now, that he's supporting Obama - I bet you he's hoping to become Secretary of Defense - God Help us all.

I served 20 years in the Air Force - through all of his McPeak's regin. He made us (Air Force members) ashamed to be serving with him. If you want a great leader do some research on General Fogleman - I great Air Force Chief of Staff and a Great patriot!!!

so are they telling us that the best they can do is blame Obama for something someone else said? thats like blaming all white people for slavery just because they live in America,or should all white people have left America during slave times?

Condoning something by "being a party to it" shows a lack of judgment. If you saw someone doing something wrong by standing and watching or turning a blind eye, in essence is condoning.
This goes to judgement. If you are surronding yourself with controversial people,
then you can expect to have controversy follow you. Don't cry about it.

When people begin to look at your judgement don't complain, you have asked for it.

if we are guilty by association, then does this mean all cops are racist's bigots?

Why should Obama get rid of him? He speaks the truth - who cares what he say
s about Israel. This is America, not Israel. We send them billions of dollars in aid and they tell *us* what to do?

Go Obama!!

I agree with McPeak. The Jewish lobby does have undue influence in American policies. The Zionist influence is the reason that the Palestinians are losing their lives, livelihood and land while the U.S. looks away. Read this book: DISHONEST BROKER for an account of the deceptive policies implemented against the Palestinians in the name of "peace."

Hey #6 Israel gave up Gaza to the Palestinians who have used the opportunity to shoot rockets into Israel and have the radical Hamas organization take over. You know the group that is so tolerant they want Israel destroyed? Why do the Arabs get a free pass on intolerance? How come Hamas and their supporters not seen as a stumbling block? The majority of Israelis support a peace deal. The majority of Palestinians voted for Hamas.

And please tell me these Genocidal acts in Israel. I must have missed the millions of people getting gunned down by the IDF.

Obama's church publishes Hamas manifestos while his advisers and apparently many of his supporters are basically saying that the "Jews control the media and the government." I guess anti-Semitism is becoming fashionable again. I can't believe it has come to this: that Democrats are justifying racial slurs (by those in Obama's church) and anti-Semitism.

Every Rape-Public-Can who now tries to open their beak to bleet even an opinion is a laughable insignificant and discredited American.

If you voted for Chimpy McFlightsuit and supported, enabled, and excused this national disgrace, disaster of a war, crushing failing economy your opinion and vote are worthless. Scream your ignorant xenophobia and dittohead ignorance all you want but you are impotent and irrelevant to the national dialogue.

Rape-Public-Cans are completely irrelevant. It is cute though how they play along as if they had a prayer in 08. Go ask Hastert's Dem replacement (backed by Obama) and see how he is doing.

This is a laughable non story since Obama has just as much financial backing from AIPAC as any other candidate. Your fear derision only works on ignorant dittoheads.

More GOP examples of "ANTI-SEMETIC"

- suggesting that when the Israeli Army drops a 2 ton bomb on an apartment complex and kills 25 civilians (including women and small infants), that this is not a very good idea or policy.

- daring to say that Israel should abide by UN resolutions calling for it's withdrawal from territories it illegally invaded.

- calling their invasion of lands they don't own "illegal".

- sympathizing with suffering endured by Palestinian civilians - even if you still denounce actions of actual terrorists which make up about .0001% of the Arab population.

- criticizing Israel under any circumstance.

If you're guilty of any of these actions, then you obviously must be against all Jewish people. (sarcasm off)

My goodness the GOP are so lost they have to resort to this inane drivel?

Since when is being truthful about Israel and the Middle East peace process considered anti-semitic. As an American Jew, I support the existence of a peaceful Jewish State as well as the rights of the Palestine people. Those who blindly follow the dictates of the small but vocal Israeli Lobby (especially a GOP Lobby) against the national interests of the United States should be the ones considered anti-American. I strongly recommend reading Mearsheimer and Walt article on the Israel Lobby published in the London Review of Books.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html

This is not about Jews. This is not about antisemitism. This not about the Zionism or the right for Israel to exist.

This is specifically about Israel's right wing Likud Party policy towards the Palestines and US foreign policy. We as Americans have a right as guaranteed by the Constitution to debate whether or not we agree with the policies of our government and the Likud Party that currently dominates Israel.

There are many different types of Jewish citizens of different political affiliations in the United States. However, a vast majority of the US Jewish population have liberal views and do not agree with the current right wing GOP/Likud Party policies that have been effect in the last 10 years.

Proof:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/12/ajc_poll/index.html

That said, since a majority of American Jews are liberal and disagree with a relatively small conservative GOP Jewish minority on US foreign policy towards Israel as well as the policies of Likud Party - it is reasonable to follow that any claims of 'antisemitism' or being anti-Israel is clearly an attempt to prevent a honest and open discussion on the issue & also unconstitutional and against the principles of this country.

Someone made a comment that McPeak was the same guy who made the comment about the blue dress. To the best of my knowledge they are not the same guy. That was the Minnesota co-chair. But the confusion is revealing.
The presumption underlying not only this remark, and many, but not all others, is that saying something, almost anything, pejorative about Israel behavior, taking a view that is the majority view of the Knesset even, is either anti-American (in of itself) or anti-Semitic and this is generally from the same people who are unlikely to admit that there even is a Jewish lobby, much less that they are influenced by it.
But consider this- arguments that are openly made is Israel, that are even parts of the official platform of parties in Israel, and espoused by prominent Israelis, if made by someone in this country, are branded as ant-Semitic, and even, see above, anti American. (Israel's willingness to criticize itself is one of its more phenomenal properties.)
If you went to Israel and blamed lack of progress on a Middle East peace deal, at least partially, on the political influence of US Jews, and criticized Israel for not returning to pre-1967 war borders you might not find yourself with a majority in support, but you would have lots of company both in oral argument and writing. How is it then that something that is freely discussed in Israel cannot be discussed here?
In poll after poll, year after year, it has been clear that Americans Jews are less compromising than the bulk of Israelis. Somebody must have done a study on this.
Help anyone?

How did anti-Israeli become automatically anti-American? Is there another example like that? Is being anti-British automatically anti-American? Which country's values are closer to the USA's, Britain's or Israel's? It is ok to criticise Israel. It's just another country with it's another set of agendas.

It's about time the topic of our Zionist Occupied Government (ZOG) got some national attention. Our political leaders are nothing but prostitutes paid by powerful Jewish interests in this country to do Israel's bidding. It's time we ran these bastards out of office and elected (if that's still possible given the predetermined outcomes, ie; Diebold voting machines) leaders who are beholden to the interests of the USA and not some shitty little war mongering country in the Middle East.

Israel 's near-apartheid government, which has systematically disenfranchised Palestinians’ since they invaded their lands, sponcered by the divide and conquer tactics of the British in the wake of the Holocaust shame of Anti-Semetic Europe, needs somebody to hold them to account for their behavior in spite of the atrocities perpitrated by the Germans.
I am sick of the Born Again Foreign Policy pursued by my government at the behest of Pat Robertson. If you drove tanks into my neighborhood and, without discrimination bulldozed houses into the ground, in my teenage years, I might strap some explosives to my belly too. This doesn't even begin to deal with water rights issues that are the real stumbling block to peace. Remember this nation was proudly founded on revolution.
Calling Israel to the very democratic standards they themselve espouse is not anti-Jewish, it’s anti-Zionist.

As a Jew I am sick of right-wing American Likkudniks dominating the dialogue about Israel. They scream anti-semitism every time someone dares to question Israeli government policies. Israel itself is more open to real discourse about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than we are here in America. Most of the world and many, many Jews agree that Israel should return to its pre-1967 borders. Enough is enough. Neocons and Likkudniks do NOT speak for me or for a majority of Jews. They are a menace and a danger to the world and to Jews themselves.

Obama was supposed to be the arbiter of "coming together" a nice simple campaign slogan. We are supposed to come together with Reverend Wright and we are supposed to somehow find togetherness with Hamas and Hezbollah and we are supposed to come together with McPeak. What Obama says with "just words" is rhetoric, his actions speak louder. He has put together a coalition of radicals and we are supposed to drink the Cool-Aid. In the current vein of McPeak's argument can be made the argument that all the territories won in the Mexican and American War should also be turned back to Mexico. I'm sure they are hell bent on that too. All this sounds like bites picked up at a Farrakhan rally.

Nobody is trying to squelch free speech. The reality is that people who support Israel and who want to stop the march of militant Islam around the globe have the right to point out that Obama surrounds himself with people with distorted and hateful views. In my view, Jewish support for Obama in particular is very, very sick.

A lot of legitimate anti-semites in the comments section. It IS anti-semitic to constantly speculate about Jewish money and to make false claims of dual loyalty against American Jewish citizens. To call Israel a "near-apartheid" state when all citizens have the same rights under the law is not only dishonest, but anti-semitic as well. Palestinians are not citizens of Israel and many left willingly before their arab proxies waged an initial war of extermination against Israel.

Then there's the revisionist history where somehow houses are bulldozed as a catalyst to violence against Jewish civilians. These homes are bulldozed to seek out the terrorists who are frequently harbored in these civilian neighborhoods. Such a tendentious distortion is anti-semitic and I'm not gonna hold my tongue because some fascist pseudo-leftists claim that calling someone a bigot threatens their free-speech. It is perfectly legitimate to call people antisemites when they're espousing views that are demonstrably antisemitic.

A Jew for Obama is like a Jew shooting himself in the foot. Obama has revealed himself as so obviously anti-semitic and racist the only aspect of his self that precedes this is his guile. You have got to be lost in political correctness or leftist fascism to excuse what this man has revealed of himself.

How could our jewish leaders believe, or endorse Barack Obama?

Obama was joined at the hip for 20 years with anti-semite Jeremiah Wright ... and,
Wright gave a lifetime achievement award to an even bigger anti-semite, Louis Farrakan!

Of course, when it became politically expedient, Obama disavowed Wright
(or did he?). Yes, Obama discredited Wright, his friend, mentor, advisor of
20 years, in order to achieve his personal ambitions. The same ambitions
that made him neglect his obligations in the senate, to pursue his bigger personal
ambitions of becoming president. But, of course Obama wouldn't think of ever
throwing us Jews under the bus ... even if down the road it becomes personally advantageous,
and politically expedient! Sure, we'd like to believe Obama, even if his 20 year history
belies his current words.

As a result of parental abandonment at an early age, being raised by white grandparents,
and going to a predominantly white prep school and white University, Obama has suffered an identity crisis
for quite some time. This was a primary reason for joining the black separatist church in
Chicago. Even if he is bright and articulate, he still has his own personal mishigas.

Obama previously stated that he wanted to talk to the leaders of Iran, and recently
he got a public endorsement from Hamas. For Jews to put our trust in Obama concerning
a situation that could dramatically effect the future of Jewry, is like believing it when we
were told we were being taken to the showers.

I just hope our Jewish 'leaders' know what the hell they're doing when they publicly
endorse Obama