The Man Who Would Be President—Or, the Manchurian Candidate?
Contributed by Arlene Peck
Recently, I forced myself to attend a debate called “The Israeli-Palestinian Debate,” which is the continuing diatribe of a former Israeli now based in Los Angeles, Josef Avesar. When I said ‘forced,’ it’s because I knew I would return home with my blood pressure substantially elevated after another one of Mr. Avesar’s events. These are usually composed of group of individuals of various backgrounds meeting to ‘discuss’ how creating a confederation through private election is the way to go to achieve elusive peace in the Middle East.
Their premise requires a set number of delegates representing the population of the entire area of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, to be elected from the district in which he or she resides. Of course, it also presumes that the electorates are rational citizens of a democratic nation.
I knew that those who usually attend these meeting are the very same leftists who will continue to advocate for democratic socialism up to the point where they are marched into the ovens or beheaded. They don’t have a clue as to what is happening in the real world. I didn’t plan to subject myself to the aggravation. That was until I read that one of the panelists was Michael Dukakis. This is the man who might have been elected president in 1988. Recently he said that he not only believed in a two state solution to secure peace in the Middle East but that he also felt that the way to keep these two states apart was to build a high-way between them. He obviously learned this during his one trip to Israel.
I almost bit my knuckles while hearing the very liberal Rabbi and “activist” Neil Comess-Daniels discuss his feelings regarding the “Palestinian government.” I wondered which one was that? Did he believe the government to be Hamas or the other terrorist group, Fatah, they seem to covet so much as friends? What rabbinical seminary teaches that the security wall, which, to this date has saved so many Jewish lives by preventing the savages from sneaking into Israel and bombing Jewish schools, hotels and restaurants, be referred to as a “Wall of Shame?” How many jails will have to be opened and murderers released to keep this kind of mentality happy?
I truly believe that the moderator and sponsor of these debates, Josef Avesar, to be a good person although, his naivety, in my opinion, is completely Don Quixotal. Maybe he ought to take a trip back to his homeland to see how good Palestinians want to “drive every last Jew into the sea.” Those are the people he is trying to secure a homeland for by carving territory out of Israel.
We, as a nation, are in a trance. Everyone seems to be caught up in the Obama cult craze. No one seems to have a clue as to the background of this man or his Muslim upbringing in schools where he was taught strict Shar’ia law until the age of twelve. He attended such schools in Jakarta under the guidance of his stepfather.
Maybe it’s where I live in Southern California but all of the Hollywood crowd are pooh-poohing the real facts. When I mention my fears, friends here tell me, “Stop picking on the man! I know you have a problem with Muslims and that is something you ought to get over.” The people here in Liberal LA turn a deaf ear to Obama’s Muslim background and current church affiliations. “Picking on him?” He’s a Christian now but how about his formative years?
If all that I’ve read about the man isn’t enough, his choice of future staff and present clergy is enough to send chills down my back.
My momma, Queen Mollie, used to tell me that when she married my father, she told him, “Aaron, if you want to have a happy marriage don’t ever even give me the appearance of evil in what you do with another woman. Meaning, don’t ever let me catch you in anything. Or even let me think that I might. And, darling, your daddy and I had a very happy marriage. He never even gave me a thought he was thinking of even doing anything that would make me unhappy. ”
In other words, the Presidency is too important to take a chance that even a tenth of the information that I, as a member of the media, am receiving is true. I remember the last time I felt this dread was when Jimmy Carter was running for President. Everyone at that time was caught up in the Kennedy legacy. He had that big Kennedy smile and like Obama today, people were comparing them. Even JFK’s daughter wrote an article in the New York Times citing the fact that he reminded her of her dad. What does she know? She was six years old when he died.
And, speaking of that. I have seen posters in Obama’s headquarters, lionizing Che Guevara. A man who was a known sociopath yet somehow conveyed a romantic image. An image which Barak Hussein Obama (catchy name) has managed to glorify with posters. Maybe this is the revolution that he means when he speaks of ‘change.’ I do know though that someone ought to remind JFK’s daughter and brother Ted that he never felt anything but anger and contempt for dictators such as Chevara and Castro and would find the comparison painful.
It seems as though I’m not the only one who uses the Manchurian Candidate analogy. Joseph Farah, wrote in a recent column “This guy could actually become the president of the United States. If he does, it would be like the Manchurian Candidate backing into the highest office in the land. If Barak Obama wins the White House, the communists will have gotten their man the conventional way—through an actual election, working through the system. There is an old Chinese proverb: “May you live in interesting times.” It’s actually a curse. Indeed, we are living in extraordinary times. While it may be good for journalists, I’m sure it’s not good for the American way of life.
Think about it! Before the election; not on November 9th, the day after.
Check out my interview (Arlene Peck interviews Wafa Sultan) with Dr. Sultan too!
For those of you who have not seen this, ABC News caught Senator Obama standing with his hands at his side during the playing of the Star Spangle Banner that opened up a campaign speech while everybody else placed their hand over their heart.
For those of you who think this is a “doctored” photo, here is the actual video shown on the ABC News site. (There is a 30 second commercial on the site before the video plays.)
I can’t believe a Presidential candidate shows such disrespect to our country and—all those idiots still want him to be President.
