ADL Statement Suggests Obama Must Distance Himself from Sharpton

by Bill Levinson

NJDC’S Guide to Responding to Obama, Clinton, and Edwards Smears aimed at Jewish Voters contains a statement from Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League. This statement leaves little doubt that Barack Obama must distance himself from the prominent racist and anti-Semite Al Sharpton if he expects voters to take him for anything but a sick and demented practical joke on the American people.

ADL National Director Abraham Foxman released a statement saying: “We welcome Barack Obama’s condemnation of the anti-Semitic rhetoric of Minister Louis Farrakhan, and his making clear that he did not agree with his church’s decision to honor Farrakhan. Issues of racism and anti-Semitism must be beyond the bounds of politics. When someone close to a political figure shows sympathy and support for an individual who makes his name espousing bigotry, that political figure needs to distance himself from that decision. Senator Obama has done just that.”

If the ADL expects Obama to distance himself from second-hand contact with a professional bigot and hate monger (the contact being through the intermediary of Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ), then what are we to say of his direct and repeated contact with, and outright endorsement and promotion of, a racist and anti-Semite like Al Sharpton?

Al Sharpton and Barack Obama

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5 Responses to “ADL Statement Suggests Obama Must Distance Himself from Sharpton”

  1. Teshuvah Says:

    Senator Barack Obama voted for the June 2007 immigration amnesty that doubled current immigration levels to two million annually. He voted for complete amnesty for in excess of 20 million illegal aliens. He voted for the Dream Act that took millions of dollars out of the hands of black American college kids’ hands—only to give it to illegal alien students. Fortunately, senators under enormous pressure from American voters defeated both bills.

    What’s the problem here? Barack Obama represents the best of African-Americans. Yet, he fails black America miserably! He stands in favor of flooding this country with lower wage labor that destroys any chance for African-Americans to gain a living wage. …[Click for the rest: Frosty Wooldridge — Black America Hosted by Obama & White Politicians]

  2. South Says:

    Shalom Bill,

    So if cosmetic distancing is accomplished, won’t America’s Jews still give at least 80% of their vote and >80% of their campaign contributions to the Democrat Party?

    Kol tuv,

  3. South Says:

    Shalom Teshuva,

    Frosty Wooldridge’s “..Obama represents the best of African-Americans” cannot be supported.

    Obama spoke before the National Education Association. This union destroyed any chance for blacks to leave their predictament like eg the Irish and Jews did.

    Lower wage rates represents goodness. There are about 1.3 billion new foreign workers competing against America’s low quality work force. Lower wage rates are required to attempt to remain competive. The alternative is higher wage rates but no job.

    Read up on why the US lost it’s US flag merchant marine fleet.

    Kol tuv,

  4. Teshuvah Says:

    The title above is “Black America Hosed by Obama & White Politicians”, not “Hosted.” It is traitorous to support the Mexican invasion which takes jobs from blacks and to do that to those of one’s color is racist. But both Obama and the Mexican invasion are encouraged by the Illuminati Power Elite which intend to enrich themselves, eliminate the middle class, creating a few rich at the top and a lot of slaves at the bottom.

    >>>Lower wage rates represents goodness.

    Poverty is not Goodness. Despising, that is, not caring about, the poor makes one a sodomite.

    Emulating the Ways of Sodom
    Frankovic, Joseph

    In an old rabbinic text that contains the opinions of sages who lived and taught in Israel before and after Jesus, we find the following saying:

    There are four types among people:

    * The one who says, “What is mine is mine, and what is yours is yours.” This is the average person. *
    * The one who says, “What is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.” This is the simpleton.
    * The one who says, “What is mine is yours, and what is yours is yours.” This is the saintly person.
    * The one who says, “What is mine is mine, and what is yours is mine.” This is the wicked person. (Mishnah, Avot 5:10)

    *Regarding the first type of person, the one who says, “What is mine is mine, and what is yours is yours,” the rabbis offered a second opinion: “This is the Sodomite.”

    A Christian may think that this second opinion is rather peculiar or perhaps out of place altogether. Nevertheless, the rabbis were very careful readers of the Bible, and this opinion arose from a close reading of the text. The prophet Ezekiel once declared publicly to Jerusalem’s residents: “Behold, this was the guilt of Sodom, your sister. She and her daughters were haughty, had plenty of food, and enjoyed tranquillity, but the hand of the destitute and poor she did not strengthen.” Considered in the light of Ezekiel’s words, the second opinion emerges as an incisive comment on Ezekiel 16:49.

    The Gospel writer Luke recorded a story that Jesus told about an anonymous rich man and a poor man named Lazarus. Living in splendor, the rich man enjoyed his wealth, whereas Lazarus pined away outside the rich man’s gated home. The story gives the reader the impression that the rich man did little to alleviate Lazarus’ pain. He probably reasoned that what was his was his, and what was Lazarus’ was Lazarus’.

    In the United States and other Western countries, many of us are reaping the benefits of living during a period of economic prosperity. Holding university degrees in high-demand areas of expertise and having had our money invested in the right place for the advent of Wall Street’s lucrative bull market, some of us have witnessed remarkable growth in personal wealth. The new, luxury cars that gracefully cruise our streets and adorn the parking lots of our affluent churches each week attest to the increase.

    As our disposable incomes have swelled and our pursuit of life’s finer things has gained momentum, has our concern for the destitute also swelled? Have our efforts to relieve the suffering of the poor gained momentum, too? If not, we should not be surprised nor embarrassed. For as the rabbis of old already suggested, we are merely average people, or at worst, emulating the ways of Sodom.

    Pr 14:21 He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

    Pr 14:31 He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.

  5. Bill Levinson Says:

    Re:

    So if cosmetic distancing is accomplished, won’t America’s Jews still give at least 80% of their vote and >80% of their campaign contributions to the Democrat Party?

    I am sure that Obama (and Clinton) are counting on this. They feel that they can consort with whatever anti-Semites and racists they please without any consequences from the Jewish Left.

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