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Hamas Endorses Obama
by RainMan
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April 16, 2008

Hamas Endorses Obama

On Sunday, Aaron Klein and John Batchelor interviewed Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas, on WABC radio. The interview produced a scoop which, for some reason, has not been widely publicized: Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yousef said, "We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." Why? "He has a vision to change America." Maybe Yousef has some insight into what Obama means by all these vague references to "change."

Of course, Hamas's taste in American presidents is suspect. Yousef also described Jimmy Carter, who was about to pay a call on Hamas when the interview was taped, as "this noble man" who "did an excellent job as President."

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Now, if Barack will play his cards right he just might get Hezbollah and Al Qaeda to get on the band wagon too.

Jack

Re: Hamas Endorses Obama
by Neal Ballosingh

All the mid east terrorist groups have a taste for US Presidents. They just cant get close enough to take a bite out of Bush.

Re: Hamas Endorses Obama
by RainMan

Well, Obama will be having lunch with them on a regular basis, when the campaign begins.

Jack

So Does Farrakhan
by Urquhart

Embarrassing and unsought and quickly rejected, these endorsements. Nobody claims that Obama is about to sign up with al Qaeda.

However, when an avowed, intransigent enemy of America expresses a desire for the election of Obama, that's something to wonder about. No doubt it's reverse psychology. They really want to go up against McCain. Clever bastards.

tartuffe Endorses TheJokeFromDallas
by tartuffe

Therefore, by your worldview and standards, you must be an idiot (or traitor? or terrorist?)!

REVERSE reverse psychology! Dastardly clever bastard!
by tartuffe

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Re: Fartfluff
by RainMan

You clowns really don't get it, do you. To be ridiculed by fools is flattery beyond measure.

Jack

Don' know nuthin' 'bout no clowns, Miss Scarlett, but
by tartuffe

but I certainly get it (as you clearly do not). This post I'm replying to being Exhibit A.

To be ridiculed by fools is flattery beyond measure.

Indeed. Couldn't have said it better myself!

Explain me something
by ducadmo

since you and your fearless leader are so quick to call upon the memories of Nazi Germany; what makes the Palestinians in Gaza so different than the Jews in Warsaw - 1942? A people quarantined in a ghetto, denied most access to the outside world, whose taxes, commerce, and most utilities are under the control of a nation who had occupied the land for nearly forty years only to hand it over to an arguably corrupt Fatah government that was far more focused on the West Bank. Who can these people turn to?

So what do you care? They're arabs, after all. Less than human. You say so yourself. Just like the Jews in Warsaw. It's easier that way, isn't it?

So they fire off a few rockets and the Israelis fire a few back and mostly it's civilians that get killed. Kids.

I'm not saying Hamas isn't a terrorist organization. It is. But there is a solution there that doesn't involve killing a whole lot of people. Unless you think that's best. I mean, that is what Hilter thought. But otherwise, a dialogue has to start somewhere. It would be useful if America were once again seen as something of an honest broker in all this. That's a long climb back up. Too steep for Mr. McCain. Of that, I'm certain.

They just don't get it....
by justoffal

some of these guys actually think that they can negotiate with Islam...they still do not understand what they issues are. It's not oil, it's not territory, it's not even religion in general it is .... Jihad..... nothing more and nothing less.

They will begin to understand it when their children are beheaded before their eyes....it will begin to sink in a little then.

The only hope for avoiding this particular scenario is to appeal to the secular branches of the Middle east and there are precious few of those at this point that are not somehow tainted by Islamic thought...the next big struggle in that region will be between the secularists who are outnumbered and outgunned and the religious extremists.

jo

Tartuffe is one of those guys
by justoffal
who would continue to talk long after he has been decapitated...holding his head up from the basket it would continue to deny its own detachment complete with eloquent proof of his own convictions and insults for those who disagree.
Re: Explain me something (Duc)
by RainMan

The Jews in Warsaw did not vote into office a government whose agenda was to wipe Germany off the map.

Israel has demonstrated the patience of Job in all this. The Palestinians could have had peace with Israel decades ago, had they simply stopped trying to kill Jews. Israel's actions are reactionary and in self-defense.

The Palestinians are not just a people who are caught in the middle of two warring factions (Israelis and terrorists). They are the instigators of the violence. Hamas serves at the will of the Palestinian people, not the other way around.

Jack

Good God, that's idiotic!
by tartuffe

A jo equation:

"Islam"/"Islamic thought" = "jihad"

'Nuf said.

...who can figure out where a reply belongs.
by tartuffe

P.S.
by tartuffe
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