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Obama at the Wall Redux

By dcmediagirl on July 28, 2008 at 10:42 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Israel, Jews

Since my last post on this subject generated so many bracing comments I decided to return for another bite at the apple.

Consider this video:

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Now. What is the likelihood that some thief could make his way through this media, security and Rabbi scrum (nice yarlmulkes on the Secret Service detail BTW) and surreptitiously make off with the exact note that Obama crammed into the Kotel? I don’t mean to get all Oliver Stone on you all — but just think about it.

  • judd

    The big 3 TV media anchors in Europe were there to take his ass on and make sure what happened actually happened.

    There is always a flip side to everything. Think about how tough they hammered him in their interviews.
    The anchors have standards to live up to, and they did.
    This time I do not believe the anchors of the big 3 TV stations were there as messiah worshipers. I believe they were their to hold his ass accountable.

    Those anchors did not go just to have fun with the messiah. This was different and too obvious even for the really obvious……and sometimes the too obvious has a different objective.

    The lesser media venues are more questionable and laughable, like the journalist who wrote the article about being in the work out room with Obama at the hotel and had her picture taken with him for her paper. Give me a break!

    So if they are bitching about the media being negative for Obama, that is because he was caught in his own trap this time.

  • hummingbirdv

    Hard to watch the video and all the deference given to this arrogant pretender. Not sure about the prayer. Have seen to many other “tricks” though to say it is absolutely NOT possible that BO gave his permission to the media to print it.
    And what is with all the men? Where are the women? Is the wall a boys only club?

    • simanov

      You can hear plenty of protesters in the background.

      • Clinton Fan

        There was one extremely loud guy who kept yelling something about the I/P conflict and BO. Apparently he was so vocal he ruined the “campaign commercial.”

        Obama looks uncomfortable in this video, and like he could use a cigarette.

    • Paramedic

      The women go to a separate part of the wall, where it is women only. The men have their section, which is men only.

      • workingclass artist

        as it was from the beginning….

    • fif

      I can’t even look at him. He looks like a high school kid pretending to know what he is doing. I still can’t believe this is really happening–that people take him seriously. It’s a really bad joke.

  • HARP

    I thought he wanted to tear down walls.

    • simanov

      He will tear this wall down with the help of Iran.

      • workingclass artist

        Let’s see….Depending on which side of the bed Barry wakes up on Jerusalem gets to stay intact as the present Capital of the Country called Israel….Or it becomes a devided city and capital for the Palestinians who must still travel through another country to get to this proposed capital…SHEEEEESH!
        NO WONDER HE WAS HECKLED SCMECKLED BY A PISSED OFF ISRAELI !

        • JoseyJ

          and while listening to Obama weasel out of that double message, I saw a con artist fill the airwaves with nothingness and Charlie Gibson letting him get away with it!
          iow – reporters want credit for merely asking Obama difficult questions. To hell with his answers or any follow up questions!!

          • workingclass artist

            True that….They all want Ed Morrow points for the pretense of ( really NewsPorn ) journalism….Kinda like assigning Genius Points to political hacks who state the obvious….OH BROTHER !

  • Angry Michelle

    oooh I’d like to Jesse Jackson him.

  • JoeySky

    I posted it earlier. An Israeli paper already confirmed that BO leaked his note to the press even before he put in at the Wall. It’s all for the love of publicity & political consumption.

    http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/07/28/is-anything-sacred.aspx

    • mr. natural

      He couldn’t wait for God to read it already?

  • workingclass artist

    It’s OUTRAGEOUS ! Does Barry know or even CARE about the SIGNIFICANCE of the Wailing Wall on the Temple Mount….His Muslim advisers/pals probably told him the LALA story MYTH about it all being a huge set of rubble around the Prophets hitching post….and he bought it…..SHEEEESH !

    *** AND JESUS WAS JUST ANOTHER BLACK GHETTO FREEDOM FIGHTER ***

  • Brendy

    What an ABSOLUTE JOKE! Why didn’t the media-taking guy just knock those guys out of the way – did you see them look at the camera and apparently the camera-person told them to move outta the way so they could focus on the ‘sensational one’? Those guys had to move a couple of times so the camera could zoom right up to Obummer’s face – LAUGHABLE! Obummer gingerly – like a girl – just lightly ‘tucked’ the note into the wall.

    This man has an extreme ego problem!

  • Hope Floats

    The note said, “I support Ahmadinejad, because if there was no people there would be no problems in the world. Allah Akbar. The Zionist occupying regime will be wiped from the pages of time.”

  • http://! Buzz Latte

    It’s called NPD with a large dollop of Meglomania on top!

    Obama needs an intervention.

    • jwrjr

      Obama needs a diaper and a pacifier.

  • candymarl

    Let’s see. Islam, Christianity, and Judaism have been brought (dragged) into the US Presidential race.

    At the rate things are going everyone from the big three religions will be at each others throats.

    Won’t that be fun?

    Jefferson was right. Leave religion out of it. That’s why it’s in the Constitution.

    Isn’t Obama a Constitutional scholar? Guess not.

    • JoeySky

      BO politicized religion. I couldn’t think of the last politician who did that. For BO, anything is possible for the love of publicity and politic consumption.

      • ritamary

        The last politician who politicized religion? Isn’t it George Bush?

        • Zeke

          Thanks for the utterly useless obligatory Moral Equivalence argument. Try to keep up. We do not permit stupid “I know you are, but what am I?” bullshit here.
          What you just did, metermaid, is admit that your Master is as bad as GW.
          Oh yeah, by the way, George Bush isn’t running, so the only one we can call on this religious pandering is Barry.

    • Brendy

      In addition to promoting ‘sexism’, ‘favoritism’ and stirring up ‘racism’…Obummer’s hit most of all the major religions and plenty of the ‘isms’ and all those things that divide. Yessir – that Obummer sure is a good ‘uniter’.

    • simanov

      Al Qaeda Calls for Saudi King’s Death for Meeting With Pope

      Religion of Irony alert. Al Qaeda’s #3 has called for the death of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah for meeting with the Pope and calling for interfaith dialogue. Why does this get King Abdullah a death fatwa? The logic goes something like this:

      The Pope offended Muhammad by suggesting that the Muslim prophet spread Islam by the sword. For this, the Pope deserves death. King Abdullah deserves death by colluding with the Pope and abandoning violent jihad.

      It would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.

      http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/193443.php

      • workingclass artist

        Hmmm….Well How REDUNDANT is that…Al Queda has been at war with the Saudi Royal Family for how long…..This must be Fatwa # 12 ?
        Osama must be havin a slow day….sheeesh!

  • jwrjr

    If the paper received authorization to release the prayer (as it says that it did) then the decision to publish it was not shameful. Obama using the Prayer Wall for a political stunt is shameful, to say the least. But Obama and his Borg wouldn’t know about that as they have no concept of either shame or civilised behaviour.

  • simanov

    Obama’s note was not stolen. It was rejected and spit out by the wall.

    • The Real Hope

      LOL!!!

    • Zeke

      Oof!
      Cleanup on aisle 5, Zeke just sprayed his Mac with ale…..

    • BettsAZ

      That’s REALLY funny!!!

    • Hispana

      Hurled and regurgitated by the wall.

    • jwrjr

      Maybe the note not remaining in the wall should be taken as an editorial comment from God?

  • Cat in NJ

    How much will Farrakhan and other radical anti-Jewish forces tolerate Obama’s pandering? They know where O really stands. Perhaps O’s note (not the one left for the media in his hotel room) declares his real feelings and intentions about the US and Israel, and he had Farrakhan’s blessings. If not, he might be pissing off some already-angry fanatics.

    • Patrick Walker

      Not how much, but for how long? To be fair, Farrakhan has been unduly pilloried (particuarly the “gutter” religion comment was highly blown out of proportion; what Jesse said about “Hymietown” was far, far worse IMHO) but I expect they will lie low until it is safe to come out if they ever feel they need to.

      Quite frankly, just as Obama got obliterated by Bobby Rush because he “wasn’t black enough”, his AA support I expect will be rather tenuous. Obama went to Chicago for the black experience which he never got as a child and always fit in better with a white crowd. I think Jesse being much older has realized the fake the media put before the American voter.

      Obama hasn’t been acting like a concerned black candidate, either by design or inability. Heck, he really hasn’t been acting like a Democrat if you want to get technical. I honestly think Obama will start to be called an Oreo, which I expect is a ploy Axelrod will embrace because it could be spun into reassuring the white majority.

      • Zeke

        Patrick,
        What he hasn’t been acting like is an American.
        Of course when you’re a Citizen of the World….

      • MEchelle Hates America!

        Farrakhan unduly pilloried? He was behind offing Malcolm X cause he was too tame.

        Around the same time the Black Panthers and US with founder Ron Karenga were warring and some Black Panthers were murdered. Ron Karenga is also the felon who invented Kwanzaa.

        These guys aren’t playing and they aren’t civilized. The NOI murdered a reporter investigating one of their bakeries.

        Rezko and Oblowme and yes, the very politically astute MEchelle whose father was a ward boss, aren’t reformers. They’re slime ball opportunists motivated by greed.

        But BLT is the steam that drives the machine.

        • workingclass artist

          You Go Girl….Damn Straight !

  • Salida

    Oh, Oh, Oh, painful, just painful. WAKEUP world, see this man for who he is. The world is in big trouble. OBAMA is wrong for this country. America, don’t do this!

  • ritamary

    I don’t think Obama has any preference for any religion. He appears to favor a religion when it is politically expedient for him to do so. Like on the South Side of Chicago attending a church which teaches Black Liberation Theology or interacting with the Nation of Islam can bring in votes. Now Obama appears at the Wailing Wall. Whatever it takes to get votes, thats what Obama favors. It is a pattern in his behavior.

    • Patrick Walker

      Someone noted that Obama supporters regularly accused of Hillary of doing anything to win.

      Right now, Obama is schooling everyone on how to pander to .

  • http://whatsuddenly.blogspot.com Zoe

    Obama gave out his note to the press before he left his hotel, that is, before he went to the Western Wall, according to the Israeli papers:

    http://whatsuddenly.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-gave-media-his-western-wall-note.html

  • TeakwoodKite

    BO is never going to find Platform 9 1/2, damn fool.

  • Danny

    At least this time the Democratic party will have to count my vote and they can count it as they kiss my vote that counts good-bye.

    The party is corrupt under Dean, Pelosi and Obama the ring leader.

  • CountryFirst

    I really have to laugh at all this. I watch the media report of BO placing this note in the wall and thought to myself, he’s expecting this note will be retrieved then displayed. And sure enough, it was retrieved and displayed. Anyone who doesn’t think the BO knew exactly what would happen with that note is underestimating his intelligence!

    • Patrick Walker

      You sure the credit for this plan goes to Barack? To me, sounds more like an Axelrod ploy.

      • Zeke

        tomato-tomahto

      • Jim S

        Agree, way over Bambi’s level of political chicanery.

  • CountryFirst

    Actually, even funnier — it was not retrieved, BO gave it to the media before he went to the Wall. LMAO

  • The Real Hope

    No one could find his prayer if they tried. Obama couldn’t get his prayer in there in the first place without dismantling other prayers! Ridiculous! What’s up with all the chanting of his name at the Kotel? How disrespectful! What the hell is their problem chanting his name like some idol?

  • Puma-SF

    It was a perfect photo op and I really appreciated how they had to keep pushing the people away so he would be the center of attention.

    He has no shame and to hear that he was the one who gave his prayer to the press just proves he has no brain.

    Puma Power

  • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard nedich

    this is too funny:

    http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/13021.htm

    a. hillary
    b. mccain

    america first!

    • karen for Clinton

      Gerard, thanks for that article with the great last line:

      “Obama may be the first to take a prayer-leak on the Wall.”

  • Jane

    I feel embarrassed for Obama watching this video.

    • workingclass artist

      Ehemmmm…..Sympathy for a Fascist Jane ? NOT ME!

  • http://investigatebarackobama.wordpress.com/puma/ kat in your hat

    The Obama campaign leaked the his wailing wall prayer note. Israeli newspapers got the prayer in advance.

    http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/jul/28/obama-leaked-his-prayer-to-press-before-he-di/

  • http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

    The “prayer” was a typical Axelrod Production.

    Pssst, write up something really godly and have one of our lackies pull that thing out and show it to the press.

    • Ani

      Agreed.

    • karen for Clinton

      and make that moment into a VIDEO of how pious he is.

      The article Gerard linked above shows his motive.

  • Hope is the last to die

    Obama is just like Britney Spears. Take away the strings and all you have is a lost puppet in the middle of a media frenzy. Even their fans are alike.

    • workingclass artist

      Ehemmm….Leeeeave Britneeeey Aaalooone….she’s just a person….

  • Perry Logan

    Keep in mind that Obama is not just making a fool of himself with these little ploys. He’s making the whole Democratic Party look stupid.

    Democratic Follies
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVFvGeRrawY

  • dormantDem

    He really looked uncomfortable at the Wall. His hand was off that wall so fast, I think It gave him a shock. The Wall knows a phony, it rejected him.

    As I do, I reject you obama.

    never ever obama.

    McCain if I must.
    rise Hillary Rise

    • workingclass artist

      He was searching for the hitching post of the Prophet….A common Muslim Political Myth is that them ruins aint nothin but a Roman Barracks and that there is a magic hitchin post….It’s another way to debunk any Jewish Claim to Jerusalem or Israel….Aaaaand for a special BONUS if Jesus is a black gheto freedom fighter and not a Jew then the Christians don’t have religious claim to the history either…..This crap is some of what they teach in the madrassas, and Uncle Jerry’s Church of Hate Whitey and Ayatollah Louis’ Real Estate Academy

  • secularhumanizinevoluter

    Brittny Spears has a MUCH better bod!!!

  • Larse12

    Can’t stand this man Obama. He is not who people think he is. Wake Up America.

  • Politicus Finch

    Of *****COURSE***** the “leak” of the note contents was PLANTED. Any leak that contains bland, hagiogpraphic ramblings of someone in politics is planted. Period. I’m only surprised the note didn’t contain a plea for world peace and a reference to himself as “this humble vessel.”

    What is shocking and scary is how effective this demagoguery is.

  • Amazonia

    I would not be surprised if the Obama campaign actually released a copy of his prayer to the press. He can’t get enough
    of publicity and showing.

    I do not want to know, or care to see what he wrote on that prayer note, but I sure would want him to release HIS ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE, his Illinois senate records, his tax returns of the last 18 years or so, and his original Columbia U. Thesis, among other things.

    I am sorry the Israelis allowed him to display campaign logos, posters, in an
    area that is cherished for its historic
    symbolism by us christians as well.

    • http://NoteToSelfDontDie.com/members/ gerard nedich

      yes he did… in fact the newspaper said they got the “prayer” and that it was approved by Baracktrack before he left his hotel…

      what a slimeball…

      a. hillary
      b. mccain

      america first!

  • Amazonia

    It should read: Christians.

  • Al

    Senator Obama should tap Mr. Sinclair as his vice-presidential running mate. They could use the privacy of the Lincoln Bedroom to “define” and “shape” policies.

    http://myspace.com/barackobamalarrysinclair

  • Northwest rain

    The idiot troll is back.

  • mimi

    No… you’re disgusting Francis.

    You can’t handle the truth!

    And just because you can’t, you expect everyone else to swim on the river denial and drown in 0bama’s lies.

    You have proof that the paper reporting the story is lying? Or are you just taking that liar’s word for it?

    Go away! You have plenty of places to play and not feel disgusted.

    No one hear gives a flying fuck about you or your candidate.

    Beat it!

  • Angry Michelle

    Did you come here for free beer?

  • Miss H

    When I was young we watched movies featuring “Francis the Talking Mule”, looks like he’s back. He used to like to curl his lips apart and spew!

    Watch the 1950s trailer:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JjvqbfpmQg

  • TeakwoodKite

    Francis;
    If you think it is disgusting to show a video of BO defiling a VERY holy site, by placing Campaign banners in full view, or trying to AstroTurf our troops in Germany or the euro press, or violate the Logan Act, then we agree.

  • Shtuey

    And we haven’t even disemboweled the yak yet!

  • Angry Michelle

    Why do we always get the baby trolls?

  • JoeySky

    Obama campaign sent out a statement admitted that the note was approved for publication. You might want to check with your supervisor how to response to the latest stunt by the big boss.

  • workingclass artist

    FucK Off Francis ! Stay in GAZA and tell the overseers to send more entertaining trolls…
    OBAMA IS HEADED FOR OBLIVION…SEEK THERAPY…TROLLIDIOT

  • memyself&i

    Because they didn’t like getting set up by the Obama campaign and wanted to set the record straight.

    You probably believed the Obama campaign when they denied the Canadian government’s claim that Obama’s adviser had told them his opposition to NAFTA was only campaign rhetoric.

    You probably believed Obama when he said he opposed FISA

    You probably believed Obama when he said his parents met at the Selma march 4 years after he was born.

    You probably believed Obama when he said he would accept federal campaign financing.

    You probably believed Obama when he said he was on the Senate Banking Committee

  • C.S.

    Not one, the contents of the prayer was offered to two papers, Francis. Ohmyg…it’s a conspiracy against Obama because he’s (fill in the blank)

  • Angry Michelle

    Right, and this site is a part of the reason Obama has started his free fall.

  • simanov

    So what were the remaining two about?

  • mimi

    I see you didn’t answer my question: Do you have proof that the Israeli paper is lying?

  • workingclass artist

    MEANT TO SAY POLITICAL OBLIVION…Troll pissed me off…scuse’

  • Andy Lewis

    Cuz that’s the best they got?

  • workingclass artist

    That was the sound of senior troll heads exploding…that’s why they send these new ones….

  • workingclass artist

    Gee francis…I’m just alluding to scripture of Obama’s Uncle Jerry and a popular muslim political myth from Ayatollah Louis….YOU KNOW….
    FRIENDS OF BARRY’S….

  • DoroB

    Why are you so bitter tonight? Not too happy about Obama’s numbers?

  • justme

    It Was Obama HIMSELF Who Made His Weeping Wall Prayer Public

    Ma’ariv issued a response Sunday, saying that “Obama’s note was published in Ma’ariv and other international publications following Obama’s authorization to make the content of the note public. Obama submitted a copy of the note to media outlets when he left his hotel in Jerusalem. Moreover, since Obama is not Jewish, there is no violation of privacy as there would be for a Jewish person who places a note in the wall.

    It Was Obama Who Made His Weeping Wall Prayer Public Western Wall.
    http://countusout. wordpress. com/

  • Zeke

    How in the hell do you keep getting out of your stall, Hee Haw?
    If you keep bustin’ loose, I may have the vet “fix” it so you don’t feel like wandering anymore.
    Here’s a nice bait of alfalfa, now shut the f**k up and go to sleep!

  • Darryl

    aww the truth comes out she is really an ANTI CLINTON REPUBLICAN! Oh MY GOD!

  • Uncle Karl Rove

    Francis… Sweetie,

    You’re a first class production line of überCrapola,

    A real credit to your compulsions.

  • mr. natural

    And your source, Sweetie?

  • jwrjr

    Obama “obviously has a dog in this fight”, too. So by francis’ “reasoning” anything said on the matter by the Obama campaign is worthless, too.

  • BettsAZ

    USA/Gallup National Poll of likely registered voters today:

    John McCain UP 4 points over Obama

    Put that in YOUR pipe and smoke it.
    LOL!

  • Clinton Fan

    Why are you here if he’s doing so well, eh, Francis?

    Why aren’t you serving champagne and dancing on tables if he’s such a shoe-in?

    You’re here because you’re FRIGHTENED.

    You’re trying to suppress dissent.

    Every post reflects your fear, Francis.

    Be very afraid, ya pitiful little troll.

  • BettsAZ

    When McCain is elected President, we’ll be able to afford to pay for our own insurance.

  • Jill L

    Wasn’t Francis a talking mule?

  • BettsAZ

    Francis probably believes Obama when he said that there are 57 states.

  • Hispana

    Pobrecita Francis. Tiene Obama caca en la cabeza.

  • Hispana

    Estas pendeja o ciega?

  • MrDuffin

    HE is the campaign banner. If he was sincere there would have been no cameras there to record his sincerity!

  • ginaswo still says no Uhhbama

    go google, there are pics of it,

  • roseeriter

    I think the Bots come here to find out the truth as they have DOUBTS about Obama, but they’ve been ASSIMILATED to insult and old habits are hard to break.

    Consider NQ the Obama Deprogrammer blog. And its free:-)

  • workingclass artist

    LOL…you are funny Uncle Rove…Dig the Moniker.
    I think it’s about time NQ sponsored a Top 10 Funniest Moniker Poll….
    Ehemmmm……Dawnelle are you listening ? Twould be a fun companion to you troll poll…..No ? We have had some true classics…

  • workingclass artist

    Hmmm…Obama Non Gradus Anus Rodentum!= Not worth a Rat’s Ass ! In the language of the Romans…chuckle…

  • bemused

    He had portable “booths” with his banners. They aren’t in this shot, but they were there. And you are an anchovy.