The President's Tin Ear

JINSA
Report # 1,005
10 July '10

President Obama dragged out some really dated stereotypes while demeaning both Jews and Israelis in an interview with Israel's Channel 2 Television. Confronted with the "anxiety" (as the reporter put it) that some Israelis feel about his relationship toward Israel, Mr. Obama bluntly blamed the Jews:

This is the thing that actually surfaced even before I was elected President, in some of the talk that was circulating within the Jewish American community.

He continued:

Ironically, I've got a Chief of Staff named Rahm Israel Emmanuel. My top political advisor is somebody who is a descendant of Holocaust survivors.

Would someone please tell the President that in the 21st Century the "some of my best friends are Jewish" line is offensive? And, in this case, inconsistent. Before the election, the President's people demanded that no one associate the candidate with the vicious anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism and anti-Israelism of his longtime pastor and spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright, in whose church then-Senator Obama sat. If nothing of Wright rubbed off on him in 25 years, how did those sneaky Jews do it?

Speaking of irony, here's one. After claiming closeness to the American Jewish community vicariously - through the Jewish commitment to the American Civil Rights Movement of which he was not a part and because he has Jewish friends and, after claiming that, "My closeness to the Jewish American community was probably what propelled me to the U.S. Senate," Mr. Obama opines:

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