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Democratic presidents and anti-Semites
Some on the Left are attempting to blame Trump and Republicans for the killings last Saturday in Pittsburgh. But the last two Democratic presidents have appeared with notorious anti-Semites:
1. Obama and Rev. Wright: he claimed in 2009 that “Them Jews ain’t going to let him (Obama) talk to me.” Wright then said that he meant to use Zionists not Jews. This is a distinction without a difference. One might argue that this is after Obama broke with Wright in 2008. He claimed that he’d never heard Wright make the incendiary comments which came to light in 2008. But in 2004 he stated to a local Chicago reporter that he was in Wright’s church every Sunday. His claim of ignorance about Wright’s opinions strains credulity.
2. Obama and Clinton have appeared with the notorious Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan:
3. Obama appeared more than once on Al Sharpton’s radio program. Look up Tawana Brawley and the Crown Heights riot for details about Sharpton’s background.
Democrats need to stop associating with these despicable people. Then perhaps they can start talking with Republicans about reprehensible antisemitic violence.
After Obama’s treatment of Israel, I don’t see how anyone can deny that the Democrat Party is the new home of anti-Semitism.
And isn’t it wrong for a foreign government to try to sway a democratic election?
And what about FDR?
Jessie Jackson has also had his issues… Didnt he once call NYC “Hymie Town”? I seem to recall he did that on a background chat with a reporter – who recorded the conversation…
I remember that.
This termite approves.
I saw something on Twitter that was basically the picture of Clinton above and it said something like, “Of the three men on stage with Bill Clinton, the one who said HimeyTown is the least anti-semitic.”
Eddie Murphy on SNL immortalized it in song back in 1984…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNz5XnvZHhk
Another Democrat anti-semite is congressman and DNC vice-chair Keith Ellison. He has a long history with Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan.
And when you have termites you need to exterminate them. Is there any other way to take Farrakhan’s statement?
Anyway, try not to eat the furniture.
Lou Reed even wrote a song about it:
PLO, racist slips, Farrakhan. Called on all of it by an honest leftist in 1989.
Running for Attorney General of Minnesota, as the folks at PowerLine are documenting.
Oh, but it was problematic. Rolling Stone at the time:
I wouldn’t have used the word “solution” in this context, myself.
Reed was basically being told by Rolling Stone to stay in your lane and attack only the people Rolling Stone thinks deserve attacking. So “Dirty Boulevard” on the album was perfectly fine, it went after the normal late-80s liberal shibboleths of what had turned New York City into a horror show (where the election of David Dinkins would solve everything); “Good Evening Mr. Waldheim” not-so-much, since the song dredged up memories of the 1984 Jackson campaign that the writers at the magazine would prefer be left to fade from memory.
I grew up in Poughkeepsie and lived through this whole disgusting episode.
What a circus show in downtown Po-town day after day…
Can I have a bite of your pencil?
I just have to know. Two people liked my comment…did you folks actually get my reference to an obscure hilarious Stan Freberg commercial?
This is the first time he’s ever run statewide. It’s a joke. He wears those red lumberjack shirts. The guy he’s going up against is really mean and really smart. He’s impervious to all of the Alinsky crap. There are just enough Republicans going for the jugular here, and Ellison has really stepped in it. He even went to that one woman he abused before he ran and politely asked her not to talk about it. Ridiculous.